Comparing Poetry

Throughout the poem the extended use of imagery by the writer allows the reader to relate and sense how we might view the world if we had lost our sight. We are able to see the world in a different manner. In addition to the imagery of the world we read about throughout the poem we also see the writer uses imagery to describe the characters. For example, the writers use of imagery for the description of the blind girl gives the reader a vision of a warm hearted girl, that views the world through all of her other senses. As described by the speaker upon their first encounter in lines 18-21

"He had…split purple lips, lumped ears, welts above his yellow eyes, and one long scar that cut across his temple and plowed through a thick canopy of kinky hair…" Imagery is very effectively used by Knight in order to illustrate Hard Rock and incidents in the poem. Phrases such as "bored a hole in his head," "handcuffed and chained," "the jewel of a myth," and "barked in his face," paint vivid images in the readers mind. Knight's use of imagery keeps the reader interested in the poem while slowly drawing the reader into the story (emotionally). This element ultimately proves to be very useful to convey the motif of the poem.

How does he develop the simile in paragraph 5? Discuss the power of the imagery. Why does he use it?

Poems are typically written in a distinctive way to convey a specific message to the reader. The words or diction construct a poem by depicting ideas, feelings, setting, and characters. Therefore, a poet must chose his/her words with great care to create the appropriate message and to allow the reader to comprehend the general meaning. Thomas Hardy composed The Man He Killed, a poem demonstrating the effect war has upon soldiers and how war changes friend into a foe. The informal diction used by Hardy adds to the general meaning and impact of the poem. Idiom, specific and concrete words, and rhyming are all combined to form the diction of the poem, which enhance the

The use of imagery in this poem creates a vivid image of each description that leaves the reader feeling connected to the author in unprecedented way. Even if you’re not a middle aged woman waiting for her daughter to come from from college, you still understand. This is because the author has used

Gascoigne first uses imagery to emphasize the pain felt by the man in the poem. When he writes, “To see me hold my [gloomy] head so low,” he enables the reader to clearly envision a man who is feeling the anguish of heartbreak. Furthermore, Gascoigne also uses imagery to show that the man in the poem still recognizes the physical beauty of his ex-lover. He writes, “...Mine eyes take no delight to range / About the gleams which on your face do grow.” The imagery presented in the latter line expresses the beauty of the woman through the man’s eyes.

The poem is one extended metaphor between a boat and river. In this case, roller skate man and him riding down Queen street. The man is homeless and cannot afford a wheelchair to move around the city, he uses his hands to propel himself on his board, he proves peoples thoughts about

has a similar subject- a person who is about to kill her rival in the

In Poetry authors use a range of literary techniques. These techniques can include the use of rhyme, alliteration, personification, similes, metaphors and imagery. The poems that will be compared in this essay include: My Country by Dorothea Mackellar, The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson and Old Man Platypus by Banjo Patterson.

These three lines are perfect examples of the imagery within the poem because they contain an image of a river with its small peeks and waves trembling and glistening in the afternoon sun. All the while it equates the natural beauty of the river to the beauty that the young man sees in the youthful maiden.

The speaker portrays the way in which the word inside a poem ought to be deteriorated without truly characterizing it word for word. A poem should be watched nearly and when it's analyzed alright in the "light" it demonstrates the peruser excellent hues like that of a shading slide. For example, when the author was talking about how we tie poems to a chair. To me, these words convey the importance of the entire poem, the concealed truth which just the few can see. With the usage of this symbolic articulation, it can be watched that ditties are regarded with more sensibility and examination than pleasure and happiness as the sonnet highlights. We have to get inside the poem to comprehension, instead of just understanding the significance through skimming it. This can relate to various people lives. Do whatever it takes not to judge a book by its

It a lyric poem as the poetry is basically him declaring what should be done to reckless drivers who ran over the poor, little animals who were in their way, although not seriously, for in the first few verses declare death as punishment and oddly it not the driver but the vehicle itself, is given personification, accounting for it crimes of the animals it murdered:

Both poems contain the message of love, which is presented very well across both poems from start to finish. But the poems are very different to each other using different techniques and phrases. In this text i will be analysing both poems and finding the differences and similarity throughout the text. ‘To His Coy Mistress’ is a very old English text which was written by a man to express his love towards a girl which he had feelings for. This poem was made during the war, when time was short and things were very critical in the country. Love was a very rare thing in this time finding it as well was hard. Over time we can see that love has changed throughout the years by these poems. To His Coy Mistress is very demanding and some bribing involved.

“The Harlem Dancer” is a sonnet written by Claude McKay, the poem depicts a scene that he is observing in a club or a bar. The title gives one the insight of the bar’s location, which is Harlem during a critical era known as the Harlem Renaissance. This poem is centered on a young prostitute, and McKay’s examination of the crowd’s reaction towards this young lady. With the uses imagery, metaphors, and alliteration, one gets the sense of the overly sexualized culture that parallels a dancer’s inner emotions of objectification.

I am going to be talking about their methods that the poets use to explore the connection between people and the places in which they live in. The poems that I am comparing are Hurricane hits England and Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan.