Essay about Kenneth Slessor Poetry Speech

In my poem, I have used the same style, putting the word 'way' as the last word in the first and last lines. Such an arrangement serves to connect the beginning of the poem to the end and imparts a sense of cyclical occurrences—although Elizabeth can banish those who hope to dispose her, new enemies will constantly arise. Using this structure as the framework for my own thoughts, I was able to break away from the original meaning of the poem and form something quite different.

     Frost moves onto autumn and shows what little life is left begins to wither and fall, or as he put it in the first line of the third set ?Then leaf subsides to leaf.? The playful spirit of the young is lost in time as age quickly pours what seems like endless duties upon adults. Things once learned are forgotten and the sun creeps slowly below the horizon. Time once again takes it toll on all things living

Furthermore, poetry, and the personification of poetry, conversations with old friends and family, should not need a special occasion, rather it should “ride the bus” with patience for the stops before your own and the understanding of other’s needs before your own (line 13). You can also say the bus can represent the speed at which life passes you by and how easy it is to miss something if you are not paying attention, or even, that these missed moments have a poem to help you along your long journey home. With the use of

Mourning and mortality is a constant concern that transcends time. Slessor’s poetic treatment of these ideas continue to engage readers as it evokes a sense of awareness. This is evident in Kenneth Slessor 's poem Five Bells as the persona 's grief for his deceased friend, Joe Lynch causes him to realise the significance of time and the strength of spiritual attachments. This further leads him to question the purpose of human life.

My interpretaion of ¨The Bells¨ is about how Poe´s relationship with his wife from marriage to death. To begin with, the bells in the poem seem to represent his life and how he feels. For instance, the first stanza states, ¨What a world of merriment their melody foretells! ¨(3) This shows that the bells in the first stanza is about cheerfulness and it gives off a holiday feeling. This is the begginning of Poeś new relationship with his significant other, which is filled with love and joy. Furthermore, the bells from the second stanza represent when Poe and his wife get married. In stanza two it states, ¨What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!¨ I could assume that he is extemely happy and this is the highest peak in Poeś life because

These word paint a blurred vision of life which happens when time is moving quickly. In Out of Time, time is pictured as slow and painful. Slessor says, "Time flows like a hundred yachts" the average reader sees this as being slow because yachts do not come very often and a the number a hundred is a large number too. Also time has a capital letter, this signifies the importance of the word. Slessor says, "Leave this lovely moment at your back!". He means to leave the good times behind you and stop living with the good times and just keep going. Later Slessor says, "Time the boney knife". This reference to time is very powerful, one thinks of the 'boney knife' as a long hard but sharp knife.

Reflections Within is a non-traditional stanzaic poem made up of five stanzas containing thirty-four lines that do not form a specific metrical pattern. Rather it is supported by its thematic structure. Each of the five stanzas vary in the amount of lines that each contain. The first stanza is a sestet containing six lines. The same can be observed of the second stanza. The third stanza contains eight lines or an octave. Stanzas four and five are oddly in that their number of lines which are five and nine.

Eiseley beautifully presents the time by making reader feel themselves as a character. He shows the time keeps on changing which has been reflected through urbanization. He means that with the flow of time everybody gets old and dies by giving an example of the wasp and the old man. Similarly, White also supports the same attitude after he saw the same lake. He realized that time has been passed when he feels transposition to son and his father who is dead now. Then he felt the irony of life. Both believe that the time keeps on moving by leaving memory and the place where we are.

In E.B. White’s essays, “Once More to the Lake “and ‘The Ring of Time”, the author demonstrates two different interpretations of time and how it is used to symbolize meaning to each piece. “Once More to the Lake” is an essay that is derived mostly from White’s personal experience while “The Ring of Time” is mostly examining a teenage girl performing at the circus, in the eyes of someone else. Both of these articles give the reader insight of how the author uses the theme of time to show different aspects to the storyline. In White’s essays, he uses strategies that reflect on the past and foresee the future, use other individuals as vehicles to access an alternative temporality and demonstrate his own perceptions and visions in

The poem progresses from mourning of the deceased to praising of his achievements and fate to die before his glory withered. Therefore, the tone shifts from somber and quiet to upbeat and positive. Such shift of tone is achieved by Housman’s use of sounds. In first two stanzas, Housman describes the funeral procession as he remembers the time when the young athlete was proudly brought home after he won a race. Then, he solaces the mourners by reminding them it is better that the athlete “slip betimes away from fields where glory does not stay” (lines 9 and 10) because the laurel “withers quicker than the rose” (line 12). The soft “s” sound stands out especially in second and third stanza and it creates a sense of calm and quiet tone and evokes an image of townspeople mourning the death of their “hero”; Consonance of “s” sounds is present in words “shoulder, set, threshold, townsman, stiller, smart, slip, betimes, fields, does, stay, grows, withers, and rose.” In addition to consonance, soft sound alliteration in “road all runners” (line 5) helps to create a quiet tone. As the poem progresses into praising of the young athlete in stanzas four through seven, the consonance of hard “c”, “t”, and “f” sound become prominent. Readers can immediately detect

In Poe’s poem “ The Bells” a range of diction, starting with lighthearted wording and progressing to morbid language is used to convey the shifting meanings that the speaker associates with the tintinnabulation of the bells. In the first stanza, the words “melody, twinkle, musical, and delight” are used to convey the positive attitude that the speaker feels towards the bells. The bells connote a sense of lighthearted joy, and even celebration. This is the first phase in the speaker’s changing attitude towards the meaning of tolling bells. In the second stanza, the bells are still accompanied by enthusiastic and praising diction such as “mellow, harmony, ditty, and euphonic”.

After reading the poem “The Bells” and understanding what the speaker is trying to make the audience understand. The speaker would probably choose that the

“Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago to-day, the Parisians awoke to the sound of all the bells in the triple circuit of the city, the university, and the town ringing a full peal.

This clock that the speaker notes is the moon hanging above him, casting its pale light on the labyrinthine city streets below. It is a teller of time, signifying nightfall and furthermore the coming of day. In fact, the very light it reflects comes from the sun itself. With light representing happiness and contentment, the moon therefore serves as a reminder that the light still exists—while it is far off, it will return, and in some ways (as it reflects) it has never left. The speaker cannot seem to grasp this, however. To him, the moon isn’t an assurance that day will come. It is a stark reminder that day has left, and he is trapped in his darkness. This is only human. After all, one cannot physically see the moon glide across the sky; the fact that it even moves is something more to be known than to be believed.

However, the writer in line twelve also refers to time as a leader, which reflects a tone of acceptance toward time and his fate. This tone is different from the tone at the beginning of the poem. The speaker has changed his tone and it seems as if this tone change has occurred because the speaker is considering how he believes his short time should be spent.