Gcse Poetry Greenhouse

In contemporary society, social media forms have aided in expanding already existing friendships yet, some feel ambivalent and argue that such media forms are impairing being’s abilities to effectively communicate face-to-face. As face-to-face interaction is inhibited some individuals develop their entire life through the use of the internet and create a persona nothing like themselves. In the real world these individuals may feel a lack of identity and unimportance and thus they retreat to their alternate persona and eventually develop a reliance in order to stay sane. These individuals are the ones that are most affected by poetry forms that depict loneliness, emptiness, and identities. However, all individuals feel emptiness at one point
In poetry, an apostrophe is typically mean “a practice in which the poet talks to someone or something not present” (Padgett 14). Thus, by clearly stating in the title that the poem is likely going to be an apostrophe, it initially signals to the reader that the poem is likely only going to include one individual or in this case one object which will be speaking to something that is not present or can not respond. This is the beginning of where the reader can start to develop interpretation because as I did, the reader begins to hypothesize who is speaking and who is not present that the present individual is speaking to. Ultimately, even before the poem begins, Greenhouse’s use of word choice aids the reader to start to infer what the overall content of the poem may be about. Additionally, Greenhouse’s use of personification within the poem turns a seemingly irrelevant and meaningless empty shell into an individual who the reader can relate to. Therefore, this enables the poem to resonate and connect with the human reader even though the poem is taking place from the perspective of an inanimate object. Personification, ultimately allows Greenhouse to use other poetic elements to shape the content of the poem, particularly his use of various punctuation forms such as dashes and question
Waves flow and flow seemingly endlessly up until they crash ashore, which can be imagined in the poem when the poet ends a line with a hard pause created by a period. For example, to end the poem, Greenhouse enjambs many of the lines up until the last statement and ends with a period which simulates waves flowing up until the end of the poem and finally the wave crashes on shore and the wave is no longer. Yet, there is always a next wave, which can represent how there are always individuals that are down on their luck, feel purposeless, and feel a loss of identity. Additionally, Greenhouse’s use of enjambment is intriguing when he