In his poem, “Epilogue,” Jarman breaks from traditional Shakespearian sonnet from in an ironic way. The first quatrain completely follows sonnet elements in a unique way; there is repetition at the beginning of each line “[t]oday is” (1-4) and in the middle of each of the four lines, “and yesterday is” (1-4). This reputation resembles the repetition of the Beatitudes in the Gospel of Matthew. Jarman then breaks the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean passage in the second quatrain in two lines, “full” and “animal.” These two words may be considered half rhymes, but they provide an inharmonious feeling.…
1. How does the information contained in this statement aid us in our interpretation of poetry? What does it tell us into utterance? How has a previous equilibrium been unsettled? What is the speaker upset6 about?…
As the poem begins, Kinnell begins by using consonance, a technique that is found in music as well as literature. This is found in the first line by his using two words that both start with the letter “L,” love and late. By using this technique, he is creating a common feel between the lines of the poem, helping the reader to feel the same way throughout. This is reminiscent of music because it can be compared to a chorus of a song. When the chorus is repeated, the listener feels the connection between the verses. This repetition is like the glue that holds the entire piece of poetry together. Other examples of consonance are found later in the poem, like “strength” and “squinch” and “splurge.” All…
Travelers among Mountains and Streams is comprised of several design elements. Form, leading lines, and shape. These design elements move the eye throughout the painting in a continuous interaction between the elements. Each section is well balanced and rich in content. The large mountain in the foreground sets the foundation for the painting by serving as a barrier, keeping the viewers eyes from leaving the page. The area showing the travelers moving in the stream sets a sense of motion, engaging the eye to travel through the painting. The grand scale of all the elements inspire the viewer to be transported into the realm of fantasy promoted by Northern Song painters. The painting takes on a naturalistic feel that is derived from the combination of paint, ink, and silk. The people and mules moving through the stream bring a sense of scale to the painting. They are an important element in that they are in direct comparison to the large Mountain. The helps promote the idea that there is something bigger than all of of us and that humans are somehow spiritually connected to the earth. An important idea that Northern Song Artist aspired to communicate through ere work. The painting is done in a realistic approach yet is not set in a specific place further enhancing the dream like quality meant to promote spiritual communication and enlightenment. This interpretation is about the balance between the countryside and mans attempt to conquer it brought to life in the form of a painting by Fan Kuan. In the painting the small humans are engulfed by the enormous mountains giving the effect of unattainability, yet the human spirit to conquering the elements arises out of the need explore. The human and animals traveling through the stream give the…
Rozakis, Laurie. “Chapter 3: Rhyme and Figurative Language.” How to Interpret Poetry. Macmillan. New York: Macmillan, 1995. 28-38. Print.…
In Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, “One Art”, the speaker uses repetition to stress the change of her feelings about loss after she loses someone she really cares about, creates symbolism through material objects to show increasingly greater loss throughout her life, and uses a satirical tone and voice to portray her struggle managing loss.…
In discussion eleven, we were instructed to describe a way to fit poetry in a unit. We were told to name the kind of poetry it was and how we would formatively and summatively assess it.…
The poem is divided into four different parts, consisting of nineteen isometric stanzas. Parts one and two have four stanzas each, part three contains five stanzas and part four contains six stanzas. The stanzas consist almost entirely of description, each part ends when the description yields to speech; part one ends when the reaper whispers, then when the Lady proclaims she is “half sick of shadows”, then when the Lady exclaims that she is cursed, and finally when Lancelot blessed the Lady. Each stanza is made up of nine lines with a rhyming scheme of AAAABCCCB. The “B” in the fifth line always stands for “Camelot”, and the “B” in the ninth line always stands for “Shalott”, with the exceptions of the first and fourth stanza’s in part three. The poem is predominantly in iambic tetrameter, all of the “A” and “C” lines, with the few “B” lines in trimeter. The syntax is also mostly held to a single…
The “Self-Portrait with a bandaged ear” by Vincent Van Gogh and “The Two Fridas” by Mexican painter Kahlo Frida are depicting the artists’ deep hurt and emotional breakdown at losing their special person in life. However, the portrait “The Two Fridas” is representing the artist’s conflicting psychological mind more into details and straightforward than Vincent Van Gogh’s self-portrait “The Bandaged Ear.”…
Shakespeare, William. “Romeo and Juliet”. In: The Norton Shakespeare. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt et. al. London: W.W. Norton & Company. 872-939…
The poem consists of four triplets of free verse. Assonance is used extensively to link elements and unify the poem (e.g. rubber/summer/under, in the first stanza, or stain/decayed, in the third). Alliteration and consonance are occasionally used to echo the sense of the words (hoeing hands - the repetition of the -h- sound suggests effort, while "gutturals of dialect" creates an ugly cluttered effect).…
I would have to say that the art form that I am most familiar with would have to be motion pictures. One of my favorite film producers is Quentin Tarantino which has produce some of my favorite movies of all time like Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill. The way he films his movies is like unlike any other producers ever! He will often start the movie in backwards orders or shuffled as where formally it will start and the begging and end at the end. Also his choices of actors are usually used in the often in many different pictures. He also will give himself roles in the film but sometimes just a back character not always the star of the film.…
Thornborrow, J. (2006) „Chapter 2: Poetic language‟ in Goodman, S. and O‟Halloran, K. The art of…
What I admire about the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop is her combination of precise, imaginative description and thought provoking insight. The poet closely observes and vividly describes the world around her. Her famous eye for detail and original imagery gives her poetry a strong visual quality, drawing the reader into the world she describes. However, what makes her poetry particulary appealing to me is her desire to probe beneath the surface of things. We see how her close observation leads to inner reflection and moments of perception. These moments of perception helps us as readers to get a better understanding of the world in which she lives in. Her poetry is rooted in personal experiences, but has a general universal theme.…
Elizabeth Bishop’s use of language in her poems has allowed readers to grasp a better understanding of feeling in her poetry. During the beginning of Bishop’s career, she was often referred to as a ‘miniaturist’. Her concentration on minor details aided readers in building mental images while reading her poems. By focusing deeply on the description of images, it became easier for readers to understand the emotion and intensity of each line. Often times, Bishop would gain inspiration from the images she witnessed with her own eyes. Several of Bishop’s poems are in fact based entirely off of personal experiences and past memories. Elizabeth Bishop guides the reader through descriptive detail, in order to aid them in fully understanding the feeling of her poetry. In this answer I will examine Bishop’s use of language and how it aids the reader in uncovering the intensity of feeling in her poetry.…