Eng 102 Poetry Essay

Richard Blanco is a Cuban- American poet who was given the oppurunity to write an inaugaration poem for Barack Obama's second swearing-in. He wrote a poem titled "One Today" that praised the good and unique things about the United States and also the everyday people who's daily routines help to make America the proud country that it is.

The poem is written in free verse, offers no type of rhyme scheme, and in one long stanza. This contributes to

The last effect of this unusual stanza is to create a turning point within the poem. The turning point starts in the final rhyming couplet of the fifth stanza where the pace is reduced by the use of alliteration and the trimetric line.

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.

Prompt: Read the following two poems very carefully, noting that the second includes an allusion to the first. Then write a well-organized essay in which you discuss their similarities and differences. In your essay, be sure to consider both theme and style.

It is then followed with an anapestic meter, giving the feeling of longing and yearning for more. The second stanza, however, begins regimented, starting with iambic trimeter, but begins to switch unrelated meters. This shows the flooding of emotions, and depicts the inability to keep calm, as seen through the unrelated meter forms.

The Poet is about a search for a serial killer that the FBI names “The Poet” due to this person’s signature of forcing the victims to write suicide notes in the form of a quote from Edgar Allen Poe. Jack McEvoy, a newspaper reporter from Denver, is the brother of a victim who was killed by the Poet. In an attempt to avenge his brother’s death McEvoy, and the FBI, form a nation-wide manhunt in search of this cunning illusive killer.

This resolution of discordant imagery, this stillness after the petitionary storm, is reflected in the poem 's metrical pattern as well. Nominally iambic pentameter, as befits a sonnet, the first twelve lines (with the exceptions of lines 3 and 11) are full of

The poem follows mostly an iambic trimeter pattern with three iambs in a row. An example of this would be “The wetter ground like glass” (line 8). However, there is a break in this pattern when Frost decides to make certain lines eight syllables. For instance he writes, “But when was that ever a bar” (line 15). Frost intended to do this because as the poem is read, the motion of the waves comes alive with an almost up and down pattern that is placed on the accented syllables of the words. Although waves can be uniform, every so often there can be a disturbance and they will not flow perfectly. The poem also follows a simple ABAB rhyme scheme that sounds pleasing and emphasizes the enjoyable feeling of being at the beach. Life at the beach is easy and relaxing.

depicts how before the poet was at peace in nature all his complicated thoughts were tangled and intertwined, however now they are all started to crumble into nothing. This technique is used to emphasise a point due to the use of intense sounds, such as ‘s’ which allows the reader to further think and articulate themselves around the point as the techniques use makes the stanza far more predominant.

Despite the flowing syntax, the poem has a clear and predictable structure to replicate the persona’s calm familiarity with experiencing and answering to “storms” in their life. It is interesting to note that even though parlous weather is on its way, there is a lack of panic, chaos, and anomalies in the structure of the poem. There continues to be seven lines in each stanza throughout the piece;

There is a sudden contrast in stanza three, where the sea calms down and the ‘dog’ is sleeping peacefully. The atmosphere is calm and we imagine

“The Relic” consists of three 11-line stanzas which incorporate tetrameter (four metrical feet), pentameter (five metrical feet) and two tri-meter (three metrical feet) lines per stanza. It is written

In every stanza that follows there exists a similar rhyme scheme. Continuing on, there does also exist a regular meter too. The second line in the poem, “We chaired | you through | the mar | ket-place” includes a meter that has a short syllable, followed by a long, and much more emphasized and stressed syllable, with the underlined word being the stressed and drawn out syllable. Because of this short, followed by long word sequence, this is known as an iamb, and because there are four beats of this short followed by long syllable to a line, the form is a tetra meter (tetra- meaning four). Therefore, the meter of this poem is an iambic tetrameter.

Despite the separation of each stanza, they are all connected through enjambment. Nearly all the stanzas end with an unfinished sentence or thought, and the first line of the following stanza continues or completes it. This separation informs the reader of a change of subject, either mild or extreme, but provides the knowledge that the subjects are still connected. Simultaneously, the break also provides the emphasis designated to each separate thought.