------------------------------------------------- “Diving Into The Wreck” by Adrienne Rich ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- 1 “This is the place. ------------------------------------------------- And I am here‚ the mermaid whose dark hair ------------------------------------------------- streams black‚ the merman in his armored body. -------------------------------------------------
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Literary aspects in the poem include figure of speech‚ imagery‚ rhyme‚ rhythm and form. In stanza one the rhythm of the poem is in iambic pentameter‚ where there are ten syllables in each line and every other syllable is stressed. As well as the rest of the poem stanza one’s rhyme scheme is ABA. The phrases “good night”‚ “close of day”‚ and “dying of the light” are metaphors for death. Thomas is advising the elderly‚ like his father‚ to “burn and rave” in other words fight against death. Another
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of seven stanzas each with four lines in length. A narrative poem‚ the poem is a documentary containing with two speakers‚ one is the narrator the other is a character introduced later in the poem. Douglas doesn’t have a structural rhyme scheme throughout his poem. They would change with each stanza. Case in point‚ stanza one has an ABAB rhyming structure‚ stanza two has an ABBA‚ and stanza three has an ABBC. In addition‚ the other stanzas that follow
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lines and message of Invictus. While some aspects of the poem may be understood denotatively‚ Henley primarily intended for the reader to take the poem connotatively‚ such as the first line of the poem “out of the night that covers me.” The first stanza mainly introduces Henley emotionally. The meaning of “night” in the first line is the representation of Henley’s emotional state and depressing obstacles he overcame individually. In the third line‚ he “thanks whatever gods may be” for his “unconquerable
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star)—the speaker feels that the skylark is always flying high above. Even if we do not see it‚ or even hear it‚ “we feel it is there.” The speaker admits to not knowing whether the bird is happy‚ however‚ or from where it receives its joy. He puts five stanzas in the middle of the poem in metaphors‚ comparing the skylark to other living objects in nature (poets‚ a maiden‚ worms‚ and roses)‚ which express love‚ pain‚ and sorrow. None of them‚ however‚ has the expressive ability of the singing bird. The poet
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The second stanza is a witness to the winds legacy. The magnitude of the winds power is illustrated with “the hills had new places”. The ultimate measure of the winds potency is that its changed the environment which we would normally imagine reassuringly permanent. The personification in the “wind wielded blade-light” makes the wind dangerous and randomly spiteful. I think the “ black and emerald‚ flexing like the lens of a mad eye” refers back to the sea metaphor in the first stanza. A stormy sky
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visitor‚ upon first seeing the Lunulae begins to imagine their history. The gender of the viewer is unknown but it seems to be a woman‚ given the gentle and delicate way of writing‚ shown through the first stanza “gold so thin‚ only an old woman would notice its weight”. The poem consists of 14 stanzas but varies in length probably contributing to a shift in mood and tone of the poem. The poem begins with the description of the Lunulae as soon as the visitor walks in where they comment on the gold on
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was a small boy. The structure of the poem is BAB rhyme scheme and 6 stanzas. The First 3 stanzas describe the father at his work; the last 3 stanzas are when the character enters the poem and controls the poem while the father becomes a secondary character‚ this could link to how Heaney’s father had increasingly taken a more diminished role in Heaney’s life. The skilled nature of his father is shown in the opening stanza where his power as a farmer is described. The simile ‘his shoulders like
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personality The poem filling station by Elizabeth Bishop is unique in which the speaker’s personality changes as we go along the poem. The manner in which the speaker initially views the filling station with disgust is clearly shown in the opening stanza of the poem. However‚ this changes as we go along the poem. The speaker becomes less judgmental and more objective. She initially finds only disorder in the filling station; however‚ as we go along the poem‚ she realizes that the order outweighs the
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Kelleher March 11th‚ 2013 ENG 252 Darrohn Analysis of John Clare ’s “I Am” Through the use of punctuation (or lack thereof)‚ repetition‚ and rhyme scheme‚ John Clare ’s first stanza of “I Am” expresses the speaker ’s distorted sense of self and vast understanding of his morose existence. The following stanza has been chosen as the analysis point for this paper: I am-- yet what I am‚ none cares or knows;My friends forsake me like a memory lost:--I am the self-consumer of my woes;--They rise
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