I have really been fascinated when I read William B. Yeats’ poem named “The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The water” which seems too short but includes more than what it looks in terms of meaning. Here, I tried to analyze his great but seeming little poem in terms of the physical characteristics of the poem,literary devices used in poem , emotions I have been felt by these literary devices,meaning of the poem and finally Why I chose this poem to analyze . Firstly ,I analyzed the rhyme scheme of poem as a only stanza and I found it one of the most unfamiliar rhyme scheme I have ever seen.The rhyme scheme is abaccbac which dissimilar to other works we studied on up to now.The meter is also different from what we have seen. While the …show more content…
In addition to literary devices and the physical characteristics of the poem ,I think the literary devices used in the poem affected my reading a lot as reading such a short and meaningfull poem without emotions would be nonsense and literary devices are providing the meaning in the poem.Without understanding what water ,beautifull,being old mean ,it would be like a reading of brochures handed out outside everyday .Anyway, literary devices made me eager to read.To clarify what I mean ,at least the usage of simile of knees and old threes made me ask this question “What kind of words did he use for such a situation ?”.The similes helped me to understand What poet means and leaded me to imagine scene which we are to see. As a response of What poem means, I think the poet tried and succeded to tell readers( at least me) that youth is good but we all alter and drop one by one by time and there is no cure for it .The poet might have written this poem in his old age as he reminds us how beautiful is the youth or life but it does not last forever by his poem.The poem also melancholic tone which may feel us the sadness the poet felt .The word “old” is used four times to emphasize
The author used of similes in the poem helped develop the notion of modesty and creates a connection with the reader. For instance, “I snapped beans in the bowl” (line 1), in this line the author is creating the scene of the poem without mentioning any structure, and by doing this she creates a small connection with the reader because it is something that most of the people do when cooking. Moreover, the speaker continues, “of the porchswing between my grandma and me,” (line 3). It is until this line that the author describes where everything is happening and who is involved in
The poem is structured in a way which follows the proper metre for a sonnet, however, it is unusual in a sense that it is free verse and has no rhyme scheme. The sentences are broken to fit the iambic pentameter. This creates pauses, and a choppiness in the flow
In this poem there are 6 stanza and there isn’t a set pattern but the 2nd and 4th stanza is the same. This poem also has a rhyme scheme in the 5th stanza. The rhyme scheme is “Aabbccde” for example in stanza 5 in line 3 and 4 the words “lookin and cookin”. This poem repeats the words “Lives, Paradise, See and Me”.
The poem does indeed have a rhyme scheme, yet doesn?t conform to conventional forms of rhyme such as A, B, A, B, etc. Rather, each stanza seems to follow the order of A, B, C, A, C, B, which may not be apparent to the reader at first, but doesn?t
Many time we spent our whole childhood wishing we were older and now we’re spending our adulthood wishing to be younger. In the poems “Quinceanera” and “Rite of Passage” both Cofer and Olds explore the theme of the coming of age and we acquire to truly live up to those adult characteristic that are found within every child , the authors use various literary devices, such as imagery, tone, and figurative language.
While reading her poems I thought that it was different that she used a rhyming scheme for every one of her poems, I believe that the specific rhyme scheme that she used didn’t match up with the mood of her work. Usually when I read these type of rhyme poems, I would think that they are more
This poem includes standard rhyme which is a rhyming word at the end of each sentence with another rhyming word at the end of the sentence below. The other type of rhyme is internal rhyme. This is when a writer will place two rhyming words in the same line for more emphasis and sometime the line below also. The use of the rhyme in this poem is made give the poem a certain quality which is very haunting. The carefully chosen rhyming words in this poem are used to make the reader feel uneasy and anxious.
Because the poem is long, it won’t be quoted extensively here, but it is attached at the end of the paper for ease of reference. Instead, the paper will analyze the poetic elements in the work, stanza by stanza. First, because the poem is being read on-line, it’s not possible to say for certain that each stanza is a particular number of lines long. Each of several versions looks different on the screen; that is, there is no pattern to the number of lines in each stanza. However, the stanzas are more like paragraphs in a letter than
The poem means that goodness and innocence can’t last and its about
Sneha Mittal Ms. Lepore 8 November, 2015 AP English 11 Analysis of the Handsomest Drowned Man in the World The Handsomest Drowned Man in the world, written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez shows how the villagers change from their everyday lives to an unknown experience that unites the people. This change is symbolized through the drowned man. Marquez shows this as a valuable change that develops the village in a beneficial way. The people show the common human instinct (that changes from the norm) is appreciated and acknowledged.
The poem is written in free verse, offers no type of rhyme scheme, and in one long stanza. This contributes to
The tone is increasingly felt in this stanza. It is depicting a sixty years old person who could be as a symbolical time of a community or a person should be in the lower classes. To continue with his or her boss is a young girl and she or he should call her “ma’am”. The person keeps laughing, but now the laugh is not only for his or her self. The laugh is in the system that make the person’s life become in irony for a long
Here is the interpretation and analysis of the poem based on the sections that respect the grammar and meaning of its sentences:
“When You Are Old” is about the love of a man for a woman whom he had on a pedestal. He felt this woman was loved by many with a true and deep love and loved by others with a false love. He felt this woman was loved much like people today love celebrities. Yeats wrote about this woman as though he knew her intimately. He asks her to “slowly read, and dream of the soft look, Your eyes had once and of their shadows deep” (Yeats). He wants her to remember how things were in her youth. He wants her to remember her dreams and think of how things were and how they may have been. Yeats is asking her to take her time and day dream about her glory days.
Although the poem is divided into stanzas and lines, there is no rhyme scheme or meter. The concept of free verse can be found here. Nevertheless, it is important to keep in mind, that poems with free verse should still have ‘aural and visual rhythms on its own’ (Scott 2013: 197). This statement can indeed be applied to this poem, which will be shown in the following paragraphs. In this case the choice of free verse makes the poem more personal and it seems to be a demonstration of a person’s thoughts.