Another genre convention that my poem has in common with “Spitting Image” is that there are both enjambments used. For example‚ I wrote “The crocuses on the ground / twinkle in the wind.” and “There is another rainbow / fade away into diaphanous satin‚” as enjambments which enable to establish a sense of urgency by propelling the audience forward through the poem. Furthermore‚ the using of enjambments also creates a fast rhythm for my poem. Additionally‚ I also applied auditory‚ olfactory and tactile
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bringing back good memories. This is what photographs tend to do. Clarke uses enjambment as she does not use punctuations to break up the flow of her poem and this adds to the dreary tone. Towards the end of the poem we see more evidence of rustic activity. The poet Molly Holden uses enjambment throughout the last stanza‚ ‘sweet hay and gone some seventy years ago and yet they stand before me in the sun’. This enjambment gives the image of hay possibly falling down. We can link this to rustic activity
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Commentary: An Advancement of Learning by Seamus Heaney In An Advancement from Learning by Seamus Heaney‚ he describes a retrospective childhood experience. The narrator compels himself to face a deep-seated and preposterous fear which he consequently conquers. He shares his terror and revulsion by implementing vivid and vibrant imagery presented in nine quatrains. The conquest of an irrational fear depicted in this poem is perhaps a metaphor for overcoming greater fears in life. As the title
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end-stopped lines and enjambment are also used: "What a trash/To annihilate each decade." One important aspect is the demonic tone of this poem. The way that Plath seems to tell the story as if it were a show or carnival is another aspect which ties in to the demonic tone of ’Lady Lazarus’. Plath structures her poem in a certain way in order to create different effects. For example‚ enjambment is used: "The second time I meant/To last it out and not come back at all." Sylvia uses enjambment in order to make
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child‚ as the dynamic verb‚ “snatched”‚ is a child-like behavior‚ as it usually describes someone taking something which does not belong to them. The child then “races back‚ how quick he is‚ look! To his mother through the shrieking meadow” The enjambment suggests the child is running around in a fast pace‚ and the figurative imagery creates a feeling everything is blur‚ which again shows how fast the child is sprinting around. In addition‚ the caesura suggests the child is jumping from one place
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Act four‚ Scene one is an extremely dark scene within the play‚ where torture and death play a prominent role. It is an important scene in the play as the tempo increases immensely and the audience are given a glimpse of the main characters fate. Therefore it is a pivotal point in the play as the relative calmness of the previous scenes is replaced by chaos and death. The scene consists of the three main characters of the play and through their reactions to the gruesome acts in the scene the audience
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The Simple Gift‚ Steven Herrick’s has portrayed the ways in which a character can relate to many individuals in today’s society. The way in which the poems interact with us is through several techniques such as hyperbole‚ sarcasm‚ repetition and enjambment. Sarcasm can in fact relate to the attitude us teenagers decide to adopt through our adolescence‚ it is understood through the voice in which we would use when we feel as though we don’t belong in an unsure place‚ for example‚ when Billy is revisiting
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actually about a poet looking for an idea and he sees out of the window the fox and decides to write about the fox. This technique is called an extended metaphor which Huges uses a lot‚ other techniques that Huges uses in the ‘Thought Fox’ consist of enjambment (one line or stanza running on to the next ‘…And again now‚ and now‚ and now/Sets neat prints into the snow’. The mood is calm and quiet‚ there are no jumpy parts which makes it seem like the fox is calm and quiet. You can sense that it is just
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classes differ. MacCaig talks about the issue of the class system in relation to survival of to fittest. The poem itself talks about birds like sparrows and other birds in general‚ which are metaphors for people. Word choice‚ sentence structure and enjambment were strong in improving my understanding of the social issue of the class system. MacCaig uses word choice to describe the sparrow and other birds in relation to different types of classes within society. MacCaig begins by describing the sparrow
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the old. Thomas contrasts punctuation and enjambments to show the passage of time. In the beginning of the poem‚ few of the lines have punctuation‚ and enjambments can run on for several lines. This has the effect of rushing the reader and forcing them to read through lines without significant pauses in between‚ showing the faster passage of time at the beginning of the poem. In the middle of the poem‚ every line has some form of punctuation‚ and enjambments are seldom used. Thomas’ frequent use of
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