Poetics

W.H. Auden and Bruce Dawe, in their respective poems ‘Stop All The Clocks’ and ‘Suburban Lovers’, depict two different reactions to love. Auden’s use of an A, A, B, B, rhyme scheme creates rhythm through each of his 4 stanaz. Contrastingly, Dawe uses syllabic rhythm such as “on the fleet diesel that interprets them, like music on a roller-piano as they move, over the rhythmic rails”. Dawe also uses alliteration to create this similar pattern such as “breeze blowing”, “cliff of kissing” and “sandstone

3. Concurrently with my anthropological interests and in spite of them, for a number of years, I practised the poetics and the theory of the literary history process in the area of teaching (seminars and lectures) using the traditional structuralist approach. This allowed me to maintain a rigorous methodological basis, even when I was inclined towards anthropological questions. On this basis, I began to work in a subsequent - after gnosis and literary anthropology – research area. It comprises visual

Sidney uses many common poetic devices in Thou Blind Man’s Mark, which help convey the his complex attitude toward desire, yet some are found to be a little more unusual. The beginning of each line begins with a single-syllable word, except for three. The words are simple and brief until line five in which he begins with “Desire, desire!” repeating it and utilizing an exclamation mark. Repetition is a form of grabbing the reader’s attention so they can understand what they need to pay attention to

In the poem, “Lynching Song”, a black man is being hanged by a group of white men. And although he might have died, he states that the whit men are the ones who are really dead. The reader captures the true meaning of the poem through the formal features that are being presented. In the five-stanza poem, there are four lines in the first two stanzas; three in the next two, and the last stanza only has one line. Not all the lines are the same beat either, in the first stanza the first two lines have

The poetic voice can be scrutinized in all poems. This is because all poetic voices are given a certain personality by the poet; they often incorporate all devices such as rhyme and figurative language into the poem. Poems have different meanings but can have similarities between poetic voices; most communicate through this voice as the voice links the reader to the poem. In Dylan Thomas’s villanelle Do Not Go Gentle… the poetic voice is repetitive, an important feature of the villanelle

found within our readings as well. The biggest and most distinct example being poetic justice. Poetic Justice is repeatedly seen as a characteristic in Urban Legends such as The Hook. The Hook showing its poetic justice on the boyfriend that repeatedly tries to pressures the female into unwanted acts and is then, in some variants, murdered by a lunatic with a hook for a hand. In the narrative that I selected, the poetic justice is found when cousin Pat tries to sneakily get the tree juice from the

Poetic Devices in I’ll Be Home For Christmas “I’ll be home for Christmas” was written by Walter Kent and Buck Ram and is often referred to as the saddest and maybe the best Christmas song of all time. The song was first written in 1943 and was revised 1948. This definitely is one of the best and saddest christmas song. Other than its great music it uses many poetic devices like repetition, imagery and being a narrative. This essay will describe why the use of these poetic devices makes it such a

Poetic Justice Many of us would not let go of who we are. We do not like the fact that we are getting older, this scares a lot of us to death. Suddenly we have to be grownups and act like one. Another thing we experienced when we were younger was our first love. It would, for many people, be awkward t meet their old boy- or girlfriend again. Time really changes us and we do not always want to do the same thing as others. The short story, Poetic Justice, written by Diana Appleyard, is about a woman

A Mother to her Waking Infant was first published in 1790; the poem is narrated by a mother who is focusing her thoughts and words towards her newborn baby. The poem is directed solely at the child of the title, with the mothers words starting as the child awakes, Now in thy dazzling half-oped eye. Joanna Baillie uses a number of techniques to mirror and represent a new mothers emotions and affections for her child. The meter and form of the poem help to emphasise these emotions and the various other

Tyger” has many interpretations, but its main purpose is to question God as a creator. Its poetic techniques generate a vivid picture that encourages the reader to see the Tyger as a horrifying and terrible being. The speaker addresses the question of whether or not the same God who made the lamb, a gentle creature, could have also formed the Tyger and all its darkness. This issue is addressed through many poetic devices including rhyme, repetition, allusion, and symbolism, all of which show up throughout