Poets spend time working on their craft. Authors labor over minute details and simple subjects to create clear images and meaning. In poems like “Pear Tree”, “Heat”, and “The River Merchant's Wife”, Ezra Pound and H.D. Create images of the changing seasons. “Pear Tree” a story of changing seasons, and “Heat” the personification of a heatwave both use these details and aspects of well written poetry. In “Heat” “The River Merchant's Wife” and “Pear Tree” Pound and H.D. all use language, diction, and details to deliver images of changing seasons and simple meaning. Ezra Pound and H.D. write “Heat” and “Pear Tree” with simple language to create vivid images. Using language that people can understand makes a poem's meaning and images easier to …show more content…
D. uses diction to create changes in mood and develop images in “Pear Tree”, and “Heat”. The words chosen by the author creates clear images and mood changes.This suggests the intent and overall meaning of the poems, these authors choose their words carefully, and provide context to avoid misconstructions in their poems. In “Heat”, H.D. uses intense words like “rend open the heat/ rend it to tatters” (1-3). Repetition of the word “rend” helps depict how the author envisions the heat. Also, making the heat something more than just the temperature. In “pear Tree” word choice helps to describe the change in seasons. Words that describe the previous season and the change create vivid mental images. Describing the snow as “Silver dust/ lifted from the earth” creates an image of snow melting then evaporating into the clouds (1-2). Describing the snow as silver dust simply describes the elegance of winter, comparing with the summer's “ripe fruits/ in their purple hearts” (15-16). The diction used to describe the summer brings life and vibrance into the poem showing a great contrast to the winter's cold colors and dry dust. H.D. uses diction to create simple contrasts within his poems to allow clear images to develop in the
In John Knowles’ novel, A Separate Piece, the main Character, Gene Forrester, has to learn to become friends with his hazardous roommate, Phineas, at his school, Devon, in New Hampshire. The novel is affected by a number of changes, however the largest and most significant change is the change in seasons. In Thomas C. Foster’s novel, How to read literature like a Professor, chapter twenty explains the significance of the seasons. Foster states that, “Summer [symbolizes] adulthood and romance and fulfillment and passion,” while, “ winter [symbolizes] old age and resentment and death.” John Knowles’ book A Separate Peace, all aspects of Summer, Fall, and Winter are excellently represented as explained in Thomas C. Foster’s novel, How to read
Poetry is often created by an author’s need to escape the logical, as well as expressing feelings and other expressions in a tight, condensed manner. Hundreds of poets have impacted society throughout history through phenomenal poetry that, even with dark tones can be emotionally moving.
“Trees of the Arctic Circle” and “Heat” depict nature as having its faults such as the trees being a disappointment in Purdy’s case and the weather being too intensely hot in Lampman’s case but by the end of each poem find clarity is almost essential not only physically but internally. The two works give nature characteristic views as well as personification that differ from 20th century modernist works to impressionist ideals upon nature. Both poems bring out realizations in ones self within coming to terms with shifting out of the negative to a positive and demonstrating that nature is always capable bring out
Poetry is something that is to be read delicately and cautiously if one wanted to find meaning through the words. Readers have to be gentle and patiently ponder about what they are reading in order to find any significance in the poem. If someone is not patient with reading, they will not feel impacted by poetry and will not want to read it. In Billy Collins’, “Introduction to Poetry,” he uses figurative language to help readers see that the way to enjoy and understand poetry is by reading between the lines and being patient with how each individual relates to the readings.
Edna St. Vincent Millay says that “the summer sang in me” meaning that she was once as bright and lively as the warm summer months. In the winter everyone wants to bundle up and be lazy, but when summer comes along the sunshine tends to take away the limits that the cold once had on us. She uses the metaphor of summer to express the freedom she once felt in her youth, and the winter in contrast to the dull meaningless life she has now. There are many poets that feel a connection with the changing seasons. In “Odes to the West Wind” Percy Bysshe Shelley describes his hopes and expectations for the seasons to inspire the world.
