more detail in the body of your essay). | INTRODUCTION 1. “The Highwayman” is a ballad poem written by the author‚ Alfred Noyes. Many features of the ballad are evident in this poem; it tells a narrative story‚ it has a regular rhythm‚ meter and rhyme scheme and there some of repetition of words‚ phrases & lines. Also‚ this poem effectively uses a number of imagery and sound devices to tell the story. 2. “The Highwayman” communicates an important message to readers that forbidden love can
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human consciousness. The rhyme scheme of the sonnet is: abba cddc efgfef‚ a departure from the standard Shakespearean (abab cdcd efef gg) or Petrarchan (abba abba cde cde) sonnet form. The unrhymed 11th line He leans out on the jam‚ recalls a clatter is perhaps the most striking feature of the rhyme scheme‚ and‚ combined with the poem’s second run-on‚ serves to emphasise the cacophony and disorder of the remembered horse-drawn carriages. The threefold full rhyme nose/rows/bellows gives a pleasing
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ANGLO-CHINESE SCHOOL (INDEPENDENT) English Language and Literature Department Poetic Devices and their Likely Effects Alliteration Gains reader’s attention through repetition of a consonant sound‚ appeals to the sense of hearing‚ emphasizes words‚ links lines‚ unifies stanzas (or the poem as a whole)‚ and enhances flow of poem. Draws attention to particular words or lines through repetition of a vowel sound‚ appeals to the sense of hearing‚ enhances the development of the image created by the words
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Is’t not/ a kind/ of in/cest‚ to/ take life/ Metrics: Straight iambic pentameter. The line is five heartbeats long‚ symbolizing logic Sonics: Enjambment- this line does not finish her statement‚ it runs straight into the next line and finished the thought with “from thine own sister’s shame?” Alliteration- “to take” Dissonance- kind‚ to‚ take Assonance- not‚ of Tropes: Irony- “kind of incest to take life”- talking about an act that creates life‚ but it would take away
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Romanticism: Blake and Keats Blake and Keats were renowned poet during the period where Romanticism played an essential part in creative art and works. Romanticism is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world. Poets like Blake and Keats writings were influenced by the fundamentals of nature‚ human emotions‚ feelings‚ imagination‚ instinct and intuition‚ reflection
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However Brooke never discovered what war was like in reality as he died in 1915‚ before he actually got to fight in the war. Therefore his poem is very idealistic and has a very traditional viewpoint. Brooke’s poem is written in iambic pentameter and has alternate line rhyme he also uses metaphors and euphemism. Brooke’s poem would inspire young men to enlist and would bring comfort to the families of the victims of war. In his poem Brooke uses repetition of the word England in a very patriotic style
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form; that is to say by rhythm and structure first of all. The form of “To Lucasta” is presented by three stanzas containing four lines each. It is short and easy to read‚ and light and energetic rhythm is achieved by alternating from iambic tetrameter to iambic trimeter. The structure reflects dynamics of the plot‚ for example by the line “A sword‚ a horse‚ a shield” which itself reminds the rhythm of a march or a horse’s jogging. At the same time‚ the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” is much longer
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Figurative language: Use of words in ways they are not normally used in order to create a distinct‚ imaginative effect or impression. For example‚ in the expression “He sang at the top of his lungs‚” the suggested meaning of the words is understood—not their literal meaning. Hyperbole: A figure of speech that deliberately exaggerates a description about something or somebody to create a desired effect. Irony: A circumstance in which there is a contra¬diction or difference between what is intended
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English 102: Introduction to Literature (University of Maine at Augusta‚ USA) Instructions from professor: Write an essay (at least 3 pages) - Analyze one stanza of the poem‚ focusing on its meaning and on the way the details of the stanza contribute to its meaning. Discuss what this stanza contributes to the poem as a whole. ==========Body of essay========= Robert Frost’s poem‚ "Design‚" is about the hardships of everyday life and the fact that God or some greater being has created nature to
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between content and form‚ Martin unearths an insightful question: Are women sexually liberated? Martin masterfully employs the prosodic tools of meter‚ metrical substitutions‚ rhyme‚ and an implied metaphor to to guide his readers to reevaluate the veracity of our “sexual liberation.” Martin employs anapestic pentameter as the base meter for “Victoria’s Secret” to frame his poem in the meter of Victorian times. The anapestic undulations evoke a sense of lightness in the verse‚ which plays up Martin’s
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