the poem works to enhance the reader’s interpretation. The poem dwells within a sonnet form‚ extolling all the virtues of "sleep." Falling within the general bounds of the sonnet‚ the poem is the obligatory fourteen lines of iambic pentameter coupled with an elaborate rhyme scheme. Although most closely resembling the English sonnet‚ the deliberate wanderings of the poem from this strict sonnet form merely serve to enhance the meaning of the poem. Within the first two quatrains of the poem "sleep"
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As a modern poem”The Wasteland” “Eliot’s Waste Land is I think the justification of the ‘movement‚’ of our modern experiment‚ since 1900‚” wrote Ezra Pound shortly after the poem was published in 1922. T.S. Eliot’s poem describes a mood of deep disillusionment stemming both from the collective experience of the first world war and from Eliot’s personal travails. Born in St. Louis‚ Eliot had studied at Harvard‚ the Sorbonne‚ and Oxford before moving to London‚ where he completed his doctoral dissertation
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the anti-war poem‚ “Anthem for Doomed Youth”‚ Owen uses sensational description to evoke the anger that he feels within his readers. “Anthem for Doomed Youth” is a Petrarchan sonnet‚ with an octave and a sestet written mostly in Iambic Pentameter. Owen does include variations in this form‚ such as line 1 which has eleven syllables and line 3 which contains Trochee and is not pure Iamb. These variations in the form work to keep the reader actively focused on the lines‚ and not just falling
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best. However‚ in William Shakespeare’sSonnet 130‚ Shakespeare spends the poem comparing his mistress’s appearance to other things‚ and tells the reader how she doesn’t measure up to the comparisons. While using the standard Shakespearean iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of AB-AB/CD-CD/EF-EF/GG‚ he goes through a laundry list‚ giving us details about the flaws of her body‚ her smell‚ and even the sound of her voice. Yet at the end of the poem‚ he changes his tune and tells the reader about his real
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Literary Terms Packet The terms in this packet will be used throughout the semester in literature discussions and on exams. Please memorize and be able to use and identify all terms in papers and on exams. Some information in this packet came from Modern English by Arnold Lazarus‚ et.al. and A Dictionary of Literary‚ Dramatic‚ and Cinematic Terms by Sylvan Barnet‚ et.al. Allusion A reference to someone or something that is known from history‚ literature‚ religion‚ politics or some other
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completes a cycle of questioning the creator of the tyger‚ discussing how it could have been created‚ and then returns to questioning the creator again. Both questions about the tyger’s creator are left unanswered. William Blake uses rhythm‚ rhyme‚ and poetic devices to create a unique effect and to parallel his theme in his work "The Tyger." William Blake’s choice of rhythm is important to his poem "The Tyger" because it parallels the theme of the poem‚ that the tyger may have
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The poem ‘Nettles’ is a poem that explores the relationship between a father and his son‚ “Nettles” is cleverly structured i.e. the writer uses engaging imagery and words that normally wouldn’t be used in the context present within the poem to effectively get the poet‘s message across. In the poem ’Nettles’‚ the writer takes something that could be pondered as a simple yet common occurrence‚ and with some deep thinking about its implications‚ arrives at an insight into what could be outweighed as
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Lyric poetry is poems like elegies of death‚ odes that are very scripted forms‚ or a meditation among other forms. They are more song like with scripted or expected rhyme and meter. Chapter 20. "Select an assigned poem and explain how the poem related to the painting that inspired them."
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hearing the Dies Irae Sung in the Sistine Chapel.” The sonnet is a typical Italian or Petrarchan style sonnet divided into an octave (two quatrains) and a sestet (two tercets). The rhyming pattern is very regular as well. The octave rhymes a-b-b-a‚ a-c-c-a and the sestet rhymes d-e-f‚ d-e-f. Also‚ considering the literal content of the sonnet‚ it is divided into the two previously named parts. The speaker is not named in the poem. We know that the person speaks about his or her experience in the Sistine
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“The Effect” by Siegfried Sassoon The Effect is about destroying the myth of death as either a desirable end for enemies‚ or a heroic resolution for patriotic soldiers. The poem follows the interior monologue of a soldier who has spoken to a war correspondent (reporter) told him someone he’d interviewed had said he’d never seen so many dead before. It is simply a poem about “The Effect” of seeing so many countless dead. Sassoon in his declaration says he has “seen and endured the sufferings of
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