Sounds Of Poetry : The Word Plum And Sound And Sense

Another technique this poem takes use of is alliteration. The alliteration used helps to express the themes importance through repletion of sound devices. A specific example of alliteration

Helen Chasin, wrote a poem in 1968 entitled, The Word Plum. After reading this poem a few times I noticed a few things about it. First, I noticed that Chasin was actually writing about the word, plum. I found the fact that she was talking about a word to be very strange. Again after rereading it I noticed the poem made many inferences to the fruit, plum. When I was reading and rereading the poem I noticed the words in the poem correspond to the letters in the word “plum” and many describing the word and the fruit a plum. “Pout and push” (pp 443) both start with P the first letter of plum. When you say plum you almost have to push out the P and when you taste a sour plum it can make you pout. Chasin continues the poem with, “luxury of self-

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 poem has no rhyme scheme or particular rhythm; this makes the descriptions stick out more to the reader, while having a varied sound when it is written

    In many poems, the use of imagery and sound causes the reader to consider them to be "good" or "bad". Repetition, alliteration, the use of metaphors and images together with rhymes and the text itself work together to create that special feeling or message the poet wants to share. The Romantics believed that poetry should express the poet's feelings or state of mind and should not be worked with or thought through too much, since the original feeling thus would be lost, but in order to share your feelings or ideas to the public, I believe it is important to present them in as good a form as possible.

A most memorable experience in reading a great variety of poems is the sound the poem makes. As children, we are drawn to repetitive rhymes and melodies more than content itself. It is nice to hear a familiar pattern as we evolve and expand our reading skills to more complicated poems. A key feature of sounds is a poem’s rhymes. Repetition of similar sounds is often comforting and Prelutsky does it very well. In the first stanza, every line but two ends with the same sound; this is for variety: “Oh, truly I do / You’re creepy to see / Revolting to chew / You slide down inside / With a hullabaloo”. The poem does not features alliterations, repetitions of initial sounds. Prelutsky makes up for this by including consonance and assonance sounds instead which are repetitions of consonant sounds and vowel sounds, respectively. The word “you” is repeated at the beginning of lines, frequently “You’re soggy, you’re smelly / You taste like shampoo / You bog down my belly”. Within those same lines, the repetition of the “s” and “b” sounds are heard as well. A fun example of an assonance is the following line: “With oodles of goo”. Both words are humorous and repeat the silly “oo” sound. A bit more complicated feature of sound is a poem’s rhythm, a pattern created by beats. It is established by analyzing a poem’s meter. In the first line of the poem, is a trochee: “Je/lly/fish/stew” but the majority of remaining syllables in the next few lines are unstressed, making it difficult to analyze the meter overall.

Like Williams, Helen Chasin centers her poem around plums. She elegantly menus them not just as “delicious” (Line 1), but also as “taut skin pierced, bitten, provoked into juice, and tart flesh” (Line 6-8). Only 11 lines, Chasin personifies the word “plum” through several arrangements of alliteration and onomatopoeias, such as “pout

Some may say that a rhyme or rhyme scheme is there just for the amusement and pleasure, to make it more playful; however, both sound devices have significant impacts in the tone and meaning of the poem. For instance, the last words of lines 1 and 3 rhyme with "hair" and "air". In addition the rhyme scheme of lines 1-5 have a pattern of ababc. Rhyme influences the poem because it corresponds exactly with words, echoing the repetition and unifying the poem. The rhyme scheme of the poem is used to control the speed and flow of the poem, keep the reader's attention, and help create the tension in a

The rhyme, the repetition of similar sounds, is one of the easiest sounds devices to spot. Poe added variety by using internal rhyme, rhyming words that fall inside a line. For example, “Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;” The repetition, of rhymes and of words and phrases, helps give “The Raven” its distinctive rhythm. For instance, “As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.” The alliteration, the repetition of initial consonant sounds, is used to create rhythm or to stress key words. In the poem, “While I nodded, nearly happing…” The onomatopoeia, is the use of words that sound like their meaning, such as the word “rustling” in the poem, “And the silken, sad, uncertain rusting of each purple

Poetry, like any art, is in the eye of the beholder. An artist uses texture and color to create a masterpiece that could have any number of meanings, just like a poet uses diction and rhyme to give meaning to their poetry. A. E. Housman’s word choices in his work entitled On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank forces the reader to pay careful attention to take a deeper look into the mind of the poet and really grasp at the author’s message and tone toward the very serious topic of hanging as a capital punishment.

The other sounds in the poem that help support the overall theme would be the third stanza. Reading the poem it seems more as if the poem is more about the word plum verse the plum itself. The reason I say that it’s more of the word plum, because the narrator described the word plum as delicious. Delicious has more meaning behind it besides as in tasting good. Some readers would assume that when the author states delicious, it is describing how the plum could be pleasing to the senses as far as smell and taste. But if you look beyond the meaning it seems like it could mean pleasure or pleasing. A lot of things around us could be pleasurable and pleasing, and the word plum shows that significance. The tone of the poem seems very satisfying.

The first description given of a poem is “ A poem should be palpable and mute as a globed fruit.” The fruit, as a poem should be, palpable. We can hold it and see it. But as a globed fruit, you can hold it, but it you are not holding the fruit itself, you are holding what is coving it. This gives us the feeling of there being more to the poem than what

When a writer write a poem, he/she writes about the things that inspires them and the emotions they feels at that moment.A Good poet never looks at their rhyming or how the lines are phrased, but receive those instincts of rhyming when they’re writing a poem.Authors like Edgar Allan Poe and Williams Wordsworth are well known for their natural instincts while writing poem.Edgar Allan Poe was especially well known for for his writing,editing and poetic skills.One of his best skills were based on particularly in mystery poems like “A Dream Within a Dream,”which illustrates one of his ordained skills on the use of poetic elements, one of the most used poetic devices he uses is his rhyme scheme which gives the poem a inflow of life and makes the

Sound is one of the most intriguing elements of language. It is fundamental to all spoken languages yet does not explicitly lend itself to its written counterparts. For many of us we hear the sounds in our heads whilst reading. Nevertheless it could certainly be argued that the mere letters on the page themselves contain the entirety of the meaning; the sounds associated with them being of secondary importance. This argument holds some element of truth as it is entirely possible to learn a language only in the written context and have no capacity to speak it or understand others who do so. Perhaps there is no real deeper meaning that would even be lost in dealing with prose in this manner. Poetry, however, is a

Granted no one but a humanist much cares how sound a poem is if it is only a sound. The sound is the gold in the ore. Then we will have the sound out alone and dispense with the inessential. We do till we make the discovery that the object in writing poetry is to make all poems sound as different as possible from each other, and the resources for that of vowels, consonants, punctuation, syntax, words, sentences, metre are not enough. We need the help of context-