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Monday, February 8, 2010
Popular Techniques
What is a literary device/technique that your poet likes to use? What sort of effect does this device have on a reader? Why do you suppose your poet uses this device/technique?
My poet was John Keats. He had an incredibly hard life with many deaths around him. Despite this, Keats's poems are mostly happy and inspiering. There are a few that are sad and melancholy, but usually they are about the joys in life. One of the common themes that Keats uses is nature. He uses nature to describe human emotions that cannot be explained in only words. By using metaphors, Keats can relate the weather or a flower to human emotions.
For example, if Keats had a sad moment in his life, then he would describe a rainy day and show how sad everything was. In one of his poems, Ode to Fanny, he uses this technique. He is in love with a girl named Fanny, and doesn't want her to leave him. First he describes her as so beautiful by comparing her to different things in nature. He describes her smile as being "As brilliant and as bright" as the sun. Also he says that his emotions are "like an April day". They are all jumbled up and confused with the emotion of love.
My poet was William Wordsworth. He used many different literary devices, but the one that he used a lot was personification. This gives the reader a really clear image of what the author is talking about. It adds a unique quality to something that cannot actually perform the human like action used to describe it. Since nature was one of his favorite topics and nature is around everyone, he used this device to make nature appear more beautiful than anyone else has ever seen it before. He also probably wanted people to stop taking nature for granted, and enjoy how pretty it looks and how wonderful this world really is.
I think that Wordsworth used personification a lot because he wrote about nature most of the time, and plants and flowers and things like that are living, but not in the same way that humans are. Using that specific literary technique made nature look very similar to human life in the way that we act and move, which gives the way you look and percieve nature a whole new meaning. When poets use personification, it is something that every human can understand and relate to because all people move the same way, and it just makes nature look like it has all the same qualities of mankind.
My poet was Edgar Allan Poe. Just like Michelle said with her poet, Poe had tragic life experiences. There were many deaths in his life as well. Now unlike John Keats, Poe was one to write very deep and dark. He filled his poems and short stories with dark images, sad emotions, and strong themes. However, this was the kind of thing Poe was famous for. People knew Poe because he was such a powerful writer.
A literary technique that Poe uses quite well and very often is his use rhyming. The rhyming schemes may be different in some poems, but he still creates a great poem with the use of rhyming. When Poe uses this technique, it acts as the basic technique in his poems. He makes it seem like because of using rhyming, it causes you to use metaphors, similes, alliteration, personification, etc. This is because using the other ones can help make the rhyming scheme go together. So it sort of acts as the starting technique.
This all gives the reader powerful imagery and the ability to feel the emotions put in the poem by Poe.
My poet was Edgar Allan Poe. In his youth, Poe constantly had his heart broken, and much of his poetry and stories had elements of love and heartbreak involved in it. With these elements, his poems were either very melancholy, such as in "The Raven", or "Annabelle Lee", or about the joys of love and relationships, like in "To Helen". In his famous poem, "The Raven", Poe uses personification. The raven in this particular story can talk, maybe because it was taught so, or maybe because the person is possibly delirious over the death of the woman he loves. Either way, poe chose to use the raven as a parrot (no pun intended) to convey what the man was not willing to accept. Eventually, the protagonist accepts, in a way, that his love was dead, and unable to come back in any form. The raven adds an aura of foreboding and horror to the tale, which was the aura poe was trying to create
The poet that I was researching was Pablo Neruda. He was a Chilean poet that was made popular for his amazing love poems. He fell in love a lot but he was also heartbroken. He would write about how much he loved a woman but also how much he missed her. He would sometimes relate woman to beautiful night skies or to shinning stars. This literary technique was metaphors and similes. Another literary technique that he used was personification. He would make the stars in the sky shiver or say that the wind sang. He would use this to compare earth to a female. When he used personification in one of his poems “Tonight I Can Write" he was talking about how much he missed his lover that night. Another technique that he used was irony. He would use irony to make his point stand out, for example in "The Dictators" he was talking about dictators and how gentle they were. I think he used irony to show what he believed in. Literary techniques are great to use because they make the story, poem, or book better and more imaginable.
One literary device/technique that Emily Dickenson likes to use to personification. She uses this in many of her poems. For example, she refers to death as a person in one of her poems. I think she does this to make the poem more interesting and makes you think. It makes you think about what the poem really means and is referring to.
