Autumn Poem Diction

Reading the stanza line by line is easier breaking the song into pieces to figure out the meaning of the song, or what the singer is trying to express. The writer used figurative languages representing her feelings in the song mostly simile. The song is written in first person. In the

to look at the story. One idea is that the poem is a journey, most

1. Rhythm: read the poem aloud at least 3 times. As you read it the 3rd time, jot down the rhyme scheme. As you read it a forth time, record your voice. Listen to your recorded voice and write down your observations. What do you notice?

The poems, "Introduction to Poetry" and "The Trouble with Poetry" by Billy Collins, both share the concept of experiencing the depth of what poetry honestly is through the usage of metaphors and imagery. However, both poems vary due to "Introduction to Poetry" gives a simpler way to convey a poem and "The Trouble with Poetry" gives a more into depth poem to show how poems are original from one another but, hidden meanings within a poem are still essential which is the speakers overall key point. Most often students will go through a poem and feel as if they discovered the depth of the poem after only reading it once. For most cases it's true, students do assume they found the underlying of a poem after one trial read but, in all reality it's not all crystal clear.

Throughout the poem i caught some lines from the story told. For example, “Efface the footprints in the sands” meaning the footprints represents a person, this means that someone is erased or forgotten. Another is “The little waves, with their soft, white hands” means that waves represent death and the waves are killing by erasing footprints.The last one would be “And the tide rises, the tide falls” a possible meaning for this quote would be that life is like a tide or wave and that life will always go on.

In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” Robert Hayden’s speaker reflects on his complicated relationship with his father. The three stanza poem’s structure contains no rhyme scheme and is from a paste tense narrative. Hayden employs detailed diction and imagery to express the father’s love for his son through his simple everyday sacrifices. The narrator’s remorse for his indifference and insensitivity toward his father is portrayed in the poem’s reflective and rueful tone.

Two poems that I have i read are The Raven and Phenomenal Women. Poetry elements that have helped me to understand the different parts of a poem are sound patterns and stanzas because they help to know how many stanzas there are and what rhyme they have. Challenges that I have faced reading poetry is that sometimes it can be difficult for me to understand what the poem is about or for example, what a stanza is saying or its meaning. A strategy that have helped me comprehend poetry are literary devices like figurative language, it helps me compare two things that are not the same and it helps to make an imagine of something in my head.

The poem "Snow and Snow" by Ted Hughes explores the powerful emotions of happiness and despair through the use of many poetic techniques, such as punctuation and structure, alliteration, word choice and personification. The poem switches between a female version of snow to male, it deals with a great mix of emotions which make up a moving poem.

In the third stanza, Clare explains that his love is unrequited as his beloved does not respond, because she does not know of his love for her. His love seems like winter to him, snow rather than any warmth. He says that this love changed him and he will not be able to be the same again. There is juxtaposition in lines 1 and 2 of hot and cold. Lines 3 and 5 contain sibilance. In line 5, there is alliteration in saw and sweet. Clare uses personification in lines 7 and 8. He describes his heart as a human who left his home and will not be able to return back to it.

In terms of things to work on, I would recommend combing through the piece and remedying issues of clarification. For instance, at the beginning of the second stanza, the shift from the metaphoric “sea” (which I assume is in the narrator’s sleep) to the walls of their room is a bit sudden. I would recommend either starting the poem in the narrator’s room before transitioning into the first stanza or making it more clear in a transition into the second stanza. In addition, I suggest making sure that the imagery and ideas that you present are consistent. While all of the images are quite beautiful the way they are written, they seem at odds at each other, and lack a central idea to tie them together. For instance, the second and third stanzas seem to refer to the dangers of technology whereas the first and last stanzas refer to the soothing nature of sleep. I suggest bridging together these ideas in order to let your poem

the theme of the poem as much as the imagery itself. The reader gets the clue

The metaphor begins in quatrain one with the symbolism of winter. The coloring of the “yellow leaves” falling from the tree clue the reader into the seasonal time period. The speaker directly compares himself to winter when he says “That time of year thou may’st in me behold”. He holds the season

Winter is a time for celebration and holiday but it is also a symbol for eternal sleep and death. Joyce takes on a more deeper meaning, symbolizing how humans are the same way, frozen temporarily in an impermanent state: alive but always dying; just as snow will always melt, human life will always end. Throughout the text all manifestations of winter, cold, white snow and the season itself usually represents mortality.

I began memorizing the beginning and the end of the poem.I think that this was the right way to memorize my poem. The middle was the easiest for me to understand, that is why I decided to work on it last. The first time I recited my poem in front of the class, it was a mess. I was switching words around, forgetting lines, and I was pausing at awkward moments. I could tell I need to put some major work into the poem. For the next couple of days I would be memorizing my poem, front to back, word by word. I took a tip from Mr.Baker and I started going as fast as I could, just so I could get the words right. After I got the words memorized, I began to recite it to my sister, it helped a lot having someone in front of me. After I finished memorization, I began working on my composure. I worked on standing still, speaking slow, and pronouncing the words better. It did not take me long to get this down. After I finished all of this preparation, I finally felt ready to perform my

The first line, “In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan” makes it seem as if the narrator is a child or makes the poem seem quite childlike. However the rhyming couplet, “earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone” makes the poem seem quite lyrical or makes it seem like a well-known story the narrator is telling others. The personification of Earth and water is significant as it shows Rossetti representing how cold the narrator is but also tells the reader what the weather is like and what time of year it is therefore creating the setting for the narrative to take place. The phrases, “What can I give Him, poor as I am?” and “If I were a Wise Man, I would do my part; yet what I can I give Him: give my heart.” shows that the narrator believes that their love for God and Jesus is more important than their love for anything else but also shows that love is better than any material gift. This suggests that the narrator limits themselves to their religious beliefs and avoids falling in love with any other person as it will never compare to the love that they can give and receive from