This essay will closely analyse three different poems to highlight how the genre of a poem can shape the poets voice. Each poem has a different story behind it therefore this paper will analyse why the genre of each poem fits the story being told. Genre refers to the style and category of the poem, a structure with which the poet builds their work. Different genres can be used to reflect different emotions, ideas or thoughts. It can be used to emphasis certain aspects of a poem which are important to emphasis. Poets will pick genres which intensify their feelings or make their words more emotive. Elegy, epic, narrative, dramatic and lyric poetry are all classified as a genre. Subgenres inclue sonnets, ode and villanelle. Poetry is a very technical and difficult art to master. A true poet will know which genre to use to emphasis their voice and make it be heard. Genre gives the poet a structure, an outline to build upon. It allows the poet to work within a frame whilst challenging their minds. It gets the best out of the poet. It is technique, tone and content in one. Most of all, it gives the reader an idea of what the poem is.
“The Windhover” by Gerard Manley Hopkins is an example of lyric poetry. This sonnet is dedicated to “Christ our Lord” therefore we can automatically see that it will have a religious theme to it. Hopkins sonnet is written in the Petrarchan style as opposed to the Shakespearean style. Both forms of sonnet were more commonly used to express love for someone therefore it is obvious that Hopkins has moved away from tradition slightly. Although looking closely at the sonnet, it could be said that Hopkins is using the sonnet form and its traditional use for expressing love to express his own love for Christ and...
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...the poets to structure their thoughts and it also adds to the meaning of the poem which can be see in Hopkins' poem “The Windhover”. There is a wide range of genres and subgenres which express a poets thoughts and feelings just as much as the literary techniques they use. The genre is the foundation of a poem. Not all poets stick to the traditions of each genre, they may personalise it or make it irregular in an attempt to make it stand out or to fit what the idea of the poem is. Genre shapes the poets voice by also shaping the point of view and tone of the poem. As readers, we are making an interpretation and getting an impression of the poet and poem whilst looking at the category in which the poem falls in. The category will tell the reader many things which could include theme, form or style. Therefore the poets voice is being shaped and categorised by its genre.
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.”
The paper discusses the sound of the poem and how those certain words, said aloud, help to emphasize the meaning. Looking at the form of a poem in this way gave me a new way of looking at the text and finding the meaning. Personally, I have not had much familiarity looking at the sound of a text, but now see how the sound can be valuable when looking for the meaning of a text. I like to look at the imagery that is utilized in a text because I believe it works well in giving the reader a look into the text and bringing the text to life. What I have discovered reading about the formalist approach is to look at the overall form and how the text itself affects the meaning. Looking at the imagery and symbols helps me personally find the meaning in a text, so learning that the form of the text also can contribute to the meaning was
A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton. This is but one of Webster 's definitions of a poem. Using this definition of “poem,” this paper will compare and contrast three different poems written by three different poets; William Shakespeare 's Sonnets 116, George Herbert’s Easter Wings and Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Whoso List to Hunt.
Poetry is literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feeling and ideas, by the distinctive style and myth. It relies on different devices such as assonance, themes and even the tone to be successful. Even though many poems seems to be different, in some way they have similarities.
In any discussion of poetry vs. prose worth it's stanzas, questions regarding such tools as meter, rhyme, and format must come into play. These are, after all, the most obvious distinguishing features of poetry, and they must certainly be key in determining the definition, and in fact nature, of poetry.
Concrete poetry presents its readers with a unique and often confounding situation. In addition to using language or parts of language in non-traditional ways, concrete poetry also uses elements that are more commonly associated with visual art. However, concrete poetry is not visual art. It is still concerned, primarily, with the use of language, generally to communicate some meaning to the reader in a way that is undeniably linguistic in nature. Concrete poetry is therefore an especially unique genre that draws upon and incorporates many different concepts from a variety of disciplines in order to fill in the gaps left when traditional grammar and syntax are eschewed.
