... She married a wealthy man and had a daughter named Cleis. She was sent to live in an informal institution for a period of time in order to learn proper social graces, composition, singing, and poetry. Some say that she was ranked as one of the best and most prestigious in that part of Greece, while others disagree (Gregory, 525-52). Some say that she lived an old age, while other say that she leaped from a cliff because of a failed love affair. Many legends and stories have their take on how Sappho lived in her early life, but what we do know is that she became a great poet. She continues to inspire many people today from her works in poetry. All of Sappho’s poetry was written in the Lesbian-Aeolic dialect, which was her native Greek vernacular. Her poetry mimics a distinctive verbal elegance that mirrors the rhymes of natural speech. Her metric from is called Sapphic meter in which there are four lines: three with eleven syllables and the fourth with five syllables. The verses written by Sappho often display her directness, whether she’s writing about nature, the physique of her pupils, or the gods. Most of her poems consist of monodies, which is an ode sung by a single person in a Greek tragedy. Besides this she also composed narrative poetry and religious songs as well (Gregory, 525-52). The lyrics in her love poems often conveyed deeply felt emotion, and were very personal. The speaker in her poems, most likely being herself, conveyed an array of emotional responses. Some...
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...the first the omniscient narrator to inform the reader on the life of the Subject, Rachel Corrie. One can also say that the poem is a lament. Although most possibly the poet and the subject and they are not related and might not have met, the poet uses language full of melancholy to express her sadness at the death of subject describing in details the dreams of Rachel Corrie and how she will not be able to achieve them now. This is apparent in the first two lines of stanza 6. Like every other girl you dreamed Of your tomorrow, that would never come One can also say the poem is an ode. Although it is not formal, it addresses and celebrates the life of Rachel Corrie. However, the poem does not use meter since it a translated poem and is impossible to maintain feature like meter across language (Alabbas et al). The title of the poet uses the time of the poem “Your name is Rachel Corrie” to bring the subject of the poem from the abstract to the forefront of the reader’s mind....
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...constantly attracted to things that are foreign to them. The literary device allegory is very important to this poem. The poem could be seen as a poem a poem about a man simply going to the future and becoming the center of attention because he has been resurrected. However, the poem could also be interpreted as how humans do not see the extraordinary things in the world around them and how they don’t seem to care about their ordinary world. In the poem, the peasant man seems to be sent into the future, where everyone adores him. All the people, “besiege him on all sides,” and take every word from his mouth. They are eager to know everything about him because, to them, he is extraordinary. This relates to real life where humans do not see or care for the average people around them. The peasant, like everyone else, is extraordinary even though they are not usually seen as anything but normal. The poem shows the flaw in humans, where it takes a work for people to see someone in a different light. The rhythm of the poem is also important. When reading the poem, the poem first seems to starts off steady and slow. Then, near line eight, the rhythm of the poem picks up and seems more demanding. The words feel sharp and the come out very fast and emotionally. It feels as if though the poem is taking the words out the reader mouth and is forcing them to understand. Then, as quick as it came, the emotional feeling fades away in the last two lines and instead it all feels calm again. This is...
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...on the prelude, interlude, and postlude • Linear texture with contrapuntal texture on certain areas Poet/Text: • Poetry written by Stephen Foster • The song was written for his wife during their separation and then was published when they got back together Composer: Stephen Foster Date: 1826 – 1864 Song: “Beautiful Dreamer” Melody: • Phrases are fairly short • Range: D4 – F5 Tessitura: Eb4 – Eb5 • Melody is tonal minus the use of the E natural in the melody • Lyric recitative and strophic Harmony: • Song is in the key of Eb major • Primarily tonal and voice hangs with the accompaniment Rhythm: • Tempo is Moderato • In triple compound meter 9/8 • Uses dotted rhythms but not as a stutter rhythm, just as extended notes Accompaniment: • 4 measure prelude, no interlude, and 3 measure postlude • Linear texture • Broken chord accompaniment Poet/Text: • Poetry written by Stephen Foster • The song is about a beautiful woman and her waking up from sorrow and pain to the peace of the words from the poet Composer: Charles Griffes Date:...
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...The poem "Miss Consolation for Emotional Damages" by Laura Kasischke has a uneven stanzas, it was made as a free verse poem. The speaker of the poem is a dramatic persona, because Laura Kasischke in the poem she is refering to everything as an "it," eventhought the "it" could be the poet herself. For example, where it says "It had been born," this gives us a clear personification. The poet in this poem is talking about shame, of how her mother who supposed to be an example for their children she is seen by "the boy next door, who'd seem my mother drunk." But then the poet is talking how she is confused, and it seems like they went to another country where "It couldn't speak the language," she is even more confused. At the end of the poem she is lacking meaning or sense to the new language and ideas that aren't hers but the new county is lifeless and artificial. The tone of the poem is sarcasrtic. There is a social message promoted where it talks about the mother who is drunk, but it could also be a personal message. The poem "Nineteen" by Elizabeth Alexander has four stanzas, and even though she did not end each line with punctuation, each stanza ended in periods. I think this was done to let the reader know she was completing her thought. The speaker of the poem is the poet. In this poem she is speaking of an experience she had when she was nineteen years old.She talked about the things she did and described in detail some of the things that went on while she was in Culpepper...
