William Wordsworth
(1770-1850)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance
The waves beside them danced; but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee;
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company;
I gazed- and gazed-but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft when in my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my hearth with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
Analysis:
Wordsworth had nature as his religion, and that was the main theme of his work and also a characteristic of romanticism. And it’s also very clear on this poem.
As literary devices, we have Alliteration on the second line of the first stanza, alliteration and assonance on the fifth line of the first stanza and personification on the last line of the first stanza.
On the second stanza, we have a simile on the first line, inversion on the eleventh line and personification on the last line.
On the third stanza, we have assonance, alliteration and repetition of the word “waves” on the first line, and again repetition on the seventeenth line.
On the forth stanza, we have antithesis on the twentieth line and a metaphor on the twenty-first line. We also have alliteration on the last line.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772-1834)
Part II of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The sun now rose upon the right:
Out of the carne he,
Still hid in mist, and on the left
Went down into the sea.
And the good south wind still blew behind,
But no sweet bird did follow,
Nor any day for food or play
Came to the mariners' hollo!
And I had done an hellish thing,
And it would work 'em woe:
For all averred, I had killed the bird
That made the breeze to blow.
Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay
That made the breeze to blow!
Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
The glorious Sun uprist:
Then all averred, I had killed the bird
That brought the fog and mist.
'Twas right, said they, such birds to slay, ...
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...ne shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress
Or softly lightens o'er her face,
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek and o'er that brow
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent.
Lord byron’s poems are colorful, vigorous, with their romantic pictures of castles aned prisions, mountains and sea, involving nature, that is a romantic characteristic. This specific poem is about perfection.
Analysis:
On the first stanza, we have a metaphor and a simile on the first line. On the second line, we have alliteration and assonance. We have antithesis and alliteration on the third line. We have alliteration on the fifth and sixth lines.
On the second stanza, we have antithesis and assonance on the first line. We have alliteration and assonance on the second and third lines and we have alliteration on the fourth, fifth and sixth lines.
On the third stanza, we have repetition on the first and second lines and alliteration on the second line.
Perry Smith did not live the happy childhood that he deserved, abandoned by his family at a young age he was forced to live at a terrible orphanage. “The one where Black Widows were always at me. Hitting me. Because of wetting the bed...They hated me, too.” (Capote 132). In this specific orphanage, Perry was beaten by the nuns that own the place. The short sentences within this quote truly emphasize the dramatic and horrible conditions that Perry had to live with in the orphanage. Sympathy is created ...
The alliteration used is to emphasize rhythm in the poem. On the other hand, the poet also depicts a certain rhyme scheme across each stanza. For example, the first stanza has a rhyme scheme of this manner a, b, c, d, e, a. With this, the rhyme scheme depicted is an irregular manner. Hence, the poem does not have a regular rhythm. Moreover, the poet uses a specific deign of consonance, which is present in the poem (Ahmed & Ayesha, p. 11). The poet also uses the assonance style depicted in the seventh stanza, “Seven whole days I have not seen my beloved.” The letter ‘o’ has been repeated to create rhythm and to show despair in the poem. On the second last line of the seventh stanza, the poet uses the style of consonance, “If I hug her, she’ll drive illness from me. By this, the letter ‘l’ is repeated across the line. The poet’s aim of using this style of Consonance is to establish rhythm in the poem and add aural
It starts off with regular sentence structure describing the trial and her relationship with Perry; “how Perry and [Mrs. Meier] got to know each other real well”(308). Leading up to Perry 's breakdown, it transitions to choppy fragmented sentences describing every detail, when she did not want “to hear him. But [she] could. Crying like a child.”(308) creating a contrasted syntax in the passage. Capote tried to dramatize this breakdown by going from long, detailed to fragmented sentences, increasing the reader’s sympathy for Perry; since it describes him crying in his cell and reaching out his hand for Mrs. Meier to comfort him. When Perry becomes vulnerable towards Mrs. Meier, it humanized him creating more of a sympathetic character that is more understandable and relatable to a certain extent. It creates a softer side to Perry showing that he isn’t a heartless killer, Perry is a convict with a traumatic childhood that shapes his
