Melancholic tone

emotions alter the tone of each poem to its fullest. Maya Angelou, Linda Pastan, and William Blake are all authors of different backgrounds and time periods, but they focus on enhancing the feeling of nostalgia for the reader through their works of art. The rhyme and meter in “Africa” by Maya Angelou, “To a Daughter leaving Home” by Linda Pastan, and “Introduction” to Songs of Innocence” by William Blake, evoke a sense of nostalgia through the use of syllables, bringing the tones of romance, pain,

The writers of “To His Coy Mistress” and “Coy Mistress” use poetic devices such as tone and imagery to create contrasting themes. Andrew Marvell, the writer of “To His Coy Mistress”, wrote the poem persuasively, while Annie Finch, the author of “Coy Mistress”, wrote her poem as a rebuttal to his persuasions, therefore contrasting each other in many ways. Marvell creates a distinct tone for each stanza, these tones portray his deep, sincere desire as well as his insincere flattering. In the first

all due to their leader, Chancellor Kiyomori, abusing his power and obtaining bad karma not only for himself but also for his clan as well. But instead of the story showing how triumphant and righteous the victors are, it instead written in a certain tone and has imagery that invokes the reader to sympathize with the losing side.

Beethoven’s first movement from his infamous Moonlight Sonata is most illustrious for its bittersweet melancholic sound. It is in the key of C# minor as it has four sharps in its key signature and sounds like it is in the minor tonality. Beethoven gives an indication to how the performer should interpret their role with the phrase adagio sostenuto which means to play at a slow tempo (66 beats per minute) and to effectively utilize the sustained pedal. Sempre e senza sordino means to the whole piece

found throughout the poem. The letters “g” and “f” are repeatedly deployed as in “finishing, family, figure, fall, face, forever, flicker, faces, gluing, googly, glass, grown, and glint”. The repeated sounds of the letters resemble the grieving and melancholic feeling the father is suffering. Lastly, the use of consonance adds colour to the musical quality of the poem. The last stanza of the poem consists of words ending with the letter “t” as in “against, glint, slant, and light”, creating the effect

One should express their grief with others, rather than letting it brew within themselves. Named after its poetic fixed form, “Sestina” by Elizabeth Bishop is a poem that touches on isolation, loss, and pensiveness, and how these sorrows are expressed in characters and the environment around them. Bishop achieves this depth and ambiguity of her poem through her deliberate use of diction and literary techniques. Throughout the entire poem, there is a personification of the kitchen objects that gives

of how many people suffer while neighbors remain clueless and should not judge. Baldwin’s style and language, contribute to the understanding of the text because the adjectives capture the attention of the readers, and the long sentences reveal the tone and mood of the narrative. Despite many cases in which long phrases fail to capture attention, the use of adjectives allow for engagement. Enjambment occurs often in the work, for example, “thoughtful, forbearing, patient, and grief-stricken.” The

quartets (Benton 83). Quatuor Ébène implements a dramatic, melancholic and a light-hearted tone. The target audience of Quatuor Ébène is adults. During the concert, a modest-sized audience showed up making the time lively by applauding enthusiastically during the performance. Through this, a jovial atmosphere was created in the Concert Hall as the performance took place. Quatuor Ébène demonstrates versatility as a result of the melancholic melody achieved while playing the music in the hall. The group

Compare and contrast the attitudes and values of the two speakers of the poems and how the poets have used language to convey these between “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvel and “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning Both the poems have the theme of love, written from a man’s point of view, and explores the way men treat woman in relationships. The former does this by a male narrator writing a poem to a female, using imagery to entice her. The latter by using

uses the alliteration to give a melancholic mood