Emily Dickenson also uses symbolism a lot in her poetry. In one poem, "Because I could not stop for death" she refers to different places as different parts of your life. One refers to birth, one middle life, and one death. I think she uses symbolism because it is a way of saying something without saying it straight out. Instead of saying "This is birth" she uses symbols to show it.
Edgar Allen Poe was one of the most technically proficient poets of all time. He employed the use of many different literary devices in order to craft poetry on the highest tier. One of the literary devices he used the most was imagery. The most common use of imagery is Poe’s constant use of night. In almost every Poem where there is a time described, it is described to be night. He uses this in conjunction with descriptively grim words in order to create a desperate and frightening atmosphere in his poems. This is plainly observed in “The Raven” where Poe uses the backdrop of “a midnight dreary” along with descriptive words like “grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous” to depict the image of a desperate, heartbroken man seemingly going insane.
Poe certainly does not limit himself to using only imagery. He uses repetition in almost all of his poems. Through repetition Poe is better able to force his readers to feel a certain way. Take “Annabel Lee” as an example. He repeats the phrase “beautiful Annabel Lee” four times, and the phrase “kingdom by the sea” five times in six stanzas. This ensures the reader will understand how important Annabel Lee was to the narrator, and how they lived a seemingly perfect life. As he continues to repeat these phrases, you begin to understand more and more how much he misses, how much he strives to have Annabel Lee back. He also often uses it to make the narrator of his poems seem insane. Once again, “The Raven” is a prime example of this. He repeats something along the lines of, it is only the wind “and nothing more” six times, and the raven repeats “nevermore” eleven times. He also cries out “Lenore” eight times. He does all of this while talking to a raven in the middle of the night. This uses imagery and repetition to make the narrator seem completely insane.
A literary device that Christina Rossetti uses is personification. In Dream-Land, Rossetti says, "Where sunless rivers weep." She gives the rivers the characteristic of a human to help with the description. This does help describe the wave, and the noise that it made. The other times she uses personification, it helps describe the five senses, and gives you a better understanding of what she's describing. Rhyming is another device Rossetti uses often. When I realize something rhymes, I go back and read it again because it is fun to say. Rossetti most likely did this on purpose so her reader would go back and read the lines again, giving it more meaning to the reader. When you read a line more than once, you think it through and it helps you understand poetry better. Rossetti also uses metaphors and similes. When relating an object to another object, it develops a picture in the readers mind of both objects, and gives a better description. When using both metaphors and similes, Rossetti knows how to relate objects to develop a better understanding of what she is describing. Metaphors and similes are a powerful device to use, and when she uses it, they both help me understand her poetry better. Personification, metaphors, and similes are three devices used by Rossetti that contribute to developing better description. All three she uses successfully, and they help the reader develop a better understanding for whatever she is describing.
My poet was Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. He lived throughout the 20th century. Dr. Seuss wrote many award winning children's books. He liked to use metaphors in the extended form of an allegory.In Geisel's award winning poem, "The Butter Battle Book", there is an extended metaphor for the arms race between Russia and the United States known as the cold war. In this book, there are two groups of people, the Yooks and the Zooks, who are waring because of a silly and insignificant difference, which side you put the butter on your bread. These two groups build bigger and more destructive weapons, untill they both have men perched on the wall between them holding "Bitsy Big Boy-Boomeroos" (a hand held extremely dustructive bomb of some sort). This is all similar to the basics of the cold war, eveb the colors of the clothing of the two nations supports this. One nation wears blue, the color that generally stands for democracy, and the other red, the color associated with communism. Dr. Seuss was a very smart man. He used these allegories about controversies and mishaps, such as usless arms races and industrial pollution, in childrens books. Seuss did this because children are the most impressionable people, and they are our countrt's future. Theodor was trying to keep future generationsfrom making the same mistakes his generation did. He was trying to improve the world one child at a time.
My poet was William Wordsworth. His most easily incorporated technique is his rhyming schemes. They are plentiful and help the poem flow increidly, creating a vast amount of imagery for teh reader to visualise. Wordsworth used hsi rhyiming schemes to make his petry more gentle on the ear, making it sound better to the reader, which in a way would provide a greater understanding. I find it better to understand a poem if it rhymes, just because it sounds better. I think Wordsworth felt the same way, which made his poems a true work of art.
