Poetry is different to everybody else. For many they write poetry as an act of self-expression and for others, they write poetry to store memories and for the excitement of sharing. Many techniques are usually used in poems such as personification, imagery, personification, or onomatopoeia to name a few. This essay will be focusing on two poems, “Storm over Sydney” by John Tranter and “Clark St Bridge” by Carl Sandburg. These texts will describe how poets provide insight into cultures and the Urban World. The poem ‘Storm Over Sydney’ is written by John Tranter. The title tells us that there’s a negative effect hence the name ‘Storm’, however John is happy to watch the beauty of the weather as it seems to have control over Sydney. This poem is mainly about the changing Sydney weather and how poor it is. Significant landmarks are identified throughout the poem such as the Harbour, the Bridge and William St in Kings Cross. They allow us to connect with and have a better understand what’s being said. John has used many different techniques/devices in this poem such as Personification, visual imagery, Adjectives, Adverbs and Onomatopoeia. …show more content…
Describing the rain, lightning and thunder allows us to visualize what is happening – and understand just how bad the weather is. An example of visual imagery that describes the rain can be found in stanza one and is “Blustering over the Harbour, brilliant rain slaps and blathers at the rusty Bridge”. The effect is that is allows the audience to better understand and see the actions occurring. John has also used another technique, which is personification and an example of personification can be found within stanza two and is “The echo whacks the concrete.” The purpose of personification was to describe how hard the ‘echo’ hit the
The realistic adjectives paint a picture that the average person can relate to and understand. As shown from the word choice in The Perfect Storm, the poem is easily seen to evoke more powerful imagery.
During a time of great change, both ideally and physically, in Australian history, a young man by the name of Michael Dransfield made his presence known in the highly evolving scene of poetry. Dransfield was an eccentric character, to say the least, and was recognized for his masterful ability of truly capturing the essence of many of life’s situations. Regardless of the “heaviness” or the difficulties of the subject matter being portrayed throughout his poetry, Dransfield was mentally equipped to fully encompass any life experience and dawn light on some of its “eternal truths” in the world. Although he tragically died of a heroin overdose in 1973 (he was 24 years old), Dransfield made a lasting impression on Australian poetry; never to be forgotten and to be forever considered “one of the foremost poets of the ’68 generation of counter-cultural dreamers” (Chan, 2002).
Good morning/afternoon invited teacher and students. The expressive poem ‘Clancy of the Overflow’ written by the prominent poet Andrew Barton Paterson illustrates the country life of a drover as the ideal lifestyle as it is the beauty and nature of mankind. This poem is extremely critical of city life and seems to only convey the negative aspects that are involved. During this analysis various poetic techniques as well as aesthetic features will be used including suggestive language, alliteration, metaphor and imagery are applied to describe the author’s use of poetic devices and to show how effectively the poet conveyed its messages and the link to Australian diversity.
Usually a storm creeps upon us, hits a luminous climax, and then fades away into nothingness. In The Storm, Kate Chopin develops a parallel between a rainstorm and an emotional storm in a woman’s life. Chopin uses symbolism to depict the feelings of relationships that are as unpredictable as that of a raging storm.
Chopin’s use of setting is a significant element in this story. She uses the description of “The Storm”
In his poem, 'Ode to the West Wind,'; Shelley uses a poignant and heart-rending tone to describe the power of nature and more specifically the wind. Shelley's reference to the wind, as the 'sister of Spring'; and a 'Maenad,'; shows how the wind is like a woman, spontaneous and free, with the liberty to be a gentle soul or a vicious amazon. He sees the wind with wonderment, and at the same time respects it and or even fears it. Shelly not only uses tone to depict his conception of nature, but he goes on to use personification to characterize the strength and vigor the wind possesses. He gives the wind human characteristics by referring to the wind as 'her'; and 'she.'; For example, 'Her clarion over the dreaming earth, and fill (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) With loving hues and odors plain and hill,'; can be paralleled with a woman tending to her garden with love and devotion. Along with a heart-rending tone and personification Shelley uses imagery to d...
