The Poem I Have By John Keats

The poem gives several traits throughout the poem such as metaphors, allusion, emotion, and illusion. At the beginning of the poem the narrator uses the metaphor, “Many scenes of my life flashed before the sky” (line 2). This gives an intense moment in the

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:

Things Fall Apart begins with an epigraph by William Butler Yeats to create a picture for the reader before commencing on a journey to the heart of Nigeria and the nature of humans. From “The Second Coming” , the title is derived directly from the poem itself.

The poet uses an old fashioned language, which makes the poem have that deep romantic feeling it has between the words. He conveys his message by using lots of metaphors, hyperboles and similes, which will reinforce his ideas and make the ways he expresses stronger, giving us an impact of different feelings. The poet also uses a lot of personification throughout the entire poem, for example: stanza one, sixth line, “My legs refused to walk away” as well as in stanza two, sixth line, “word from my eyes did start” also in stanza three, sixth line, “My heart left its dwelling place”. We can see that the poet uses at least one personification per stanza and mostly in the sixth line of

This poem also has alliteration which is the occurrence of the same sound or letter. For example, “mutual mind, knew no, and danced along the dingy days”. These words repeat the letter M, D and a sound. From all these figurative languages these poems explain objects and animal which, makes poetry great to

The purpose of this is so the audience can relate to the poem in their own personal way. These emotions are created through particular phrases and poetic techniques such as imagery, assonance, and consonance to bring across the tone of the poem. The use of assonance is a strong device within the poem, for example, in the fourth line of the first stanza it says, “From corners here and there”. The assonance is used in the ‘E’ sound which drags the words, slowing down the poem. This line enables me to imagine an individual exhausted of being hurt multiple times, either mentally or physically.

In order to express his feeling, he used symbolism and metaphor to give a deeper meaning to his words. The poem was wrote in couplets, and used alliteration to make it rhyme and to give the sad melody that accompanied the feelings behind the frustration expressed in the poem. The tone is very emotional, sad, sober, melancholically, and dark. It is evident when he used words like sorrow, stormy, ill, torrent, lighting, storm, and demon.

For figurative language there is a metaphor,” I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.” A simile, “I love thee freely, as men strive for right...Purely, as they turn from praise.” Even a hyperbole, “I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life.” The sound devices are repetitive for the use of “love”. It continues throughout the poem without stopping, but continues to have the same meaning. There are other words changed in its place. “Freely” and “purely” as suggested before has been changed quite often to support her meaning further. The imagery, “Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.” It sets a pretty picture, one of her need glowing brightly, yet ever so quietly so that she is to not inconvenience

Have a look at these quotes from the poem, with our suggestions about how to 'read ' them:

In the poem ‘Summer Farm’ by Norman MacCaig, the tapestry of the tranquil rural landscape is woven with weft of mismatched hues: each shade representing a different meaning. A metaphor that repeatedly occurs is the problems of life, and the poet achieves by using the actions of animals to represent different facets of life, heavily connotating nature’s peace and through its structures. MacCaig highlights everyday actions of animals – which if thought about profoundly enough – can relate to different aspects of life. In the final stanza, the final line reads: ‘Nine ducks go wobbling in straight lines’. The word ‘wobbling’ is referring to the way ducks walk; they don’t put one foot in front of the other in a straight line, their body swinging from side to side.

In the third stanza, the rhyme scheme is (AA, BB, CC, DD). The poet reminds the reader that it is hard to forget the beauty of his beloved. Everything around him reminds him of her. He is so keen on forgetting her, but at the same time he wants to remember these memories of her. The persona is used again in line 22. There is personification in lines 19, which represents his memories with his beloved and how everything is trying to remind him of her. In line 21, the personification is as if everything is trying to draw his attention to those memories.

Another apparent device in the poem is it’s use of cacophony. This is noticeable as this literary device is used almost throughout the whole poem as shown, “The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees” and “The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas” This literary device again gives emphasis on those words to bring the environment to life. Alliteration and consonance is also to be shown within the poem as seen with “ghostly galleon” and “road was a ribbon” and “moonlight looping the purple moor” and “The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees” and this gives a subtle connection with those key words. Lastly, repetition is shown towards the end “ And the highwayman came riding-- Riding--

The effective technique readers are immediately aware of is alliteration. It is present all the way through the poem. In the first stanza a female version of snow is depicted, "Snow is sometimes a she, a soft one". Here a gentle 's' sound is spotted, almost as if it is whispered. It develops gentle, loving images which are calm and warm. The peaceful 's' sound has connotations of happiness and suggests a soothing effect. The emotion portrayed in the

John Keats was a romantic poet in the early 1800s. He lived from 1975 to 1821, a rather short lived life and died at the young age of just twenty-five. Although Keats died at a young age, the years that he lived he created a huge impact on society with his poems. Keats developed an interest in poetry and reading at a young age, setting him up to become an avid poet. John Keats expressed one major message in each of the poems called On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer, When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be, Ode to a Nightingale, and Ode on a Grecian Urn.

This poem follows a common meter that consists of an iambic tetrameter followed by an iambic trimeter. It contains five stanzas in quatrains each following an ABAB rhyme scheme. This meter and rhyme are very commonly found throughout poetry and as such convey a sense of commonality. This commonality helps us more easily identify with the universal message conveyed by