My poet was William Wordsworth. His poems have many literary devices but two stand out the most: rhyme and personification. The rhyming incorporated makes the lines flow and sound nice to the ear. He did that because most of his poems are about nature and how wonderful it is. Personification is used to show the majesty of nature; flowers dance, birds enjoy life, etc. Both rhyming and personification make Wordworth's poem show how magnificent nature really is.
Langston Hughes used many metaphors and similes. In almost every poem, he is comparing something to something else. Sometimes he is comparing feelings to inanimate objects as well as personifying them. Hughes compares dreams to rotting food in one of his more famous pieces.
He takes the emotion and heartache in his life and compares it to simple, daily things like an apple or the sun. Hughes takes something complicated like his childhood and race and makes it as simple as nature or a tree. He portrayed emotion as simply as possible.
My poet Walt Whitman uses a lot of repetition in his poems. He often repeats a line at the end of each stanza or he starts all the lines of the same stanza with the same group of words. In one of his most famous poems he constantly repeats "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" at the end of each stanza. I think he creates this effect of patriotism and importance when he repeats certain lines in his poems over and over again. It gives the reader the sense that what he is talking about is extremely important to him that he has to stress it throughout the poem. When he says "Pioneers Oh Pioneers" it gives the piece of writing a strong patriotic feel and sounds like it tries to inspire and "rally" together the people of America. That is what I think Walt Whitman's main goal is in using repetition. He likes to emphasize what he is talking about but also reach out to the reader and get a reaction that involves being inspired just as he was when he wrote the poem.
The poet I decided to do was Emily Dickinson. She wrote many famous and great poems. However, inside these poems were literary devices and techniques that made the poems even better. Some of the devices Dickinson used quite frequently were rhyming and personification.
These devices, such as rhyming, at times make the reader a little happy. It is fun and most of the time easy to read because it comes right off the tongue.
Personification is also enjoyable to read. It is something that would never be true and so far fetched. For example, the snowflakes dancing through the town. She says it like they are humans.
I believe she uses these techniques or devices because she enjoys writing them and people can sometimes relate to them in many different ways.
My poet Robert Frost uses many different literary devices in his poetry. In one of his poems "Ozymandias", Frost uses irony to describe the desert. In it he states "My works, ye mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains". Frost uses this to show how things can change. He tries to show how quickley things can change. By uses irony, Frost is able to give the audience a much bigger example then just stating it normally.
My poet was T.S. Eliot and he used many literary devices, including personification, imagery, and metaphors. It is the metaphor though that has the greatest usage. As we discussed in class, poetry uses indirect ways of describing things that there are no words for, such as emotions or feelings. By using metaphors in poems such as "The Hollow Men", he can describe the experience of life in death. It can help bring the reader into the world of the poet's mind and how he might want to words to have meaning. I believe Eliot uses this technique because there was a lot of pain and loneliness during the time he wrote this and it would make sense to try to convey that in what he writes. By writing something that relates to hollowness and death, it shows a deep understanding of what he felt and what the poem in itself is trying to say.
My poet Claude McKay often used similes and metaphors in his poetry. His poetry often addressed certain aspects of his society unfamiliar to the white race. In order to protest racism and have the white race understand what the blacks were going through, he used similes and metaphors to compare familiar experiences to unfamiliar ones.
This use of simile and metaphors made the racism and anger blacks feel more real to Caucasians. They are able to relate more the blacks and understand their prospective and point of view. This aspect becomes essential to the main purpose of his poetry; to protest the unfairness and inequality of racism. These literary techniques can form a stronger bond between the two races, and it places him in the position of one of the most significant poets of the Harlem Renaissance.
For the poet project, I researched Robert Frost. His outstanding poetry I think has a lot to due with the techniques that he uses within the poems. A big one that I noticed was imagery. Imagery was found in so many of his amazing poems and I do believe it really impacted the message and moods of the poems.
For example, in Home Burial, he used almost all imagery with the included conversation between the couple that had just lost their son. You can feel as they felt due to the imagery it creates when the wife looks out the grave yard, evidentially seeing her sons grave. Also, in his very popular poem, The Road Not Taken, he uses the imagery of the woods and two roads, to create the message of the choices you take in life.
Robert Frost was an amazing poet and his techniques were very important to his poems.
