Feb 22, 2019 · C. Determine the theme. D. Determine the tone. I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. Which of these is the best paraphrase of the stanza? A. I put a round jar on a hill in Tennessee, and the jar made the wilderness surround it.
Stanza 1. The speaker opens by admitting that she, "too, dislike [s] it." The "it" she's referring to is poetry, both the title of the poem and its subject. Other things, the speaker says, are more important than "all this fiddle," or nonsense. Yet even those who hate poetry have to admit that when it is "genuine," it can provoke a physical ...
A. The pattern of indented lines connects the ideas from stanza to stanza. B. Each stanza contains a single idea that is unrelated to the ideas of the other stanzas. C. The stanzas have a simple rhyme scheme that emphasizes the rhythm of the poem. D. The length of every line follows the same pattern in each stanza.
The speaker opens by admitting that she, "too, dislike [s] it." The "it" she's referring to is poetry, both the title of the poem and its subject. Other things, the speaker says, are more important than "all this fiddle," or nonsense. Yet even those who hate poetry have to admit that when it is "genuine," it can provoke a physical reaction in the reader.
As is often the case with first-person poems, literary critics and readers generally assume that the speaker of "Poetry" is author Marianne Moore herself. In real life Moore certainly wasn't shy about expressing her opinions about popular poetry. The virtues she extols in "Poetry" could easily describe any of her published works. Like the speaker of the poem, she believed that poetry should be firmly rooted in things that are real.
What the autocrats need to be able to present for others to examine is "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." Only then "shall we have / it": real poetry. Until then, those who demand "the raw material" of genuine poetry can count themselves among those who really are "interested in poetry."
"Poetry" is a syllabic poem. It does not have a set meter that is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables or a rhyme scheme. Rather, it is written to meet certain syllable counts on each line. Moore is generally classified as a syllabic poet—a preference she acknowledged in a 1919 letter to fellow modernist poet Ezra Pound—but later in life she resisted that classification. "I never 'plan' a stanza," she said when asked about the syllabic nature of her poems. In the same interview, however, she conceded that when she found an arrangement of syllables she liked in one stanza, she patterned the others in a nearly identical way. Such is the case in "Poetry."
The jar became powerful though it was just a jar; also, unlike most things in Tennessee, it had nothing in common with nature. (APEX Class ;)
The jar became powerful though it was just a jar; also, unlike most things in Tennessee, it had nothing in common with nature.
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Still speaking about athlete’s death, in the fourth stanza of ‘To an Athlete Dying Young’ the speaker says that since the athlete has died he’s never going to have to be alive to “see the record cut“. This is in reference to the running record that the young man set while he was still alive.
Housman makes use of several literary devices in ‘To an Athlete Dying Young’. These include but are not limited to alliteration, enjambment, and apostrophe. Apostrophe is an arrangement of words addressing someone, something, or creature, that does not exist, or is not present, in the poem’s immediate setting.
In regards to the meter, Housman uses iambic tetrameter in many of the lines of this piece. But, there are moments in which the lines contain more or less than four metrical feet. There are a few examples of catalexis, such as in the first line of the second stanza.
This is quite a common technique in elegies. Alliteration occurs when words are used in succession, or at least appear close together, and begin with the same sound. For example, the “market-place” and “Man” in lines two and three of the first stanza and “runners” and “renown” in line three of the fifth stanza.
There are several important themes to take note of in this poem. These include youth, glory, death, and fear. These are all linked together through the life and death of this young man and the speaker’s contemplation of him. There is an implicit fear of death in the speaker’s depiction of the young man’s early death.
Here's the poem -- to which I've added some line numbers:#N#"President Lincoln's Declaration of Emancipation, January 1, 1863 by Frances E. W. Harper#N#It shall flash through coming a ges,#N#It shall light the distant years;#N#And eyes now dim with sorrow#N#Shall be brighter through their tears#N#It shall flush the mountain ranges, (5)#N#And the valleys shall grow bright;#N#It shall bathe the hills in radiance,#N#And crown their brows with light#N#It shall flood with golden splendor#N#All the huts of Caroline; (10)#N#And the sun-kissed brow of labor#N#With lustre new shall shine.#N#It shall gild the gloomy prison,#N#Darkened by the nation's crime,#N#Where the and patient millions (15)#N#Wait the better-coming time.#N#By the light that gilds their prison#N#They shall see its mouldering key;#N#And the bolts and bars shall vibrate#N#With the triumphs of the free. (20)#N#Though the morning seemed to linger#N#O'er the hill-tops far away,#N#Now the shadows bear the promise#N#Of the quickly coming day.#N#Soon the mists and murky shadows (25)#N#Shall be fringed with crimson light,#N#And the glorious dawn freedom#N#Break refulgent on the sight.
Poets use imagery and words with different connotations and denotations. In a paragraph, define and provide an example of imagery, connotation, and denotation. Then, explain how poets use these elements to contribute to tone in a