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Analysis Of Writing A Concrete Poem
Amy McAfee January 12, 2015 EESL 630 Module 1 Authentic Assessment Analyzing a Character by Writing a Concrete Poem Content Standards
Students will... 1.Define "concrete poem" and explain the significance of the poetic form of a concrete poem. 2.Identify examples of an author's use of
characterization, both direct and indirect, in a literary selection. 3.Write and construct a concrete poem in which the poem's form correctly reflects the
content of the poem. Authentic Task Students will... 1.Work with a partner to analyze a selection of concrete poems to determine how their shape
relates to their meaning. 2.Choose one well–developed (round) character from a literary selection. 3.Write a free–verse poem describing the character
using their own words as well as four examples of characterization (two direct and two indirect examples) by the author of the literary selection.
4.Choose a shape that relates to the character's traits and incorporate their free–verse poem into the shape to create a free–verse poem. 5.Use
appropriate color, pictures, and/or graphics related to the character or the poem's shape to add dimension and meaning to the concrete poem. Criteria
1.The character described in the poem is well–developed. 2.The poem contains both the student's words and four examples of the author's
characterization of the character. 3.The shape of the concrete poem relates to the character's traits. 4.The poem is incorporated into the shape in such a
way that it may
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Essay about Poetry: Emotions in Words
Poetry is an art form of expression and emotions through words. It encompasses the writer's mood and point of view about a certain idea. Two poems
that demonstrate the use of emotions in words are "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou, and "A Dream within a Dream", by Edgar Allan Poe.
Both of these poets are very important in the literary field even though their ways of writing contrast each other. Angelou is a revolutionist who is
known around the world for her astounding stories of racism, family, and overcoming adversity.Edgar Allan Poe was an exceptional poet, editor,
literary critic, and part of the American Romantic Movement. His writings were often filled with despair and very depressing. Both of these poems
are great works of art...show more content...
Angelou is not the most attractive woman but her mystery lies in her body language, how she carries herself. The span of her hips, stride of her
steps, curl of her lips, fire in her eyes, ride of her breast, these all describe her body movements. Angelou defines herself in this poem, she is a modest
woman who does not care about what others think of her, and she does not have to be loud or dress a certain way to gain attention. Her modesty,
grace, self–confidence, causes her to stand out to others. This poem has many styles, it is arranges into five sections, and the poem reminds the
reader of a speech. Imagery is used a lot, like "the swing in my waist, and the joy in my feet" (Intel Corporation). The mood of this poem is happy, and
the tone is of merriment.
Poe's poem is "A Dream within a Dream" is a narrative poem, which consists of two stanzas of fragmented sentences. The tone, like many of Poe's
poems expressed depression and feelings about his life. At a certain time in Poe's life he began to have a downward spiral and in this poem he
describes watching important things in his life pass him by. Although this is an inspirational poem it speaks of resentment, displeasure discontented
desire, frustration, animosity, and loss. The tone is hardening and filled with regret. All through the poem, Poe asks rhetorical
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Poetry Form Essay
Poems are a form of writing with a set meter. Most poems have an end rhyme scheme to accompany the meter. Poems, like short stories, have symbols.
Although short story symbols were not the easiest to identify, the symbols in poems are sometimes even harder to determine. Poems also include
metaphors, imagery, a certain tone, and always have a set audience. Lyrics are the most obvious type ofpoetry to date. A song has a rhythm and when
the lyrics are sung to the beat a poem is created. Lyrics are not the only form of poetry. There are many different forms poetry can take on. Sonnets
are probably the second most known form of poetry. Sonnets are made up of 14 lines, have end rhyme, and have a meter. There are two main forms of a
sonnet; Shakespearean (English) and Petrarchan (Italian).
The Italian sonnet was created by a man named Petrarch in the 14th century. This sonnet is made up of an octave (8 lines) and a sestet (6 lines)
adding up to the sonnets grand total of 14 lines. A Volta, or dramatic change in the emotion, comes after the octave. The theme of the Petrarchan sonnet
can generally be found within the ending sestet. Two centuries later a new type of sonnet was born. The Shakespearean sonnet was created by none
other than the late William Shakespeare. The English sonnet is made up of three quatrains (4 lines) and an ending couplet (2 lines) creating the iconic
14 lines. The Volta comes after the 3rd quatrain leaving the couplet as the space for the poems theme. Both
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Analyzing the Elements of Poetry Essay
In my preparation for this essay I thought that there was going to be very little that I would learn about the elements of poetry. This is not because I
am an expert and have nothing new to learn, but rather the opposite. I have never really spent the time to break down and appreciate poetry. One of the
reasons I think that I haven't spent the time on poetry is due to my reading habits. I usually read to gather information and poetry is on the other end
of the spectrum. Fredrick Gruber sums this up, "Poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts." (Gruber) Having said all of
this though, I did see a couple of things that I could apply to my own writing. I will first start off with some elements of poetry that I...show more
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Robert Frost uses assonance in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". He uses the soft i sound repetitively here: "His house is in the village
though" (Frost). Similarly to rhyming alliterations and assonances help create a flow and feel for the poem. They also draw the reader in and help
them anticipate lines. I have used alliterations before in my writing, but I use them sparingly because I use them very overtly. I do not have the nuance
that Robert Frost has so I will continue to use them sparingly.
Poems also have rhythm. Rhythm is built from the accent and meter of a poem. Depending on how and when accents hit in words it creates an
audible cadence. The pattern that is setup from this creates the meter. This is analogous to music. There are many parallels that can be drawn from
music and songs to poetry. I this is why you can consider many songs to be poems that are set to music accompaniment. In fact going all the way
back to the Odyssey we discover that many poems were actually meant to be sung instead of read. There are many ways to break down the rhythm
and I haven't spent the time learning what they are nor have I spent the time dissecting poems to discover their rhythm. I only know of rhythm from
what I feel when I read a poem with rhythm. Because of my lack of understanding and comprehension I do not purposefully use rhythm in my writing
and I do not plan to start either.
Poets use words to their full advantage. "Poets, who must also think of
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Poetry Essay
Poems on Poetry Essay
In the poems 'How to Eat a Poem' by Eve Merriam and 'Introduction to Poetry' by Billy Collins, important ideas are presented about how poetry should
be experienced and enjoyed. The poets used the techniques extended metaphor, repetition, metaphors and personification to show me how these ideas is
important.