My poet was Dr. Seuss and as many know, he loves to rhyme. Dr. Seuss uses ryhmes in every single one of his children's books. Rhyming is something that many people associate with poetry automatically, but that is not really the case. Poetry does not have to have rhymes, but Dr. Seuss makes it almost necessary. He uses ryhmes like the Cat in The Cat or I do not like green eggs and ham...Sam I am. Throughout his life as a children's book writer Dr. Seuss was always known for his skill in rhyming.
For my poet project I researched Emily Dickinson. Dickinson used many techniques in her poems to help further connect with her readers. Two of these techniques are rhyming and personification, like Nadine said.
Rhyming adds a nice quality to her poems. Not only is it fun to read aloud, but it lessens the tense atmosphere that her more serious poems create. For example, a poem about death may be depressing, but in my opinion rhyming adds a certain childlike quality to it.
Dickinson uses a lot of personification in her poems. Dickinson does this to really bring her poems to life. It is much more interesting and funny to read about a volcano sneezing then it is to read that the volcano erupted.
A very common literary device that Dr. Seuss uses is rhyming. He uses this in every one of his books, and they are very good. The rhyme schemes that he uses have an amazing effect on the reader. Although the rhymes are so simple, they really are packed with meaning and intense significance. i believe that Dr. Seuss uses these tactics to appeal to all leves of readers. the rhymes are simple so little kids can understand it, and the significance of these lines is at a much more adult level.
My poet was Seamus Heaney, who was known for the great diction in his poetry. The most practical reason as to why Seamus Heaney uses this technique is that he studied language throughout his life and that he was also straight up gifted (having outside of school for his writing). Of course, there are some emotions involved with his writing, like familial tragedies and national-level ethnic tension. A reader familiar with works by Seamus Heaney would likely describe the way he uses his diction as a call that echoes into the annals of the mind. Seamus Heaney, through his language studies and tragedies, creates a thought provoking writing style that clings to the masses.
A literary device that my poet, Robert Frost, liked to used was symbolism. In his poem "Mending Wall", he used symbolism to describe the wall. In the poem, the wall seperated to neighbors, but with symbolism he had it symbolize the seperation we have in society. This device helps the reader relate to the poem, and become more interested in it. Frost liked to use it because he wanted his poems to be relatable and for people to understand them.
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My poet was John Keats. He had an incredibly hard life with many deaths around him. Despite this, Keats's poems are mostly happy and inspiering. There are a few that are sad and melancholy, but usually they are about the joys in life. One of the common themes that Keats uses is nature. He uses nature to describe human emotions that cannot be explained in only words. By using metaphors, Keats can relate the weather or a flower to human emotions.
For example, if Keats had a sad moment in his life, then he would describe a rainy day and show how sad everything was. In one of his poems, Ode to Fanny, he uses this technique. He is in love with a girl named Fanny, and doesn't want her to leave him. First he describes her as so beautiful by comparing her to different things in nature. He describes her smile as being "As brilliant and as bright" as the sun. Also he says that his emotions are "like an April day". They are all jumbled up and confused with the emotion of love.
My poet was William Wordsworth. He used many different literary devices, but the one that he used a lot was personification. This gives the reader a really clear image of what the author is talking about. It adds a unique quality to something that cannot actually perform the human like action used to describe it. Since nature was one of his favorite topics and nature is around everyone, he used this device to make nature appear more beautiful than anyone else has ever seen it before. He also probably wanted people to stop taking nature for granted, and enjoy how pretty it looks and how wonderful this world really is.
I think that Wordsworth used personification a lot because he wrote about nature most of the time, and plants and flowers and things like that are living, but not in the same way that humans are. Using that specific literary technique made nature look very similar to human life in the way that we act and move, which gives the way you look and percieve nature a whole new meaning. When poets use personification, it is something that every human can understand and relate to because all people move the same way, and it just makes nature look like it has all the same qualities of mankind.
My poet was Edgar Allan Poe. Just like Michelle said with her poet, Poe had tragic life experiences. There were many deaths in his life as well. Now unlike John Keats, Poe was one to write very deep and dark. He filled his poems and short stories with dark images, sad emotions, and strong themes. However, this was the kind of thing Poe was famous for. People knew Poe because he was such a powerful writer.
