Alfred Noyes uses repetition and diction to create suspense in the poem “The Highwayman”. The author uses various examples of repetition and diction. In the story Noyes states, “And the highwayman came riding/Riding-riding-/ The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn door”. This conveys a feeling of fear using repetition. The reader does not know what is going to happen next. In part two, paragraph one, when the redcoat troops seize the landlord’s home, Noyes uses repetition again stating, “A red-coat troop came marching/ Marching-/marching-marching-/ King George’s men came marching, up to the old inn-door”. This conveys that the red-coat troops are attacking the landlord’s home. This leaves the reader wondering what the troop is going to
The figurative language expresses emotions. Words can only classify emotions. However they are unfathomable and can only be expressed through “exaggerations”. To compare one self to the author’s feeling is the only way for the emotion to be understood. The repetition is used to show the struggle of letting go of the past. O’Brien becomes a writer and finds that he can’t let go so easily. He writes stories more than once to find a point in why it haunts him and why he must move on.
Poetry can portray very visual imagery, so sometimes simple attention to the format of the poem can convey a lot, since imaginations are often stirred by a poem’s visual presentation. In, “Looking for a Friend in a Crowd of Arriving Passengers: A Sonnet,” by Billy Collins, the same line, “Not John Whalen.” is repeated continuously on thirteen separate lines throughout the poem, providing a visual display of a single individual waiting for a friend, as disembarking passengers file past him one by one. Through the use of word omission, a three-word, simple sentence structure and repetition, in the poem “Looking for a Friend in a Crowd of Arriving Passengers: A Sonnet,” Billy Collins conveys the understanding that he is searching a crowd.
Dylan Thomas wrote the poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.” It is about a son’s plea to his father who is approaching death. Two lines are repeated in the poem and addressed directly to the father. These lines structure the first stanza and collaborate as a couplet in the last. They are repeated a lot but each time, they have different meanings: statements, pleas, commands, or petitions. Repetition and rhyme scheme are parts of prosody in poetry. The rhyme scheme is built on two rhymes and forms of a pattern. The two rhymes are night and day and the pattern is aba, and in the last stanza, abaa. Even though the poem seems to have too much repetition, the fascinating imagery is more important and readers pay more attention to that instead.
The structure of Hughes’ poem “As I Grew Older,” is unique in a way that it incorporates both complete sentences as well as incomplete sentences with a distinct rhyme scheme. Since there is no rhyme scheme, Hughes uses repetition to help create a rhythm is the poem. In Carrie Perles’ article, she asserts that “The rhythmic repetition of the words ‘rose’ and ‘slowly’ in the lines “And then the wall rose, / Rose slowly, / Slowly / ... Rose slowly, slowly...” help the reader feel the sluggish pace of the wall's rising.” Repetition ties everything together, whether it is the theme or the speaker’s emotions. Repetition also shows how time has gone by, which explains why the poem’s title is “As I Grew Older.” The begi...
“The man with the shotgun opened the gate and sauntered along the line of tellers, handing each of them a Hefty bag.” (pg 571) I think this is a beautiful sentences because it foreshadows what is about to happen and gives you room to wonder. Sometimes not knowing exactly what will happen has a certain beauty in it. I thought, “ Why does he have a shotgun? Why did he decide to use a Hefty bag instead of a duffle bag or something stronger? Was he wearing some sort of disguise?” The word sauntered also made the passage have a sort or urgency.
Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and Jack Kerouac’s On the Road are drastically disparate texts, from theme and tone to content and narrative style. Invisible Man deals with the treatment of black people, while On the Road deals with friends abandoning responsibility to travel America. However, despite these differences these texts share one theme in common. Both texts represent the American Dream as being unattainable for certain people, Invisible Man argues that the traditional American Dream is unattainable for African Americans, which On the Road agrees with subtly through its depictions of minorities. In addition to this, they both share depictions of a postmodern world in which the protagonists have been alienated in some way, Invisible
Some examples of repetition are how the narrator keeps repeating whether or not the narrator thinks he is mad and why. Examples are: “But why will you say that I am mad?” “How, then, am I mad?” “And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but an over-acuteness of the senses?” And so on and so on. Poe also uses punctuation to create pacing, like: “all closed, closed” “slowly, very-very slowly” “Cautiously, oh, so cautiously-cautiously” etc. etc.
In addition to vocabulary, Poe’s use of repetition ensures that his audience will appreciate the deeper meaning of his writing and understand which concepts are important in his stories. In “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the narrator, after stating that he is not insane, goes on to describe “how stealthily, stealthily” (Long) he proceeds when going into of the elderly man and blighting the room with the lantern. The repetition of “stealthily” demonstrates just how sneaky and narrator is, suggesting that he is crazy.
