“The lyric form is characterized by irregular structures, line fluidity, and it appeared to flow smoothly for listeners and lyricists” (Owen, page 559). The focus of the lyric poem was to create a mood for personal feelings and emotions towards life’s sweet pleasures of love and longing. The intricacies of nature parallel the state of mind; this is conveyed through Liu Yong’s lyric to “Joy at Midnight” and Li Qing-zhao’s lyric to “note after note”. Both poets use the imagery of nature as symbols, diction, and literary techniques to describe the emotions that are being expressed in the lyric. Liu Yong’s lyric is characterized by an allure of vivid descriptions, and an elegant portrayal of the atmosphere. By contrast, Li Qing-Zhao’s lyric strays …show more content…
They both share a feeling of sorrow, because they seem to be “wandering aimlessly” and suffered some form of loss. This is supported by the abundant use of a variety of literary techniques to facilitate their lonely outlook on life. An interesting similarity between the lyrics is the mention of a “wild goose”. In Liu Yong’s lyric, he mentions the “wild goose” in the last stanza; “far off the voice of a wild goose”. In Li Qing-Zhao’s lyric, she writes; “the wild geese pass by”. The wild goose can symbolize communication, thus both poets may have lost some form of communication to whomever they were longing for. Lastly, another similarity is the diction used in Li Qing-Zhao’s lyric “two or three cups of weak wine” and Liu Yong’s lyric “by the bank in twos and threes”. This asserts abstractness or creating a sense of abundance and a never ending feeling of sadness. Both poets share aspects of religion, Buddhism, which was the dominant religion and already had integrated into all aspects of social, cultural and political life during the Song era. This is supported by the use of plants associated to Buddhism to describe the state of mind. The common theme during this time in China “was on the separation of those who were already lovers” (Owen, 571). This is evident in Li Qing-Zhao and Liu Yong’s work because they are both lonely and longing to reunite to the ones they love. Although, “it was Liu Yong who began writing lyrics about male longing”; It is noteworthy to see some of the differences and similarities towards how each poet expresses their
...he imagery of the more intensely-felt passages in the middle of the poem. Perhaps the poet is like someone at their journey's end, `all passion spent', recollecting in tranquillity some intimations of mortality?
When I read poetry, I often tend to look first at its meaning and second at how it is written, or its form. The mistake I make when I do this is in assuming that the two are separate, when, in fact, often the meaning of poetry is supported or even defined by its form. I will discuss two poems that embody this close connection between meaning and form in their central use of imagery and repetition. One is a tribute to Janis Joplin, written in 1983 by Alice Fulton, entitled “You Can’t Rhumboogie in a Ball and Chain.” The second is a section from Walt Whitman’s 1,336-line masterpiece, “Song of Myself,” first published in 1855. The imagery in each poem differs in purpose and effect, and the rhythms, though created through repetition in both poems, are quite different as well. As I reach the end of each poem, however, I am left with a powerful human presence lingering in the words. In Fulton’s poem, that presence is the live-hard-and-die-young Janis Joplin; in Whitman’s poem, the presence created is an aspect of the poet himself.
“I Beg of You, Chung Tzu” and “Thick Grow the Rush Leaves” share many similarities. For example, both poems include refrains, a typical element of Chinese poetry in which word phrases are repeated at regular intervals. The refrain, “Chung Tzu I dearly love,” from “I Beg of You, Chung Tzu” and the refrain, “He whom I love,” from “Thick Grow the Rush Leaves” both emphasize the emotions each speaker feel for her beloved. In addition, the poems share the Chinese poetic
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
Notably, sorrow and regret is the tone of this poem, demonstrated in the very first stanza:
The range of poets featured in “Lines to Time” use a variety of poetic devices and writer’s techniques such as symbolism, imagery, alliteration, onomatopoeia, tone, metaphors and humour, to effectively construct an evocative poem.
The speaker begins the poem an ethereal tone masking the violent nature of her subject matter. The poem is set in the Elysian Fields, a paradise where the souls of the heroic and virtuous were sent (cite). Through her use of the words “dreamed”, “sweet women”, “blossoms” and
Li, Bai, and David Hinton. The Selected Poems of Li Po. New York: New Directions Pub., 1996. Print.