Great works of poetry don’t always make sense at first. They can be over a highly random subject, such as the singing of a bird or the way a woman composes herself, yet they are still great. Some of the most infamous poetry known to today’s modern literary world come out of 19th century England, the Victorian Era. These poets were some of the first to experiment with different themes and rhythms of poetry. “The easy conversational flow of the poem is created by making the regular mid-line pauses ("caesura") the dominant stops of the poem rather than endstopping.” (Tenebris) One of these poets was Robert Browning, who failed to obtain much recognition for his poetry until much later. His determination paid off, as he is now one of the greatest, right up there with Tennyson. The poems My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover, written by Browning, each have a single unique character, yet the characters’ traits seem to echo one another in some ways too.
When writing an explication on “God's Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins, you know you are in for a pretty complex writing. When taking a close look at this poem, you notice it has fourteen lines, making it a sonnet. A sonnet is separated into an octave and sestet. These two are put in different places for the argument in the sonnet. When looking at Hopkins, he usually writes in sprung rhythm, which he is famous for, that is slightly different from the meter of a regular sonnet. In the fourth line, Hopkins goes with a pattern of stressed syllables leading up to the line “ Crushed. Why do men then now reck his rod?”(Hopkins). In similarity, the rhythm of the next line seems to go down, “ Generations have trod, have trod, have trod,” gives us the sense of marching or footsteps.
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It will further deal with the development of tension throughout the poem. By making a distinction between tension through formal aspects, such as rhyme scheme, and tension through content it will try to show the interconnection between both of them. Additionally, the paper will deal with the possible effect of tension on the reader and how the poem might be perceived by him/her.
Poetry has summarized or trampled form to transport emotions and ideas to the person that is reading or listening to the poem. During the poem people possibly will come across strategies such as assonance and repetition to accomplish melodic special effects. Poems normally depend on for their effect on imagery, word association, and the pleasing qualities. Poetry can be single out most of the time from the type of style. Which is the language that is meant to carry out the poetry in a vaster and less summarized way. Normally using more comprehensive practical or description arrangements than poetry carries out the language. This does not technically mean that poetry is unreasonable. It just means that poetry is frequently formed to get away from logic. Also it is created to communicate their feelings and other termi...
The form of a poem can be understood simply as the physical structure. However, there are various aspects that make it up that contribute towards the goals of the poet. I find that the sonnets “When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be”, by John Keats, and “Anthem for Doomed Youth”, by Wilfred Owen, make efficient use of their formal elements to display the depth of the situation of their poems. Keats uses a Shakespearean sonnet structure to organize his thoughts being displayed throughout the poem and to construct them around the speaker’s fear that is the central focus of the sonnet. Owen’s sonnet is a Petrarchan sonnet, although it has a rhyme scheme similar to a Shakespearean, which allows him to display a contrast between the images the
Poetry is a form of written word which has experience created by sound and meaning. It integrates various elements: Imagery; a figurative language which prompts the reader as well as the listener of the poem to create mental images. Poetic choice of words; this is based on the sound that is, denotation and connotation. Denotation refers to the accurate meaning of the word while connotation refers to the intended meaning of a word. The sound is another element of poetry which about the rhyme; words that sound similar or exactly alike in the poem. It employs metaphor which expresses something new and meaning way by way of comparison on unlike things. The theme as the main element is the purpose of the poem. Poetry is tied as an art because of
The Theme of Hopkins' Sonnet, The Windhover. "'The Windhover' is one of the most discussed, and it would seem least understood, poems of modern English literature." These opening words of a Hopkins' critic forewarn the reader of Hopkins' "The Windhover" that few critics agree on the meaning of this sonnet. Most critics do concur, however, that Hopkins' central theme is based on the paradoxical Christian principle of profit through sacrifice. Although most critics eventually focus on this pivotal concept, each one approaches the poem from a different analytical perspective.
Canfield Reisman, Rosemary M. “Sonnet 43.” Masterplots II. Philip K. Jason. Vol. 7. Pasadena: Salem Press, 2002. 3526-3528. Print.