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...Literary Analysis of “The Road Not Taken” 1920 by Robert Frost COURSE NUMBER: ENGL-102 COURSE TITLE: Composition and Literature SEMESTER OF ENROLLMENT: Summer 2011 NAME: Kevin G. Blascoe ADDRESS: 1031 Bradford Park Road Mount Juliet, TN 37122 Blascoe 2 Kevin G. Blascoe ENGL102 Professor Terri Washer 11 June, 2011 As the world gets older and people reflect the decisions of their lives, there is one thing perfectly clear in each individual: there is no correct interpretation in regard to the choices that each person has thought and acted upon as it relates to their own live’s and circumstances. Outline of Literary Analysis I. Introduction A. General theme and background B. Introduce “The Road Not Taken” C. Re-address thesis statement II. Description of the literal scene and situation 1. Mood 2. Metaphorical or symbolic implications 3. Analysis of title 4. Rhythm patterns 5. Scansion and technical methods 6. Theme and methods used to communicate theme III. Conclusion A. Summary of poet’s existentialistic philosophy Blascoe 3 Life constantly...
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...Ted Hughes poem Hawk Roosting can be interpreted in two very different ways. Firstly, it explores -on a literal level- the hawk celebrating itself and its power and control over nature. Hughes begins the poem by writing ‘I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed’ which comments on where the hawk sits in the food chain; at the top, and also suggests that as well as being the ruler of nature he rules blind. Further down in stanza 3 and 4 Hughes portrays the Hawk as almost godlike as he includes a link with the idea that god creates and is in control of life and death. ‘I kill where I please because it is all mine’ reveals how the Hawk believes he owns and holds everything, including life and death, in his claws. The Hawk sees himself as omniscient and everything else as its prey. Similarly, the lines ‘It took the whole of creation to produce my foot, my feather; now I hold creation in my foot’ (line12) demonstrate how he was created by nature and now he is in control of it. Again in stanza 4, we were told that the Hawk has ‘no sophistry in his body’ meaning that all his actions are justified. How it is his nature to be violent and aggressive (portrayed in the line ‘my manners are tearing of heads’) and that there is no animal above him who could challenge him (portrayed in the line ‘no arguments assert my right’), therefore he has the control to do whatever he likes with out any competition. Finally, the Hawks arrogance is demonstrated mainly in the last stanzas where...
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...Throughout the short 1980 poem “One Art,” writer Elizabeth Bishop approaches the topic of loss with a whimsical, almost satirical mood. She speaks of lost car keys in stanza two, then we see a rapid decline in the “funniness” of the lost items. In stanza three Bishop speaks of losing names, homes, and dreams, all things that people consider dear and try hard to hold onto. In stanza four Bishop talks of losing a precious heirloom, and property that she owned. This stanza suggests that the speaker is in some sort of financial down spiral, but is still speaking with the same light intonation. Stanza six goes yet a step further, and the speaker writes that she has lost whole countries, whole realms that once belonged to her, most likely in a metaphorical...
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...saying, “A darkness was ripped from my eyes” (line 2). The darkness that she is speaking of is the judgment that she places upon this woman in the stall. She first has a closed mind, a disturbed perception if you will, towards the cleaning lady. To say that it “was ripped from my eyes” (line 2) implies that she did attain a better perception of her. The speaker knew that she should not be so judgmental towards this woman and the job she is performing. It is obvious that she understands she should not feel this way when in the second stanza she states, “Disgust argued in my stomach” (line 6). For that feeling to argue, it exhibits her capability to understand. Bewilderment and dismay overcame the speaker. She feels disgusted by what most people consider such a degrading job, yet so displeased with herself for exhibiting such typical judgment. She displays very conflicting feelings. In the fourth stanza she says, “She smiled and I smiled. What kind of nonsense is this” (line 17). Such a selfless exchange of a smile has a great ability to shed light upon a situation. It is nonsense for it to be socially acceptable to place such harsh judgment upon someone, and the speaker no longer wished to...