In 'How to Eat a Poem' by Eve Merriam, the author describes how poetry is to be experienced. Poetry doesn't need any manners and has no rules.
"Don't be polite / Bite in." is an example of just jumping in to poetry because it's got no manners and it's for everyone. "It is ready and ripe now,
whenever you are." Shows us that poetry is for everyone. Poetry never goes away because it always written on...show more content...
In the poem it states that all we want to do is torture it and get a confession out of it. Poems are to be about having fun, not trying to find every
possible meaning and to just skim across getting the ideas that the poet wants us too. Poems are about having fun and not over analyzing them.
In the poem 'Introduction to Poetry', the techniques metaphor and personification are used to show me the important idea. Metaphor is used in the
lines "I want them to waterski / across the surface of a poem / waving at the authors name on the surface." Which compares waterskiing and having
fun to a poem that is fun and relaxing. This helps me understand that poetry is fun and relaxing just like waterskiing. When you imagine yourself
waterskiing you imagine a sunny day, speeding along bouncing up and down on waves while waving to your friends on the shore in the sand. Poems
are the same you can enjoy yourself through rhyming or using alliteration. All the techniques that make a poem fun and enjoyable to write and read.
Personification is used in the lines " But all they want to do / is tie the poem to a chair with a rope / and torture a confession out of it" to compare
tying up a person to a chair and trying to get a confession out of it. Over analyzing a poem and taking meanings that aren't meant to be instead of taking
the idea that the poet tries to convey. Doing this the poet helps me understand
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Reflective Poetry Essay
Reflective Poetry Essay
Composing poetry is an artistic expression; subsequently it's a way of conveying everything that needs to be conveyed and finding importance in
expressions. Through poetry words are illuminated to form a picture, express feeling and share a thought in so few words. Putting down on paper all
the emotions going through ones head is a way of re–living and remembering the overwhelming emotions they grapple with throughout their lives. Poet
Michelle Williams states that: ".... humans have always grappled with overwhelming emotions. Throughout history we have expressed these emotions
in many ways, such as through song, music, dance, art and poetry"
This is true because putting on paper emotions such as hurt and...show more content...
This stanza returns to the solitude of the lonely wondering cloud. However, the poet has been changed by his imaginative experience involving the
daffodils and the accompanying bay waters. Loneliness is now a peaceful solitude. William Wordsworth describes himself as alone and lonely, detached
even from nature. Wordsworth feeling of sadness emerges from this poem.
In Conclusion, poets William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley and William Blake show how poetry displays the importance of human ability to convey
emotions and say what they feel. Therefore the quote by poet Michelle Williams is true. In poets William Wordsworth "Preface" to Lyrical ballads, he
describes poetic process as follow:
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
Thus through poetry the opportunity to recreate and relive the previously experienced emotion is conveyed.
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Billy Collins Essay
Billy Collins: "The Most Popular Poet in America"
The American poet William James "Billy" Collins (born on March 22, 1941 in New York City) is famous for his humorous, yet profound poetry.
Collins grew in in New York, where he wrote his first poem at the age of twelve and as a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and the University
of California–Riverside, he is well educated, and he has even taught in several colleges and universities. Due to his love of words, and exceptional
poetic language, he received a large array of poetry awards, positions, and honors, ranging from serving as Poet Laureate of the United States
(2001–2003) to being recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992). In 2002, he was asked to write...show more content...
This book was praised for its imagery, but criticized for their inability to create an emotional reaction. However, his earlier works were praised for
their ability to intrigue the reader, despite their seemingly obvious subject matter. In a review of Nine Horses for the New York Times, Mary Jo
Salter stated that, "one appeal of the typical Collins poem is that it's less able to help you memorize it than to help you to remember, for a little
while anyway, your own life." His poetry books have been extremely successful due to his wit, humor, openness and warmth when writing about the
mundane (an aspect that some have criticized for being ordinary or monotonous). Collins stated that he tries to make himself clear to the reader,
starting with a hospitable tone and ensuring that his transitions are clean and easy to follow. He commented that as a poet, he is willing to give into
distractions to develop his work, saying "I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path
through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop
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Poetry In Poetry
Poetry has played an important role during wartimes, whether it be to inspire and unify a nation or to memorialise and remember those who fought.
Australian poets throughout history such as Banjo Paterson have responded to the events and consequences of war in order to engage their audience to
consider the themes of honour and sacrifice which can be seen in his patriotic 1915 poem We're all Australians now. In contrast,John Schumann and
Eric Bogle evoke not only the theme of sacrifice but also the horror and waste of war in their poems I was only 19 and Lost Soul respectively. All
three poets effectively employ poetic techniques to highlight their key themes.
To begin, some poets highlight the heroism and honour of war while others consider its cruelty. Paterson in We're all Australians now, describes the
"Australian son(s)" who "stand straighter up today", illustrating the pride felt by many across the nation. He also emphasises the persistence and
strength of those who fought, in the line "fight on, fight on, unflinchingly", in which Paterson echoes a military–like rhythm as well the forward
momentum of the brave soldiers. In contrast, Schumann evokes the horror of the Vietnam war in I was only 19 by showing the lasting effects of
conflict, which are portrayed through the persona's current mental health as well as recollections of the war. For example, the persona questions why
he "still can't get to sleep" and highlights "it was a war within yourself". Schumann also
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William Wordsworth And Romanticism
"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart," these are the words of William Wordsworth, an English Romantic Poet that helped pave the way for
Romanticism in the early nineteenth century. John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, also English Romantic Poets, were influenced by Wordsworth's
works. All are known for their many beautiful and revolutionary poems. They allowed influences of life and their surroundings to contribute to their
works of art. The challenges of life create a pathway to creative imagination.
William Wordsworthwas born in Northwest England in 1770. He was orphaned at a young age losing his mother then his father and was sent away to
school where he received a good education (Aubrey). While entering adulthood, in...show more content...
