This week, I was assigned to read the poem titled “Go Down, Moses”.
In this poem, I specifically noticed the poems use of repetition. When one reads the poem, there are two lines that one will/should notice that are mentioned constantly and in the form of repetition. These lines are “let my people go” and “Go down, Moses.” I felt that the repetition helped explain the poems meaning because the two lines that I mentioned above seem to indicate what the point of the scenario in the poem is implying. To the best of my knowledge, in the Old Testament, the Lord asked Moses to go to the Pharaoh and inform him that the Lord said to let his people go. In other words, God commanded Moses to demand the release of the Israelites from Egypt. This was
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 2008, when the financial crisis occurred, millions of Americans were left without jobs and trillions of dollars of wealth was lost wealth. To make sure the Great Recession would not happen again, President Barrack Obama put into effect the Dodd- Frank Act. With the help of this law, banks will not be able to take irresponsible risks that had negative effects on the American people. Furthermore, with the Volcker Rule embedded into the act, it will ensure that banks are no longer allowed to own, invest, or sponsor hedge funds, private equity funds, or proprietary trading operations for their own profit, unrelated to serving their
In the except from “Butterfly Burning” by Yvonne Vera, the author want to illustrate that most people make questionable decisions because they do not have some to support them through their struggles.
In the third stanza, a lot of imagery is used. The significant ones are present in the seventh and eleventh lines. In the first line, the poet writes, "A
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
the lines are a form of a prayer and it does present an idea. The first few lines have the repetition