The speaker using a simile to compares the woman to a perfect cloudless, starry night . In the first stanza, he seems to compare the lady’s beauty with natural phenomena such as ‘the night’ (line 1), ‘climes’, ‘skies’ (line 2), ‘light’ (line 5) and ‘heaven’ (line 6).…
In the poem “When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer”, by Walt Whitman, the speaker “[becomes] tired and sick” of the learned astronomer's “proofs, [and] figures” used to observe the stars. While the others attending the lecture applaud the astronomer for his approach to the stars, the speaker, however, exits the lecture hall to enjoy the stars in his preferred method of going outside in the “perfect silence”. These contrasting scenes expose the dichotomous relationship of the speaker’s and the astronomer's approach to observing the stars. The use of structure, diction, and imagery reveal how the astronomer’s approach of observing the stars is far too mechanical and structured to truly see their beauty.…
The Sun is a star. It is a rather ordinary star - not particularly big or small, not particularly young or old. It is the source of heat which sustains life on Earth. Jane Urquhart’s “Shadow” illustrates how important the sun is in people’s lives. Structural device and personification are used throughout the poem with imagery to describe the sun’s importance and its functionality towards humans. These devices work to express a leading understand of how the sun works in our favour and its every human’s personal guardian.…
Frost achieves his purpose of creating a poem which “begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” His use of metaphors, soft alliterations and biblical allusions illuminate the idea that everything beautiful eventually fades…
Both Keats and Longfellow were poets during the Romantic period. The two compose poems in which they reflect on their inability to live up to their creative potential and the idea that death could intervene at any moment. Longfellow is disappointed in his failures and sees comfort in the past rather than an uncertain future. Moreover, Keats fears he won’t accomplish all that he wants, but sees possibility and realizes his grievous goals won’t be important after death. While Longfellow’s tone is fearful, Keats’ is appreciative and hopeful about what life has to offer right now. In both poems, the poets use the literary devices parallelism and symbolism, to depict their particular situation in their own lives, while also using diction with characteristics of romantic poetry, reflecting their time period.…
In the first part of the poem writer personifies the sun (“As if the mighty sun wept tears of joy”), opposing the sun to cold and dead winter. The idea of death is traced throughout the poem. At the very end of the poem Thomas uses different connotations of death, such as “silence” and “darkness”, as if winter is holding back the start of spring and the new life. Also, author is using antonyms as “sang or screamed”, “hoarse or sweet or fierce or soft” to emphasize the contract of spring and winter. Using alliteration (“they sang, on gates, on ground they sang”) and assonance (“hoard of song before the moon”). adds sonority and dynamic to the poem and helps to create an imitation of birdsong. As well, describing winter, writer resorts to the use of metaphor…
Frost uses many examples of allusions in this poem such as, the brightness like that of gold’s reflective dazzle, that becomes dulled with time, and the Biblical paradise of Eden that was lost when Adam and Eve fell from the Creator’s good graces.…
Frost applies a structure and an aspect of imagery to the poem that allows it flow nicely while distinguishing each separate occurrence that the speaker mentions as he/she tells the story. Frost uses assonance as he rhymes "night" with "light," "lane" with "explain," "feet" with "street," "good-bye" with "sky," and "right" with "night" in an ABA rhyming pattern for each three line stanza and an AA pattern for the final two line…
John Keats wrote many poems that had similar themes. Much of his work is considered to be a key part of Romantic Poetry. To understand one of his poems it is necessary to look beyond it to his other works and personal life. One poem worth just such a look is "Ode to a Grecian Urn". This poem contains not only aspects of his writing which are reflected in his other works but some certain stylistic elements that reflect aspects of his personal life.…
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…
Star – the title taken from the conclusion of Thoreau’s Walden (1854). In his 1979…
The second stanza is based on the personification of the sun which at the time would have been a teller of time as to how high it was in the sky. The first line is presenting the…
American Poet, Robert Frost in his beautiful poem, “Nothing Gold can Stay” explains that nothing that is amazing will always continue to be great forever. He develops his message through a series of lines that all have the same meaning. Specifically, Frost uses the surroundings of mother nature to emphasize his point, that all the good and beautiful things in life all fade away at some point. Additionally, in lines three and four “Early leaf’s a flower”, “so an hour.” These two lines are strong in Frost’s poem, it gives meaning by revealing that the leaf’s going to blossom, but vanish with the nick of time. Frost’s purpose is to tell a story; that all things will perish, but good will follow. He illustrates a image in the reader's…
For this poem he uses a near perfect iambic pentameter. This means each line has 10 syllables, which are arranged so that one unstressed syllable is followed by a stresses syllable. For example, the stressed syllables in this line are bold and in italic “I have been one ac-quaint-ed with the night.” The way Frost writes this is very difficult and could account for some of the strange sounding ways that he phrases his lines. Although it is strange, it actually plays a key part in the structure of this poem.…
Other than being a well-known nursery rhyme, basically all the lines in The Star rhyme which I think makes poems easier to remember. Lastly, The Star, for me, is one of those poems that are easy to visualize and visualizing helps the reader get more in depth with the message of author. 2. As I explained in the first paragraph The Star is a nursery…