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Esther Sultan #32, Claudia Santander #28. Olga Velasco. English. 14 November 2012. Poetry. Definition of poetry: Typically, poetry entails an imagination of experiences that are expressed through sounds as well as rhythmic choices with the goal of evoking an emotional response. Poetry can be considered a form of literary art that employs appealing language qualities in order to evoke meanings. Being an ancient form, poetry has gone through drastic reinventions over time such that individuals have different meanings when it comes to understanding the nature of poetry. Sound of poetry: In order to induce emotional response, poetry generates different interpretation of words through conventions and forms. Poets use some techniques as resources to convey the meaning of poetry and this involves the skilful use of sound. In this manner, alliteration, rhyme, assonance, rhyme scheme, onomatopoeia, repetition, consonance and rhythm are used to clarify or reinforce the image created in the mind of the reader by the poem. Alliteration is the repetition of sounds that consist of mostly consonants involving stressed syllables in words. Alliteration creates a sound that produces a gratifying effect to the listeners ear. Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickles Peter Piper picked If Peter Piper picked a peck of picked peppers, How many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick? Assonance entails the juxtaposition of similar vowel sounds that end with different consonants in a passage or line. An example of the way assonance provides a vowel rhyme is in the words fate and date.
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And in the air the fireflies Our only light in paradise We'll show the world they were wrong And teach them all to sing along Onomatopoeia involves the formation of words such as clang and whispering, which imitate sounds. It is worth noting that the term can also refer to words whose sounds tend to suggest meaning (Strachan & Terry, 51). Crack an egg. Stir the butter. Break the yolk. Make it flutter. Stoke the heat. Hear it sizzle. Shake the salt, Just a drizzle. Flip it over, just like that. Press it down. Squeeze it flat. Pop the toast. Spread jam thin. Say the word. Breakfasts in. Rhyme is the similarity of sound and this includes the repetition of consonants in alliteration as well as vowel sounds agreement in assonance. Is a pattern of words which contains alike sounds. There was an old owl who lived in an oak The more he heard, the less he spoke The less he spoke, the more he heard Why aren't we like that wise old bird?

Rhythm is a critical component of poetry and it is the progressive or regular pattern of accents that recur in the poem. In simpler terms, rhythm is created when the poet for pleasurable reading organizes sound patterns. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky. Consonance: entails a juxtaposition of similar consonants sounds anywhere with in the words of the poem, not only at the beginning. Example: "Raleigh has backed the maid to a tree As Ireland is backed to England And drives inland Till all her strands are breathless." Language of poetry: Poetry uses figurative language such as imagery, metaphor, hyperbole, simile and personification in order to make the reader to view the world in a different way. Imagery as an aspect of figurative language tends to appeal to the senses. On the other hand, a poet uses a metaphor to present statements that do not make sense literally. Such statements draw sense from the apparent similarities between two objects or when someone is able to understand the connection between two things; for example he has a heart of stone. A simile is the comparison between two objects by using words such as as and like. An example of this is the simile as big as a house. Besides that, personification assigns human characteristics to objects, ideas or animals, for example: happiness nocked the door. Notably, this has a significant effect in the way the reader perceives things. Apart from poetry, personification is also used in fictional literature and childrens books. In addition to that, hyperbole is the use of outrageous exaggeration to illustrate a point, as an example he is a million years old. The form of Poetry: With regard to form of poetry, a poem can either have or lack specific metrical pattern, number of stanzas or rhyme scheme. Poetry is organized into lines based on the metrical feet or a rhyme created at the end of the lines. These lines tend to serve different functions such as, comparing and contrasting thoughts and highlighting tone variation. A group of lines in a poem form stanzas. The number of lines determines the length of the stanza and therefore two lines form a Couplet, three lines form a Tercet while four lines are together known as a quatrain. A meter that is known as the number of syllables that form that line and its rhythm then divides each line.

Lyric poetry is a poem that has one speaker, who expresses thoughts and feelings. In fact, most modern poems are lyric. Besides that, a narrative poem tells a story and its structure and plot are similar to those of a story. It has an introduction, a climax created by rising action and the conclusion. Additionally, a descriptive poem is more inclined to describing the world surrounding the speaker. This means that a descriptive poem is more outward-focused since it employs more elaborate adjectives. Meaning of poetry: Poetry readers, in essence, often have many related assumptions. Some believe that a poem must convey a message, that the message of the poem is hidden, that the poem is understood through the understanding of symbols and that it is crucial to interpret every word in order to appreciate the poem. The visual appearance of a poem tends to add meaning and consequently poets strive to create associations that accentuate meaning. Poem and its analysis: There was a rose that faded young; I saw its shattered beauty hung Upon a broken stem. I heard them say, "What need to care With roses budding everywhere?" I did not answer them. There was a bird, brought down to die; They said, "A hundred fill the skyWhat reason to be sad?" There was a girl, whose lover fled; I did not wait, the while they said, "There's many another lad."

The short poem Solace by Dorothy Parker is about an individual who faces situations of a terrible nature. The author uses diction, irony, parallelism, and symbolism to create a metaphorical tale. Instead of the reader being introduced to the sympathy many individuals go through during misfortunes, the poet creates a tale of carelessness and
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coldness. She begins by writing about a rose, and then moves to a bird and eventually a deserted girl. This shows how she uses symbolism to indicate that fate is unfair and affects plants, animals and human beings. The poem also uses literary devices of rhyme, alliteration and mood to create a sense of hopelessness. Rhyme is used in the words young and hung , sad, fled, said and lad. Personification is reflected in line 2 verse 1 when she says, I saw to indicate firsthand experience of the issue. The poem is written in a sixains stanza, the meter in line 1,2 and 4 is iambic hexameter; in line 5 iambic pentameter and in line 3 and 6 dimeter. The rhyme scheme is AABCCB DDEFFE also known as bridges .In line 3 verse 2, the narrator asks what reason to be sad? as rhetoric that helps her embrace courage and strength amidst hopelessness. By looking away from the tragedy, this is a successful use of irony and parallelism to create a mood that emphasizes the poems theme. Biography of the author: Born in New Jersey in 1893, Dorothy parker was an American ironic poet, author of short stories and critic. She is remembered for her disenchanted stories, wit and verbal exchanges through which she portrayed her underlying pessimism. Having started her career in the 1900s as a drama critic at Vanity Fair, and as a book reviewer at the New York theatre, Parkers career was enhanced in the 1920s and 1930s when she became a member of the Algonquin hotels round table

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