Therefore, we can conclude that the poem is a riddle in which Yeats ends by asking a question, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? Throughout the poem there are hints to the response to the riddle. Nonetheless, Yeats does not come out right and give the answer to the riddle. He leaves the reader to infer from the hints the answer to his riddle. The loss is a foreseen situation that has not yet occurred as it’s expressed by the last line that ends in question form.
4.1.2 The Structure and Form
The poems structure is written in blank verse, which means that has a consistent rhythm but no rhyme scheme. It has 22 lines divided into two stanzas. However, the second stanza has fourteen lines just like a sonnet. The Rhyme is roughly iambic but in some lines they do not express the iambs. The first line of the first stanza has the word turning stressed which is not the case with iambs. In some lines such as line thirteen, there are over ten syllables. Nonetheless, most of the lines in the poem have around ten syllables. These include the first three line of the first stanza.
The poem has variant feet many like the third foot in the first line which is an unstressed feet and which enhance and emphasize the stresses that follow them. In the first stanza the poet uses metaphors to assess the present state of the world, while the second he has a weird vision that is shadowed by darkness and a rhetorical question based on prophecy on the Second Coming.
4.1.3 The Styles
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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.
Paul Laurence Dunbar is known as one of America’s early and most well-known African American writers. He not only has many published poems, but also short stories, essays, and novels as well. He began writing early in his life, and in 1889 was editor of the Dayton Tattler, a newspaper published by the famed Orville Wright who, with his brother, invented the airplane. Though the newspaper was short lived, for Dunbar to be in such a position as a young African American during this time was a clear sign of his intelligence and talent.
seems as if it is a mad man who keeps on repeating the same thing over and over again. This adds to the dark and madness that seems to be taking place within the narrator’s mind. He seems to be completely crazy by this moment in time. This accompanies the dark and depressive tone of the poem.
“The London clay come in” is also personified, as if it suggests that the clay can come in as if it had a mind of its own. Imagery is also used in the fourth and seventh stanzas. “maggots in his eyes” and “...now his finger-bones Stick through his
The first Line matches with the third and the second matches with the fourth. Only the last words rhyme. “Some keep the Sabbath going to Church —I keep it, staying at Home —With a Bobolink for a Chorister — And an Orchard, for a Dome —” “When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer” by walt Whitman doesn't seem to have a rhyme scheme like this. “324” Also uses metaphors such as “I just wear my Wings” she doesn't actually have wings she's just explaining that she's wearing robe like clothes, and “When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer” doesn't have any type of metaphors at all. Their topics are also different in Dickinson's her topic was that you don't have to go to church to praise your
When a person first hears the title “Oranges” by Gary Soto, they might think that it is about a person on an orange farm or someone that newly discovered oranges. In this poem, the speaker talks about how he had met a girl and they walked until they were at a drugstore, they went inside and he bought her chocolate with a nickel and an orange. They were walking, she was eating her chocolate and he was eating an orange, and they were enjoying their time together. Taking chances can often result in good outcomes. Gary Soto uses similes, metaphors, attitude, and varied stanza structure in “Oranges” to highlight the importance of taking chances.
For the word "Death" also known as in negative term means losses that no one wants to meet with him. He also uses ironic diction. There are three stanzas; six, eight, and ten lines. Including to rhyme scheme throughout each stanza.
As life persists, humans continue to make the same mistakes that we have been making for many years. The poem “Evening Hawk” by Robert Penn Warren is about the continuous errors of humanity, which is forgotten in the past, as death keeps approaching and society progresses. The poet uses imagery, diction, symbolism, and other figurative language devices throughout the poem to convey the dark mood and deeper meaning of history and death in the poem. The poem begins with a beautiful scene of the vast mountains and a hawk flying through it.
Regardless of this, the poem is famous for its unique rhythm and meter of poem. The poem flows very smoothly but does not have a specific poetic foot. Consonances were used to help the rhyme scheme sound more pleasing to readers. The poets diction was exclusive and out of the ordinary.
This is because if the poems had perfect rhyme it would sound like a song. These poems also have significantly different meter. In “O Captain! My Captain!” , the meter is iambic.
He uses many literary elements that include, rhyming, rhyme scheme, and end rhyme. His poems are also not light hearted and funny but are about more serious matters. In his poem “Toast to Dayton” every other line rhymes. For example in “Toast to Dayton” passion rhymes with fashion which is two lines below it, and know rhymes with flow, and flow is two lines below know. In “The Debt” each line rhymes with the next line making every two lines a couplet.
The rhyme scheme is used in every end of word in each stanza for example: " in stanza one pear, ear, year, stanza two, word, bird, hear, stanza three, lug, smug, hug, in stanza four, goes, toes, knows. Every word in each stanza has the same letter in each
The last stanza consists of 12 lines. This is a funeral march and therefore a slower moving stanza which is achieved by the many commas used. The poem is written in chronological
It has an iambic metre and the rhyme scheme is a cross rhyme throughout the poem. The first stanza offers a good insight into the theme of the poem. It is built up on statements which contradict each other. '[Thick] ' (l. 1) and '[thin] (l. 2), for example, are attributes used to illustrate love in comparison to forgetfulness. However, as
For example in stanza five there are two rhyming triplets. The tone of the poem also changes accordingly to the action in the poem, the rhyme, rhythm and measure. At first skeptical, almost discouraging, but after it gains hope. At a point that hope shatters and the tone becomes grave and sorrow. The poem as well as the charge end quietly in a plain stanza, the last stanza which different but still inspirational.