During his early school days, he was bullied due to his more pretty rather than handsome looks, because of this he developed a hatred for oppression
which lasted a lifetime (O'Connor). The victimization he endured and the social as well as political injustices he observed and read about led him to
become a dissident against irresponsible power, recognizing in self–seeking forte and undemanding conformism props to injustice. Having started
writing in his teens Shelley first wrote about gothic horror despite his passion to change the world. He commenced in Oxford in early 1810, but was
expelled short of a year due to an iconoclasm publication he wrote with Thomas Hogg. It wasn't until 1813 while living in London that his first
important poem was published by Thomas Hookham, during this time he also befriended William Goodwin "the primary source of Shelley's
egalitarian political thought." (O'Connor). Shelley traveled a bit more after this moving from place to place exploring different types of writing. Then
by 1818 he fell into a transformed wordsworthian form of writing with the poems "Hymn to intellectual beauty" and "Mont Blanc." These two poems
suggest a nonanthropomorphic something whose influence is behind all things but can only be known secondarily through one's own creative intellect.
In 1839 "Peter Bell the Third" was published, a wordsworthian parody by Shelley written in 1819. Having been acquainted with many
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Poetry Synthesis Essay
Keats, like all the other poets of this time found inspiration in nature except he dug deepen and found not only nature's beauty as inspiration but its
sounds as well. While reading Keats poems, I found that a lot of the things he was describing symbolized music. For instance in "ode to a
Nightingale" Keats states: "Thou was not born for death, immortal Bird" (61). The bird can be seen a representation of life. Birds create the music
of nature when they chirp and fly around. Keats takes this and compares it to life and death. I kind of see this as an idea that when you find a
passion and focus on it, it can take you away from your problems. I can relate to this because I am a musician. When I am sad or frustrated we turn to
the things we love
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The Elements Of Poetry
Poetry is literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm, poems collectively
or as a genre of literature. It is also a quality of beauty and intensity of emotion regarded as characteristic of poems. Poetry (poem) is something that
follows a particular flow of rhythm and meter. Compare to prose, where there is no such restriction, and the content of the piece flows according to the
story, a poem may or may not have a story, but definitely has structured method of writing.
The definition of "Elements of Poetry" is a set of instrument use to create poems. The usages of these elements began many years ago. Archeologist
have shown that our ancestors of use many...show more content...
In ancient times, lyric poems were sung to the accompaniment of the lyric, a type of stringed instrument. Modem lyric poems are not usually sung.
However, they still have a musical quality that is achieved through rhythm and such other devices as alliteration and rhyme.
Elegy: A poem of mourning, usually over death of an individual. It may also be a lament over the passing of life and beauty or a meditation over
nature of death. An elegy is a type of lyrical poem, usually formal in language and structure and solemn or even melancholy in tone.
Acrostic: In acrostic poems, the first letter of each line of each line of the poem is aligned vertically to form a word. Generally, the word formed thus,
is the subject of the poem.
Ballad: Ballads are narrative poems that are supposed to be sung. The narrator usually starts a dramatic scene and relates the narrative with dialog and
action.
Canzone: The word canzone, which means a song, signifies any simple song like composition. It is an Italian song or ballad.
Cinquain: A cinquain is a poem that consist of five lines. They do not
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T. S. Eliot Impact On Poetry
T.S Eliot is considered one of the most important modernist poets during his time. In fact, modernism was viewed as "a rejection of traditional
19th–century norms, where artists, architects, poets, and thinkers alike either altered or abandoned earlier conventions in an attempt to re–envision a
society in flux" (Britannica). Modernism mainly represented by an orientation towards fragmentation, free verse, contradictory allusions and multiple
points of view different from the Victorian and Romantic writing (Britannica). T.S. Eliot's impact on poetry is unrivaled in the 20th century. Although
his work was criticized for nonconformity, Eliot gained a new perspective, causing him to become an influential poet and critic as he pioneered the
modern poetry movement. T.S. Eliot was born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the seventh and last child of Henry Ware Eliot,
a brick manufacturer, and Charlotte Stearns Eliot, a poet. Both parents' families had emigrated from England to Massachusetts in the early
seventeenth century. The poet's paternal grandfather, William Greenleaf Eliot had moved to St. Louis in the 1830's where he became a Unitarian
Minister, but still kept a very close New England connection. As a young boy, Eliot attended Miss Locke's Primary School and Smith Academy
Record, graduating in 1905. He spent the year following his graduation at Milton Academy, a private prep school in Massachusetts. Late in September
of 1906, he began to study at Harvard
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The Poem In The Right Word By Imtiaz Dharker
A poem usually contains some exact rules and instructions to get the reader's attention and interest. Imtiaz Dharker wrote the poem "the right word"
which I now will analyze. How does the title seem and what does it mean? Who is the speaker in the poem? How is the poems tone and how is it
changing? What is the theme and which word and literary device are important?
When I first read the title, I did not quite understand what the right word meant and what the right word in the text would be. Now, I understand that
the title got more with struggling to do. People struggle to find the right word to define people and if you mean someone is one thing, then someone
else might think the opposite. In addition, for some people, one person might be...show more content...
Personally, I associate the word terrorist with negative associations like, gloomy and dangerous. If we here about a terrorist lurking in the dark,
people get scared and begin to fear this person. I think most people got associations with terrorists, and mainly in a negative way. When I hear the
word terrorist, I think of a person that did something dangerous and maybe killed a bunch of people.
The poem contains some literary devices. I think one important, in this poem is the door. The door could be a metaphor on an invisible wall in real life
were you do not let people close to you. Maybe you are scared of letting people close, because of earlier experiences in life or because you are
prejudging the person.
I would say this poem is great, it shows a great example on the struggle to find the right word and the problem with prejudging. One word can mean
different things to different people. Media has a big influence on finding the right word and also on how we use different words. Innocent people are
prejudged because they are "different" or come from another country. Metaphors are used and we can connect them to our own
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Essay on Love Poems
Love Poems
Have the love poems, you have read given you a better insight into the emotion of love?
The subject of 'Love Poetry' has given rise to some of the most beautiful and fascinating poetry. The poets illustrate their feelings, or the feelings of the
people concerned with them through the use of figurative language. Alove poem is not necessarily a poem about romantic love, about romance,
marriage and commitment; it could be something else entirely. It seems to be Universal. Timeless. Yet, it's also very individual, filtered by our own
lives and expectations. Love can be a different thing for each one of us. Not all love poems deal with happy positive sides of love but there is also the
negative sides such as pain,...show more content...
'do not grieve' , she does not want her lover to feel that her love is possessive, she does not want him to feel guilty. She wants him to cherish good
times that they had, 'forget and smile'.
The tone throughout is melancholy and emotional as the poet talks about her approaching death. The sonnet form is suitably used because the poet is
telling her husband on how death will take over their love. She accepts death in a philosophical manner. Although she is physically dead she wants to
be remembered.
