Analyzing Alyssa Taylor's Poem 'My World'

This is a very lyrical poem. The speaker's emotions and intentions are made very clear in very inconspicuous ways. The subtle repetition of certain words and images give the poem a very distinct tone. For example, the repetition of the words

The poem is separated into two parts, each with sixteen lines, and is loosely based on an iambic pentameter metre. The rhyme scheme is ABAB throughout the poem, with the noticeable exception of the last four lines of part II, in which it changes to

The speaker then moves to a restaurant where he picks up a chicken noodle soup and gets his want across to the staff by simply pointing at it. The stanza ends with the line “I am adjusting well to the new way”(10), showing that according to the speaker the new law is working fine for him and he is able to live a normal life. However, with the entrance into the third stanza we begin to question whether the speaker naturally only acted this way towards the phone call and the staff in the restaurant, without using any words or he was actually saving them for his lover. The second reason is more likely to be true, due to his statement in the next verse “I call my long distance lover, proudly say I only used fifty-nine today. I saved the rest for you”(11/13). Here, the second character is introduced in the poem – the long distance lover. It becomes obvious that the speaker, who is most probably a man, is in a long distance relationship with a woman and the way communicate is via phone call. The speaker tells his lover proudly he has only used fifty-nine words today and has saved the rest for her. This shows the speaker’s devotion towards his lover because he has chosen to use most of his words on her.

The poem does not follow a rhyme scheme or meter, which means that there is rhythm in the poem and it makes the poem more like a song. The poem has four stanza’s and has five lines within each stanza.

One struggle many individuals experience is speaking with conviction. Especially in today's day and age where people are possessed by their phone and would more likely send out a tweet then have a conversation with a loved one. The Poem “Totally like whatever, you know?” written by Taylor Mali addresses his concern that people no longer speak with meaning in discussions and conversations. He uses humor, sarcasm, as well as XXXXX to get his point across that people of this generation greatly lack confidence when they communicate. Throughout the poem he uses the word “like” in systematic places to strengthen his point. These places strengthen his argument because they sound natural and unnoticeable when listening to the poem but when reading

To help Year Twelve students that are studying poetry appreciate it's value, this pamphlet's aim is to discuss a classic poem and a

Initially, Collins demonstrates how one can weigh a dog’s weight with his method. Concrete diction in the first stanza, such as, “ small bathroom”, “ balancing”, and “shaky” suggest the uncomfortable nature of his intimate relationship with his pet. Although Collin is unappreciated for the gritty toil determination, he praise himself to applauded that “this is the way” and raising his self-esteem by comparing how easier it is than to train his dog obesity. In addition, the negative diction used to describe Collin holding his dog to be “awkward” for him and “bewildering” for his pet. This establish he rather force love rather willing show patience. When holding a pet on scale, there is less hustle because he secures the dog’s position by carrying it. Where as when he orders the dog to stay on the weighing scale with a cookie, his dog only followed him because of the expected reward.

The poem’s diction reflects the context and a confident, assertive tone. The speaker expresses a high level of self-respect and assurance. It includes

The poem that I have selected for this essay is “Talking to Grief” by Denise Levertov. I chose this poem because it talks about grief. It also talks about the place that grief should have in a person’s life. The poem describes grief, and compares it to a “homeless dog.” It also describes how a dog deserves its own place in the house, instead of living under a porch or being homeless. This poem talks about how a person can be aware that grief is present, but that it is not always acknowledged and accepted. We all experience grief in different ways, and for different reasons. Everyone deals with grief in their own personal way. This poem describes a point in a person’s life when they are ready to accept grief as a part of their life

Mood can be made by setting, subject matter, or word choice. There can also be several moods in just one literary work. The Poem, “The tide rises, the tide falls,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, contains mood and meter. The mood in this poem is a hopeful and optimistic one. “The little waves…efface the footprints…nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore,” (276).

The poem contains six quatrains, and does not follow any consistent rhyme scheme. Every line starts with a strong beat and ends up with a weak beat. The first and third lines in each stanza have iambic tetrameter, but the second and fourth lines do not contain any consistent meter. The feet generate a rhythm

The meter of the poem is part of the emotion of the speakers. The poem is in iambic pentameter, which is five groups of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. For example, he claimed that “Batter my heart, three- person’s God, for you.” ( ) It started a regular iambic meter, and the words “Batter my heart” were describing the angry and hateful in his life. Also, the author tried to start with a hook to attract the audience’s attention. In addition, many writers used the same types of meter to show their feeling in their poem. For instance, the poem “When I have Fears That I may cease to Be”, John Keats stated that “when I have fears that I may cease to be”. This type of meter is the same as Donne, which is iambic. They both

For example, “I come into the peace”. The reader knows that the character is at peace, but describing them coming into it, can block the poems meaning. However Wetndell Berry does uses descriptive words and phrases to give context in the poem. “still water, peace, grace, day-blind stars”. All of these calming words, tell the reader that the charcter is realxing and at peace with the world. The meter and ryhme scheme in this poem would be at level five. The meter’s syllable count skips around from 9, 9, 10, 11, 13. This makes it difficult to find the meter in the poem. One pattern in this poem with the meter, is the lines go from 9 to 10 syllable for two lines, and to a 11 or 13 to the third. The author has two short lines, and then one long one, which can make it difficult to find the meter. There is no ryhme scheme in this poem also. Sometimes without a ryme scheme it is difficult to understand the poem. The

Poetry is a reduced dialect that communicates complex emotions. To comprehend the numerous implications of a ballad, perusers must analyze its words and expressing from the points of view of beat, sound, pictures, clear importance, and suggested meaning. Perusers then need to sort out reactions to the verse into a consistent, point-by-point clarification. Poetry utilizes structures and traditions to propose differential translation to words, or to summon emotive reactions. Gadgets, for example, sound similarity, similar sounding word usage, likeness in sound and cadence are at times used to accomplish musical or incantatory impacts.

There is a rhythm throughout the poem with strong rhyme, this pattern is like heavy breathing you have when you try to go to sleep it could also represent the rhythmical counting of sheep.