For example, the metaphor; “Every breaths a gift, the first one to the last” (28). The use of this metaphor is to treat every day and breathing moment of your life as a gift. Therefore, your life should not be taken for granted and it is precious. Another poetic device is this lyric, “I believe that days go slow and years go fast” (27), this line is a form of paradox. This form of poetry is used to explain how the long days contradict the fast years and to cherish them. Life goes by in the blink of an eye, and it could have been wasted by regret, not making amends with people once trusted (forgiveness), and holding resentment. In addition, assonance is used frequently, for example, “I believe most people are good” (7) uses o’s is to elongate the sentence and create a slurred, calm feeling when the chorus is sung. Euphony is used in the lyric; “I believe them streets of gold are worth the work” (14), which creates a harmonious tone. The similar words “worth and work” sound the same so the sentence flows better together creating harmony. Finally, there is rhyming in most of the verses’, one of the examples is; “I believe we gotta forgive and make amends” (3), with “ ‘Cause nobody gets a second chance to make new old friends” (4). The rhyming of “amends and friends” aide the verse to become catchy which helps listeners enjoy the
last, which is four lines. In the first three stanzas, the poem is told in
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.
* This stanza is much shorter than the other 2 and most of the word
Illustrating this in the first line of the poem, Francis Scott Key wrote: “Oh say can you see, by the dawn’s early light” (Matthews). The manner in which it is said, or diction, makes it sound as if it rhymes, when it clearly does not. Diction is the reason the poem is classified as a blank verse poem. Later, when the music was added to the poem, the emphasis creates a rhythm rather than rhyme. Alliteration is another example of speech shown in the “Star- Spangled Banner.”
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According to Lizette Borreli, “ Ninety-one percent of American adults and 60 percent of teens” own a cell phone. This is almost all of America that owns a cellphone. Although it is very common for those with cellphones to text as their primary form of communication, the use of a cell phone when speaking to one verbally can negatively impact the cell phone user’s health. Short-term effects of cellphones include “tissue heating.” This process occurs when a cell phone’s contact to the body transmits its energy into the skin, resulting in a rise in temperature of the organs ("Electromagnetic Fields and Public Health: Mobile Phones." para. 8). Even though this may not lead to immediate negative effects, it degrades the body over time, exemplifying why cell phones not only have (insert) tolls, but physical ones as
All of them have an effect on how the reader understands the meaning of the poem, and how well the poem’s message comes across. Repetition is used in the second and fourth line of Because She Would Ask Me Why I Loved Her, to draw the reader’s attention to those words repeated, and make them value the meaning of the lines that contain that repetition more. The couplet in lines 1-2 says, “If questioning would make us wise /No eyes would ever gaze in eyes”. The repetition is of the word “eyes” and it draws attention to the line; which means if they questioned why they loved each other, they would never look at each other the same way (they would no longer be together). This is a very important message that is carried throughout the poem, which is why the use of repetition is so important. Personification is used in the last line of the first stanza, where it describes kissing as two mouths “wandering”: “No mouths would wander each to each.” This connection between a human action and lips, which cannot actually wander, is a way for the author to describe kissing in a more descriptive way that provides interest and depth to the poem. Assonance is also used to alter the flow of a line, like it does in the first line of the concluding stanza: “Then seek not, sweet, the "If" and "Why"’’. “Seek” and “sweet” both contain the “ee” sound, as well as alliteration, to change how the line flows, and get the reader to read that line in a certain way. Having the lines in a poem flow easily makes it cohesive and complete. Lastly, alliteration is used in this poem to emphasize those words and the meaning of the line they belong to: “For I must love because I live”. That third line in the last stanza has the repeated “L” sound at the beginning of the two most important words in that line, which
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