week’s poem I have chosen “The Secret” by Denise Levertov. I found this poem extremely confusing at first, but after re-reading it a couple times and pondering it a while I started to understand it better. I think the poem is about how people can interpret poems in different ways. For me, it tells a story of two girls reading a poem by an author (the narrator) and then finding their own special meaning in the poem. They tell the author that they have discovered the ‘secret of life’ in the poem ( what
Poetic devices are tools used in poems to give them more meaning and depth than they initially appear to have. They are used to enhance the mood and feeling of the poem while also making it easier for the reader to understand. Poetic devices are often used in poems in order to intensify its message and bring the poem all together. Without these tools poems would appear to be dull and readers would not be drawn toward certain words or phrases that give poems their emotion. Allegory, irony, and similes
Poems, Poems, Poems (An analysis of how the structure of poems affects the meaning) There are so many different structures or types of poems an author can choose to write and they all have an affect on the meanings of the poems. Haiku poems are one type and they consist of seventeen syllables and three lines. The theme of Haiku poems can be anything from nature to love. Another type of poem is free verse which has an endless amount of topics that you can write about. Free verse has virtually no
his Venom The two poems selected for this review are Fire and Ice by Robert frost, and With his Venom by Shappo. These poems have been selected because of their use of metaphors, word choice, imagery, alliteration, and structure. They are both fairly simple poems with no more than a few lines each, which words are perfectly written capturing their audience and providing vivid imagery along with deeper meaning through the use of these writing techniques. The two pair of the poems are about love, pain
In Linda Pastan’s poem “Marks” she portrays the typical frustrations of being a housewife through many elements that are not limited to tone, metaphors, and diction. Though “Marks” can solely be read as a typical poem about a tired housewife, there is a clever style of writing that leaves the reader with a deeper meaning as it is read more than once. What makes the poem clever is the way the author uses metaphors that drastically change the tone of the poem and how it is read. The use of diction
Some poems ignite flames of emotions when you read them, others just leaves you puzzled and second guessing everything you even came up with. The beauty of poetry is that it demands the reader to approach it with no preconceptions and often plays the game of hard-to-get, all the while seducing various notions. Irony is the perfect example of that, the thrill makes you want to reading on, not knowing the ending of the poem can just throw the train of emotions off rail. The different styles each poems
a American poet, express In his poem, “Let America be America Again” and narrates America dream and freedom did not ever real achieved for lower-class American and poor immigrants. The poet's inspiration came from the real sociocultural context, his life and the historial context. If the readers understand more deeply, they might need to know about the influence of sociocultural context, the poet's life and the historial context to this poem, first. This poem reflects a very common and important
“Variations on the word Sleep”, by Margaret Atwood, published in 1987, is a poem highly recommended for study at the university level. This poem should be studied because it reflects upon the rhythms of relationships and life, drawing us into the depths and out through the resonance of vivid imagery; and strong poetic devices. It expresses the narrator’s utmost desire to follow her partner into his dreams, to accompany him through his dark intricacy of grief and dispair. Atwood describes the journey
around you has a rhythm. Birds in trees, music, even the ocean. In a sense, your life does too. Every rhythm eventually stops, as does every life. The ocean’s tide doesn’t stop, even when your life does. In the poem, “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow uses many literary devices to settle readers into a sense of false calmness, when the poem is actually about the complexities we face every day in life. Every day people overcome obstacles that can make them better, in the end. To
Ithaca is a poem that was written by Constantine P. Cavafy in 1911 and translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. This poem doesn’t have too much figurative language or any other type of imagery or anything but it is very enjoyable to read. This poem is telling people how they shouldn’t rush through life but to enjoy every moment. It is very important to do so because life is too short. Ithaca by C. P. Cavafy is a poem with a few metaphors but the word Ithaca has more meanings in this poem. One of