Summary Of Special Problems In Vocabulary By Tony Hoagland

After a complete analysis of “Beauty” by Tony Hoagland, there are multiple ways he succeeds in writing a meaningful poem. Each of the literary devices used played an important role in perfecting his poem. Hoagland did an excellent job at sending a message and his tone played an important role in making the message more sincere. Hoagland's use of imagery, figurative language, and personification made his poem more entertaining to read. Throughout this poem, Tony Hoagland shows that beauty, along with poetry, goes deeper than the

symbolic richness, but at the same time the poem supplies the reader with a wide

Poetry is an art form that is rich in notional and semantic content. In a few stanzas, poems are so capable of painting an idea or event so vividly that it seems alive. However poetry, by itself, cannot exhibit qualities of life: they require a willingness to understand unfamiliar ways of describing a phenomenon. Thus poetry has been likened to a scrambled code that is impossible to decipher in its literal context. Thus, poetry requires a key to decipher it and the code, often, is metaphor.

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.

structure reflects the patronising tone of the narrator. The rhyme meter gives the poem the

In Speech Sound by Octavia Butler is a fascinating short story that embellish in humankind's inability to communicate with actual words with one another. Language is in fact an active medium of communication through which we establish and comprehend society norms and custom, is certainly recognized as a pivotal tool for survival. Is usual to view language as simply system nonetheless, Butler demonstrate that language is complex system which is vital to describe and shape our experiences in which our lives unfold. Speech Sound being introducing the main character named Rye, a woman who was left alone as result of the illness who had stripped her killing her parents, sisters, husband, children’s one by one and the

The text of Kimbrough’s poem evokes a sense of lost chances. He distinctly presents such words as “didn’t,” “might have,” “could’ve,” and “almost had” to evince feelings of loss and regret (Kimbrough). At the end, the speaker hopes for “tomorrow” and “next time,” but repetition of these hopes indicates that more opportunities are likely missed instead of seized upon, compounding the speaker’s regrets (Kimbrough).

I will analyze the poem through the incorporation of formalism and structuralism approach. In formalism, we look at the imagery of the poem, figures of speech, word used and symbol, while structuralism can be done by looking at the structures of the poem and how words are used. Now, let’s start analyzing it, formalism

Structural techniques play a huge role in many poems due to the fact that structure sometimes reflects what is happening in the poem. This can clearly be seen with all the poems, in “Remember” and “Do not go gentle into that good night” a strict, tight and ridged structure and this helps reinforce the meaning that the poets are trying to portray. With “Do not go gentle” the structure of the poem in some respects contrasts what is actually happening with Dylan Thomas, with father dying; his head is all over the place but the structure is tight and strict. Villanelles are very traditional strict structures and the message that is portrayed through “Do not go gentle” contrasts it as it is an untraditional message. In addition to this the

The poem is divided into two stanzas which makes the structure obvious to the theme. In the first stanza, it

The reader must participate in the making of the poem or story by digging the structure out and create coherence out of the seeming incoherence. Therefore, the search for meaning, even if it does not succeed, becomes meaningful itself.

Form is important when it comes to literature, especially poetry. It helps keep a certain rhythm or rhyme pattern that pleases the reader, but it also gives many advantages to the writer. Over many decades in the development of literature, new forms have appeared because writers like to try new things, but this does not mean that one form is better than the next; each form has its own advantages through the effect that it gives to the poem because it communicates something that the author specifically chooses to communicate. By comparing John Milton’s ‘Invocation’ from Paradise Lost and Thomas Wyatt’s ‘The Long Love,’ the many advantages will be highlighted by taking a close look at the ideas of freedom and restraint, the effect of blank verse versus the effect of a sonnet, and literary devices. We will see that each form has a specific purpose and its own assets.

As previously stated, structuralism is a theory in which all elements of human culture are thought to be part of a system of signs. Structuralists are concerned with issues such as form and genre. The reason why I chose to apply a structuralist perspective upon William Wordsworth’s poem is due to the fact that that it can be easily interacted with because it is positioned in the lyrical genre. The rhyming scheme is in the form ABABCC. The rhyming couplet evident at the end of each stanza creates an unpretentious break caused by the addition of a new stanza. As a result, the final line of teach stanza contains an additional sense of emphasis. The final line of the poem mentions “the show” and conveys images of dancing daffodils, a long-lasting impression discussed by Wordsworth. The meter of this poem is an iambic tetrameter. The meter creates a rhythm with a musical, song like quality, to which the daffodils may dance. Wordsworth also employs consonance and alliteration to create the sense of rhythm. The form of a poem is of utmost importance to structuralist critics. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is twenty four lines long and it features four stanzas with six lines each. In each individual stanza there is a perceptible pattern – the first line rhymes with the third line and the second line rhymes with the fourth line. The stanzas finish with the inclusion of a rhyming couplet. By concentrating the first three stanzas on the lake experience and the final on the memory of that experience, Wordsworth amalgamates the content of the poem. It is interesting to note that despite the obvious fact that “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is built as a sonnet although it is a lyrical poem. Wordsworth employs figurative language such as comparisons, personification, epithets and metaphors so as to express his feelings to the reader. As a sub-genre, “I Wandered Lonely as

Forest-Thomson advises this approach to a poem “falsifies our experience of poems” , we are seeing only a singular layer in which the reader is coercing a specific meaning that is easily digestible and relatable. Rather than engaging in such false readings, or ‘bad naturalisation’ Forest-Thomson demands a closer inspection of the genetic structure of a poem. To give each base element, or section of the sequence, the time and emphasis needed to understand and negotiate the importance these elements have on the poem as a whole. In this manner, it can be seen that her theory of poetry borrows from a biologist’s mind set on the necessity to understand the smaller sub systems, so as to be able to view and retain an understanding of the wider.

While analyzing a poem, a reader notices many things, things like rhyme scheme, word choice, different levels of a poem, and sentence structure. Each one of these things is an ingredient for the four main components of the formalistic approach to poetry. In the poem "Ozymandius" by P.B. Shelley, structure, style, form, and imagery, allow the reader to look deeper into the poem.