'Poetic Language is used to Capture Human Experiences;
`In Robert Gray’s poems, he uses language to capture human experiences. In two of his poems; old house and late ferry, gray has effectively captured human experiences by his varies poetic languages and through insight and feeling. Throughout both texts late ferry and old house, gray’s main message in the poems, with his critical analysis, is the destruction of nature by mankind.
In old house, gray has captured the human experience of the process of death. He does this through insight and he effectively conveys this with poetic language such as the use of metaphor. This is the title itself ‘ old house’. The title doesn’t literally mean an old
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He uses this imagery in this poem to emphasis this dark place in which he now lives. Deep sea can be a cold and scary place. This would capture a human experience because deep in the sea would be a dark and lonely which is something a human can feel and relate to.
Gray expresses, in late ferry, a human experience captured by the language technique of symbolism, this is of colour. In this text, gray uses the colour of yellow to express light, and sun, and to emphasis the preciousness of the colour yellow, which also symbolises gold. In this text, gray conveys yellow as the happy colour of the light, which is more natural and sweet to him, especially compared the fake lights and colours of the city.
Poetry is definitely language used to capture a part of human experiences. This is evident in both late ferry and old house, which were written by the poet Robert gray. He informs his audience of the destruction of nature, and this is happens by mere humans. This is evident by the artificialness of the city in late ferry, and of an old house actually being an institute in old house. He does this successfully through various uses of poetic language
Throughout the poem he refers to the ocean and water frequently. From previous research, I learned he had died of alcoholism. Perhaps the ocean is an analogy for his drinking problem depicting himself drowning in his problems. The word choice throughout the poem is very vivid, giving myself the ability to paint a graphic picture while reading. For example, “I see a corpse upon the waters lie/ With eyes turned, swelled and sightless, to the sky.” These very first lines give me the imagery of a scene from a movie like “Pirates of the Caribbean.” The author made it very easy to relate to and make a connection with the statement of being lonely in life. As for the world view, it is evidently stated in line 8. Branwell discuss how the sea is calmer than the world's turmoil. Now that means there is some serious issues going on throughout the world because typically oceans are never calm. This poem is much more negative and sounds like it is written to express regret in some manner. It seems like the author struggled mentally and is unable to get out of his own way. The second stanza talks about having an outward frame of a life with great potential, while he is trapped in his inner frame of regrets and
To me poetry is a means for people to express their deepest emotions and create healing. When I was and high school I would write my heart out when I was sad, mad, or happy. This would make me feel so much better, I was so good at expressing my feelings through letters but I wasn't a poet. It was like my only escape route for whatever was taking place in my life. “Poems have also been viewed as carriers of messages from the unconscious to the conscious mind.” In my eye whenever people gather to mark a moment, they speak from heart to heart, with poetry. I have read a lot of poem, and I can relate to so many of them. I have had many obstacles and my life so my views are a little different, some good and some bad (most might say). Poem/poetry
Poetry is about the emotions or feeling of a person. Poetry always follows a rhythm to keep the poem organized. The words used in poetry are always specific whether they are good or bad words. People may decide to write poetry because they can freely choose their own words without caring about the reader’s reaction. Although, Poetry is mostly interesting to read, it can sometimes end up being a shock to the readers.
The writer has the ability to make readers of his works empathize with him. His real life story is the same. In the poem, he presents a person who required empathy. The persona is torn between diving to the unknown future or to remain in his current situation. He has made his minds and determined to go under the sea. It does not matter whether the stories he will come back with from the dive will be pleasing or not. Upon return, he will address people using a Pub-lic Address System to narrate the ordeals he experienced under the sea (line 8). A character like that one is a character that makes people empathize with him. The author has used his history to develop the character of the persona of the poem. A character that is suffering and ready
Poetry is a way for people to express themselves. Written in stanzas, there is much more art to it than simply putting words down on paper so they sound nice. Poets keep in mind the syllable count, the rhyme scheme, the order of unstressed and stressed syllables, and many more techniques, depending on the type of poem. Also, every poem has a unique, powerful message. Langston Hughes was a recent American poet who wrote countless quality works, many of which have an enduring impact.
