In my 7th grade class I chose the poem Don't You Quit written by an Anonymous poet as the basis for my poem. I think the authors is trying to say even if life is not going well you have to persevere through it and keep fighting, you may rest but you shouldn't quit. The poem is about life being difficult but quitting is not the answer. In this poem there are 4 poetic devices. This poem has “4 stanzas.” Stanzas are when a set of lines are grouped together. The poem is divided into 4 stanzas. Having stanzas in a poem are very common. In this poem there are also multiple metaphors. “ Life is a queer with twists and turns.” This metaphor is in line 7. This is an example of a metaphor. A metaphor is when 2 things are compared without using
In poetry, three things are used to help the reader understand the poem better. These things are syntax, imagery, and connotation.
This poem has used the variety of figurative languages such as rhyme, rhythm, mood and personification. Line two and line four of all three stanzas rhyme. Stanza one says “A dream can grow in
To begin with, the first poetic device in this song is imagery. This poetic device affects the song because certain phrases or words help you to imagine what the song is saying. For example,
8. The personification in the second stanza is also a metaphor. A metaphor compares two unlike things by saying one thing is another
...ke up and have a better one. The meaning you get from reading this poem is just great. It saying be strong and keep moving because tomorrow is another day to have a great day and not all days will be easy and great but you have to remember that every day is a new one to make it better. This poem is a stanza and the tone is mad but just by reading it anyone can understand why.
enable us to understand the moral of the poem. Which is work hard and you will receive you goals and never give up.
While thinking about metaphors, a poem came to mind. It's the one at the beginning of this paper. The poem portrays life as a journey. The road we tread stretches out before us. Around every bend lies a new experience. The adventure is overcoming any obstacles we encounter. Ah, but that is when the fun begins.
In the poem pride, Dahlia Ravikovitch uses many poetic devices. She uses an analogy for the poem as a whole, and a few metaphors inside it, such as, “the rock has an open wound.” Ravikovitch also uses personification multiple times, for example: “Years pass over them as they wait.” and, “the seaweed whips around, the sea bursts forth and rolls back--” Ravikovitch also uses inclusive language such as when she says: “I’m telling you,” and “I told you.” She uses these phrases to make the reader feel apart of the poem, and to draw the reader in. She also uses repetition, for example, repetition of the word years.
The first literary device that can be found throughout the poem is couplet, which is when two lines in a stanza rhyme successfully. For instance, lines 1-2 state, “At midnight, in the month of June / I stand beneath the mystic moon.” This is evidence that couplet is being used as both June and moon rhyme, which can suggest that these details are important, thus leading the reader to become aware of the speaker’s thoughts and actions. Another example of this device can be found in lines 16-17, “All Beauty sleeps!—and lo! where lies / (Her casement open to the skies).” These lines not only successfully rhyme, but they also describe a woman who
By using onomatopoeia, description, and dialogue each poet argues their subject or theme. Although each poet does not write about the same subject or theme they each use the literary device effectively to help support their poem. By using each literary device in different context the poets show the many different styles when writing poetry. Each poet uses the literary devices efficiently to help their overall message in each poem.
The theme of this poem is that although things may be bad , if you keep your head up, and fight everyday for what you believe in, then you can achieve and make the future better. You must leave the past behind you, and you will achieve what you want in the future.
...ur lines each. Each line ends with a vertical line that marks the feet. The rhyme isn't but there is rhyme in this poem like "Me" rhymes with "Immortality" and, farther down the poem, with "Civility" and "Eternity." This poem repeated the phrase, "We passed," which is changed a bit in the fifth stanza to, "We paused." This repetition of a word or phrase throughout a poem is called anaphora. The use of these poetic elements allows the words to flow as they describe an event.
Baugh et al (2006 p47) describe the techniques of imagery and metaphor. Haiku normally contain two or three simple images. Muldoon's poem contains two images, the snowball, with a stone at its core, and the porcelain knob on the metaphorical winter’s door. Issa’s poem contains the images of melting snow, a village and children falling. The first parts of
Stanza three explains what life was like at the farm he lived on, as the previous stanzas have. Line twenty describes the landscape and how beautiful it is. It describes it as Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air,” (20). Lines twenty one through twenty three use more imagery to describe the landscape. They use words such as “lovely and watery” (21) to show how pleasant it was to gaze upon the land. The word “And” is also repeated in the beginning of each of these lines which creates suspense. They also show repetition by repeating words such as “green” and it brings up the starry night again. Line twenty four talks about owls and how they are starting to come out. The day is starting to end and there is still beauty in everything. Now night has begun and all the things that made the day happy and carefree are starting to disappear. Lines twenty five through twenty seven use imagery to show that the moon is appearing and the horses and everything else is disappearing into the night. This begins to show that the youth the speaker is experiencing is starting to
In “Love Poem” Nim uses a metaphor in the first stanza to emphasize his love clumsiness. Frederick says “whose hands shipwreck vases” describing his love as a clumsy and destructive woman. This metaphor specifically compares his love’s hands to shipwreck vases suggesting that her hands are as destructive as storms are to ships. This metaphor can be also classified as a hyperbole. The breaking of a vase is not normally something you would refer to with the term “shipwreck” but this phrase exaggerates the image of the poem. Line two to four are examples of hyperbole. Farris uses imagery in stanza three to portray the speaker’s affection for his “unpredictable dear.” He uses alliteration in this stanza when he says “taxi drivers’ terror” to emphasize the chaos she causes on the road. The poet appears amused by her inconsistency when driving. This can be seen through the contrast he makes between her “shrinking” from traffic one minute and then “leaping” the next. Nims uses this alliteration and imagery to exaggerate his love flaws. Furthermore, more in stanza five Frederick uses personification when he says “your lipstick grinning on your coat” emphasizes her clumsiness. In the second stanza the persona contrasts this clumsiness with objects to her skills in dealing with people. In the last two line of the last stanza the tone changes entirely. No matter how clumsy