Christina Rossetti shows us how death can bring a blissful relationship to an end, but she also shows that love can exist even after death if it has
withstood the test of time. She repeats the title 'remember' throughout the poem as a technique to emphasize that she really wants to be remembered.
Poet Rossetti wants to be remembered by her love even if 'darkness and corruption leave'. Yet her love is unselfish.
Here a poem by Christina Rossetti's, 'A Birthday', is a contrast to
'Remember'. Throughout this poem Rossetti expresses happy contented feelings, through her beautiful use of imagery. Nature imagery is used in the
first half of the poem, ' heart is like a singing bird' ,
'heart is like a rainb
The title 'A Birthday' is not represented with love at all, but as we read the poem, we come to know that 'A Birthday' is new life, because she is in love.
We see how love makes a person radiant and blissful.
From the first line itself Rossetti
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Definition Of Poetry Essay
When asked to define poetry I do not know what to say. My brother, however, seems to be certain that poetry is, "written by all these old people who
like books and stuff. It is so boring, and only weird people read it." This is a very typical 6th grader perspective on poetry, I even thought this way
when I was his age. So, upon being asked to define poetry, I looked up the Merriam–Webster definition thinking that could help me develop my own
definition. The first definition is simply, "metrical writing: writing of a poet." That did not help me too much. The second definition was, "writing that
formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through
meaning,...show more content...
The story of the poem is told by an outsider looking in on what this girl is doing to herself due to bullying and depression. She can not see the good
in life and thinks badly about herself so she cuts and doesn't eat. She ends up committing suicide and all her friends are shocked and sad because
they didn't pay attention to her change in behavior and did not stand up for her. If the people around this girl "just [took] a moment to realize and
see/ Everyone is not always who they seem to be" she may still be alive because it only takes one person to make a difference. I like this poem
because it has an extremely important message that applies to people and makes an impact by the types of words used, plus the fact that this
happened to a high school girl. This is the very emotional poem because it happened to a high schooler and is a very real thing that people deal
with. If everyone would stop judging people by their initial reaction we would live in a much happier society. Therefore, Ecem Y's poem is an
impactful poem to live by, and it speaks the message of accepting and being aware of
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Poetry And Poetry In Poetry
Physicians' notes are in some sense biographies of their patients. Those that are unwell have to be encouraged to find a narrative and the clinician has
to tease out the significant lines in their story. It is the stories of private lives offered up to doctors, often at times of crisis and vulnerability, which
explain, at least in part, why so many doctors are also novelists.
We should consider poetry and its less obvious role within the medical humanities. Like the novel, poetry can tell us about human experience, but it
does this in its own language and not the more straightforward language of prose. It works by suggestion, but this doesn't mean that it cannot console,
teach, amuse, enlighten, mimic, disconcert and so much more. It can capture – or cause us to reconstruct – experiences and feelings that we might
otherwise not be conscious...show more content...
The same is not always true of textbooks. And a corollary of this is that it doesn't take much time to read a poem. But it does have to be read with a
particular attention to detail, and that could be a useful training for medical students. You can't race through a poem– as you might a textbook –
looking for what you want to find. So we see the benefits of marrying poetry reading to various aspects of medicine. This is essentially what the
National Association for Poetry Therapy has been doing for the past 30 years. It describes itself as "a community of healers and lovers of words".
At the same time, there are various ways in which the humanities are enriched by disciplines within the medical sciences. Psychology can certainly
play a part in both biography and biographical readings of literary texts, for example. Pharmacology can enlighten us in relation to drug–induced
creative states of mind. More importantly, thinking about literature from the point of view of readers who may not be as set in their ways encourages
the literary reader to read
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Poetry As A Form Of Poetry
'Poetry' comes from the Greek word 'poiein' meaning 'to make, create, compose' (Danesi, 2000: 177)
Poetry is a form of literature often exploring feelings using metaphor, simile, and aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language. Common forms of
poems are Haikus, sonnets, cinquains, and free verse. It has been defined in many ways by several scholars, for example, Percy & Loxon state: 'Poetry
lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar' (Percy & Loxon, 1821). This means
that poetry can open another depth of feeling, allowing the audience to understand emotions they previously didn't. Furthermore, Eliot stated: 'The
poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases and images.' (Eliot, 2009, p43). It seems many scholars
consider poetry as a literature often exploring emotions and feelings, in a cathartic way, as metaphors and symbolism are a useful way to explain
emotions. Woodsworth also stated that poetry was a material to explore feelings, saying: 'Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it
takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity' (Wordsworth in Croft & Cross, 1997:5). Most types of poetry explore feelings and emotions,
with examples being the eulogy and elegiac form, love poetry, sonnets, and praise songs. Inspiration for poetry can be found almost anywhere, in songs,
life experiences, pictures, and feelings. Wainwright stated
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Engl. 102 Poetry Essay
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" a Review
English 102
Liberty University
4/21/2014
Poetry Thesis and Outline
While reviewing "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", it should be noted that the key is the rhythm of the language. The first, second, and fourth
sentence rime while the third sentence of each rimes with the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd sentence of the next stanza. In relation with the cryptic language draws
the question, there is a more sinister back drop of loneliness and depression in this poem much deeper than the level of nature orated by the Narator. I.
First Stanza
A. Frost opens with describing who's woods we are viewing
1. Does it matter who's woods
B. No one is...show more content...
Frost further points out that the stretch of woods being viewed is very rural. This is made possible by the reference to the location between the woods
and frozen lake. In closing the final sentence of the second stanza Frost reiterates the fact that this occurs on "the darkest evening of the year" stating
the darkness of the mood.
In the following stanza Frost returns to the horse, which "gives his harness bells a shake". This is the first of only two sounds listed in the entire
poem. Sounds might normally be associated with a person in a lighter more jovial mood. Frost uses the lack of sound to put the narrator into what
appears to be a deep process of thought. As the poem moves further allon it is clear that Frost is not thinking of other sounds or even the feelings which
would be associated with this type of event. There is no mention of the temperature only the implication of the snow falling, and the frozen lake. Yet the
sounds are slightly present, similar to an athlete who is preparing for the event. Frost is quiet, internalizing his thoughts, focusing on the task at hand,
and not sensing the other areas of life in the world around him.
