Poem And Summary Paper
Poem and Summary Paper: The Elements of Poetry
Tenisha Tyler
ENG/340
Due: July 23, 2012
Erich Sysak
The Elements of Poetry
There are many different, distinctive elements that make up a poem. However many or few can be used as necessary at any specific time by a writer. These parts of a poem consist of imagery, metaphors, rhyme, and structure. A few of these can be seen in Lewis Carroll’s, “Jabberwocky”, Craig Raine’s, “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home”, and R. S. Gwynn’s, “Shakespearean Sonnet”. These poems also offer examples of figurative language.
According to The Writing Lab & the OWL at Purdue and Purdue University (1995-2012), the definition of imagery “is a question that philosophers and poets have asked themselves for thousands of years and have yet to definitively answer. The most widely used definition of an image these days is:"...an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time." (Ezra Pound)” Overall, imagery within poetry is a way to engage any of the reader’s five senses. Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll offers imagery within its verses. Although the poem is a nonsense poem it still shows imagery within the made words. When reading lines, six and fourteen, readers can identify that the Jabberwock has massive jaws, claws, and reddish orange eyes. Sight is an important part of imagery, but so are sound and touch. Readers can hear that the Jabberwock “burbles” as it attacks in line sixteen. One can hear and feel the force behind the swing of the “vorpal sword” when it went “snicker-snack!” The figurative language within this poem is important, and it shows by the way Carroll expresses the actions and looks of the characters through imagery.
Metaphors are a part of figurative language. A metaphor is a figure of speech where two unrelated ideas or objects that are not usually compared to one another are compared due to an important common factor. Within poetry metaphors can be seen as a basic metaphor, extended metaphors, implied
Tenisha Tyler
ENG/340
Due: July 23, 2012
Erich Sysak
The Elements of Poetry
There are many different, distinctive elements that make up a poem. However many or few can be used as necessary at any specific time by a writer. These parts of a poem consist of imagery, metaphors, rhyme, and structure. A few of these can be seen in Lewis Carroll’s, “Jabberwocky”, Craig Raine’s, “A Martian Sends a Postcard Home”, and R. S. Gwynn’s, “Shakespearean Sonnet”. These poems also offer examples of figurative language.
According to The Writing Lab & the OWL at Purdue and Purdue University (1995-2012), the definition of imagery “is a question that philosophers and poets have asked themselves for thousands of years and have yet to definitively answer. The most widely used definition of an image these days is:"...an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time." (Ezra Pound)” Overall, imagery within poetry is a way to engage any of the reader’s five senses. Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll offers imagery within its verses. Although the poem is a nonsense poem it still shows imagery within the made words. When reading lines, six and fourteen, readers can identify that the Jabberwock has massive jaws, claws, and reddish orange eyes. Sight is an important part of imagery, but so are sound and touch. Readers can hear that the Jabberwock “burbles” as it attacks in line sixteen. One can hear and feel the force behind the swing of the “vorpal sword” when it went “snicker-snack!” The figurative language within this poem is important, and it shows by the way Carroll expresses the actions and looks of the characters through imagery.
Metaphors are a part of figurative language. A metaphor is a figure of speech where two unrelated ideas or objects that are not usually compared to one another are compared due to an important common factor. Within poetry metaphors can be seen as a basic metaphor, extended metaphors, implied