A literary technique that Poe uses quite well and very often is his use rhyming. The rhyming schemes may be different in some poems, but he still creates a great poem with the use of rhyming. When Poe uses this technique, it acts as the basic technique in his poems. He makes it seem like because of using rhyming, it causes you to use metaphors, similes, alliteration, personification, etc. This is because using the other ones can help make the rhyming scheme go together. So it sort of acts as the starting technique.
This all gives the reader powerful imagery and the ability to feel the emotions put in the poem by Poe.
My poet was Edgar Allan Poe. In his youth, Poe constantly had his heart broken, and much of his poetry and stories had elements of love and heartbreak involved in it. With these elements, his poems were either very melancholy, such as in "The Raven", or "Annabelle Lee", or about the joys of love and relationships, like in "To Helen".
In his famous poem, "The Raven", Poe uses personification. The raven in this particular story can talk, maybe because it was taught so, or maybe because the person is possibly delirious over the death of the woman he loves. Either way, poe chose to use the raven as a parrot (no pun intended) to convey what the man was not willing to accept. Eventually, the protagonist accepts, in a way, that his love was dead, and unable to come back in any form. The raven adds an aura of foreboding and horror to the tale, which was the aura poe was trying to create
The poet that I was researching was Pablo Neruda. He was a Chilean poet that was made popular for his amazing love poems. He fell in love a lot but he was also heartbroken. He would write about how much he loved a woman but also how much he missed her. He would sometimes relate woman to beautiful night skies or to shinning stars. This literary technique was metaphors and similes. Another literary technique that he used was personification. He would make the stars in the sky shiver or say that the wind sang. He would use this to compare earth to a female. When he used personification in one of his poems “Tonight I Can Write" he was talking about how much he missed his lover that night. Another technique that he used was irony. He would use irony to make his point stand out, for example in "The Dictators" he was talking about dictators and how gentle they were. I think he used irony to show what he believed in. Literary techniques are great to use because they make the story, poem, or book better and more imaginable.
One literary device/technique that Emily Dickenson likes to use to personification. She uses this in many of her poems. For example, she refers to death as a person in one of her poems. I think she does this to make the poem more interesting and makes you think. It makes you think about what the poem really means and is referring to.
Emily Dickenson also uses symbolism a lot in her poetry. In one poem, "Because I could not stop for death" she refers to different places as different parts of your life. One refers to birth, one middle life, and one death. I think she uses symbolism because it is a way of saying something without saying it straight out. Instead of saying "This is birth" she uses symbols to show it.
Edgar Allen Poe was one of the most technically proficient poets of all time. He employed the use of many different literary devices in order to craft poetry on the highest tier. One of the literary devices he used the most was imagery. The most common use of imagery is Poe’s constant use of night. In almost every Poem where there is a time described, it is described to be night. He uses this in conjunction with descriptively grim words in order to create a desperate and frightening atmosphere in his poems. This is plainly observed in “The Raven” where Poe uses the backdrop of “a midnight dreary” along with descriptive words like “grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous” to depict the image of a desperate, heartbroken man seemingly going insane.
Poe certainly does not limit himself to using only imagery. He uses repetition in almost all of his poems. Through repetition Poe is better able to force his readers to feel a certain way. Take “Annabel Lee” as an example. He repeats the phrase “beautiful Annabel Lee” four times, and the phrase “kingdom by the sea” five times in six stanzas. This ensures the reader will understand how important Annabel Lee was to the narrator, and how they lived a seemingly perfect life. As he continues to repeat these phrases, you begin to understand more and more how much he misses, how much he strives to have Annabel Lee back. He also often uses it to make the narrator of his poems seem insane. Once again, “The Raven” is a prime example of this. He repeats something along the lines of, it is only the wind “and nothing more” six times, and the raven repeats “nevermore” eleven times. He also cries out “Lenore” eight times. He does all of this while talking to a raven in the middle of the night. This uses imagery and repetition to make the narrator seem completely insane.
A literary device that Christina Rossetti uses is personification. In Dream-Land, Rossetti says, "Where sunless rivers weep." She gives the rivers the characteristic of a human to help with the description. This does help describe the wave, and the noise that it made. The other times she uses personification, it helps describe the five senses, and gives you a better understanding of what she's describing.
Rhyming is another device Rossetti uses often. When I realize something rhymes, I go back and read it again because it is fun to say. Rossetti most likely did this on purpose so her reader would go back and read the lines again, giving it more meaning to the reader. When you read a line more than once, you think it through and it helps you understand poetry better.
