Poetry Analysis – Daphne Yang (i.e. all the allotted poems from The Pocket Book of Modern Verse) When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer – Walt Whitman The poemWhen I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer has some repetition. In lines 1-4, all the sentences begin with ‘when’ and describe the event of the main character listening to an astronomy lecture. I like the repetition because it successfully provided a hypnotic, soothing rhythm. I also like the phrasing. I like that the poem is one long sentence that starts with “When I heard the learn’d astronomer” and ends with “look’d up in perfect silence at the stars” to describe cause and effect. I like that the poem linearly connects the cause and effect presented in the poem – the cause being listening to the astronomy lecture and the effect being getting sick of the lecture and walking out and enjoying the stars. The title, “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”, helped me understand the poem. It states the inciting event of the poem – listening to the astronomy lecture. In the poem, the main character dislikes listening to the lecture, but does enjoy going out and observing the stars himself. The message of the poem is how learning for the sake of academia may not be as enjoyable as learning for the sake of learning. -- Jabberwocky – …show more content…
The rhyme structure is AABA (ex. know/though/here/snow) in the first two stanzas and AAAA in the last stanza (deep/keep/sleep/sleep). Not only does the rhyme structure contribute to the ease of reading, it contributes to the easygoingatmosphere of the poem. The narrator knows he has responsibilities to be somewhere; however, he’s moving at a steady even pace that isn’t rushed with as few jars in the rhythm as possible. I like that the rhyme structure contributes to this unrushed tone that makes reading the poem very relaxing. (The 8-syllable-per-line iambic rhythm is also really nice and contributes to
The alliteration used is to emphasize rhythm in the poem. On the other hand, the poet also depicts a certain rhyme scheme across each stanza. For example, the first stanza has a rhyme scheme of this manner a, b, c, d, e, a. With this, the rhyme scheme depicted is an irregular manner. Hence, the poem does not have a regular rhythm. Moreover, the poet uses a specific deign of consonance, which is present in the poem (Ahmed & Ayesha, p. 11). The poet also uses the assonance style depicted in the seventh stanza, “Seven whole days I have not seen my beloved.” The letter ‘o’ has been repeated to create rhythm and to show despair in the poem. On the second last line of the seventh stanza, the poet uses the style of consonance, “If I hug her, she’ll drive illness from me. By this, the letter ‘l’ is repeated across the line. The poet’s aim of using this style of Consonance is to establish rhythm in the poem and add aural
In the poem By Watching, Hiram Larew uses signature craft techniques to show the realization that people can regain their conviction in God by conquering the doubt in their mind’s eye.
The death camp was a terrible place where people where killed. Hitler is who created the death camp for Jews. The death camp was used for extermination on Jews. This occurred on 1939 – 1945. The death camps were in the country of Europe. Hitler did all this because he didn’t like Jews and the religions. The book Night is a autobiography written by Elie Wiesel. The poem called First they came for the communist written by Martin Neimoller is a autobiography.
In today's modern world, the use of poetry to communicate and express oneself has become quite rare. One of the main reasons is due to the fact that with such an old style of writing, it is very often hard to understand properly. poetry is indeed difficult to read and hard to understand, but given time, it is a rewarding challenge. Poetry is not only written verse but is used in songs as well. Taken the time to listen to the words of modern songs, you will realise that the lyrics of the song are actually a poem linking modern day music to poetry.
Starlight by Ted Kooser All night, this soft rain from the distant past. No wonder I sometimes waken up as a child. Starlight (“Starlight”) Starlight by Ted Kooser speaks to me. It encourages me to think about how something so common or small can cause pain, or happiness.
The poet expresses a lot of emotion through the imagery that she uses. At the beginning of her poem, we can see a silent frustration, as we read: “do not fool yourself that I have fallen off the face of the earth and/am just another statistical write-off.” She shares how frustrating it is to be ostracized in a class where no one understands her, or makes any attempt to do so, and expresses this through smooth sarcasm. In the education system, Cree students were always expected to drop out, so it made no difference when or how many did drop out, because it was assumed they would all drop out eventually. They assumed that it was either because the Cree people didn’t care about their schooling, or didn’t have the mental capacity to learn, so as a result the staff also failed to care. This naturally, did not make it easy for the Cree students who did care, and who did try their best, and the speaker was also one of these people. She indicates that she is very annoyed with the education system because of all the stereotyping that was happening between students and teachers alike, but also because the classes are extremely boring to her, for she
There is no structured rhyme, rather lines and stanzas flow into each other to form sentences. The words are short and simple, carefully chosen to convey deep sentiments in one or two syllables. For example, Boland writes “And still no page/ scores the low music/ of our outrage” (42-44). None of the words in this stanza are more than two syllables, yet the clipped tone expresses her indignation at the way women have been relegated to second class people over the course of history. There are two symbols that appear throughout the poem, stars and fire.
