Poetry and Handsome Young Man

2) Denotation- is the basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word. The connotation of a word is its emotional content.

Discuss how your investigation of the generic conventions of poetry has influenced your understanding of at least one poem that you have studied in this unit.

Another one of the most important aspects of a great poem, is it’s form. The author’s

the poem. Not only does the choice of diction determine the tone, but also the order in which

Having a persona in a poem, allows the writer to relay what they want to say through a characters actions or thoughts. The use of a persona is quite strong in each of the three texts. In Australia the persona,

Though given tone, the author also implements mood into the poem. Mood is the emotional feeling created in the reader throughout the poem. One of the many ways that mood is created is through the tone of the author. Creating mood through tone is when “The attitude of the writer, speaker, or narrator evokes feelings and emotions

Prompt: Write a unified essay in which you relate the imagery of the last stanza to the speaker’s view of himself earlier in the poem and to his view of how others see poets.

has lots of tone. Tone is the attitude of a poem but not only just the attitude but also the

The tone of this poem is established by the way the lines seem flat and void of emotion. The

1. The poem is written in iambic pentameter with an abab cdcd efef gg rhyming scheme.

into the poem. The section of the poem that will be analyzed is the final ten lines (25-34). The

5. The falling action of the poem is when the speaker does not die and decides that since the

Perhaps the most basic and essential function of poetry is to evoke a particular response in the reader. The poet,

The use of visual imagery in each poem immensely contributed to conveying the theme. In the poem