Rossetti also uses metaphors and similes. When relating an object to another object, it develops a picture in the readers mind of both objects, and gives a better description. When using both metaphors and similes, Rossetti knows how to relate objects to develop a better understanding of what she is describing. Metaphors and similes are a powerful device to use, and when she uses it, they both help me understand her poetry better.
Personification, metaphors, and similes are three devices used by Rossetti that contribute to developing better description. All three she uses successfully, and they help the reader develop a better understanding for whatever she is describing.
My poet was Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. He lived throughout the 20th century. Dr. Seuss wrote many award winning children's books.
He liked to use metaphors in the extended form of an allegory.In Geisel's award winning poem, "The Butter Battle Book", there is an extended metaphor for the arms race between Russia and the United States known as the cold war. In this book, there are two groups of people, the Yooks and the Zooks, who are waring because of a silly and insignificant difference, which side you put the butter on your bread. These two groups build bigger and more destructive weapons, untill they both have men perched on the wall between them holding "Bitsy Big Boy-Boomeroos" (a hand held extremely dustructive bomb of some sort). This is all similar to the basics of the cold war, eveb the colors of the clothing of the two nations supports this. One nation wears blue, the color that generally stands for democracy, and the other red, the color associated with communism.
Dr. Seuss was a very smart man. He used these allegories about controversies and mishaps, such as usless arms races and industrial pollution, in childrens books. Seuss did this because children are the most impressionable people, and they are our countrt's future. Theodor was trying to keep future generationsfrom making the same mistakes his generation did. He was trying to improve the world one child at a time.
My poet was William Wordsworth. His most easily incorporated technique is his rhyming schemes. They are plentiful and help the poem flow increidly, creating a vast amount of imagery for teh reader to visualise. Wordsworth used hsi rhyiming schemes to make his petry more gentle on the ear, making it sound better to the reader, which in a way would provide a greater understanding. I find it better to understand a poem if it rhymes, just because it sounds better. I think Wordsworth felt the same way, which made his poems a true work of art.
My poet was William Wordsworth. His poems have many literary devices but two stand out the most: rhyme and personification. The rhyming incorporated makes the lines flow and sound nice to the ear. He did that because most of his poems are about nature and how wonderful it is. Personification is used to show the majesty of nature; flowers dance, birds enjoy life, etc. Both rhyming and personification make Wordworth's poem show how magnificent nature really is.
Langston Hughes used many metaphors and similes. In almost every poem, he is comparing something to something else. Sometimes he is comparing feelings to inanimate objects as well as personifying them. Hughes compares dreams to rotting food in one of his more famous pieces.
He takes the emotion and heartache in his life and compares it to simple, daily things like an apple or the sun. Hughes takes something complicated like his childhood and race and makes it as simple as nature or a tree. He portrayed emotion as simply as possible.
My poet Walt Whitman uses a lot of repetition in his poems. He often repeats a line at the end of each stanza or he starts all the lines of the same stanza with the same group of words. In one of his most famous poems he constantly repeats "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" at the end of each stanza.
I think he creates this effect of patriotism and importance when he repeats certain lines in his poems over and over again. It gives the reader the sense that what he is talking about is extremely important to him that he has to stress it throughout the poem. When he says "Pioneers Oh Pioneers" it gives the piece of writing a strong patriotic feel and sounds like it tries to inspire and "rally" together the people of America. That is what I think Walt Whitman's main goal is in using repetition. He likes to emphasize what he is talking about but also reach out to the reader and get a reaction that involves being inspired just as he was when he wrote the poem.
The poet I decided to do was Emily Dickinson. She wrote many famous and great poems. However, inside these poems were literary devices and techniques that made the poems even better. Some of the devices Dickinson used quite frequently were rhyming and personification.
These devices, such as rhyming, at times make the reader a little happy. It is fun and most of the time easy to read because it comes right off the tongue.
Personification is also enjoyable to read. It is something that would never be true and so far fetched. For example, the snowflakes dancing through the town. She says it like they are humans.
I believe she uses these techniques or devices because she enjoys writing them and people can sometimes relate to them in many different ways.
