uses an abundance of literary devices to contribute to the effect of the poem. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” contains many elements‚ each of which enhances the way the poem conveys meaning. The extensive use of alliteration‚ varying metrical patterns‚ internal and external rhyme‚ anaphora‚ caesura‚ enjambment‚ and inversion add to the complexity of the structure and the overall meaning of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚” which could be interpreted as love for all living things. “The Rime
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completely changed. In ‘Spring Offensive’ there are juxtapositions between silence and noise‚ action and inaction‚ life and death‚ and most importantly peace and war. Owen makes use of a broken rhyme scheme which suggests that Owen has been broken by war itself‚ his rhyme scheme consists of iambic pentameter with rhyming couplets which provides the poem with
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stop all the smiles together. Finally‚ he moves on to show his other artworks in his collection‚ referring to his Neptune taming a sea-horse sculpture. The poem has rhyming lines‚ but the rhyme is usually in the middle of an idea or sentence‚ giving the poem a thrusting movement forward. The mainly iambic pentameter unifies the poem‚ with occasional trochaic‚ dactylic‚ and anapestic words to offset certain ideas‚ such as "countenance"‚ "busily"‚ "easily"‚ "broke in"‚ and "all smiles". Certain denotative
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The poem “ If We Must Die” by Claude McKay is a response to Red Summer of 1919. The Red Summer is a series of race riots that took place in over thirty cities in the United States. In the poem the speaker is insisting that he and his comrades are being attacked and they know that they are not going to make it out alive. Since the speaker and his allies know that their demise is definite‚ they want to die fighting with honor and like men. Mckay uses a variety of literary forms when writing this poem
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Figurative Language and Imagery ENG 340 Creative Writing Whenever you describe something by comparing it with something else‚ you are using figurative language. Figurative language is the use of language to describe something by comparing it to something else. It serves many linguistic purposes. It allows people to express abstract thoughts. It creates tone and communicates emotional content. The ability to use figurative language in writing can make a poem or story more enjoyable for the reader
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SPEC SLIMS Poem Analysis If by Rudyard Kipling The poem ‘If’ is directed to Kipling’s son‚ and is a message to him on his route to manhood. This is seen in the very last line of the poem‚ when Kipling writes: “And- which is more- you’ll be a Man‚ my son!” The poem is about setting goals‚ taking risks‚ being a leader and self-belief‚ but all in moderation. An example in the text is: “If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you. But make allowance for their doubting too”. Kipling tells his son
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considered a sonnet. In this sonnet Bill Collins seems to criticize the sonnet form of Shakespeare. Also‚ in the sonnet of Bill Collins he puts many allusions in his sonnets. For example‚ in the beginning of the sonnet where he mentions in an alliteration form in line 3 where you get the allusion of the story troy; to launch a little ship on love’s storm-tossed seas. The next allusion when he mentions A famous sonnet writer named Petrarch in line 12‚ as well as the final last allusion motioned
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speaker tries to convince readers that the horror of war outweighs the patriotic duty to war. In the first stanza the speaker describes the calm before the gas attack. The speaker uses alliteration‚ "bent beggars‚" and onomatopoeia "cough" to create a sense of despair. The speaker uses assonance and alliteration in "Men marched asleep" to emphasize the falling rhythm of the exhausted men. The speaker then personifies the "Five Nines" as tired. The stanza ends with an ironic twist of the quiet
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tranquility throughout the poem. The poem takes the form of a lyrical ballad‚ written in blank verse. Furthermore‚ he used an unrhymed iambic pentameter to great effect‚ to echo his thoughts and opinions on the pastoral‚ in comparison to that of the city. Wordsworth does this very discretely but to great effect. The structure of the iambic pentameter directly parallels with the idea of the pastoral being structured and regular‚ as it remains similarly beautiful forever‚ unless ruined by man
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well run farms pests have to be kept down’. Poetic techniques used: Similie- The kittens are compared to “wet gloves”/ comparing the dead kittens bodies to being “crisp as summer dung.” Onomatopoeia- “sickening tug” of the hens’ necks. Alliteration- “soft paws scraping” “...soon soused” “slung on the snout.” War poem‚ “Base details” by Siedfried Sassoon. Background to the poem: Siegfried Sassoon was a soldier who fought in World War I. He witnessed the horrendous
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