TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Introduction

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The Poem

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Close Analysis

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Word Choice

3.2

Form

3.3

Structure

3.4

Imagery

3.5

Simile

3.6

Metaphor

3.7

Personification

3.8

Symbolism

4.0

Conclusion

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Bibliography

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INTRODUCTION

Poetry is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in
addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. It consists largely of oral
or literary works in which language is used in a manner that is felt by its user and
audience to differ from ordinary prose.
It may use condensed or compressed form to convey emotion or ideas to the
reader's or listener's mind or ear; it may also use devices such as assonance and
repetition to achieve musical or incantatory effects. Poems frequently rely for their
effect on imagery, word association, and the musical qualities of the language used.
The interactive layering of all these effects to generate meaning is what marks
poetry.

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THE POEM

LIFE
Life is but a passing glimpse
A small frame of time out of many
Too short for Pleasure
Too long for Suffering
Its a sand of uncertainties
Of Happiness, Sadness Apprehension
Its the eternal cycle of Fate
Sometimes motherly, sometimes a tyranny
Its but a shadow play
And we the insignificant puppets
Playing the short scripts of Destiny

Directing our little histories

Applauded by Death.

ByLajimanJanoory

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CLOSE ANALYSIS

3.1

Word Choice

Word choice is a term used to describe the words chosen by an author, using words
that are very specific and descriptive of exactly what you want to say. There are 65
words contain in the poem whereby the word choices in the poem are also suitable
and each word that have been used in the poem have very deep meaning. Overall,
the words used in this poem are informal and do not use specific dialect.
Majority of the word gives indirect meaning which need the reader to think beyond
the normal meaning.

3.2

Form

This poem is organized purposely to reflect the meaning of the title which is life. This
poem also consisted of three short paragraphs and thirteen lines. Each paragraph
contains approximately 20 words and above. The first and second paragraph
consisted of similar form of poem while the third is quite different. First and second
paragraph have four lines while the third paragraph has five lines. First paragraph
explain the scenario of life but in aspect of time particularly. Second paragraph
explain the situations and also the situations in real life beside also wrote the

common elements in life. While for the third paragraph explain the roles as humans
to survive in the challenging life and the challenging life ended with death.

3.3

Structure

Structure of poem usually refers to the framework of a work literature, the

organization or over-all design of a work. In this poem which the title is life, the poem
begin with the introduction of life with time element. Then, continue with the reality of
life in the context of positive and negative aspect of life. After that, the poem
continued with the explanation about the job or the task as human in their life.

3.4

Imagery

Imagery" refers to language that evokes a physical sensation produced by one of the
five senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell. In the second paragraph states that
sometimes motherly, sometimes tyranny contains an imagery whereby motherly
refers to such nice situation while tyranny refers to cruel scenario in life. Motherly
also can be view with harmony and very peace situation that makes people live
happily but tyranny explain the hard and cruel situation that makes people feel
disappoint in certain circumstances in their life.

3.5

Simile

A simile is an easy way to compare two things, so examples of simile

poems include any poem that makes comparisons using the words "like," "as," or
"than. However, in this poem, there is no sentence that can be categorized as simile
since no comparison being made using words like, as or than.

3.6

Metaphor

A METAPHOR directly compares two things, which may be quite different, because
one has a characteristic that is similar to the other. In this poem, the metaphor can
be seen are; Life is but a passing glimpse, Its a sand of uncertainties, Its but a
shadow play. Life is but a passing glimpse refer how quickly and fast the life for
human whether human realized or not. Its a sand of uncertainties means many or
a lot of things that human cannot sure of it which have many possibilities. While for
Its but a shadow play refer to the actions of humans in surviving their lives.

3.7

Personification

Personification is giving human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics)

to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas). There is no personification
used in the poem.

3.8

Symbolism

A "symbol" is an object, person, or action which represents an abstract idea. A

person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meaning
beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance. This poem do have
symbolism such as And we the insignificant puppets and Playing the short scripts
of Destiny. The insignificant puppet refers to the ordinary people who run their
lives with normal routine and playing the short scripts of Destiny gives meaning
how people or human run their lives.

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CONCLUSION

Based on the analysis of the elements in the poem titled Life above, it can be
concluded that this poem have many elements of literature such as word choice,
structure, imagery, form, metaphor, personification and symbolism. Each element
had affected the influence of the poem to the reader.
All the elements are needed to make poem to become more interesting to read and
also would give consciousness to the reader. First paragraph or the poem elaborates
regarding the time of the life itself whereby people usually do not realize how time
flies in their life. The writer in the first paragraph also wrote that people would feel
time flies so fast when people in happy situation and people would feel time flies very
slowly whenever they are in disappointing period.
The second paragraph also had explained regarding people will face many types of
unexpected experiences whether positive or negatives things and those things are
the reality of life that people cannot avoid from happen. People need to be pleased
with what they will face in their problems. Then third paragraph elaborates the roles
played by each the human in this world which each of human have determined
destiny and their lives will be ended by the death.

Through the explanation above, this poem is about the reality of life which contains
many challenging things that need to be faced by human. Human also must aware
the consequences of the things that they have done and every human in this world
will face the death absolutely.

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2.

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5.

Pinsky, Robert (1998). The Sounds of Poetry. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.