Good poetry provides meaningful commentary. One indication of a poem’s success in this is the depth of thought the reader has as a result of the poem. The poems I anthologized may take different
As characters in the poem are literally snow bound, they find that the natural occurrence actually serves a relaxing and warming purpose, one that brings together family. This effect is further achieved through the use of meter throughout the work as a whole. In its simplistic yet conversational tone, the author uses meter to depict the result that nature has forced upon these humans, who are but a small sample size that actually is representative of society that that time. Due to nature, the characters can talk, represented by the conversational meter, and thus, they can bond within the family. A larger representation of this more specific example can be applied to a more general perspective of human’s relationship with the natural world. Although “Snowbound” captures what humans do as a result of nature, it can also represent a larger picture, where nature appears at the most opportune times to enhance relationships from human to human. In “snowbound,” this is symbolized by the fire, “Our warm hearth seemed blazing free” (Whittier 135). This image relays a spirited, warm, mood full of security, which is expertly used by the author to show how fire, a natural phenomena, can provide such beneficial effects on humans. This very occurrence exemplifies how such a miniscule aspect of nature can have such a profound effect on a family, leaving the reader wondering what nature and its entirety could accomplish if used as a
For each seasonal section, there is a progression from beginning to end within the season. Each season is compiled in a progressive nature with poetry describing the beginning of a season coming before poetry for the end of the season. This is clear for spring, which starts with, “fallen snow [that] lingers on” and concludes with a poet lamenting that “spring should take its leave” (McCullough 14, 39). The imagery progresses from the end of winter, with snow still lingering around to when the signs of spring are disappearing. Although each poem alone does not show much in terms of the time of the year, when put into the context of other poems a timeline emerges from one season to the next. Each poem is linked to another poem when it comes to the entire anthology. By having each poem put into the context of another, a sense of organization emerges within each section. Every poem contributes to the meaning of a group of poems. The images used are meant to evoke a specific point in each season from the snow to the blossoms to the falling of the blossoms. Since each poem stands alone and has no true plot they lack the significance than if they were put into th...
In today’s modern view, poetry has become more than just paragraphs that rhyme at the end of each sentence. If the reader has an open mind and the ability to read in between the lines, they discover more than they have bargained for. Some poems might have stories of suffering or abuse, while others contain happy times and great joy. Regardless of what the poems contains, all poems display an expression. That very moment when the writer begins his mental journey with that pen and paper is where all feelings are let out. As poetry is continues to be written, the reader begins to see patterns within each poem. On the other hand, poems have nothing at all in common with one another. A good example of this is in two poems by a famous writer by the name of Langston Hughes. A well-known writer that still gets credit today for pomes like “ Theme for English B” and “Let American be American Again.”
In poems, imagery is used to help get the writers’ message across in a language that is extremely visual. The poet wants
The Tale of the Merchant and His Wife is a medieval tale found in A thousand and One Nights. It is roughly 2 pages long. The story, involving talking animals, is considered a fable. In A Thousand and One Nights, The king finds that his wife is cheating on him and then kills her and her lover. Because he does not want to give any woman the chance to hurt him, he kills them the next day after sleeping with them.
The use of visual imagery in each poem immensely contributed to conveying the theme. In the poem “Reluctance”, Robert Frost used this poetic device to better illustrate the leaves of autumn:
Every love story has its own beginning, and every love story has its own character. Let’s go back in the 19th century and imagine a living as merchant’s life, it must be hard at some point. According to the poem “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” by Ezra Pound is about a young Chinese girl who was a merchant’s wife, the speaker describes her feeling while writing the letter. At the beginning she described her first meeting with her husband, than she writes, how her life changed while her husband was gone for a work at the river. I believe that the poem has very interesting points, which is shown by the lines and at some moments the poem sounds very nostalgic.
To capture this within a poem, with writing, takes a skilled poet and a practiced technique. The language of the poem, every single word is important; it may appear simple but if you were to write a poem without any thought there would in truth be no real meaning to the poem. It is through the expertise of Seamus Heaney that the nature of his poems comes to light and we understand that which we already knew and the meaning of a deceptively simple becomes clear.
“It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see” Mark Doty writes in the opening lines of his book The Art of Description, in which he explores examples of descriptive technique in poetry through analysis of varying pieces; eventually, he reaches some concrete conclusions and valuable lessons on what effective description is and how it functions.