To begin with, the poem is structured in eight short and concise lines. Each word of the poem is only one syllable, and may indicate that the speaker is not educated. It is
That means that the A lines rhyme, the B lines rhyme, and the C lines rhyme as well. An example of that is displayed in the first six lines of the poem. “Come to me in the silence of the night; / Come to me in the speaking silence of a dream; / Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright / As sunlight on a stream; / Come back in tears, / O memory, hope, love of finished years” (Rosetti). As you can see, Rosetti rhymes night and bright, dream and stream, and then tears and years. That stanza, as well as all of the others, follow the ABAB CC pattern. When it comes to “The Weary Blues”, Hughes uses a different rhyming sequence. As I read Hughes’ poem, the rhyming pattern was hard to pick up. He doesn’t have a certain arrangement that he follows like Rosetti does. Sometimes he rhymes two lines and then has a line or two that don’t rhyme with anything at all. An example of this is presented during the song that is sang in the middle of the poem. “’Ain’t got nobody in this world, / Ain’t got nobody but ma self. / I’s gwine to quit ma frownin’ / And put ma troubles on the shelf’” (Hughes). In this song, self and shelf rhyme, but
When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer is a short poem by Walt Whitman. In this poem the narrator, presumably Whitman himself, describes what happened when he attended a lecture on astronomy. One of its important themes deals with the difference between learning through teachers and text, and actually going through something on your own and experiencing it in first person. It is about the freedom to learn outside the confines of a classroom or lecture hall. The poem suggests that experiencing an event yourself and learning from it is superior to learning from an academic lecture. This is what makes this poem great as it promotes learning visually and from experience rather than being told things that have less value to you as being facts. This reminds of the transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau who believed in experiencing nature. It also represents a good example of Whitman as the poet of democracy. He wrote for everyone, not any sort of elite group. His rejection of the classroom and his grammatical imperfections in the poem can be seen as a statement against items that includ...
Rhythm helps to move the poem along and keep the reader alert, which is exactly what Forbes is doing. Most poets use rhythm by having certain lines rhyme after each other; which gives the poem a wispy sensation, causing the reader to stay intrigued.
In addition, the poem has a climax. The stanzas are arranged in such a way that help to increase the importance within each line. The poet starts with talking about the lesson as an inconsiderable one and ends the poem with such strong words: “This is not the only place such an opportunity has been gathered but it was one place. And you weren’t here.” (Wayman, 38) The poem has no rhyme and is written in prose that brings it closer to an ordinary speech. Somehow, the poem can be seen in a form of a dialogue between a teacher and a
... him due to our own biases. Instead, we should contribute more time and effort to observe carefully before judging someone. Moreover, it also applies to the secondary school’s education system that students only learn through repeatedly memorizing by heart, without thorough understanding. In fact, this poem sheds some light on how we see things; thus, interpret things, introducing the importance of experience.” (Yau)
Since the ancient Roman and Greek period, satirical poems have earned their respect by, to some degree, shaping the humans we have become today. They aim to show us our fault and persuade us to modify and advance our behaviour and nature. One major poem, which highlights this concept, is the 'Hymn Of The Scientific Farmer' by Clive Sansom. Clive Samson, in his poem called the 'Hymn Of The Scientific Farmer,' demonstrates to us his knowledge and awarenes... ... middle of paper ... ...
One thing that I would like to understand more though, is why the author had to or wanted to stare at a lizard while it was sitting in the sun. Even though this is a short poem I enjoyed the reading poem and found the author's situation interesting because he was looking at a lizard and observing it. I feel that the author could have written more than he did about the lizard and looking at instead of keeping it short and simple. The author was able to live in the moment by fully immersing himself into one little thing when he could have others things that could be more