...o draw attention to the grotesque images of the poem along with enhancing the restlessness throughout which mirrors the restlessness the people are feeling. Through a lack of imagery of the people, the indifference and crisis of purpose is conveyed along with the harshness of the city. The colours used to describe nature convey nature as being tarnished, that it is no longer pure because of modernisation. Whilst the absence of colour used to describe the city highlights the feeling that modernisation has taken life and vivid beauty from the city. Finally, by use of temporal setting, Thomson conveys how the cities are empty of religion, that these modern cities feel unnatural. Thus, through these techniques, Thomson is able to create a sense of despair and uncertainty towards the modernisation of the city.
People often associate caliginous weather with sorrows and sadness. Rain can be symbolic of tears, and clouds are frequently compared to gloom hanging over our heads. Weather tends to correlate with our emotions, which is what Adrienne Rich points out in her poetry. In the poem “Storm Warnings” by Adrienne Rich, the speaker detects and prepares for a storm. This is a metaphor for the poet’s emotions- she feels emotionally feeble, so she’s preparing for a wave of pessimistic emotions and taking a break. Although “Storm Warnings” is literally about preparing for storms, its deeper meaning is showing how there are often parallels between nature and human emotions and responses to obstacles like loneliness or change.Rich’s successful expression of emotion is shown through personification, repetition, and consonance.
The Storm The title of this story suggests a metaphorical connection between the storm outside and the storm of emotions going on in the individuals Calixta and Alcee. The intensity of their sexual act inside the house follows the pattern of the storm outside. Their passion climaxes and diminishes with the storm. They are left replenished and fresh just like nature.
This essay intends to respond to the statement "Poetry is a form of organised violence committed upon ordinary speech” through the use of poetry by William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound and E.E.Cummings. Using the poems ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’ and the untitled poem ‘poem’ (Williams), ‘In a Station of the Metro’ (Pound) and the untitled poem ‘Poem, or Beauty hurts Mr. Vinal’ (Cummings), this essay will attempt to show that different styles and lengths of poetry, with different subject matter through the use of syntax, typography and other poetic forms all present poetry as “ a form of organised violence committed upon ordinary speech”.
The London Bridge is Falling Down: The Use of Repetition, Symbols, and Connotation in William Blake’s Poem “London”
In stanza two Shelley talks of the effects that the west wind has on a rainstorm. “Angels of rain and lightning there are a spread On the blue surface of thine aery surge, Like the bright hair uplifted from the head,” is a very vivid and colorful use of visual imagery. These lines do a great job of imaginatively taking the reader to the front of the wind to see its power on a storm. ...
Historic poetry is unique in the respect that it gives readers an insight into a certain historic time period that textbooks cannot provide. Historic poetry not only gives a description of the time period but it allows the readers to connect to the emotions of the poet and to a point experience what it would have felt to live in that era. This is the case with William Blake’s poem London. London not only describes the horrid condition of England’s lower class during the industrial revolution but it also connects this description with a strong emotion response from the speaker. Blake’s stylistic and structure choices through out the poem paint a dark and morbid view of London but the emotion of the poem remains divide. The words of the poem’s speaker evokes both sympathy for the lower classes at the same time as he is chastising the people who have the power to change the situation.
Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. It was rated as a Category three storm with winds from 100 to 140 mile-per-hour and stretched about 400 miles across. Katrina itself caused a great deal of damage, but the aftermath was catastrophic. Many cities, like New Orleans, were completely flooded and destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of citizens were out of homes and had no place to go for shelter. Many people lost their lives to Katrina and many more were left to grieve the loss of their family and friends. Katrina should have been one of the worst experiences of my life, but it turned out be one of the best things that could have ever happened to me.
These mythological beings were the servants of Dionysus, and were quite “fierce,” as Shelley states. By comparing the clouds to these beings, he incorporates an aspect of unmanageability. Throughput canto II, the reader may also pick up on a sense of impending doom, created by phrases like “locks of the approaching storm” and “black rain, and fire, and hail will burst.” This is perhaps when the reader is enlightened in regards to how Shelley feels about both his current position and Britain’s. It is possible that this sense of a coming storm is a reflection of the distress Shelley feels about his home country’s predicament during this time period. The ode was written shortly after Peterloo’s Massacre, an event in which 18 innocent civilians were killed while listening to anti-poverty and pro-democratic demonstrations