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...The growing idleness of summer grass With its frail kites of furious butterflies Requests the lemonade of simple praise In scansion gentler than my hammock swings And rituals no more upsetting than a Black maid shaking linen as she sings The plain notes of some Protestant hosanna-- Since I lie idling from the thought in things-- Or so they should, until I hear the cries Of two small children hunting yellow wings, Who break my Sabbath with the thought of sin. Brother and sister, with a common pin, Frowning like serious lepidopterists. The little surgeon pierces the thin eyes. Crouched on plump haunches, as a mantis prays She shrieks to eviscerate its abdomen. The lesson is the same. The maid removes Both prodigies from their interest in science. The girl, in lemon frock, begins to scream As the maimed, teetering thing attempts its flight. She is herself a thing of summery light, Frail as a flower in this blue August air, Not marked for some late grief that cannot speak. The mind swings inward on itself in fear Swayed towards nausea from each normal sign. Heredity of cruelty everywhere, And everywhere the frocks of summer torn, The long look back to see where choice is born, As summer grass sways to the scythe’s design. “A Lesson for This Sunday” from Collected Poems: 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott. Copyright © 1986 by Derek Walcott. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. A Lesson for This Sunday by Derek Walcott The title...
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...popularity and sales of their products worldwide. The advert started with Neymar Jr., a young Brazilian football star talking to his father as he gave him advice before he commenced playing. The advert also featured ordinary people including celebrities getting ready to watch the game around the world. Famous footballers like Luis Suarez, Robin Van Persie and many more were shown preparing for the game as each performed his startup ritual to play in the biggest football tournament...
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...Poetic Merit is how songs could be identified as a poem without the music. A song can have poetic merit if it has end rhymes, allusions, figurative language, and many other elements. With the song that I picked, The Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel, I believe it has the poetic elements of ending rhymes, personification, and how I think they wrote the song about a man accepting his depression. First off, the reason I chose to talk about end rhymes is because when people started to write poetry, it was common end the lines to rhyme with another in a stanza. In The Sound of Silence, each stanza follows a pattern of “AABBCCD.” For instance, the first stanza of the song follows the pattern by ending the lines with “friend...again...creeping...sleeping...brain...remain...silence.”...
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...The poem "Warned" by Sylvia Stults, is a poetic take on the destructive nature of the human race. She uses a rhythmic pattern of the sonnet to describe the beauty of our planet along with the destructiveness that is breaking down nature. The poem is revered as sympathetic to the audience and evokes a sense of compassion and longing for change. It is devastating to hear all the ways people have polluted our once luxurious planet. This poem allows the readers to think more clearly about how to treat our environment. If the people continue this road of self destruction there may not be to much of earth left to cherish. By becoming more aware of the environment and the everlasting consequences of our actions we can begin to take the necessary steps to preserve the wilderness, protect wildlife, and create a better future....
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...Structure The Shakespearean sonnet has 14 lines divided into three stanzas of four lines each and a final couplet. The rhyme scheme can be described as a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g. This predictability and use of a regular pattern is frequently found in older poetry as writers tended to stick to the restrictions of a set format. This poem follows the conventional structure and includes the usual 'turn' at the end - a pair of lines (or couplet) that either shifts the mood or meaning of the poem, or asserts some sort of revelation. Structure The Shakespearean sonnet has 14 lines divided into three stanzas of four lines each and a final couplet. The rhyme scheme can be described as a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g. This predictability and use of a regular pattern is frequently found in older poetry as writers tended to stick to the restrictions of a set format. This poem follows the conventional structure and includes the usual 'turn' at the end - a pair of lines (or couplet) that either shifts the mood or meaning of the poem, or asserts some sort of revelation. Structure The Shakespearean sonnet has 14 lines divided into three stanzas of four lines each and a final couplet. The rhyme scheme can be described as a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g. This predictability and use of a regular pattern is frequently found in older poetry as writers tended to stick to the restrictions of a set format. This poem follows the conventional structure and includes the usual 'turn' at the end -...
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...unities rhythm with geometry. B. Music as my life 1. Music calms me down when I am pressured. 2. It makes me forget my problems and helps my heart heal. 3. Its takes me far away from where I need to be. C. Music as my inspiration. 1. Music can be my inspiration while doing the things that I am supposed to do. 2. Music gives me inspiration and relaxation. 3. Music washes away from the soul the dust o our everyday life. III. Conclusion Our life was full of mystery. We need to find something that can fulfill our life. We have so many things to compare in our life like music. I can say that music is an inspiration to be and as a rhythm. Like in life we’re all different, sometimes we can find people that has the same attitude like ours. We need to know our limitation in life, like in music we need to know the right tone of the song we sing. Janessa Joy Mendoza COMSKI2-SC1 “Music is my Life” Our life was full of mystery. Music is an inspiration to me, my life, and as a rhythm that we can compare in every aspects of our daily life. “ Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances losing and...
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