Andrew Aguilar Judy Kirchner English 5/4/16 Assignment 9 Literature-Written In the poem, “I Heard A fly Buzz” is by Emily Dickinson. It uses the poems meter by using the iambic meter. They made the syllables into 2 syllable parts and have the second syllables they emphasis. She doesn’t really use a rhyme scheme either for this poem. She makes the lines 14 and 16 the only lines rhyme. She uses me and sees at the end and the other lines don’t rhyme at all. She uses imagery in this poem a lot in each stanza. In the first stanza, she says that all she heard was a fly buzzing in a quiet room. In her second stanza she uses imagery as when she takes, her last breathe as when a king first gets his first taste of power. In the third stanza, she tells
Since the poem is a Blues, the phonological structure of the text is of great importance and at the same time it cannot be expected to find many regularities. This assumption can be validated at first glance: There is no veritable rhyme scheme. On the other hand, there two dysillabic internal rhymes {\tql}bunch, hunch{\tqr} (l.1) and {\tql}sputter, gutter{\tqr} (l.2-3). Still the author uses a lot of other sound patterns as for example Alliteration, Consonance, Assonance and Onomatopoeia. For each only one or two examples are given due to their high occurrence.
The poem begins with the narrator describing being alone in the woods. She is being dragged through the water, by a mysterious man which develops the sense of imprisonment. She describes the man’s language as not human and she turned to prayer to find strength.
Throughout the six stanzas of the poem, we identify
There are two words that rhyme with each other: cage and rage. Additionally, the lines, “his wings are clipped and his feet are tied. So he opens his throat to sing” will be repeated in the fifth stanza. The repetition emphasizes and reveals the poet’s feeling of restrictions and her will of seeking for freedom. The third stanza has the most ending rhymes, which are trill, still, and hill.
The rhyming scheme is very evident as fluentuates throughout the poem with lines such as, Hypnotized by you if I should linger. Staring at the ring around your finger. Along with it’s rhyming schemes there’s a bit of alliteration tied up as well, Devil and the
The poem does not really have any kind of a rhyme scheme that I noticed. She is using personification to describe
In the poem, “Dusting,” by Julia Alvarez, the speaker is being rebellious against her mother and wants to do different things than what her mother wants her to do. In the first stanza, the poet writes that the speaker writes her name many times on dusty furniture “each morning” while the mother followed her to dust the furniture and the mess by the girl. This is an example of the speaker rebelling her mother since this is a metaphor meaning that the girl wants to accomplish different things than her mother but her mother keeps on erasing her accomplishments and wants the girl to be just like her. Another evidence in the poem is at the end of stanza two, where the speaker says “But I refuse with every mark to be like her, anonymous.” This phrase
At the end of the second paragraph there is a stanza break from the word “princesses” to “Now I’ve found a quilt” from line 13. This stanza break is significant because it shows the change of tone of the speaker. In the first paragraph one can see a caring tone. Shown when the speaker says “Meema” which shows that the speaker must have really cared for their grandmother in order to call them such a caring name. Then in paragraph 2 there is a change of tone to excitement, shown in line line 14 when it says “ I’d like to die under”.
By now it is no secret that the main theme for both “I heard a Fly buzz” and “Remember” is death. The two writers may use the same theme, they do, however, each have their own way of approaching the subject. Dickinson approaches the subject with calm and coolness, while Rossetti is bursting with emotion. In Dickinson’s poem the speaker seems to be observing what is going on, like she is having a ‘out-of-body experience’. This could also explain why the speaker is, supposedly, the only one to react to the flu buzzing around.
The idea that science is capable of explaining everything in life is rejected here as she says that this world is not the end of the line, that there is something after it that we cannot see. It is “invisible, as music”, meaning something that we cannot physically see, but is always there, something that is noticeable and recognizable to those who care for it. The recognition of this invisible afterlife represents a train of thought that someone who had rejected all forms of spirituality would not follow, indicating that Dickinson’s doubt had not led to her disbelief in a higher power. Despite this, Dickinson, in the dichotomy and contradiction that seemed to represent her neverending consideration of the world around her, also recognized the helpful role of increasing scientific discoveries: Faith is a fine invention
Throughout her poem, “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –,” the speaker of the poem is dying in her deathbed surrounded by loved ones, and how she is experiencing a memory of death and how she is enduring it. As the people at the deathbed are “gathering firm” around her, they are in an understanding that she will die and are waiting for her demised (Dickinson). The “eyes” of the beloved ones were flowing of tears and crying to the dying loved one of the deathbed (Dickinson). Throughout Dickinson’s poem, no happiness is brought upon inside the poem because all that the author sees the theme of death as sadness and
However, toward the end of the third stanza, Wheatley starts to employ a rhyme scheme. Lines twenty-seven through thirty follow an ABAB rhyme scheme, where “divine” (Wheatley 27) and “pain” (Wheatley 29) are paired together and “foe” (Wheatley 28) and “soul” (Wheatley 30) are matched. This more organized structure contrasts with Wheatley’s declaration of herself as an “Ethiop” (Wheatley 28).
This imagery was very well done as it keeps to the tone of the poem and it also functions as imagery that can be very sinister. Another example in the poem to show that she has aged is in stanza 2. “The dress yellowing”, this means that the white wedding dress has turned old become the color yellow. This is one of the biggest clues used in the poem to demonstrate that she has become old, that plenty of time has passed. The literary device used in this example can be also defined as imagery, as we can imagine the dress old, dirty and yellowing as the poem
The first stanza describes the fact that humans aren’t immortal and regardless of how much we radiantly shine, we are overshadowed like the clouds in the
While “subtleties” toward the end of stanza 1 does not really rhyme with “lies” and "eyes," it gives a case of eye rhyme. That is to say, it looks as though it could rhyme with those different words. The writer 's utilization of “myriad”