George Szirtes Formal Wear

In the Anglo-Saxon epic poems “The Wife’s Lament,” “The Wanderer,” and “The Seafarer,” the authors make their poetry much more interesting and enjoyable by inserting literary devices that add meaning and cohesiveness to each line. Each poem contains multiple literary devices such as kennings, caesuras, and imagery. These tools work together in order to add mood and transparency to the poetry.

In conclusion, form, content, and language come together in this literary work to offer a striking emotional response from its reader. Without each of these specific components, the poem simply wouldn’t have the same effect. Form is necessary to provide structure, content its scene and language its sound and feel. Gwendolyn Brooks has included each ingredient to provide a brief, but strong feeling one way or another, for the young people of this poem.

As humans in order to connect and relate to those around us we tend to judge other people and what they believe in. If we agree with them about a topic then we are able to connect with them by discussing the similar opinions we have on that specific topic. If we disagree with them on a topic then we can examine why and look at the topic from a different perspective. Often though, if we do not agree with someone else 's beliefs or opinions, we will criticize them without making much of an effort to understand where they are coming from. Along with having a closed mind to others opinions, we do not look at our own opinions to see how they could be flawed or be seen as absurde. In James Merrill’s poem “Casual Wear” the author uses contrasting images to drive a point across to the reader about how we are hypocrites when we criticize others values and what they will do to make their opinion known and standing up for what they believe in, instead believing that we are innocent when we make our own opinions known.

To be able to understand the poet's purpose, one must not only look into the content but also delve into the structure of the literary work. It is evident that the poet uses many techniques such as alliteration;

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The critical purposes of pattern in poetry are easy-to-read. A poet's selection of a mystery word to clear metrical styles, and including traditions in general, shows how In the nineteenth century, poetry, came back in the form of symbolism. When there is a change in the culture, there will be a noticeable change in the language pattern, the quality, and in the word choice of the poem. Sandburg portrayed his work simply but the word 'simple', does not mean that the poem is easy or unvalued, but enable the reader to distinct between prose and poem and think of the poem as a whole. The work uses various Linguistic strategies to represent a social importance. Commonly, a poem requires both a grammar and a formal word order. The purpose of grammar is to divide, while the style is considered as a synthetic to connect poetry's different linguistic

In conclusion, when both metaphor and detail are brought together in this way, with the poetic language that is employed in the two pieces, a powerful representation of “truth” and “harmony” is communicated to the reader in a way that possibly the standard prose form cannot. In this essay I have shown how the poets, by including the reader in the process of forming the ultimate meaning of what they are reading by the use of metaphor, together with painting their descriptions in great detail but in such a way that obscures instant recognition of what is being described, lead the

One of the main elements of poetic structure employed in this poem includes the use of lines on the margin and those that are indented. The purpose of indenting lines is to place emphasis

John Hollander in his introduction to The Gazer’s Spirit defines ekphrastic poems as “those which involve descriptions or other sorts of visual representations of works of art” (Hollander, 4). James Heffernan in his essay “Ekphrasis and Representation,” which presents a more detailed study of the definition of ekphrasis, has a similar but more concise definition of ekphrasis as “the verbal representation of graphic representation” (Heffernan, 299). Heffernan goes on to say that ekphrasis “releases the narrative impulse that graphic art typically checks” (Heffernan, 304). By analysing poems written on Peter Brueghel’s Fall of Icarus, this paper studies several different aspects of ekphrastic poetry. Firstly, it studies the manner in which ekphrasis not only describes a piece of art, but does so by translating the techniques used in the graphic medium to the poetic medium. Secondly, it examines the use of the piece of art as a device for the poet to create his own suggestions, interpretations and moral judgments that may differ from the artist’s style and instead fit into the style of the poet’s other works. Lastly, the paper examines the manner in which these interpretations often lead to other ekphrastic conversations that do not respond to the painting, as much as they respond to the poem about the painting, leading to several gazes: the gaze of the original painter, the gaze of the poet, the gaze of other poets on the gaze of the poet, and the gaze of the reader.

Throughout history, at least until the late 1700s, poetry had always been centered on specific guidelines that one must follow when expressing their feelings. However, once the late 1700s came around in Europe, there was a sudden shift in the idealized poetry construction. The main reason for this revolution was the publication of William Wordsworth’s “The Preface,” which was a part of the Lyrical Ballads, in which he stated his exact intentions for the Romantic Period of literature. This period exemplified the radical changes that were beginning to occur in Europe, as well as other places around the world.

Clearly, poetic techniques and structure are used to convey and influence the meaning of the poems. In the poems ‘Limbo’ and ‘What were they like?’, the poets create powerful symbols which can convey a range of key ideas. Levertov focuses on how

The use of form constructs the poet not only in terms of literary history. Thomson uses form to construct the poet as being multifaceted by discussing various subjects. Gray on the other hand constructs the role of the poet as an outsider by creating a distance between poet and audience. Furthermore, the awareness of readership also influences the poets’ role. Thomson is aware of his readership and therefore is stopped from giving a full description of the scene. However, his role is also that of celebrating his patron. Gray however tries to react against the readership trying to form a community of understanding. However, the readership soon forces him to give explanation on his obscure references, there the role of poet become mass entertainer, not merely creating art to be appreciate by the elite. Finally, the use of observation is important. By using scientific insight, Thomson is able to convey the role of the poet as depicting nature fully. Whereas for Gray, observation is immaterial and grants the bard a knowledge beyond that of the

Rachel Buxton states that the intertextuality of the poem goes in line with the concept that reading a literary work is entering into a variety of texts (37). This notion is highlighted by Julia Kristeva’s assertion that “in the space of a given text, several utterances, taken from other texts, intersect and neutralize one another” (36) and in Roland Barthes’ reminder that “the word ‘text’ originally meant ‘a tissue, a woven fabric’” (159) and that the “idea of the text, and thus of intertextuality, depends …on this figure of the web, the weave, the garment (text) woven from the threads of the ‘already written’ and the ‘already read’”(G. Allen 6).

- unforced and free composition out of the inherent organic “laws” of the poet’s imagination

Heaney, in fact, is one of the most skilled practitioners of traditional verse forms writing at present. And since the poetic revolution is long over, and unrhymed, unmetered verse—free verse—has for the better part of the last century been the norm, one is justified in asking why a serious contemporary poet would be attracted to formal strains that lost their dominance some time around December 1910.