The Demanding Task of Writing about Poetry

INTRODUCTION – (1 paragraph) STRUCTURE 1. Opening sentences which introduce the poem, its author and its form.Explain why the poem is of a particular form (either a ballad or lyric poem). 2. Thesis statement: A general statement about what the poem communicates about life and life experience. 3. Signpost: briefly outline the more specific reasons for how/why the poem conveys this life experience and / or message. (Introduce the main features which will be explored in more detail in the body of your essay).

Poems and songs may have strength in literary terms, but have you ever wondered what makes them powerful? In this essay, there will be analyzed two poems “The Boy Died in my Alley” and “Daddy”, as well as the song “Firework” in which theme, metaphor, and repetition are the literary devices that make them powerful.

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.

The poem suddenly becomes much darker in the last stanza and a Billy Collins explains how teachers, students or general readers of poetry ‘torture’ a poem by being what he believes is cruelly analytical. He says, “all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it”. Here, the poem is being personified yet again and this brings about an almost human connection between the reader and the poem. This use of personification is effective as it makes the

Poetry is not just words formed into a line and a stanza; each poem is an opportunity to “dance” with the poet to his or her significant song. “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins is a reflection on how readers should read poetry. This poem is about how readers should take the time to understand and explore poetry. In addition, Billy Collins, also, states that readers should not torture poems and ignore the significance each stanza represents, but dissect, enjoy, and appreciate the journey they will take while reading poetry. “Introduction to Poetry” is a guide to readers in how to take more time enjoying poetry and learning to understand the experiences poems portray.

Now that you have read the poem and considered the meanings of the lines, answer the following questions in a Word doc or in your assignment window:

Prompt: Write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how the poem's organization, diction, and figurative language prepare the reader for the speaker's concluding response.

To help Year Twelve students that are studying poetry appreciate it's value, this pamphlet's aim is to discuss a classic poem and a

In the third poem, Manners by Elizabeth Bishop the grandfather takes a non-violent approach. The grandfather's teaching method is to tell his grandson exactly how to act. "My grandfather said to me as we sat on the wagon seat, ‘Be sure to remember to always speak to everyone you meet'" showed his direct approach. The grandfather also practiced what he preached. The line ‘Good day, sir. Good day. A fine day' proved that he really did speak to everyone he met. This is just one example, after every manner lesson he gave his grandson it gave an example of him actually doing it. I believe that this

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.

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.

To be able to understand the poet's purpose, one must not only look into the content but also delve into the structure of the literary work. It is evident that the poet uses many techniques such as alliteration;

Average readers intend to read and analyze a poem with a mentality in which all the poems must have a metaphor and a deeper meaning that were initially implanted in the poem. Analyzing a traditional poem seem difficult because of those ancient vocabularies, metaphors, and its wording, but, by carefully reading of those poems, the reader eventually would get the theme of the poem. On the contrary, while reading a simple structured poem, the readers always bring the notion of “a simple poem has a deepest thought and metaphor that build into it”, which contradict author’s purpose. For example, “This Is Just To Say” by William Carlos Williams in fact has always been misinterpreted by the readers because of the words, such as “plums”, “Forgive me”

A well-written poem would help one to engage into the work with their senses. One should be able to ask themselves what the poem caused them to think, hear, see, feel, taste, and to determine what he or she learned from the poet’s words. Many people believe that because poetry is an enigmatic art, and that there is no way for sure to know the

This is made evident through the change in rhyme scheme. The first eight lines of the poem are spoken by the narrator, or the person affected by a loss in the poem. The speaker’s language in this portion of the piece reveal