In the fourth and final stanza Frost uses the riming of all four sentences to draw the reader into the climax of the poem, "the woods are lovely dark and
deep/ But I have promises to keep/ and miles to go before I sleep/ and miles to go before I sleep". This grouping leads the reader to feel that
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Emily Dickinson's Poem 260
Dickinson's poem 260 was really interesting. Specifically when she writes, "I'm Nobody! Who are you?/ Are you–Nobody – too?/ Then there's a pair
of us!/ Dont tell! They'd advertise – you know!" (1–4) What seems a little unexpected is that this poem can be read with multiple meanings. It seems
Dickinson could be talking about her and her lover sharing a melancholy and unhealthy bond, or she could be describing a side of her personality that
she hides considering her individual thinking led to an ostracized life. Also, Dickinson could be suggesting what other like minded–thinkers endure.
Dickinson definitely had some concerns about the Catholic church and perhaps all religious ideas concerning dying. The death of her father, mother,
nephew,
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  • 2. Essay about Poetry: Emotions in Words Poetry is an art form of expression and emotions through words. It encompasses the writer's mood and point of view about a certain idea. Two poems that demonstrate the use of emotions in words are "Phenomenal Woman" by Maya Angelou, and "A Dream within a Dream", by Edgar Allan Poe. Both of these poets are very important in the literary field even though their ways of writing contrast each other. Angelou is a revolutionist who is known around the world for her astounding stories of racism, family, and overcoming adversity.Edgar Allan Poe was an exceptional poet, editor, literary critic, and part of the American Romantic Movement. His writings were often filled with despair and very depressing. Both of these poems are great works of art...show more content... Angelou is not the most attractive woman but her mystery lies in her body language, how she carries herself. The span of her hips, stride of her steps, curl of her lips, fire in her eyes, ride of her breast, these all describe her body movements. Angelou defines herself in this poem, she is a modest woman who does not care about what others think of her, and she does not have to be loud or dress a certain way to gain attention. Her modesty, grace, self–confidence, causes her to stand out to others. This poem has many styles, it is arranges into five sections, and the poem reminds the reader of a speech. Imagery is used a lot, like "the swing in my waist, and the joy in my feet" (Intel Corporation). The mood of this poem is happy, and the tone is of merriment. Poe's poem is "A Dream within a Dream" is a narrative poem, which consists of two stanzas of fragmented sentences. The tone, like many of Poe's poems expressed depression and feelings about his life. At a certain time in Poe's life he began to have a downward spiral and in this poem he describes watching important things in his life pass him by. Although this is an inspirational poem it speaks of resentment, displeasure discontented desire, frustration, animosity, and loss. The tone is hardening and filled with regret. All through the poem, Poe asks rhetorical Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 3. Poetry Form Essay Poems are a form of writing with a set meter. Most poems have an end rhyme scheme to accompany the meter. Poems, like short stories, have symbols. Although short story symbols were not the easiest to identify, the symbols in poems are sometimes even harder to determine. Poems also include metaphors, imagery, a certain tone, and always have a set audience. Lyrics are the most obvious type ofpoetry to date. A song has a rhythm and when the lyrics are sung to the beat a poem is created. Lyrics are not the only form of poetry. There are many different forms poetry can take on. Sonnets are probably the second most known form of poetry. Sonnets are made up of 14 lines, have end rhyme, and have a meter. There are two main forms of a sonnet; Shakespearean (English) and Petrarchan (Italian). The Italian sonnet was created by a man named Petrarch in the 14th century. This sonnet is made up of an octave (8 lines) and a sestet (6 lines) adding up to the sonnets grand total of 14 lines. A Volta, or dramatic change in the emotion, comes after the octave. The theme of the Petrarchan sonnet can generally be found within the ending sestet. Two centuries later a new type of sonnet was born. The Shakespearean sonnet was created by none other than the late William Shakespeare. The English sonnet is made up of three quatrains (4 lines) and an ending couplet (2 lines) creating the iconic 14 lines. The Volta comes after the 3rd quatrain leaving the couplet as the space for the poems theme. Both Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 4. Analyzing the Elements of Poetry Essay In my preparation for this essay I thought that there was going to be very little that I would learn about the elements of poetry. This is not because I am an expert and have nothing new to learn, but rather the opposite. I have never really spent the time to break down and appreciate poetry. One of the reasons I think that I haven't spent the time on poetry is due to my reading habits. I usually read to gather information and poetry is on the other end of the spectrum. Fredrick Gruber sums this up, "Poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts." (Gruber) Having said all of this though, I did see a couple of things that I could apply to my own writing. I will first start off with some elements of poetry that I...show more content... Robert Frost uses assonance in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". He uses the soft i sound repetitively here: "His house is in the village though" (Frost). Similarly to rhyming alliterations and assonances help create a flow and feel for the poem. They also draw the reader in and help them anticipate lines. I have used alliterations before in my writing, but I use them sparingly because I use them very overtly. I do not have the nuance that Robert Frost has so I will continue to use them sparingly. Poems also have rhythm. Rhythm is built from the accent and meter of a poem. Depending on how and when accents hit in words it creates an audible cadence. The pattern that is setup from this creates the meter. This is analogous to music. There are many parallels that can be drawn from music and songs to poetry. I this is why you can consider many songs to be poems that are set to music accompaniment. In fact going all the way back to the Odyssey we discover that many poems were actually meant to be sung instead of read. There are many ways to break down the rhythm and I haven't spent the time learning what they are nor have I spent the time dissecting poems to discover their rhythm. I only know of rhythm from what I feel when I read a poem with rhythm. Because of my lack of understanding and comprehension I do not purposefully use rhythm in my writing and I do not plan to start either. Poets use words to their full advantage. "Poets, who must also think of Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 5. Poetry Essay Poems on Poetry Essay In the poems 'How to Eat a Poem' by Eve Merriam and 'Introduction to Poetry' by Billy Collins, important ideas are presented about how poetry should be experienced and enjoyed. The poets used the techniques extended metaphor, repetition, metaphors and personification to show me how these ideas is important. In 'How to Eat a Poem' by Eve Merriam, the author describes how poetry is to be experienced. Poetry doesn't need any manners and has no rules. "Don't be polite / Bite in." is an example of just jumping in to poetry because it's got no manners and it's for everyone. "It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are." Shows us that poetry is for everyone. Poetry never goes away because it always written on...show more content... In the poem it states that all we want to do is torture it and get a confession out of it. Poems are to be about having fun, not trying to find every possible meaning and to just skim across getting the ideas that the poet wants us too. Poems are about having fun and not over analyzing them. In the poem 'Introduction to Poetry', the techniques metaphor and personification are used to