He experiences an expanse that has obscure and terrifying qualities which evoke the sublime (Burke 35-37). Many instances of sublimity are in events and characters throughout the poem. For instance, the storm that blew the ship about “like Chaff” (I. 48), is an event, which is terrifying. The ice figures that are many and varied portray the obscurity of the sublime (I. 55). Ice surrounds the Marinere’s ship showing the power that nature constantly maintains over man, “The Ice was here, the Ice was there,/
Poetry is a very fascinating based literature that can express the emotions of an individual whether it be about love, happiness or even anger. It has so many different uses that ultimately get the point that is trying to be made across, but its not as easy as it may seem to create a work of literature art. Having imagination and creativity is what is necessary, but without that, there will only be an occurrence of random words that happen to rhyme when put together, but even to that extent, poetry is so much more and the poem by Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est surely shows that poetic art is something that takes time to achieve.
Poetry is a language used to compose emotion through the use of poetic devices such as imagery, Alliteration, assonance, similes, metaphors etc. These poetic techniques used in rhythmic and aesthetic elements such as sound and symbolism add readers to depict meaning through literature (J. Colson, 2015). Poetry has a long history dating back to Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. Ancient poets wielded the art of poetry for entertainment and teachings such as Aristotle’s Poetics, Focused on the utilization of speech in repetition and suspense in their dramas, songs, and comedies. (E. O’Connor, 2011). Through later centuries poets began concentrating on features such verse form, rhyme and emphasizing aesthetics, which distinguished poetry from more objectively informative forms of writing. From the mid-20th century, poetry has sometimes been more generally regarded as a fundamental creative act employing language. The use of symbolism, irony and other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations similarly figures of speech such as metaphor, simile and metonymy create a resonance between otherwise disparate images a layering of meanings, forming connections previously not perceived. Connections begin to exist between individual verses, in their patterns of rhyme or rhythm. (E. O’Connor, 2011)
Then he continues with imageries in line 5 to 11. We find two personifications, the first one is: “The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;” The sea cannot bare her bosom, because only animals and humans have a bosom. But in this case it is a personification and the author illustrates that people do not see the bare bosom of the sea anymore. In our eyes it is nothing special, it became normal for us and we do not really think about it. Also, here the noun “Sea” is written in an upper case letter, which makes it a name and demonstrates that we are not talking about a sea, but about the sea, that is a gift from nature. We should appreciate these gifts. At a nice evening for example, we could see the moonlight shimmering in the sea, but we do not actually see it because we are too busy.
What is poetry? According to the author Clugston (2010) poetry is everything the poet sees. Also according to Clugston (2010) “poetry is everything the poet senses, feels, experiences, and imagines”. Poems are built around human life experiences but written in concise and expressive figurative language form which could sometimes be difficult to understand. Not only is poetry based on human life experiences, poetry is also written to capture the reader’s attention and at the same time requires the reader to explore the poet’s imaginations. Basically, “poetry is an expression of the human spirit” (Clugston, 2011). As a result, the poem “On His
In contrast to Thomson, Gray’s poem presents an anxiety and alienation from the audience due to changes of distribution and readership. There was a mass increase of the middle class readership, which meant literature was no longer just for the elite but it became a ‘mass entertainment’ (Benedict, pg64). With this change, Gray felt distance from his elite audience and unable to create a community of understanding between poet and audience (Zionkowski, pg334). Gray tried to create this community of understanding himself. He attempted this through the use of classical allusion which only the elite would understand (Zionkowski, pg341). This would act in preventing those without the elitist knowledge from understanding, excluding them from being Gray’s core audience. However, Gray was forced to place in footnotes in order to allow readers’ to
In the last section of the poem ,once again all the images of the ferry ride are one by one reprised and united together like „The glories strung like beads on my smallest sights and hearings“ It serves to help the reader to remember all that preceded. While before he demonstrated things independently, blended with his own contemplations, here he consolidates them into one major celebration.
Generally when poets write about nature they take a sympathetic, descriptive or philosophical attitude towards it but Jennings in these last two poems in the collection reveals a different attitude towards it. She views nature as a source of power which influences and shapes the intellect of an artist or a poet. She sees the abstract quality of nature and not its physical or visual
Poetry: writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm. Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The definition alone does not truly harmonize the rhythmic flow, depth and imagination that goes into this luxurious art form. Throughout history, there have been many poetic genius that has influenced how we perceive this genre, even redefining our very perceptions of emotions and reality to this very day. Poetry is an art form, and as time passes, and new art begins to rise, we tend to look back and appreciate where it all began.
Poetry is a form of literary art which uses the aesthetic qualities of language to build meanings in addition to make emotional response. Poetry is a synthesizing art; its very task is to create a new entity out of things which are normally held apart. (Samuel Johnson: 1759). Today people tend to think of poetry as personal, expressive, concerned with an individual 's feeling and thoughts about the relationship between the self and the world.