Research Paper On Blackout Poetry

draw the murals and paint them and drawing the faces . I have seen his

In this essay I am going to compare and contrast ‘When we two parted’ a poem of George Gordon, Lord Byron’s written in 1815 and Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s ‘Love’s last lesson’ written in c1838, both poets are British and of the romantic period.

encouraged by her husband to do so. She received awards such as Mademoiselle poetry prize,

The Vacuum by Howard Nemerov talks about a widower and his late wife, and how he uses the vacuum as a symbol for her death. The poem expresses deep sorrow and sadness that derive from the loneliness of the speaker, after his other half’s passing away. Nemerov attempts to take his readers on a grief-stricken journey, by strategically employing figurative language (mainly personification, metaphor, simile, and alliteration), fractured rhyme schemes and turns in stanza breaks in the poem.

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.

currently lives in Los Angeles, California and continues to pursue a career in writing. Her

poem is a quotation from or reference to a book or a author or a movie. Here are some websites

She wrote this book as a way for hearing people to understand and communicate with people that are deaf. She continued on to study art at the College of William and Mary. She studied illistration and design at Kent State University as well. She met her husband who was also an art major, at the College of William and Mary. Currently they live in Virginia in an old church that has been converted to a home where she works full time as an author and

She has also written essays, reviews, and books. She is also a prolific poet, becoming extensive in writing poetry which moves from the traditional ones to even the unrestricted free verse. Her characters are mostly from the underclass of the black neighborhoods which shows the impact of city life to the people within. As one of the most visible poets in the United States, she is active not only in public readings and poetry workshops but she also participates in contests and classes

understand and it makes the poem look as if the poem would be good to

I am a member of a femme poetry collective, Devotion, in Portland, Oregon and have had my work published in Pathos Literary Magazine as well as non-literary academic publications. I am currently a graduate student in Human Geography at Portland State University.

The words dark, darkness, and Ink Spot are also used. Ink Spot is the name of a thin black dog, so that is an example of imagery for black or darkness. The word light is used three times. Darkness and light is a recurring theme in the poem. Maybe the title of the poem “Night Light” means finding the light in the darkness.

The poem “Bucket list” that I have written is a short representations of things I want to accomplish before I die. I didn’t want this poem to be just a typical bucket list where I would just state all of the things I want to do, so I tried to give a little context to help the readers be more engaged in what I have to say by using literary devices and literary elements. I used literally devices such as allusions, anaphora and a rhyme scheme to keep the reader interested in my poem because they help to make references to things that readers can relate to. The literary elements like the content, imagery and the tone help the reader connect and find what I’m trying to say more tangible. Thesis To begin with, the literary devices that I used to

If one is aiming to write a poem it is useful to know by detail the basic elements of poetry to understand and control better what and how to say things, they are: voice, stanza, sound patterns, figures of speech and the poetic forms.

Slam poetry is one of the many forms of art where people express their feelings by writing them down and sharing them with other people. In 1984 Smith a constuction worker was hosting poetry reading in a jazz club in Chicago. Mac made up a gimmick to bring life to his open-mic formal; his idea was to match up poets against each other as in a fight. It was in 1986 when slam poetry was born and has been going on ever since. Accoding to the Oxford dictionary (1994 : 194) slam poetry is a competition where poets read, recite,and perform original work alone or as a team before an audience who act as judges they are judged at a scale of 0-10.