show me the important idea. Metaphor is used in the lines "I want them to waterski / across the surface of a poem / waving at the authors name on the surface." Which compares waterskiing and having fun to a poem that is fun and relaxing. This helps me understand that poetry is fun and relaxing just like waterskiing. When you imagine yourself waterskiing you imagine a sunny day, speeding along bouncing up and down on waves while waving to your friends on the shore in the sand. Poems are the same you can enjoy yourself through rhyming or using alliteration. All the techniques that make a poem fun and enjoyable to write and read. Personification is used in the lines " But all they want to do / is tie the poem to a chair with a rope / and torture a confession out of it" to compare tying up a person to a chair and trying to get a confession out of it. Over analyzing a poem and taking meanings that aren't meant to be instead of taking the idea that the poet tries to convey. Doing this the poet helps me understand Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 6. Reflective Poetry Essay Reflective Poetry Essay Composing poetry is an artistic expression; subsequently it's a way of conveying everything that needs to be conveyed and finding importance in expressions. Through poetry words are illuminated to form a picture, express feeling and share a thought in so few words. Putting down on paper all the emotions going through ones head is a way of re–living and remembering the overwhelming emotions they grapple with throughout their lives. Poet Michelle Williams states that: ".... humans have always grappled with overwhelming emotions. Throughout history we have expressed these emotions in many ways, such as through song, music, dance, art and poetry" This is true because putting on paper emotions such as hurt and...show more content... This stanza returns to the solitude of the lonely wondering cloud. However, the poet has been changed by his imaginative experience involving the daffodils and the accompanying bay waters. Loneliness is now a peaceful solitude. William Wordsworth describes himself as alone and lonely, detached even from nature. Wordsworth feeling of sadness emerges from this poem. In Conclusion, poets William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley and William Blake show how poetry displays the importance of human ability to convey emotions and say what they feel. Therefore the quote by poet Michelle Williams is true. In poets William Wordsworth "Preface" to Lyrical ballads, he describes poetic process as follow: "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. Thus through poetry the opportunity to recreate and relive the previously experienced emotion is conveyed. Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 7. Billy Collins Essay Billy Collins: "The Most Popular Poet in America" The American poet William James "Billy" Collins (born on March 22, 1941 in New York City) is famous for his humorous, yet profound poetry. Collins grew in in New York, where he wrote his first poem at the age of twelve and as a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and the University of California–Riverside, he is well educated, and he has even taught in several colleges and universities. Due to his love of words, and exceptional poetic language, he received a large array of poetry awards, positions, and honors, ranging from serving as Poet Laureate of the United States (2001–2003) to being recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992). In 2002, he was asked to write...show more content... This book was praised for its imagery, but criticized for their inability to create an emotional reaction. However, his earlier works were praised for their ability to intrigue the reader, despite their seemingly obvious subject matter. In a review of Nine Horses for the New York Times, Mary Jo Salter stated that, "one appeal of the typical Collins poem is that it's less able to help you memorize it than to help you to remember, for a little while anyway, your own life." His poetry books have been extremely successful due to his wit, humor, openness and warmth when writing about the mundane (an aspect that some have criticized for being ordinary or monotonous). Collins stated that he tries to make himself clear to the reader, starting with a hospitable tone and ensuring that his transitions are clean and easy to follow. He commented that as a poet, he is willing to give into distractions to develop his work, saying "I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 8. Poetry In Poetry Poetry has played an important role during wartimes, whether it be to inspire and unify a nation or to memorialise and remember those who fought. Australian poets throughout history such as Banjo Paterson have responded to the events and consequences of war in order to engage their audience to consider the themes of honour and sacrifice which can be seen in his patriotic 1915 poem We're all Australians now. In contrast,John Schumann and Eric Bogle evoke not only the theme of sacrifice but also the horror and waste of war in their poems I was only 19 and Lost Soul respectively. All three poets effectively employ poetic techniques to highlight their key themes. To begin, some poets highlight the heroism and honour of war while others consider its cruelty. Paterson in We're all Australians now, describes the "Australian son(s)" who "stand straighter up today", illustrating the pride felt by many across the nation. He also emphasises the persistence and strength of those who fought, in the line "fight on, fight on, unflinchingly", in which Paterson echoes a military–like rhythm as well the forward momentum of the brave soldiers. In contrast, Schumann evokes the horror of the Vietnam war in I was only 19 by showing the lasting effects of conflict, which are portrayed through the persona's current mental health as well as recollections of the war. For example, the persona questions why he "still can't get to sleep" and highlights "it was a war within yourself". Schumann also Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 9. William Wordsworth And Romanticism "Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart," these are the words of William Wordsworth, an English Romantic Poet that helped pave the way for Romanticism in the early nineteenth century. John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, also English Romantic Poets, were influenced by Wordsworth's works. All are known for their many beautiful and revolutionary poems. They allowed influences of life and their surroundings to contribute to their works of art. The challenges of life create a pathway to creative imagination. William Wordsworthwas born in Northwest England in 1770. He was orphaned at a young age losing his mother then his father and was sent away to school where he received a good education (Aubrey). While entering adulthood, in...show more content... During his early school days, he was bullied due to his more pretty rather than handsome looks, because of this he developed a hatred for oppression which lasted a lifetime (O'Connor). The victimization he endured and the social as well as political injustices he observed and read about led him to become a dissident against irresponsible power, recognizing in self–seeking forte and undemanding conformism props to injustice. Having started writing in his teens Shelley first wrote about gothic horror despite his passion to change the world. He commenced in Oxford in early 1810, but was expelled short of a year due to an iconoclasm publication he wrote with Thomas Hogg. It wasn't until 1813 while living in London that his first important poem was published by Thomas Hookham, during this time he also befriended William Goodwin "the primary source of Shelley's egalitarian political thought." (O'Connor). Shelley traveled a bit more after this moving from place to place exploring different types of writing. Then by 1818 he fell into a transformed wordsworthian form of writing with the poems "Hymn to intellectual beauty" and "Mont Blanc." These two poems suggest a nonanthropomorphic something whose influence is behind all things but can only be known secondarily through one's own creative intellect. In 1839 "Peter Bell the Third" was published, a wordsworthian parody by Shelley written in 1819. Having been acquainted with many Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 