Go Down Moses Repetition

The imagery used in this verse appeals to the sense sight. This helps the reader visualise what the writer is taking about. It also allows the reader to relate and connect more to the poem.

One of these is the hefty amount of repetition used throughout the poem. In the first, second, third, and fourth stanzas, she repeats the first rhyming word of stanza. The words before these rhyming parts are also parallel to each other. Therefore, she used repetition inside of parallelism. This creates a powerful effect.

the lines are a form of a prayer and it does present an idea. The first few lines have the repetition

The poems last lines are “And you, my father, there on the sad height, / Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. / Do not go gentle into that good night. / Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” (12.) Up until this last stanza, the reader doesn’t realize that the last man Thomas addresses is his father, and so the whole poem is an imploring imperative to his father. We then come to realize all of the repetition in the poem was meant for this last line. All the previous repetition creates and adds even more meaning to the conclusion of the poem. We now

Imagery is repeatedly used throughout this poem. This is particularly evident when the appearance of the dead soldiers is described. The narrator sees an old man after lifting

Repeated words or phrases in a poem highlight the important factor. These words or phrases help the reader dig deeper and understand what the speaker is trying to say. The poem “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night,” contains phrases that are repeated throughout the poem. At the end of each stanza, Dylan Thomas alternates between two phrases that seem to summarize the speakers

I used repetition often in my poems throughout the year and in my poem “What Happens to a Silent Spirit”. In this piece I focused on repetition more than anything because I wanted to make a point that there was more than one side to the same story by asking the words “Does it…?”.

In brief, all of the literary devices in this poem work off of each other to make this poem a whole in different ways. The strange diction is used throughout the work making the poem fun and somewhat easy to understand. The imagery is used to create the image of the horrible creature and the speaker’s depiction of it being slain. It is also used to help the reader visualize the land they are in. The rhyming is used through the poem as well, giving it an exciting and powerful tone.

God is seen proclaiming his name and title to Moses when they meet at the burning bush, and is intending for Moses to respect and trust him on what he is about to instruct him. God then tells Moses to free the people of Egypt so that they can reclaim the holy

The poem is written in the closed form called a “villanelle.” This form is ideal for poems with a somber, emotional, or thought provoking theme. The careful repetition of the two echoing refrains and the flow of the rime pattern can make the poem come off as musical and songlike. In my opinion, appearing like a song can better appeal to the emotional state of the reader and allow for a deeper connection. In Mark Strand and Eavan Boland’s book The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2001) they emphasize the rules for the villanelle closed form, a total of nineteen lines which is made up of five stanzas of three lines, and one stanza of four lines. There are two main rime schemes which repeat and two phrases, the first and third lines of the first stanza, which repeat as alternating refrains to end each subsequent stanza. The

The extraordinary use of personification and metaphor is very effective in the poem itself. The poem accounts for multiple objects or ‘gods’ as the title suggests as almost each new paragraph

The Babylonian and Persian empires are the two empires responsible for Israel’s exiles (Tullock & McEntire, 2012). These two empires influenced the work of Israel’s literature. During Israel’s captivity, there were concerns that their religion and past traditions would soon be forgotten. The book of Lamentations tells the dreadful story of the Babylonian army invading and capturing the Israelite people through the words of poetry (Tullock & McEntire, 2012). There are a total of five poems in the book of Lamentations. It is through the use of poetry that the writer provides vivid descriptions of the fleshly and spiritual agony that the Israelites endured during their captivity. The writer of the book of Lamentations used rhythm and parallelism

In each line of the first stanza, there are two groups of two syllables with the second syllable of each group being accented. In each stanza, the second and forth lines rhyme which allow a night of passion to be captured in just a few short words. The verbs are not as active as they

This repetition can be considered the “make or break” part of a villanelle; the poet must work with the lines to ensure they are not monotonous. Interestingly

The Bible and modern Israeli Literature both contain similarities of literary works and appearances of certain themes. Yehuda Amchai’s poem “An Arab Shepard Is Searching for His Goat on Mount Zion” is structured around