dramatic actors. In terms of poetic style‚ Frost utilizes the iambic pentameter and the iambic tetrameter in his conversational pieces. For example‚ in Frost’s poem entitled “Directive‚” follows a detached‚ ironic narrator who tries to involve the reader in his directions. This is a memory poem about an abandoned house‚ an abandoned farm‚ an abandoned town‚ and most importantly an abandoned children’s playhouse. Frost writes this poem in iambic pentameter blank verse‚ which is relaxed and conversational
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Creeley and Emily Dickinson both use poetic language and form in order to convey and allow the reader to unpack the poem and create meaning. Robert Creeley’s Broken Back Blues‚ explores the genre of Blues which allows the piece to carry a pensive tone which evokes a Jazz like meter and sounds. The Jazz influence in the piece reflects this through a disjointed and untraditional form of poetry and meter‚ through the repetition of sounds and similar sounding words‚ thus allows the piece to present
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pentameter (five metrical feet) and two tri-meter (three metrical feet) lines per stanza. It is written mainly in iambic pentameter and has a rhyming pattern of aabbcddceee. This gives the poem a songlike quality which is associated with this type of lyric poetry. Each stanza is made up of a single sentence which‚ with the help of the meter‚ forces the first four lines of each verse to be read rapidly. The caesura then slows down the reading‚ causing the reader to reflect more deeply on what has been
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similes to show how much they would love each other. The readers can therefore see a thematic connection between poem five and seven based on the poems’ content‚ diction‚ and structure. Catullus creates two poems‚ which show his immense love and affection for his girlfriend‚ Clodia. The content of the poems is the same and the
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mundane idea so brilliantly‚ so intensely‚ so eloquently? Simply. He performs it simply. Through a sadden tone‚ William Carlos Williams illustrates the image of a broken down agricultural-based household by monosyllabic color-based diction and short meter structures. The prose is constructed in a manner similar to a short prose fractured into concise telegraphic sentences to resemble a poem rather
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than that‚ it departs from the conventional form. It also does not follow any type of rhythmic pattern like other sonnet poems do. “Body Bags” is not associated with love‚ desire or unrequited love. And neither does it have any rhythmic pattern or meter. So after these considerations‚ I believe this to be a Free Form sonnet. Another poem that is a known sonnet is called‚ “Safe Sex” by Rafael Campo. To my understanding‚ this poem refers about a relationship between two men. What seems to be a one-sided
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both of these poems speak about death and morality‚ they do so in very different ways. The manner of speak differs in these poems as well as their rhythm‚ meter‚ and structure. The way each poem is written creates a unique tone and helps to establish the speaker’s mood and emotions. While the tone establishes the mood‚ each poem’s rhythm and meter helps to emphasize its tone. Though both poems differ in their delivery‚ the message of each poem is clear and distinct. The tone exhibited in Heaney’s
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speaker is using cat feet as a dramatization of the quietness of the fog. Cat feet within this poem are used as a way for the speaker to convey the idea that the fog acts as cat feet do‚ in how quiet and sneaky they are. As the poem progresses the reader experiences a mood change from being anxious and not knowing what to expect to a feeling of excitement. This excitement stems from the idea of the cat-like fog ever moving and changing over harbor cities and towns. This means that the stanzas are
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tercets (and couplets‚ in a way) to give the poem a quirky meter which made it more fun and entertaining to read. The first two lines of every stanza were focused on external observations‚ and the last line of every stanza was an italicized‚ internal thought from the narrator. The stanzas were written in this fashion such so that the poem could be read multiple ways and be just as funny and entertaining however it is read. For example‚ if the reader wanted to skip over the italicized lines‚
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William Carlos Williams‚ portrays in writing the painting by Brueghel. The piece depicts the Greek myth of the tragedy of Icarus‚ a boy who flew too close to the sun with wax wings and fell into the sea to his death. The poem has no set rhyme scheme or meter‚ an example of one of Williams’ many free verse poems. After reading the poem many times‚ I started sensing a feeling of insignificance; that the tragic event of Icarus’ death was "quite unnoticed". One factor contributing to this feeling was the
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