10. Poetry Synthesis Essay Keats, like all the other poets of this time found inspiration in nature except he dug deepen and found not only nature's beauty as inspiration but its sounds as well. While reading Keats poems, I found that a lot of the things he was describing symbolized music. For instance in "ode to a Nightingale" Keats states: "Thou was not born for death, immortal Bird" (61). The bird can be seen a representation of life. Birds create the music of nature when they chirp and fly around. Keats takes this and compares it to life and death. I kind of see this as an idea that when you find a passion and focus on it, it can take you away from your problems. I can relate to this because I am a musician. When I am sad or frustrated we turn to the things we love Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 11. The Elements Of Poetry Poetry is literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm, poems collectively or as a genre of literature. It is also a quality of beauty and intensity of emotion regarded as characteristic of poems. Poetry (poem) is something that follows a particular flow of rhythm and meter. Compare to prose, where there is no such restriction, and the content of the piece flows according to the story, a poem may or may not have a story, but definitely has structured method of writing. The definition of "Elements of Poetry" is a set of instrument use to create poems. The usages of these elements began many years ago. Archeologist have shown that our ancestors of use many...show more content... In ancient times, lyric poems were sung to the accompaniment of the lyric, a type of stringed instrument. Modem lyric poems are not usually sung. However, they still have a musical quality that is achieved through rhythm and such other devices as alliteration and rhyme. Elegy: A poem of mourning, usually over death of an individual. It may also be a lament over the passing of life and beauty or a meditation over nature of death. An elegy is a type of lyrical poem, usually formal in language and structure and solemn or even melancholy in tone. Acrostic: In acrostic poems, the first letter of each line of each line of the poem is aligned vertically to form a word. Generally, the word formed thus, is the subject of the poem. Ballad: Ballads are narrative poems that are supposed to be sung. The narrator usually starts a dramatic scene and relates the narrative with dialog and action. Canzone: The word canzone, which means a song, signifies any simple song like composition. It is an Italian song or ballad. Cinquain: A cinquain is a poem that consist of five lines. They do not Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 12. T. S. Eliot Impact On Poetry T.S Eliot is considered one of the most important modernist poets during his time. In fact, modernism was viewed as "a rejection of traditional 19th–century norms, where artists, architects, poets, and thinkers alike either altered or abandoned earlier conventions in an attempt to re–envision a society in flux" (Britannica). Modernism mainly represented by an orientation towards fragmentation, free verse, contradictory allusions and multiple points of view different from the Victorian and Romantic writing (Britannica). T.S. Eliot's impact on poetry is unrivaled in the 20th century. Although his work was criticized for nonconformity, Eliot gained a new perspective, causing him to become an influential poet and critic as he pioneered the modern poetry movement. T.S. Eliot was born on September 26, 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the seventh and last child of Henry Ware Eliot, a brick manufacturer, and Charlotte Stearns Eliot, a poet. Both parents' families had emigrated from England to Massachusetts in the early seventeenth century. The poet's paternal grandfather, William Greenleaf Eliot had moved to St. Louis in the 1830's where he became a Unitarian Minister, but still kept a very close New England connection. As a young boy, Eliot attended Miss Locke's Primary School and Smith Academy Record, graduating in 1905. He spent the year following his graduation at Milton Academy, a private prep school in Massachusetts. Late in September of 1906, he began to study at Harvard Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 13. The Poem In The Right Word By Imtiaz Dharker A poem usually contains some exact rules and instructions to get the reader's attention and interest. Imtiaz Dharker wrote the poem "the right word" which I now will analyze. How does the title seem and what does it mean? Who is the speaker in the poem? How is the poems tone and how is it changing? What is the theme and which word and literary device are important? When I first read the title, I did not quite understand what the right word meant and what the right word in the text would be. Now, I understand that the title got more with struggling to do. People struggle to find the right word to define people and if you mean someone is one thing, then someone else might think the opposite. In addition, for some people, one person might be...show more content... Personally, I associate the word terrorist with negative associations like, gloomy and dangerous. If we here about a terrorist lurking in the dark, people get scared and begin to fear this person. I think most people got associations with terrorists, and mainly in a negative way. When I hear the word terrorist, I think of a person that did something dangerous and maybe killed a bunch of people. The poem contains some literary devices. I think one important, in this poem is the door. The door could be a metaphor on an invisible wall in real life were you do not let people close to you. Maybe you are scared of letting people close, because of earlier experiences in life or because you are prejudging the person. I would say this poem is great, it shows a great example on the struggle to find the right word and the problem with prejudging. One word can mean different things to different people. Media has a big influence on finding the right word and also on how we use different words. Innocent people are prejudged because they are "different" or come from another country. Metaphors are used and we can connect them to our own Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 14. Essay on Love Poems Love Poems Have the love poems, you have read given you a better insight into the emotion of love? The subject of 'Love Poetry' has given rise to some of the most beautiful and fascinating poetry. The poets illustrate their feelings, or the feelings of the people concerned with them through the use of figurative language. Alove poem is not necessarily a poem about romantic love, about romance, marriage and commitment; it could be something else entirely. It seems to be Universal. Timeless. Yet, it's also very individual, filtered by our own lives and expectations. Love can be a different thing for each one of us. Not all love poems deal with happy positive sides of love but there is also the negative sides such as pain,...show more content... 'do not grieve' , she does not want her lover to feel that her love is possessive, she does not want him to feel guilty. She wants him to cherish good times that they had, 'forget and smile'. The tone throughout is melancholy and emotional as the poet talks about her approaching death. The sonnet form is suitably used because the poet is telling her husband on how death will take over their love. She accepts death in a philosophical manner. Although she is physically dead she wants to be remembered. Christina Rossetti shows us how death can bring a blissful relationship to an end, but she also shows that love can exist even after death if it has withstood the test of time. She repeats the title 'remember' throughout the poem as a technique to emphasize that she really wants to be remembered. Poet Rossetti wants to be remembered by her love even if 'darkness and corruption leave'. Yet her love is unselfish. Here a poem by Christina Rossetti's, 'A Birthday', is a contrast to 'Remember'. Throughout this poem Rossetti expresses happy contented feelings, through her beautiful use of imagery. Nature imagery is used in the first half of the poem, ' heart is like a singing bird' , 'heart is like a rainb The title 'A Birthday' is not represented with love at all, but as we read the poem, we come to know that 'A Birthday' is new life, because she is in love.
