'A Mother to her Waking Infant' by Joanna Baillie, Analyse the poem and comment on the poetic form and the language used and the way they contribute to the meaning and effects of the poem.

with a cadence which holds true through out the whole poem (Team, Shmoop Editorial). Service’s application of literary devices like alliteration enhances the flow of the poem; “roam 'round, cursèd cold, foul or fair, half hid, and brawn and brains” (Service).

Apart from that, the poem consists of a series of turns that reflect different parts of the speaker’s feelings and the experiences he had. The significance of these turns is made possible through the use of stanza breaks. For example, the first

The poem Life cycle talks about Australian children growing up in a family obsessed with AFL. Being brought up in a family of football supporters encourages and Enforces the passion for football. That from the moment the child is born and throughout their life, until death these people love football because of their upbringing. It talks about how these families influence their children so much that football almost becomes a religion, where the football grounds are equivalent to a church. Through-out the poem life-cycle, Bruce Dawe emphasises and exaggerates that we are who we are based on what we’ve be taught, and our way of life, personality, personal interests and hobbies.

The poem “The Mother” written by Gwendolyn Brooks in 1945, is a poem that focuses on the immeasurable losses a woman experiences after having an abortion. The poems free verse style has a mournful tone that captures the vast emotions a mother goes through trying to cope with the choices she has made. The author writes each stanza of the poem using a different style, and point of view, with subtle metaphors to express the speaker’s deep struggle as she copes with her abortions. The poem begins with, “Abortions will not let you forget” (Brooks 1), the first line of the poem uses personification to capture your attention. The title of the poem has the reader’s mindset centered around motherhood, but the author’s expertise with the opening line, immediately shifts your view to the actual theme of the poem. In this first line the speaker is telling you directly, you will never forget having an abortion. Brooks utilizes the speaker of the poem, to convey that this mother is pleading for forgiveness from the children she chose not to have.

The poem progresses from mourning of the deceased to praising of his achievements and fate to die before his glory withered. Therefore, the tone shifts from somber and quiet to upbeat and positive. Such shift of tone is achieved by Housman’s use of sounds. In first two stanzas, Housman describes the funeral procession as he remembers the time when the young athlete was proudly brought home after he won a race. Then, he solaces the mourners by reminding them it is better that the athlete “slip betimes away from fields where glory does not stay” (lines 9 and 10) because the laurel “withers quicker than the rose” (line 12). The soft “s” sound stands out especially in second and third stanza and it creates a sense of calm and quiet tone and evokes an image of townspeople mourning the death of their “hero”; Consonance of “s” sounds is present in words “shoulder, set, threshold, townsman, stiller, smart, slip, betimes, fields, does, stay, grows, withers, and rose.” In addition to consonance, soft sound alliteration in “road all runners” (line 5) helps to create a quiet tone. As the poem progresses into praising of the young athlete in stanzas four through seven, the consonance of hard “c”, “t”, and “f” sound become prominent. Readers can immediately detect

Nature is calm and serene, while this boy’s life has changed in a matter of seconds from living to dead in a tragic event. The end-stopped lines and enjambments are used very well in the remainder of the poem.

In this stylistic analysis of the lost baby poem written by Lucille Clifton I will deal mainly with two aspects of stylistic: derivation and parallelism features present in the poem. However I will first give a general interpretation of the poem to link more easily the stylistic features with the meaning of the poem itself.

The poem is a one whole stanza poem with a short structure

The passage has a rhythm to it that quite fast paced and consistent. This rhythm is created by the writers use of alliteration and short sentences, “It rocked and reeled with the reeling of the bells, and staggered like a drunken man. Stunned and shaken…”. In the heart of the passage, the writer uses long sentences that have multiple adjectives in them. These adjectives have a sense of physicality and

When looking at the poem we can see that there are varying stanzas lengths. This is to reinforce the idea of uncertainty and doubt which is spread throughout the poem. The poem portrays a real, strong message which is relevant to not just the reader but generally gives out an important message

Along with the irregularities in meter, neither poem has a regular line length or rhyming pattern. Dickinson’s poem contains alternating tetrameters and trimeters, with the exception of the first line, which contains 7 syllables. The poem contains some irregular rhyme; ‘heard’ in line 5 rhymes with ‘bird’ in line 7, and ‘Sea’ in line 10 rhymes with ‘Me’ in line 12. Whitman’s poem contains even more irregular line lengths. The first 4 lines of each stanza vary from 12 to 15 syllables, but the last 4 lines of each stanza vary from 5 to 8 syllables. Unlike in Dickinson’s poem, the rhyming scheme carries throughout the whole poem, although the AABBCDED rhyme pattern contains a few cases of near rhyme.

In stanzas one and two, through repetition of certain phrases and words, a sensation of steady progression is felt. As in the lilting phrase, “Half a league-/ half a league-/ Half a league onward” (1-2) the pulsing advance can be

The poem is structured with 26 lines and each line is of nearly equal length. There is fluidity

The key turning point in this poem is in the third line of the fifth

The rhyme pattern makes the first five lines almost independent of the rest of the stanza and the indentation of the fifth line marks the change in pace that can be seen between the two halves of the first stanza. Inn the second half of this stanza, the rhyme scheme is changed and this has a noticeable effect on the stanza as a whole. It creates a definition between the broad description of Xanadu in the