symmetry of the jar‚ the wilderness is not orderly‚ balanced‚ or round. Stevens’ use of the word "slovenly" demonstrates an element of a modern period that Stevens wishes to express. The reader can only imagine wilderness sprawling out without regard to form‚ order‚ or balance. The wilderness can only be seen as slovenly if viewed in contrast to the perfectly ordered symmetry of the jar. Stevens causes the reader to imagine the ordered symmetry of the man-made object as put beside with the uncultivated
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Many devices are used in this poem to show the raw harsh night of November. The first line is a simile ‘tinkles like ice’ the word ‘ice’ represents the harshness and how painful ice is. When we look at the form of the poem‚ we can see how the poet uses enjambment to continue in what’s being said. The line ‘tries the door‚ and sidles past’ gives of a feeling of terror as the poet has personified it and gives of an impression that a human is trying to enter the house. On the second stanza the
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Athlete Dying Young” is definitely a thought-provoking poem that allows the readers to think about the meaning of life and death. Housman achieves this by using form and rhyme scheme‚ sound‚ and figurative languages such as metaphors and similes. The poem has seven stanzas and each stanza consists of two pairs of end-rhyming lines. This form is known as a couplet‚ an alternating rhyme scheme ABAB. For example‚ “race” and “place” rhyme in first two lines and “by” and “high” rhyme in last two lines
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Techniques of Appreciating Poetry What is poetry? * Poetry is the creativity of a person’s imagination. * It is nothing but rhythmical‚ imaginative language expressing the invention‚ taste‚ thought‚ passion‚ and insight of the human soul. * Like any other literary work‚ poetry needs to be understood to be appreciated. * The writer writes for a reason. * The purpose may be to evoke emotion‚ inform‚ define‚ represent something of the world or life‚ and to entertain. * Whatever
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A line in the poem “my blood approves‚” means‚ he thinks the love he feels throughout his body is right to be feeling. He believes he should not be feeling any other way. Another form of personification Cummings used‚ “-the best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids flutter which says…” he is saying his lover’s eyelid flutter says more than his brain could ever think of saying to her. Cummings poem‚ “since feeling is first”
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of love similarly to a promise. In line five‚ the speaker mentions the “thirst… from the soul” in reference to the speaker’s desire to live happily in love with Celia. The speaker even says that he will give up immortality presented to him in liquid form just to be with her. Line nine presents a change in the poem. The speaker’s love from line nine to the end of the poem is compared to a wreath. A wreath typically represents eternity with it’s round shape. The diction of this poem‚ however‚
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Analysis of "Crumbling is not an instant’s Act" by Emily Dickinson 	"Crumbling is not an instant’s Act" is a lyric by Emily Dickinson. It tells how crumbling does not happen instantaneously; it is a gradual process occurring slowly and cumulatively over time. The structure of this poem is complex and it tied directly into the figurative meaning. This poem consists of three quatrains written in iamic meter but with no set number of feet per line. Also‚ the second
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Lines 1–4 The structure of the sonnet is Petrarchan‚ an Italian form of the sonnet that characteristically divides its theme into an octave‚ in which a problem or emotion is stated‚ and a sestet‚ in which the problem or emotional tension is resolved. There is a clear separation between the first eight lines (the octave) and the final six (the sestet). The octave is divided into two four-line stanzas‚ or quatrains. The first quatrain opens with a recounting of the occurrence in mid-scene. It begins
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Night of the Scorpion-Nissim Ezekiel MATCHES: Two Scavengers in a Truck‚ Nothing’s Changed-Two Cultures Vultures‚ Limbo-Contrasting Views Nissim Ezekiel (White male poet): 1. Nissim Ezekiel was born in Bombay‚ now Mumbai‚ India in 1924. 2. His parents were Israeli and he was brought up with the Jewish faith‚ though he had friends of many different religions. 3. As a child he was very serious about religion and often spoke to his friends on a deep scale in relation to religious matters
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a little boy‚ because he is at a playground and all his friends are boys. While the children are playing‚ one gets bit by a mosquito and has a conversation with it. The tone of the poem is youthful and humorous due to the situation presented. The form of the poem is the second and fourth line of the stanza rhyme‚ this is sometimes known as an ABCB rhyme scheme. Sound is important in the poem because it shows the actions of the kids as the bug bites them. This mosquito poem seems to have a southern
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