The Traveller has come from a long distance, but we are not told where he has come from or who he is. The Traveller knocks a few times. The poet builds up suspense every time he knocks. When the Traveller knocks the first time, no one answers, but a bird flies up from the turret. This gives the reader a creepy idea that maybe the house is mysterious. The Traveller knocks a secon...
The number of beats and stresses in each line during the poem are scattered, but this serves a purpose by letting ideas flow from one to another. Each idea is connected by using the word “ring” or “ringing.” The overall message of the poem is the constant “ringing” Turner remembers from war experiences affects his everyday life. Turners tone of voice in the beginning of the poem differs from the tone of the voice in end of the poem. In the first couple of lines Turner introduces what the ringing is and why it is constantly in his head. Then towards the end of the poem, Turner uses more vivid language to describe certain images and events he went through to get the constant ringing playing in his mind. For example, in the beginning, words like; “this ringing,” “bullet borne,” and “static,” are used to describe what the ringing represents, and what it can be compared to. Then in the end language like, “muzzle-flash,” and “gravestones,” describe images he remembers from war. The change in the language creates different atmospheres. In the beginning the reader just feels they are reading descriptive language, but the language in the end makes the reader feel they are there in the setting of the poem. This specific structure is important for ideas to flow
Chaos and drudgery are common themes throughout the poem, displayed in its form; it is nearly iambic pentameter, but not every line fits the required pattern. This is significant because the poem’s imperfect formulation is Owen making a statement about formality, the poem breaks the typical form to show that everything is not functioning satisfactorily. The poem’s stanza’s also begin short, but become longer, like the speaker’s torment and his comrades movement away from the open fire. The rhyming scheme of ABABCDCD is one constant throughout the poem, but it serves to reinforce the nature of the cadence as the soldiers tread on. The war seems to drag on longer and longer for the speaker, and represents the prolonged suffering and agony of the soldier’s death that is described as the speaker dwells on this and is torn apart emotionally and distorts his impressions of what he experiences.
The most obvious use of repetition would be the abundant use of Annabel Lee’s name in the poem. The fact that the title of the poem is Annabel Lee, and her name is repeated so often throughout the poem clearly demonstrates just how important and lovely she is to the narrator. The second most prominent use of repetition comes from the lines regarding the “kingdom by the sea” (Poe). Poe constantly reinforces the setting and reminds the reader of its importance in almost every single stanza until near the end of the
The similar rhyme schemes of the two sonnets allow for clear organization of the speaker’s ideas and support these ideas through comparison and connection. Both poems use or essentially use a Shakespearean rhyme scheme to provide rhythm for their sonnets, while adding extra emphasis to the topics presented throughout them. Owen uses the rhyme scheme in a way to stress his description of the enraged scene of the battlefield, and to further the dehumanization of the soldiers at war. The simile used to compare the soldiers to “cattle”, is connected to the fast “rattle” of the rifles, furthering the image of the inhumane way the soldiers we killed (1,3). Owen alters the Shakespearean rhyme scheme in the eleventh line making a switch to create two lines in a row that rhyme, rather than alternating. This allows for a smooth transition in his description of the ritual that marks a soldier’s death. To draw attention to the tears “in their eyes”, which could be in the eyes of the dead soldier or of their brothers at war, they are connected to the “glimmer of good-byes”, to represent the quick mourning for the soldiers (10-11). The connection here is furthered with the use of enjambment at the end of the tenth line; with no grammatical separation, the thought smoothly transitions from one line to the other. On the other hand, Keats uses the exact Shakespearean rhyme
With this being said Heaney uses similes and denotations throughout his poem to put in a sense of tone in the poem to help the readers get a better understanding of what the people were going through when they would see soldiers walking about. According to Dictionary.com (“Simile”, 2016). “A simile is a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared.” This is being used in line 18 where it says “standing there like youngsters” (Heaney, n.d.). This interprets how men working would pause and observe what was going on and the soldiers marching by just like kids would do when they see something remarkable. Heaney also uses Denotation. Which according to Dictionary.com, “Denotation is the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it.” This is being showed in the poem throughout various lines. It’s being showed when he writes, “They would have heard the screaming, / Then heard it stop and had a view of us / In our gloves and aprons / coming down the hill” (lines 6-9), this evokes an image showing that what is being told and said is what is truly happening. That the soldiers were so close to them that they could hear the slightest scream of a pig being
Upon first reading one of London’s most distinguishable feature is the rhythm that is evoked by the closed structure of the poem. London’s text is divided into four stanzas each containing four lines. The four lines in the each stanza follow a pattern of repeated syllable count which features the corresponding lines from each stanza having identical syllable counts. Another structural device that Blake employs is an ABAB rhyming scheme at the end of every line, which is what brings out the poem’s steady beat. Together these structural choices develop a chant-like rhythm that brings out emotion from both side of the poem’s message. On one hand this chant like rhythm creates a feeling of conformity and industry, which is a reflection of the industrial revolution and the power of the government. However, the chant also can be seen as a representation of ...