Voice is an element in poetry easy to grasp, but difficult to master. For example, it is easy to create a voice within a poem. However, it is arduous to create a voice in a poem that is meaningful. An important voice pays attention to sound diction as well as tone in a poem. Prominent poet James Tate state’s “Style and Voice serve as a means of seduction.” (Introduction Page 17) In Milosz’s poem “Ars Poetica” Milosz comments on the presentation of voice in a poem stating, “A poem should not mean But be.” In my second poem, “Arctic Fox” I followed Miloz’s advice by paying extensive detail given to how the poem. With lines such as “the icy wind yanks my fur frigid green spines surrounds me coating the gray abyss,” it is evident this poem plays close attention to the foundations of voice in the poem. Attention to diction, tone and sound are elements of poetry vital to voice. In James State “Introduction” Tate states the poet reaches his or her discovery on putting language on edge,” (Introduction page 18). Tate stresses the importance of diction through this statement as if you don’t play with a poem’s language, what will the poet discover. For example, if one’s poetry lacks quality language, the poem’s voice will often be affected in a detrimental way. If a poem consists of ‘bad’ wording, a reader will often be turned off by the presence of such diction, and as a result, the poem meaning may have less of an impact on the reader. In each of my poem’s I attempt to play
Poetry is a reflection of the poet’s life experiences through the use of various poetic devices as well as imagery (Poetry, 2015). The audience is able to comprehend an understanding about the poet’s message and the influence of the idea. Poets generally write from personal experiences, which form a narrative or reflective piece relating to a place, person or thing (McCabe, S, 2010.) Clive James started his poetry career at the University of Sydney, however over a period of time James began to understand the meaning of successful poetry through crafting a poem with an interesting or personal life events. James understood personal experiences created interesting poetry, with the display for love of language (Patrick, 2009). James uses alliteration,
11. A poet can work its magic on the reader by “choice of images, music of the language, idea content, and cleverness of wordplay” (Foster 17).
Texts take the forms of numerous methods such as song, speech and graphics, each producing meaning. John Farnham’s piece “You’re the Voice” is an example of text as song. The effectiveness of this text is the use of lyrics and instrumentation
Writers have their own “special touch” as to how they will sway peoples’ emotions and thoughts with every work they release. In the poem “Those Winter Sundays,” poet Robert Hayden takes advantage of different types of imagery to display deeper levels of emotion. The imagery changes from being cool in nature to warm in nature as the poem’s growth changes. The reader will find, with the use of visual and auditory imagery, that Hayden may understand the force behind his father’s actions, but the father has not and will not be forgiven in the end. With the use of specifically visual and auditory imagery, Hayden is able to effectively display his emotions from
George Szirtes article “Formal Wear: Notes on Rhyme, Meter, Stanza, and Pattern” from the Poetry Foundation opens with opinions which focus on limitations of poetic form. As a counter to these common arguments, Szirtes claims, “Verse is not decoration: it is structural. It is a forming principle and words at depth” ("Formal Wear: Notes” 2). He then develops an argument explaining, “the constraints of form are spurs of the imagination: that they are in fact the chief producers of imagination” ("Formal Wear: Notes” 2). Taking these ideas into consideration Szirtes incorporates the idea of language explaining how language connects to memory and imagination which come together to form poetic images. Additionally, when poets use form it develops
This paper will define imagery, metaphors, rhyme and structure and will also discuss the importance of figurative language in poetry and how it communicates to the reader.
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.
symbolic richness, but at the same time the poem supplies the reader with a wide
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.
In today’s modern view, poetry has become more than just paragraphs that rhyme at the end of each sentence. If the reader has an open mind and the ability to read in between the lines, they discover more than they have bargained for. Some poems might have stories of suffering or abuse, while others contain happy times and great joy. Regardless of what the poems contains, all poems display an expression. That very moment when the writer begins his mental journey with that pen and paper is where all feelings are let out. As poetry is continues to be written, the reader begins to see patterns within each poem. On the other hand, poems have nothing at all in common with one another. A good example of this is in two poems by a famous writer by
Poetry is a powerful tool used by many writers who strive to emphasize important messages through the use of literature. Poetry is powerful because it focuses on the intense emotions expressed in writing with examples of diction, connotation, rhyming and villanelles. It does not merely bombard readers with facts or information, but it does allow the reader to explore its ambiguous interpretations. Although it may be very difficult to understand, poetry is meant to help readers escape into a world of imagery where they can interpret and take away what is useful. After analyzing many poems, two poems that seem to compare and contrast well are “The Cow” by Andrew Hudgins and “Do Not Go Gentle into The Good Night”
poem is not merely a static, decorative creation, but that it is an act of communication between the poet and
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.
Poetry is a reduced dialect that communicates complex emotions. To comprehend the numerous implications of a ballad, perusers must analyze its words and expressing from the points of view of beat, sound, pictures, clear importance, and suggested meaning. Perusers then need to sort out reactions to the verse into a consistent, point-by-point clarification. Poetry utilizes structures and traditions to propose differential translation to words, or to summon emotive reactions. Gadgets, for example, sound similarity, similar sounding word usage, likeness in sound and cadence are at times used to accomplish musical or incantatory impacts.
Poets use many ways when they want to communicate something using poems. Poems are used as a means of passing ideas, information and expression of feelings. This has made the poets to use the natural things and images that people can relate with so that they can make these poems understandable. The most common forms of writing that are used by the poets are the figurative language for example imagery and metaphors. In addition, the poets use the natural landscape in their attempt to explore the philosophical questions. Therefore, this essay will explore the forms that have been used by the poets in writing poems using the natural landscape. The essay will be based on poems such as ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ by