Diction In Seahorses

Sir Edward Elgar composed the song cycle, Sea Pictures, in 1899. The five songs in this cycle that will be discussed in detail in this paper are: “Sea Slumber Song” by Roden Noel, “In Haven (Capri)” by Caroline Alice Elgar, “Sabbath Morning at Sea” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Where Corals Lie” by Richard Garnett, and “The Swimmer” by Adam Lindsay Gordon. First, the life and early influences of Elgar will be explored, followed by a close look at the text of each poem in the song cycle. A compositional music analysis will be discussed as it pertains to providing a distinct picture of the imagery goals chosen by Elgar for his audience.

When people go on cruise trips, one of the reasons they intend to enjoy their time off is to experience the sights and sounds of the open sea. In Annie Dillard’s Mornings Like This, she includes in her collection of found poems a poem that instills a similar vivid sense of imagery that one would experience by the ocean. Her found poem, called “The Pathfinder of the Seas,” includes a variety of words and sentences that relate to sailing in the sea. They were extracted from other books related to scientific research of the sky and the sea. The author brings together these distinct elements and structures them in a poem. This gives them a new home and, subsequently, gives the work a new meaning. Her goal for the reader is to question their previous knowledge and find a new perspective on life through the interactions with the sea in her poem.

In Mark Strand’s poem “Eating Poetry”, the author expresses his desire for his love of poetry through the use of an expended metaphor of him eating poetry and becoming a dog who is also hungry for poetry. Throughout the poem, he shows the emotional journey that can be experienced while reading and experiencing poetry. Furthermore, he uses vivid and sharp imagery from the beginning to the very end of the poem by using descriptions to show the events that are happening throughout the poem and to provide it with a conceit comparing it to the primary digression of something astounding, while also communicating a joyous tone that reaches its peak to a negative, yet terrified tone. This shows us that Strand represents the power that poetry has over him and how poetry can transform you.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a very influential poem in the English language. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is well known for its extensive use of vivid imagery and sound. The language used throughout the poem is beautiful, and it portrays the Romanticism of the time. The use of simile, metaphor, and personification in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” enhances the images a reader gains through this dramatic poem.

“This poem dramatizes the conflict between appearance and reality, particularly as this conflict relates to what the speaker seems to say and what the speaker really says. Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, The Fish displays her relationship between her and the fish. From the boat the speaker is looking at the fish, she explains that she caught a tremendous fish and she held him beside the boat. Lines (1-2). The speaker notes that the fish is half out of water, she points to several specific descriptions about the fish.

The novel “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville and the poem “The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge has one characteristic in common, the deep concern for nature, which is not merely as a source of pleasure, but as a noble divine influence on man. Also because of this concern with nature, a tendency of idealize the un-spoilt countryside and prefer it to town. The book talks about a man named Ishmael who goes for a vacation to get away from his unexciting life but his journey becomes adventurous and he learns to appreciate nature. The poem talks about a mariner who never appreciated nature before but while he is at sea he encounters so much hardship that makes him appreciate nature. The poem and the book they have so much in common in terms of what the poet and the novelists went through.

In “The Seafarer”, a man recalls his travels aboard a ship travelling the winter seas and about all the hardships and suffering he was forced to endure. The first lines of the poem describe how deeply the setting affects the main

Two writers of poems in the 20th century; Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) “The Fish” and Marianne Moore (1887-1972) “The Fish”. Both woman of nature and humanity, share and express values of differences and similarities. While reading both poems, exciting feeling race through your eyes and into your brain. Descriptive images of the nature on planet Earth. Both in their own exciting ways. Aspects of the deep sea, with invigorating details suppress your mind, indulging you into the eyes of these two fine writers, discovering nature, for what it feels is the first time in humanity. “The Fish” and “The Fish” have many aspects to discover upon. Shal we being?

As a symbol of this borderline, the barbed wire in line 7 breaks away the human beings from the fascinating natural world occupied by the horses. The barbed wire also shuts in the horses, abandoning them "alone" and hindering their longing to join their visitors. Then in line 15-17 where the author says “I would like to hold the slenderer one in my arms, for she has walked over to me and nuzzled my left hand.” In these lines, the poet is the cause of the relationship surrounded by the speaker and the horse through the use of tangible imagery images associated with the sense of touch. As readers, we can just about sense the horse's silky muzzle nudging us.

So the poem is enclosed: in the first and last stanzas, the body is still surrounded by home comforts. In between, the soul is out of doors, facing its punishing journey. Whinny Moor and even the allegorical-sounding Brig o'Dread have a literal, physical quality: dialect helps them to register as actual places, and the repetition from one stanza to the next reinforces the sense of the steady hard onward tread of the journey.

Matthew Arnold begins Dover Beach with a beautiful and peaceful image of a sea at night, but by the end of the poem he strips away the beauty, and shows the reader the nightmare, and horror behind the calm ocean. The speaker describes a lovely scene with the water meeting the land, and the moon glimmering off of the water, which creates a captivating image for the reader. The speaker even makes the reader imagine the sounds of the beach “Listen! you hear the grating roar” (9). This puts the reader on the beach with him, creating a peaceful, and blissful escape from the world for a moment. The speaker creates an allusion to the an ancient playwright Sophocles, “Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought” (16). This stanza forces the reader to go back in time, and realize the people that seem so far because of years walked the same beaches, and observed the same seas. Arnold

something floating in the sea, and presently it attracts other things to it. I do tend to “feel” my way into a poem.{25}” It is quite similar to music which Bishop is also interest in. She feels the way of the melody, and the silence may be prelude and hint of the climax—— in this poem, it is the discovery of the five big hook and the victory of the soldier. She just follows the pulse of her inner world when observing, and the rhyme flows.

The poem started when the tide was full, and the sea was calm, and everything seemed so quiet under the moonlight. Such good night is a perfect time for the lovers to date. So, the poet could not help but telling his lover, "Come to the window, how sweet the evening breeze is!" But then came the waves at low tide from the gravel. It gently and repeatedly chanted the beat, recalled the poet endless thoughts, turning the scenery into lyrical poetry, giving the expression with the development of the poet’s thoughts. The poet begins by connecting the changes of the tides to the fate of the people, because the tides, though rising and falling, are always the symbol of

In Hughes’ poem ‘Pike’ he uses paradox to highlight the pike’s beauty and a sense of threat, in the introductory four stanzas. He uses highly praising adjectives such as ‘grandeur’, ‘gold’, ‘emerald’ and ‘delicacy’ to portray the beauty, majesty and fragility of pike. The words ‘emerald’ and ‘gold’ seem to illustrate Hughes’ very high regard for an animal that is treasured

Unlike many poets around the world, Gerard Manley Hopkins follows a very unique style of poetry. Instead of using the same-old style of writing that every poet uses, Gerard created his own way to express his thoughts and feelings. Using a unique method, Gerard could write poems that became extremely popular starting in the late nineteenth century. In Gerard’s “The Windhover,” he uses various symbols, rhetorical devices, and strategies to help support his thoughts and to help strengthen his argument that something like a bird, that one sees every day, could be totally, mind-blowingly amazing if looked at the correct way.