Ewok Poetry

Language is a remarkable thing. It can convey every thought, feeling, and emotion with perfect accuracy. Almost exclusively, language has taken awkward, unfit animals out of nature and made them rulers over the earth and many of its elements. When used well, it has the power to change an individual's view of the world, make someone believe they have seen something they have not, and even more astonishingly, look inside one's self and see what exists. If language is mixed with the tempo of music, something new arises; poetry is born. When words and ideas are set to a beat, they can far more subtly convey concepts that would otherwise need to be explicitly stated and the poem can be appreciated more as a whole,

Poems consist of a variation of different techniques in order to convey a message or idea to readers. Wilfred Owen, Thomas Hardy, Adrienne Rich, Bruce Dawe and Robert Browning are great poets who explore these issues, conveying their emotions, which influences a perception of an issue. In each of their poems they express the hidden message of hope, along with their main message. They use similar techniques to express their ideas, which illustrates their purpose to the reader.

The poem suddenly becomes much darker in the last stanza and a Billy Collins explains how teachers, students or general readers of poetry ‘torture’ a poem by being what he believes is cruelly analytical. He says, “all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it”. Here, the poem is being personified yet again and this brings about an almost human connection between the reader and the poem. This use of personification is effective as it makes the

Para-rhymes, in Owen’s poetry, generate a sense of incompleteness while creating a pessimistic, gloomy effect to give an impression of sombreness. Strong rhyming schemes are often interrupted unexpectedly with a para-rhyme to incorporate doubt to every aspect of this Great War. Who are the real villains and why are hundreds of thousands of lives being wasted in a war with no meaning? In ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’, the consistent sonnet rhyming scheme is disturbed by a half rhyme, “guns … orisons”, to show how the soldiers all died alone with only the weapons that killed them by their side, and a visual rhyme, “all … pall” to indicate that the reality of war is entirely the opposite to what it seems - no glory, no joy and no heroism, but only death and destruction. Owen occasionally works with this technique in a reverse approach to create similar thought. For instance, the assonance, consonance and half rhyme based poem, ‘The Last Laugh’, contains an unforeseen full rhyme, “moaned … groaned”, to emphasise that nothing is ever fixed in war except the ghastly fact that the weapons are the true winners. Different forms of Para rhymes often work together with common schemes to ably bring out the main ideas of Owen’s poetry.

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.

Poetry has a role in society, not only to serve as part of the aesthetics or of the arts. It also gives us a view of what the society is in the context of when it was written and what the author is trying to express through words. The words as a tool in poetry may seem ordinary when used in ordinary circumstance. Yet, these words can hold more emotion and thought, however brief it was presented.

In today’s modern view, poetry has become more than just paragraphs that rhyme at the end of each sentence. If the reader has an open mind and the ability to read in between the lines, they discover more than they have bargained for. Some poems might have stories of suffering or abuse, while others contain happy times and great joy. Regardless of what the poems contains, all poems display an expression. That very moment when the writer begins his mental journey with that pen and paper is where all feelings are let out. As poetry is continues to be written, the reader begins to see patterns within each poem. On the other hand, poems have nothing at all in common with one another. A good example of this is in two poems by a famous writer by

In the NPR interview with Abdul Ali and Shahem McLaurin, they express their views on political issues through their poetry. Poetry is unique because the readers of the poem are forced to create the image themselves instead of the image being created for them. Poets use this method to create sympathy in political issues. In the NPR interview in 2015, Ali says, "We are looking at poetry as a feel for social awareness and political change.” Poetry is the way for people to express the problems in the world and allow the poet to make the reader feel sympathetic for them and what they are going through.

Lines 7-10 indicate that a comparison is made between a manufactured item and a natural object (Encyclopedia.com). In interesting analogy is when the Martian says “Mist is when the sky is tired of flight,” the speaker is suggesting that the sky is some sort of “spaceship”, this plays along with the connotations of a Martian being an extra-terrestrial. Similarly in line 9-10 “engravings under tissue paper” Is a riddle that is left to the reader to decipher, but also points out how strange our world is to an “outsider”. Another example from the poem is the comparison of rain to a television emphasizing the natural in contrast to the man-made environment. This is effective as defamiliarisation causes us to experience the strangeness of our daily lives.

This poem opens with an extreme and vivid simile, “The bright wire rolls like a porpoise” (line 1). This beginning not only grasps the attention of the audience, but the image intensifying language that Kooser has chosen

poem is not merely a static, decorative creation, but that it is an act of communication between the poet and

Therefore, in the very beginning, Ginsberg presents to the reader the subject and tone of the poem in the context of this question. Ginsberg’s questions make the audience realize the seriousness of the issues that this poem discusess, such as America, politics, war, humanity, and ethics.

At the beginning of the poem I believe it opens with someone’s opinion against others. It is a possibility he could be talking literally, but I believe he is explaining the power that human beings have to harm one another. Line 3-4 says “From what I’ve tasted of desire

“The poet is trying to break down our complacency, to shock us out of our convention habits, and make us admit that we are fellow- sufferers so that we shall be ‘on his side’ in the

Poetry is a form of art that serves the purpose to express the writer's opinions, and also combat oppressive forces without the use of any physical force. These writers can relate to the expression by the playwright and novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton in the play Cardinal Richelieu, “The pen is mightier than the sword”(BBC); this expression serves as a metaphor in its own right as the nature describes the effect of words to provide a stronger impact on the intended audience than any kind of violence would. This term ties in perfectly with the ideas of Chicanx; the Chicanx perspective of life is oppression and the dangers of racial tensions and manners to dethrone those who impose that on others. They have long fought against the unfair forces that have come against them, and have been involved in many violent forms of protest. With Cesar Chavez becoming more invested in the peaceful form of protesting to gain trust and momentum in the campaigns they were in, more and more writers began to express their feelings and place their own two cents into the mixture of ideas. Often long stories are made in effort to express a personal form of how life is changing and growing fears are turning into, however some writers chose to use poetry as their version of a weapon against the oppressing forces. A poem is much shorter and does not provide the sufficient build up that can be placed into a Chicano novel, but the effect of