Lisa Parker’s “Snapping Beans”, Regina Barreca’s “Nighttime Fires”, John Frederick Nims’ “Love Poem”, and John Donne’s “Song” all demonstrate excellent use of imagery in their writing. All of the authors did a very good job at illustrating how the use of imagery helps the reader understand what the author’s message is. However, some of the poems use different poetic devices and different tones. In Lisa Parker’s “Snapping Beans” and Regina Barreca’s “Nighttime Fires”, both poems display a good use of personification. However in John Donne’s “Song” and John Frederick Nims’ “Love Poem, they differ in the fact that the tone used in each poem contrasts from each other.
The main line that directs the poems feelings is "The wraith of Love's sweet Rose is here, It haunts me everywhere! ". The ghost of "Love's sweet rose" is in my life and mind. The ghost of that rose is in my presents and is with her everywhere she goes.
In this essay, I have chosen two poetry, which I am going to talk about. First poem is full moon” which is in form poem. Second poem is “The Horse who looked at me” which is a free verse poem. This both poetry sound motivating and entertain to me. The purpose of this essay is the contrast the rhyme, stanza and imagery of this both poetry.
The first half of the poems’ images are of life, coming of age, and death.
In the first stanza the speaker standing before an ancient Grecian urn, addresses the urn, preoccupied with its depiction of pictures frozen in time. This is where Keats first introduces the theme of eternal innocence and beauty with the reference to the “unvarnished bride of quietness”(Keats). Because she has not yet engaged in sexual actions, the urn portrays the bride in this state, and she will remain like so forever. Also in the first stanza he examines the picture of the “mad pursuit,” and wonders what the actual story is behind the picture. He looks at a picture that seems to depict a group of men pursuing a group of woman and wonders what they could be doing. “What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and trimbels? What wild ecstasy”(Keats). Of course, the urn can never tell him the whos, whats, and whens of the story it depicts. As the stanza, slowly leads the reader to the series of questions that are asked. The tone of the poem becomes exciting and breathless until it reaches the ultimatum, “wild ecstasy”(Keats). “The ecstasy brings together the pursuit and the music, the human and the superhuman, and, by conveying an impression of exquisite sense-spirit intensity, leads us to the fine edge between mortal and immortal. Where passion is so intense that it refines itself into the essence of ecstasy, which is without passion”(Bate117). Ecstasy is therefore the end of the feelings the poem has lead to reader to feel. Since the urn does not depict anything past the chase itself, the situation is purely innocent with beauty again complying with the theme of eternal innocence and beauty.
Gwendolyn Brook’s “Ballad of Pearl May Lee” came from her book called Street in Bronzeville. This book exemplifies Brook’s “dual place in American literature” (Smith, 2). It is associated with Modernist poetry, as well as the Harlem Renaissance. This book is known for its theme of victimizing the poor, black woman. “Ballad of Pearl May Lee” is a poem that uses tone to represent the complex mood of the ballad. While tone and mood are often used interchangeably, there are differences even though they often work together in a poem. A poem’s mood refers to the atmosphere or state of mind that the poem takes on. This is often conveyed through the tone, which is the style or manner of expression through writing. In this poem, Brooks uses tone to enhance the mood. This paper will shed light on the idea that the mood of the poem is affected by the tone in several ways in order to make the mood inconsistent. Some of the ways that tone does this is by several episodic shifts in the scene of the poem, the repetition of stanzas at the end of the poem, the use of diction, and the change in the speaker’s stance throughout the poem. These poetic techniques enhance the speaker’s current feeling of self-pity and revengeful satisfaction by her mixed emotions associated with this reflection.
I found that throughout this poem there was much symbolism within it. Identifying that it was written in first person form showed that this poem relates to the author on a personal basis, and that it was probably written to symbolize his life. But when talking about people’s lives, you can conclude that people’s lives are generally and individually very diffe...