Used – Statement of Intent Poems are mostly used as a way to relieve the stress that comes with our daily lives on earth. It is a way to express thoughts and emotions with the help of figurative language and forms and structures. My poem “Used” is a free verse that conveys a form of stress people face throughout their day. The content, the diction and the rhythm/rhyme found in my poem helps the reader relate to the message. Those poetic elements are the key for the reader to feel the connection of people feeling used through society’s stress. For starters, the content is the first element to build a connection between my message and the reader. When I was writing the poem I intended to get the reader thinking about the stress we face in life. I started the poem with a minor rant to attract the reader’s attention by making them question a few thoughts that come to mind when we think of humanity, our future and the meaning of the things we do in life. We often let people …show more content…
Although, throughout most of my poem there was no rhyme scheme but there were still some special cases where two lines would rhyme in order for the reader to identify the general mood of the specific section: “Hold up, pause take a moment to think/Because it only takes about a moment to sink” the two end rhymes serve to complete each other and portray a link to show the intensity and emotion in that section. Additionally, we see another example of end rhyme with the same intentions. “But still these weights are still on my shoulders/and still at war, wishing you were my soldier.” These end rhymes describe the idea of life being full of battles as I mentioned earlier, that we must fight for everything we desire in life. As I previously touched on, society makes you feel like life is nothing but a smooth ride but it really isn’t in reality everything depends on a level of effort you put
The speaker’s rocky encounter with her ex-lover is captured through personification, diction, and tone. Overall, the poem recaps the inner conflicts that the speak endures while speaking to her ex-lover. She ponders through stages of the past and present. Memories of how they were together and the present and how she feels about him. Never once did she broadcast her emotions towards him, demonstrating the strong facade on the outside, but the crumbling structure on the inside.
The first three stanzas of the poem focus on the content of the relationship and we see the content of it. However, there is a change. The sixth and seventh stanzas describe an event and its consequences.
Rhymes are two or more words that have the same ending sound. Songwriters and poets often times use rhymes to help their piece flow better, or keep the audience or readers engaged. Billy Joel’s song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” is filled with rhymes, with a rhyme in almost every single line: “Brando, the King and I, and the Catcher In The Rye / Eisenhower, Vaccine, England’s got a new Queen / Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye” (line 6-8). Billy Joel uses the rhymes to move from one topic to the next, and the song is even in chronological order from 1950 to 1989. The rhyme schemes of the song are end rhymes as well as perfect rhymes. On the other hand, the poem is completely free verse, or without a single rhyme. This makes the poem less artistic and harder to remain engaged and interested. In addition to rhyming, allusions are another way of displaying artistic
By reading this poem I figured the theme and tone is being tough. “Shit,” “Fuck you,” and “No way Daddy-O...”(line 16 and 17), by what he says and what he does it really makes
The rhyme scheme in “Ajar” is constant and extensive. This might be used to show the “one-in-the-same” aspect, emphasizing the last line in the poem “the woes were words, and the only thing left was quiet” (Stallings 15). This states that the Hope and the silence are the same thing. In “Last Hope”, however, the rhyme pattern isn’t consistent, other than at least one rhyme occurs in each stanza. In the first stanza, the second and third line rhyme with each other and the first and last line are paired as well. In the next stanza, the first two lines rhyme, but the last two do not. Since this poem has to do with the speaker reaching his timely end, this inconsistency represents the inconsistencies of life and how nothing stays the same forever.
In poems, authors always express their ideas, attitudes, experiences, and emotions throughout their poetry to make the audience focus exactly on the author’s thoughts. Many of these are shown throughout Marge Piercy’s poem, “To Be of Use”. Words such as “hard work” and “heavy labour” may have a negative impact on some people, but in this narrators poem, it is the opposite. The poem demonstrates that satisfaction, enjoyment, and self-fulfillment can be succeeded by using one's ability to serve a useful purpose in life. The narrator uses figurative language/rhetorical devices, reflective tone, and structural devices/sound to develop this idea throughout the poem.
