Imagery, diction, and sound/musical are all essential elements in conveying the poem's meaning. ... Frost's indecisive diction can relate also to sex. ... Through the images, diction, and sound/musical, Robert Frost's theme of Life (on Earth) is probably the best place to engage in sex and not waiting until you go to Heaven, is the true meaning of the poem. ...
The absolutely cruel diction used in the poem describes the intense nature of the relationship the speaker had with the one she once loved through use of literary elements, such as imagery, metaphors, hyperboles, and rhyme scheme. ... She uses diction that gives reader's a clue of the types of emotions the speaker keeps throughout "Daddy". ... Plath uses diction like, "Chuffing me off like a Jew/A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, and Belsen," in order to signify the feelings of helplessness and agony that the speaker felt with her father. ... The diction of "Daddy":...
Humor within the two poems is formed by using an adventurous rhyming scheme, archaic diction, and imagery to further establish Nash's light poetry. ... Nash uses archaic diction to droll the audience into his poetry and adds to his sophisticated light verse as olden-day English is simpler and alliterates well throughout his poetry. ... This is done by using a variety of literary techniques including rhythm, diction, and imagery in his banal-topic poetry. ...
Whystan Hugh Auden greatly contributed to the literary world of the twentieth century with his influential works of poetry, prose, and play writing. Auden's writing style and unusual subject matters were mostly contrived as a result of his travels, political affrications, vast intelligence, experien...
The diction is low throughout, as he keeps his word choice direct and simple, yet very concrete. ... He even manages to incorporate metaphor, simile, and synesthesia into his poem, which also surprised me due to the low diction and simplistic voice in which it was written. ...
Poem description and background information The poem "A World Where News Travelled Slowly" is a rather modern Poem written by Lavinia Greenlaw in 1997. The Poem consists of three verses which each describe a different way in which News travelled from one person to another. They are ordered in mov...
"She Walks in Beauty" - Lord Byron "She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had h...
William Blake was an influential English poet who lived during the Romantic period (mid/late-18th century). Born in 1757, Blake was one of the great poets of this time, creating poetry not only with words, but also by using visual images to provide the reader a unique way of understanding/interpreti...
Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Raven' is a true work of art, taking us on a journey into the mind and psyche of a man who is paranoid and delusional. Poe utilizes key rhetorical devices throughout the poem to help convey the guilt-stricken thoughts of a man, which also contributes to the poem's overal...
As the creator of all things natural, God is responsible for the "leaping greenly spirits of trees- and the "blue true dream of sky- that fascinate and enthrall the speaker.These phrases, found in the first stanza of the poem, show how Cummings uses diction, color symbolism, and imagery to relate to the idea of rebirth.The spirit of a group is the essential nature of that group, the basic feelings and ideas that it holds.Trees are one of the most basic symbols representing nature.Therefore, by thanking God for the "leaping greenly spirits of trees,"" the speaker is showing how much he appreci...
Perhaps the structure and diction of the poem, which Duffy retains incredibly succinct, can be equated to represent the unusual mechanism of time in a dream, and how it seems to lose its normal gist of fluidity in the context of a dream. Duffy's distinctive spacing, meticulous diction and intermittent phrasing can be perceived to represent the intricate concept of time in the poem. ...
Question: Discuss two poets" treatment of similar and different theme(s) in the poems you have studied in the course. "Because I Could Not Stopped for Death" by Emily Dickinson and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost are the poems that I have chosen for this assignment. This es...
William Wordsworth's poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud" is considered one of the best poems in history. The story that the speaker tells in the poem portrays all his emotions brought from nature. He starts by telling that he was wandering like a cloud floating above hills and valleys and then he sa...
To His Coy Mistress- by Andrew Marvell (1621-1678). Analysis of figures of Speech and Poetic Devices. To begin, the title of the poem suggests that it is written by a man to his coy (shy) mistress. The poem is a metaphysical poem expressed in a romantic form, so it could be easily categorized as...
W.H. Auden, the distinguished poet, playwright and author, was of the opinion that "a poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language" (W.H. Auden n. pag.). In his poem "Lullaby" (Auden 29), there is a clear focus on the expression of love. The speaker, who is talki...