My poet Robert Frost uses many different literary devices in his poetry. In one of his poems "Ozymandias", Frost uses irony to describe the desert. In it he states "My works, ye mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains". Frost uses this to show how things can change. He tries to show how quickley things can change. By uses irony, Frost is able to give the audience a much bigger example then just stating it normally.
My poet was T.S. Eliot and he used many literary devices, including personification, imagery, and metaphors. It is the metaphor though that has the greatest usage. As we discussed in class, poetry uses indirect ways of describing things that there are no words for, such as emotions or feelings. By using metaphors in poems such as "The Hollow Men", he can describe the experience of life in death. It can help bring the reader into the world of the poet's mind and how he might want to words to have meaning. I believe Eliot uses this technique because there was a lot of pain and loneliness during the time he wrote this and it would make sense to try to convey that in what he writes. By writing something that relates to hollowness and death, it shows a deep understanding of what he felt and what the poem in itself is trying to say.
My poet Claude McKay often used similes and metaphors in his poetry. His poetry often addressed certain aspects of his society unfamiliar to the white race. In order to protest racism and have the white race understand what the blacks were going through, he used similes and metaphors to compare familiar experiences to unfamiliar ones.
This use of simile and metaphors made the racism and anger blacks feel more real to Caucasians. They are able to relate more the blacks and understand their prospective and point of view. This aspect becomes essential to the main purpose of his poetry; to protest the unfairness and inequality of racism. These literary techniques can form a stronger bond between the two races, and it places him in the position of one of the most significant poets of the Harlem Renaissance.
For the poet project, I researched Robert Frost. His outstanding poetry I think has a lot to due with the techniques that he uses within the poems. A big one that I noticed was imagery. Imagery was found in so many of his amazing poems and I do believe it really impacted the message and moods of the poems.
For example, in Home Burial, he used almost all imagery with the included conversation between the couple that had just lost their son. You can feel as they felt due to the imagery it creates when the wife looks out the grave yard, evidentially seeing her sons grave. Also, in his very popular poem, The Road Not Taken, he uses the imagery of the woods and two roads, to create the message of the choices you take in life.
Robert Frost was an amazing poet and his techniques were very important to his poems.
My poet was Dr. Seuss and as many know, he loves to rhyme. Dr. Seuss uses ryhmes in every single one of his children's books. Rhyming is something that many people associate with poetry automatically, but that is not really the case. Poetry does not have to have rhymes, but Dr. Seuss makes it almost necessary. He uses ryhmes like the Cat in The Cat or I do not like green eggs and ham...Sam I am. Throughout his life as a children's book writer Dr. Seuss was always known for his skill in rhyming.
For my poet project I researched Emily Dickinson. Dickinson used many techniques in her poems to help further connect with her readers. Two of these techniques are rhyming and personification, like Nadine said.
Rhyming adds a nice quality to her poems. Not only is it fun to read aloud, but it lessens the tense atmosphere that her more serious poems create. For example, a poem about death may be depressing, but in my opinion rhyming adds a certain childlike quality to it.
Dickinson uses a lot of personification in her poems. Dickinson does this to really bring her poems to life. It is much more interesting and funny to read about a volcano sneezing then it is to read that the volcano erupted.
A very common literary device that Dr. Seuss uses is rhyming. He uses this in every one of his books, and they are very good. The rhyme schemes that he uses have an amazing effect on the reader. Although the rhymes are so simple, they really are packed with meaning and intense significance. i believe that Dr. Seuss uses these tactics to appeal to all leves of readers. the rhymes are simple so little kids can understand it, and the significance of these lines is at a much more adult level.
My poet was Seamus Heaney, who was known for the great diction in his poetry. The most practical reason as to why Seamus Heaney uses this technique is that he studied language throughout his life and that he was also straight up gifted (having outside of school for his writing). Of course, there are some emotions involved with his writing, like familial tragedies and national-level ethnic tension. A reader familiar with works by Seamus Heaney would likely describe the way he uses his diction as a call that echoes into the annals of the mind. Seamus Heaney, through his language studies and tragedies, creates a thought provoking writing style that clings to the masses.
A literary device that my poet, Robert Frost, liked to used was symbolism. In his poem "Mending Wall", he used symbolism to describe the wall. In the poem, the wall seperated to neighbors, but with symbolism he had it symbolize the seperation we have in society. This device helps the reader relate to the poem, and become more interested in it. Frost liked to use it because he wanted his poems to be relatable and for people to understand them.
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