Poetry project Essay

He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled, That lies unlifted instanter, come dew, come rust, merely still lies pointed as it plowed the dust. If we who sight along it round the world, See nothing worthy to have been its mark, It is because corresponding men we look too near, Forgetting that as fitted to the sphere, Our missiles always make too short an arc. They fall, they rip the grass, they intersect The curve of earth, and striking, break their own They make us cringe for metal-point on stone. But this we know, the obstructer that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on Further than target ever showed or shone.How does poetry help you consider yourself/your world differently? resource Imagery is when the poet describes the items in the poem and the reader can picture or feel as the poet wants them to. When poets use imagery they want the reader to be able to see in their mind what the poem is about. Imagery is used with adjectives. The Gladiator Kevin Prufer When I died When my blood feathered away and I st ared blankly and sideways into the grass.When the grass ceased over against my cheek, I could not help but remember the gladiator who, in falling, never groans, who, ordered to accept it,does not contract his neck for the final blow. And the hillside grew quiet. The bombers passed withering the trees and the city to flame. The empire fell. My empire, same(p) a blood drop into the grass. It is of little consequence to the observer if the gladiator falls forward into the dirt. He is of a mind, merely, to do as he is told.He will not see the emperors thumbs. His city fell to its knees and burned, rolled on its side, but he wont think of it. Those who once cheered for him are cheering still. The airplanes flew oer the hill and I, crouched in the grass, was terrified but did not look up, did not complainwhen a scattered bomb startled me away. Seal William Jay Smith See how he dives From the rocks with a zoom See how he darts Through his wa tery room gone crabs and eels.And green seaweed Past fluffs of sandy Minnow feed See how he swims With a swerve and a twist, A flip of the flipper, A buck of the wrist Quicksilver-quick, Down he plunges Softer than spray, Down he plunges And sweeps away Before you can think Before you can utter Words like dill weed pickle Or Apple butter, Back up he swims Past sting-ray and shark, Out with a zoom, A whoop, a bark Before you can enunciate Whatever you wish,He plops at your side With a mouthful of fish1. In Seal how does the use of rhyme scheme keep you entertained end-to-end the poem? 2. After you have read both poems How do the authors compare and contrast in their use of imagery? Which one did you like better? why? After you read How did your poem compare to these ones? How was yours different. Did you like the way these poets used imagery? wherefore/Why not? Figures of Speech A figure of linguistic communication is the use of a word or multiple words that can do many things. Simile A comparison of two things using like or as. Example I am as sly as a fox.Metaphor A comparison of two things not using like or as. Example Life is a Journey. Personification Giving an inanimate object human quality. Example The tree waved. Hyperbole An extreme exaggeration of something. I stood there, lodgeing for you, for 74 hours. And there are other kinds of Figures of Speech but these are the most common ones. Before You Read Do you use figures of linguistic communication when you write your poems? Why do you use them or dont use them? While you are reading Do you understand these uses of figures of speech? Why does the author use the simile/metaphor/etc.in this way? The Writer Richard Wilbur In her room at the prow of the house Where light breaks, and the windows are tossed with linden, My daughter is writing a story. I pause in the stairwell, hearing From her shut door a commotion of typewriter-keys Like a chain hauled over a gunwale. Young as she is, the stuff Of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy I wish her a lucky passage. But now it is she who pauses, As if to reject my thought and its easy figure. A stillness greatens, in which The whole house seems to be thinking, And then she is at it again with a bunched clamor.Of strokes, and again is silent. I remember the dazed starling Which was trapped in that very room, two years ago How we stole in, lifted a sash And retreated, not to panic it And how for a helpless hour, through the crack of the door, We watched the sleek, wild, dark And iridescent creature Batter against the brilliance, drop like a glove To the hard floor, or the desk-top, And wait then, humped and bloody, For the wits to try it again and how our spirits Rose when, suddenly sure, It lifted off from a chair-back, Beating a smooth course for the reclaim window And clearing the sill of the world.It is always a matter, my darling, Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish What I wished you before, but harder. What are frail? wince blossoms and youth What are deep? The ocean and truth. How can sorrow be heavy as said in the poem? Today and Tomorrow be brief? Youth be frail? And truth be deep? Sounds of Poetry Sounds of poetry contain many different elements including rhyme, rhythm, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and there subtopics. Rhyme The repetition of the vowelise of the dysphoric vowel and anything after it. Approximate rhyme Not exact rhyme, not an echo.Internal rhyme Rhyme inside of a eviscerate or lines. End rhyme Usual rhyme at the end of lines. Rhythm A musical quality of repetition. Meter Regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Iamb Unstressed followed by stressed. Foot Stressed followed by one or more unstressed. Trochee opposite of an iamb. Anapest Two unstressed followed by a stressed. Dactyl Stressed followed by two unstressed. Spondee Two stressed syllables. Onomatopoeia Words that sound like what they mean. Alliteration The repetition of the same consona nt sound in several words. Assonance The repetition of vowel sounds.