Spenserian stanza

Dreams of Blacks Deferred in the Poetry of Langston Hughes   The poetry of Langston Hughes, the poet laureate of Harlem, is an effective commentary on the condition of blacks in America during the 20th Century. Hughes places particular emphasis on Harlem, a black area in New York that became a destination of many hopeful blacks in the first half of the 1900's. In much of Hughes' poetry, a theme that runs throughout is that of a "dream deferred." The recurrence of a "dream deferred" in several

17).  More surprising yet, though surely emblems of the ephemeral (of the order ephemeroptera), they suggest by their choreographed life an interconnectivity in nature that transcends an individual?s mortality.  Indeed, in the third and final stanza they become a foil for the speaker?s own sense of ?separateness? and mortality ?as night close[s] in?(l.18).  At a literal level the poem all along insists on the speaker?s separation, as ?witness?(l. 9), from this ?manifold/ And figured scene?(ll

Formal Approach to Thomas Gray's Elegy (Eulogy) Written in a Country Churchyard  Thomas Gray's poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is a very structured poem with a set number of lines per stanza, and a specific rhyme scheme throughout the entire poem. The poem focuses on Gray's thoughts while he visits a country churchyard, and ends with an epitaph written on one of the tombstones in the churchyard. The setting of a country churchyard automatically gives way to a small and unknown

Donne uses the genre for this very purpose in “The Flea,” a work in which he encourages a young woman to have premarital sex with him. Donne backs his argument by referring to a flea that has sucked his own blood as well as his lover’s. In the first stanza Donne assures the woman that sleeping together would be a minor act. When he says “How little that which thou deniest me is” he promises the woman that the act would be as miniscule as the flea is in size (1.2). Also, by using the word “deniest”

boy's character immediately demands sympathy from the reader and just as instantaneously, the mother is hated by the reader. From his first stanza, to his sixth, Hayden utilizes an arsenal of words, symbols, and images to create a scene that is intense and emotional to the reader.      Hayden introduces his poem with the first stanza, which begins with 'The old woman across the way/ is whipping the boy again'; (1-2). These lines

suggests that no matter what the couple have been through in the past, the fact that they are together is the only thing that matters. Also, the word ‘Paris’ may have a double meaning of love in the phrase. This is backed up in the last stanza in the last stanza of the poem, when Fenton writes ‘I’m in Paris with the slightest thing you do’, which would mean ‘I’m in love with the slightest thing you do’. Fenton may have used the word ‘Paris’ instead of ‘love’ because he is to afraid to speak of his

the diction plays an important role in relaying the theme to the audience it is presented to. In the poem “Richard Cory” written by Edwin Arlington Robinson, the theme being portrayed is that people are not always as how they seem. In the first stanzas of each poem the differences are subtle yet noticeable. Robinson chooses to use the phrase “went down town” while the parody says “chose to go”. The differences in diction here show

The lyric "Metho Drinker" is a poem by Judith Wright which concerns death as a result of time and the problems associated with addiction. Judith Wright was born in 1915 and died in 2000 at the age of 85. She was a prolific Australian poet, critic and short story writer writing over 50 books. The poem uses its lyrical form to offer a descriptive insight into the bleak themes which highlights the depressing mood and atmosphere of the poem. "Metho drinker" tells the story of a homeless person and

But the way she puts it sounds normal because she splits here stanzas just right to where it sounds like there is nothing wrong, especially how the third stanza is put. It Its Ironic in the fact that it seems that there are “breathing safe” and just taking water from the Ohta River to put into their tea but to realize the twist is, the Radiation that had flowed

Robinson is a poem written about the town aristocrat named Richard Cory. It is written with four quatrain stanzas with a rhyme scheme of a, b, a, b, for each stanza. The poet’s use of hyperboles and regal comparisons when describing Richard Cory help to elevate him above the townspeople, and his nonchalant mentioning of Cory’s suicide leaves the reader in a state of shock.      The first stanza of the poem introduces Richard Cory as a respected man of town. The second line uses the words “we people”