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Soffici uses these references to gems with their striking connotations of a shining, visual nature to illustrate his almost childlike joy and euphoria in being surrounded by this modernity and his reverence for this chaotic harmony between technology and man. In this line, the poet is so immersed in all of these senses and movement that he is experiencing total excitement and exhilaration. Where one might feel overwhelmed by this flood of sensations from all directions, Soffici feels exhilarated and allows these senses to completely wash over him to become one with this animated urban environment.

Distinctively visual is not just about images but also the power of language that enables composers to transport us to their world, specifically to the place indicative of the time during which the text was written. Henry Lawson’s collection of short stories in particular ‘In a dry season’ and ‘The drover’s wife’ and my related text, Art Spigelman’s graphic novel ‘Maus’ bring their unique ideas to life shaping and challenging our perspective and understanding of various human experiences of pain, suffering ,courage, resilience and perseverance ultimately bringing personal and social issues to life.

7. The setting is used as a reflection of the woman's inner emotions. The sun shines and birds sing with no sign of gloom because she is not actually mourning as she thinks to herself. The lack of sorrow from the woman cause the setting to seem even more lovely to her as she realizes she is feeling joy. The details used by the writer portray a sense of well being and positivity. The woman reaches out towards the window as if her joy is tangible, this is a vey important

The poem Suicide Note, written by Janice Mirikitani (1987), talks about a young lady, who has studied in an Asian-American female college. The lady, unfortunately, committed suicide by jumping through her dormitory’s window. She left behind a note, citing reasons that led to her actions. After a critical analysis of the note, her parents were held responsible for her actions; they were pressurizing her to perform better in her exams. The poem, thus, describes the real feelings and the emotions of this young lady, who believes that committing suicide is the only option left to please her parents and to escape the enormous pressure placed on her. The persona uses voice in the poem to bring our attention to the sufferings she was going through, and that led to the devastating event. Voice in poetry is the strong words of a line, stanza or a page that creates a relationship between the audience and the persona. Voice can, therefore, be categorized as imagery, patterns of sounds created, rhythm, tone, and diction (Gahern 166). The following is a description of how the voice in Mirikitani’s suicide note helps the reader understand the persona’s reasoning.

Poetry has a role in society, not only to serve as part of the aesthetics or of the arts. It also gives us a view of what the society is in the context of when it was written and what the author is trying to express through words. The words as a tool in poetry may seem ordinary when used in ordinary circumstance. Yet, these words can hold more emotion and thought, however brief it was presented.

The stark, thirdless, parallel chords in particular set the mood for the speaker’s utter desolation over lost love. Against the march-like, duple-divided beat of the bass (bars five through ten), the rhythmic setting of the vocal line contains not only dotted rhythms that articulate the desolation of the speaker’s reality, but also hints of lulling triplets, which are soon featured prominently to describe the speaker’s dream state. With the line “Dark to me are the heavens,” triplets fall in bar ten just prior to the lengthy, even, setting of the word “heavens” in the vocal line. The dotted rhythms sound angular and harsh, suggesting the pain of reality, while the triplet figure softly lulls, evoking the hope of the heavens and the realm of fantasy and

The most striking feature of the cantata ‘Young as We Are’ is composer John Adams’ characteristic approach – ‘a different way of providing a new take on a canonical genre (Richards, 2014)’. Firstly, ‘Young as We Are’, a dramatic centre piece in the song cycle of John Adams iconic opera ‘Nixon in China’, provides a fascinating structure. The piece features a treble Petrarchan sonnet, the first two of which precede a turn, following the second rhyming couplet. Each sonnet includes an octave consisting of two quatrains, which rhyme ABABABAB with a sestet which rhyme CDCDCD. The turn is structured in the form of a Sonnetina Uno consisting of ten lines. Goodman’s use of Iambic Pentameter maintains a dark mood.

poem is not merely a static, decorative creation, but that it is an act of communication between the poet and

In Voice the beginning of the text is filled with positive imagery, with her voice being called a gift and likened to “a hothouse plant...luxuriant, with glossy foliage”. The effects of her voice are also described as positive. “Applause flew around it(her voice) like flocks of red birds” makes the experience and attention of being famous seem glamorous and almost magical.

Love makes people become selfish, but it is also makes the world greater. In this poem, the world that the speaker lives and loves is not limited in “my North, my South, my East and West / my working week and my Sunday rest” (9-10), it spreads to “My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song (11). The poem’s imagery dominates most of the third stanza giving readers an image of a peaceful world in which everything is in order. However, the last sentence of the stanza is the decisive element. This element not only destroys the inner world of the speaker, but it also sends out the message that love or life is mortal.

In this literary analysis it is essential to compare and contrast Cathy Song’s poem “Heaven” and Bryan Thao Worra’s poem “Pen/Sword” to give the reader a better understanding of what the authors’ are conveying to their readers. The similarities in the style, word choice, and theme will be compared, along with the differences of style, word choice, and theme reflected throughout each poem. Furthermore, I will determine the meaning behind the broken up and/or the way the lines of each poem while describing why the lines are strategically placed throughout the pieces. This will allow me to identify the meaning that the authors’ are explaining to the reader. Each poet specifically writes to give the reader(s) a picture of what they are feeling and defining their emotion through their writing.

The short stanzas containing powerful imagery overwhelm the readers forcing them to imagine the oppression that the speaker went through in

It’s 7:30am, I step outside onto my apartment balcony. Cars are zooming down the over crowded streets, staunch buildings towering over me blocking the greeny lush hills far away. People rapidly walking down the sidewalk. In front of my eyes are shimmery silver and navy colours reflecting from the sky high buildings, they stand out more than the joyous light blue sky itself. Sounding in my ears are cars angrily roaring every 5 seconds, people barking at taxis to stop, an earth shaking sound that’s mixed with sound of a hurricane that’s just the aeroplane taking off from the city airport. The mouth watering smell of the local bakery down the road lingers through my nose, I can taste those freshly baked scones in my mouth from here.

It is when the artist begins to add nuances and harmonies to the melody that the work becomes inaccessible to the unlearned ear, thus isolating a portion of the audience. When works of art are created to express the universality of humankind they are more beneficial to it. As an example, this view is dissimilar to the view if Dante, who believed that the language of a work should be elevated. Tolstoy argues the more details that are given in the work the more opportunities for disconnection from its message the audience has (391).

The form of ‘God’s Grandeur’ is an Italian sonnet, but with some alteration. Even though Hopkins does not use sprung rhythm here, he varies his sonnet structure from the traditional iambic pentameter. Typically, a sonnet contains 3 quatrains (4 lines) and a couplet (2 lines); the Italian sonnet is characterized by having 1 octave (8 lines) and 1 sestet (6 lines). In ‘God’s Grandeur’ a similar pattern is followed, however, Hopkins presents a technique he often employs in other works as well, that of using the octet to present a personal or a sensory experience and the octet in order to provide some reflection on the topic (Gardner 221).