For example, in the middle of the poem it states that “Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire”(lines 5-6). This demonstrates again that nature will live on and there is no sympathy for the end of humans. It sticks in the readers mind since the words stick out because of the rhyming. Furthermore, rhyming is also shown through the lines “Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly;” (lines 9-10). Adding in rhymes helps the poem from straying away from being dull. It also emphasizes the theme by making the statement stick with you even after the poem is
The end of each of the above lines has the long 'u' or 'oo' sound but doesn't exactly rhyme with the preceding line or lines. This off-rhyme gives this blues poem more dimension. With precise rhyme, the poem would seem too forced but with this off-rhyme, the true flow of the blues is apparent and works very well. Additionally, the near rhyme of the long 'u' or 'oo' sound reinforces, once again, the sorrowful and melancholy theme of the poem.
Unlike the rest of the poem, these final lines are not ironicthey are serious and sad. But the impact of the plain and simple conclusion is much more effective because of its contrast with the ironic tone which precedes it.
"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal [but] which the reader recognizes as his own." (Salvatore Quasimodo). There is something about the human spirit that causes us to rejoice in shared experience. We can connect on a deep level with our fellow man when we believe that somehow someone else understands us as they relate their own joys and hardships; and perhaps nowhere better is this relationship expressed than in that of the poet and his reader. For the current assignment I had the privilege (and challenge) of writing an imitation of William Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 87". This poem touched a place in my heart because I have actually given this sonnet to someone before as it then communicated my thoughts and feelings far better than I could. For this reason, Sonnet 87 was an easy choice for this project, although not quite so easy an undertaking as I endeavored to match Shakespeare’s structure and bring out his themes through similar word choice.
The use of alliteration, tone, mood, theme and other elements that construct a well balanced poem are in this piece of literature.
The structure of each poem helps to add to the mood. In 'Joining the Colours', the rhythm is lively and regular. The rhyme scheme is also very simple and consistent, following an ABAB scheme. The constant rhythm and regularity of the verses gives the effect of soldiers marching. This is ironic, as although the scene is a jolly one, the rhythm contrasts with the poets feelings of sadness and despair. The rhyme scheme in 'The Send Off' is also very regular, although the lines vary in length and the verses are split into two and three lines. Owen also uses enjambment, which makes the poem feel disjointed and irregular. This shows that although the process of sending the soldiers off is very organized, the underlying feelings of the men are that of uncertainty and false courage. Both poems use short lines at the end of each stanza. This brings attention to these lines, and they are often the lines intended to be thought provoking. Phrases such as 'Into the dark' and 'As ...
Alliteration is a key aspect to how the reader experiences the poem; it especially gives interest toward alliteration of the letter T. This alliteration begins in the very first line “Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-” (1.1). The alliteration on the T is used three times within the first line; however, it does not stop there. Dickinson uses the “T” sound to continually draw back to the theme of truth. Dickinson, through the use of two stanzas, four lines each, uses quite a distinct rhyme scheme to organize her poem. The second and fourth lines of each stanza are clearly examples of end rhyme, by using words such as “lies” (1.2) and “surprise” (1.4). However, every single line is not an example of end rhyme. The first and third lines rhyme words such as “slant” (1.1) and “delight” (1.3); which can be described as near rhymes for they give a small sensation of rhyming. This rhyming pattern continues for the second stanza as well. The sequence of rhyming is not arbitrarily put into practice, rather, it also adds on to the truth theme. The near rhymes Dickinson stresses to not tell the truth in its entirety, but rather, convey a little bit of truth. This is being directly compared to the almost rhyming sensatio...
The fact that there the poem has no stanza divides represents the long and painful road to sleep and the never ending fight with insomnia.
The rhyme scheme changes a few times throughout the poem. Most frequently the reader notices rhyming couplets. These sometimes use the same number of syllables, but they are not in iambic pentameter; they are often 11 or 13 syllables long, or of differing lengths. The poem concludes with a closed couplet: two successive lines that contain a grammatically complete statement, “Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd: / Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.” (497).The final word of each of these lines rhymes each one another. The statement is considered “closed” since its meaning is contained within the two lines, and it is within these two lines that the climax of the poem is