  • 15. We see how love makes a person radiant and blissful. From the first line itself Rossetti Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 16. Definition Of Poetry Essay When asked to define poetry I do not know what to say. My brother, however, seems to be certain that poetry is, "written by all these old people who like books and stuff. It is so boring, and only weird people read it." This is a very typical 6th grader perspective on poetry, I even thought this way when I was his age. So, upon being asked to define poetry, I looked up the Merriam–Webster definition thinking that could help me develop my own definition. The first definition is simply, "metrical writing: writing of a poet." That did not help me too much. The second definition was, "writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning,...show more content... The story of the poem is told by an outsider looking in on what this girl is doing to herself due to bullying and depression. She can not see the good in life and thinks badly about herself so she cuts and doesn't eat. She ends up committing suicide and all her friends are shocked and sad because they didn't pay attention to her change in behavior and did not stand up for her. If the people around this girl "just [took] a moment to realize and see/ Everyone is not always who they seem to be" she may still be alive because it only takes one person to make a difference. I like this poem because it has an extremely important message that applies to people and makes an impact by the types of words used, plus the fact that this happened to a high school girl. This is the very emotional poem because it happened to a high schooler and is a very real thing that people deal with. If everyone would stop judging people by their initial reaction we would live in a much happier society. Therefore, Ecem Y's poem is an impactful poem to live by, and it speaks the message of accepting and being aware of Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 17. Poetry And Poetry In Poetry Physicians' notes are in some sense biographies of their patients. Those that are unwell have to be encouraged to find a narrative and the clinician has to tease out the significant lines in their story. It is the stories of private lives offered up to doctors, often at times of crisis and vulnerability, which explain, at least in part, why so many doctors are also novelists. We should consider poetry and its less obvious role within the medical humanities. Like the novel, poetry can tell us about human experience, but it does this in its own language and not the more straightforward language of prose. It works by suggestion, but this doesn't mean that it cannot console, teach, amuse, enlighten, mimic, disconcert and so much more. It can capture – or cause us to reconstruct – experiences and feelings that we might otherwise not be conscious...show more content... The same is not always true of textbooks. And a corollary of this is that it doesn't take much time to read a poem. But it does have to be read with a particular attention to detail, and that could be a useful training for medical students. You can't race through a poem– as you might a textbook – looking for what you want to find. So we see the benefits of marrying poetry reading to various aspects of medicine. This is essentially what the National Association for Poetry Therapy has been doing for the past 30 years. It describes itself as "a community of healers and lovers of words". At the same time, there are various ways in which the humanities are enriched by disciplines within the medical sciences. Psychology can certainly play a part in both biography and biographical readings of literary texts, for example. Pharmacology can enlighten us in relation to drug–induced creative states of mind. More importantly, thinking about literature from the point of view of readers who may not be as set in their ways encourages the literary reader to read Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 18. Poetry As A Form Of Poetry 'Poetry' comes from the Greek word 'poiein' meaning 'to make, create, compose' (Danesi, 2000: 177) Poetry is a form of literature often exploring feelings using metaphor, simile, and aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language. Common forms of poems are Haikus, sonnets, cinquains, and free verse. It has been defined in many ways by several scholars, for example, Percy & Loxon state: 'Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar' (Percy & Loxon, 1821). This means that poetry can open another depth of feeling, allowing the audience to understand emotions they previously didn't. Furthermore, Eliot stated: 'The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases and images.' (Eliot, 2009, p43). It seems many scholars consider poetry as a literature often exploring emotions and feelings, in a cathartic way, as metaphors and symbolism are a useful way to explain emotions. Woodsworth also stated that poetry was a material to explore feelings, saying: 'Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity' (Wordsworth in Croft & Cross, 1997:5). Most types of poetry explore feelings and emotions, with examples being the eulogy and elegiac form, love poetry, sonnets, and praise songs. Inspiration for poetry can be found almost anywhere, in songs, life experiences, pictures, and feelings. Wainwright stated Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 19. Engl. 102 Poetry Essay "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" a Review English 102 Liberty University 4/21/2014 Poetry Thesis and Outline While reviewing "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", it should be noted that the key is the rhythm of the language. The first, second, and fourth sentence rime while the third sentence of each rimes with the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd sentence of the next stanza. In relation with the cryptic language draws the question, there is a more sinister back drop of loneliness and depression in this poem much deeper than the level of nature orated by the Narator. I. First Stanza A. Frost opens with describing who's woods we are viewing 1. Does it matter who's woods B. No one is...show more content... Frost further points out that the stretch of woods being viewed is very rural. This is made possible by the reference to the location between the woods and frozen lake. In closing the final sentence of the second stanza Frost reiterates the fact that this occurs on "the darkest evening of the year" stating the darkness of the mood. In the following stanza Frost returns to the horse, which "gives his harness bells a shake". This is the first of only two sounds listed in the entire poem. Sounds might normally be associated with a person in a lighter more jovial mood. Frost uses the lack of sound to put the narrator into what appears to be a deep process of thought. As the poem moves further allon it is clear that Frost is not thinking of other sounds or even the feelings which would be associated with this type of event. There is no mention of the temperature only the implication of the snow falling, and the frozen lake. Yet the sounds are slightly present, similar to an athlete who is preparing for the event. Frost is quiet, internalizing his thoughts, focusing on the task at hand, and not sensing the other areas of life in the world around him.
  • 20. In the fourth and final stanza Frost uses the riming of all four sentences to draw the reader into the climax of the poem, "the woods are lovely dark and deep/ But I have promises to keep/ and miles to go before I sleep/ and miles to go before I sleep". This grouping leads the reader to feel that Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 21. Emily Dickinson's Poem 260 Dickinson's poem 260 was really interesting. Specifically when she writes, "I'm Nobody! Who are you?/ Are you–Nobody – too?/ Then there's a pair of us!/ Dont tell! They'd advertise – you know!" (1–4) What seems a little unexpected is that this poem can be read with multiple meanings. It seems Dickinson could be talking about her and her lover sharing a melancholy and unhealthy bond, or she could be describing a side of her personality that she hides considering her individual thinking led to an ostracized life. Also, Dickinson could be suggesting what other like minded–thinkers endure. Dickinson definitely had some concerns about the Catholic church and perhaps all religious ideas concerning dying. The death of her father, mother, nephew, Get more content on HelpWriting.net