Essays Tagged: "stanzas"
Innocence lost in William Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper"
y, and then became angry at his father for placing him in such a situation. In the second and third stanzas, I empathized with 'little Tom Darce' and pictured how frightened he must have been because ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
"Daddy"
lee from the memory of her brutal father, who died when she was ten years of age. She employs short stanzas that contain powerful imagery to convey to the reader the oppression she received from her f ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
"Daddy"
lee from the memory of her brutal father, who died when she was ten years of age. She employs short stanzas that contain powerful imagery to convey to the reader the oppression she received from her f ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
This is an essay about how E.E. Cummings uses form in his poems.
esentation of Cummings' work, written in no traditional form. It is 37 lines long, divided into six stanzas of six lines each, and one line standing alone at the end. This poem is unique in that it do ... Like others written in blank verse, this poem contains what are called verse paragraphs. These are stanzas containing varying numbers of lines. In this poem, there are seven of these verse paragraphs ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
"My papa's waltz" by Theodor Roethke
els incapable of any other 'reality', fearing it can and will be worse.The poem is built of four stanzas( quatrain ), each consisting of four lines. The rhyme scheme is, in the first stanza - abab, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Analysis of Two Robert Frost Poems, 'Desert Places' and 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'
t impacts on a person depending ontheir mindset at the time. These poems are both made up of simple stanzas anddiction but they are not simple poems.In the poem 'Desert Places' the speaker is a man wh ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Criticism of "The Indifferent" John Donne
onstancy is a 'heresy' and that 'Love's sweetest part' is 'variety'' (Cruttwell 153). The first two stanzas of the poem seem to be the speaker talking to an audience of people, while the last one look ... speaker talking to an audience of people, while the last one looks back and refers to the first two stanzas as a 'song.' The audience to which this poem was intended is very important because it can d ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Explication of 'Bridge of Sighs' by Edgar Allan Poe includes an excerpt of the poem
ore her sins, and simply admire her beauty and bravery, and pity her bad lot in life.In the first 2 stanzas, each alternating 3- and 2- foot lines with an 'abab' rhyme pattern, the narrator uses a ste ... he body to feel only warmth for this poor girl. These two lines prepare the reader for the next two stanzas, which exhort the discoverer of this cadaver to not focus on 'her mutiny' and sin in suicide ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
A stylistic analysis of A Lyke-Wake Dirge
e is very repetitive, the second and fourth lines are the same in every stanza, and the 1st and 9th stanzas are the same. Also, the entire dirge follows an a,b,a,b rhyme format, meaning the first and ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Anaylsis of Alfred Lord Tennyson's - The Eagle
tain to demonstrate the smallness of man against nature.Tennyson's short poem, consists of only two stanzas, is one of pure imagery. In the first description of the eagle it is digging its talons into ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Analyzing "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke.
e my waking slow. AI learn by going where I have to go. CThis poem by Theodore Roethke contains six stanzas. Each stanza contains three lines (called a tercet), except in the last stanza where there a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Poetry commentary on 'success is counted sweetest' by Emily Dickinson
The rhythmic pattern makes the poem flow together, using the rhyme scheme ABCB in the short, choppy stanzas, like a song. This typical rhyming scheme gives a light affect to the poem; creating the fee ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
The Literature about the Titanic
t in content from that written much later.To begin, the poem "Titanic" by David R. Slavitt has five stanzas. The first one starts off with the sentence "Who does not love the Titanic?". Which of cours ... o take a trip." As you see, reading this may come as a difficulty to some. This folk song has eight stanzas. Although the pronunciation of the song is different, it is found that if you change the mis ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
"A Martian Sends A Postcard Home" by Craig Raine
one actually flying, which is impossible, he notices that they are sometimes in someone's hand. In stanzas five and six the Martian is trying to explain fog. "Rain is when the earth is television / I ... e would look unclear, and cloudy even. Raine simply describes a car as a "Model T," in the next two stanzas. Explaining a car to be "a room with the lock inside," is a very imaginative metaphor. By wr ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Comparative essay between 'Sun and Fun' and 'Devonshire Street W.1' by John Betjeman.
ntent and style. Although the typical indications of Betjeman's work (simple rhyming and structured stanzas) are evident in both, it is obvious to the reader that his intentions for each poem and how ... and alone. Yet in 'Devonshire Street W.1' the dying man takes a grim look to the future and, three stanzas in, questions the justice in him dying a "long and painful" death.It is obvious that these p ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Poem : "Mr. Bleaney" by Philip Larkin - analysed in full
abits, he is in fact a replica of the figure he contemplates and condemns; although in the last two stanzas there is a suggested subconscious dread that he is following in the same footsteps as Mr Ble ... subconscious dread that he is following in the same footsteps as Mr Bleaney.'Mr Bleaney' has seven stanzas, each with four lines, formed with an alternate rhyming scheme. It is written in iambic pent ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
"Poem" and "About this person" by Simon Armitage.
dge them for ourselves.The man in 'Poem' seems to have a split personality. Each of the first three stanzas is made up of four lines - the first three dealing with good things he did and the fourth me ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Lorna Dee Cervantes: "Beneath the shadow of the freeway". An interpretation of the poem
Beneath the Shadow of the FreewayThe form of the poem is not easy to determine. It consists of six stanzas of uneven length, which are, except for the first and fifth, again divided into sub-stanzas. ... hed type of poem and ignores rhyme and meter, but she presents her words graphically in the form of stanzas, in separate but related sections. The six main parts are numbered. It can be assumed that t ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
"A Martian Sends A Postcard Home" by Craig Raine.
s also come in useful when analysing "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home" especially with the last two stanzas being about the metaphysical world of dreams.Raine's unusual world hypothetically assumes a ... gnificant and should it really be that important? In the poem time is so important that the pain of stanzas thirteen to fifteen is an inconvenience rather than a break in proceedings.In stanzas thirte ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Sir Lord Byron's use of the byronic hero.
e in, and the person that he was.The Byronic hero, who is first introduced in 1812 in the beginning stanzas of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, immediately conveys the message to the reader as that of a un ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry