Diction In Poetry

The Vacuum by Howard Nemerov talks about a widower and his late wife, and how he uses the vacuum as a symbol for her death. The poem expresses deep sorrow and sadness that derive from the loneliness of the speaker, after his other half’s passing away. Nemerov attempts to take his readers on a grief-stricken journey, by strategically employing figurative language (mainly personification, metaphor, simile, and alliteration), fractured rhyme schemes and turns in stanza breaks in the poem.

The second stanza is addressed to ‘wise men’ who know they cannot hide from death and it’s inevitability. Poetic techniques used in this stanza are metaphors, rhyme, symbols and repetition. The line “words had forked no lightning” is a metaphor because words cannot actually fork lightning. This line suggests that the men hadn’t made an impact on the world, nor accomplished all they wanted to in life. Rhyming is also a technique used in every line, ‘right’ and ‘night’ are rhyming words used, and ‘they’ in the second line rhymes with ‘day’ in the previous stanza. So ‘night’, ‘light’ and ‘right’ rhyme, and ‘day’ and ‘they’ rhyme, hence the ABA ABA rhyming pattern. The third poetic device used in the second stanza is symbolism of ‘dark’ in the first line, which represents death. Repetition of “do not go gentle into that good night” is repeated every second stanza as the ending line, ‘night’ in the final line also symbolises death.

A poetry explication is a fairly short analysis, which describes the possible meanings and relationships of the words, images, and other literary elements that make up a poem. These elements help the reader have an understanding of the poem and what the author is trying to convey in a very effective way. Most young readers don’t usually understand the poems. For this literary explanation the reader had an interest in the poem “Introduction to poetry”, by Collins. In this poem, the author, who is also a professor, decided to reach out to his students to portray the way students approach poems. This author uses imagery; metaphor and theme to better understand his poem.

In the beginning of Emerson's first paragraph poem, he uses strong diction. Use of such words in this manner assists in his main purpose of expounding the idea how one must rely on only themselves and never no one else, how it's a wrong decision. He uses such words or phrases such as "imitation is suicide," "no hope" and "envy is ignorance." Use of such words definitely makes an impression on the reader which is the whole purpose, but it influences the reader to how they are going to live their life, cause how would feel after reading that depending on others is just going to kill you, obviously they will decide to make changes in their life and that's the whole point of his writing, that's what he wants to achieve. Which is how it sets the

I remember the day in my very first college-level poetry class when my instructor (a wonderful poet and teacher by the name of Neal Kirchner) asked us the difference between concrete and abstract language. When we had given up on our half-hearted attempts to articulate our understanding of the concept, he showed us the distinction in a way that has stuck with me.

I personally agree with the above statement. I strongly think that the theme of journey can also be used as a metaphor for life choices or the loss of innocence and that metaphor is an extremely vital vessel of poetry. My comparison, will be targeting three main points, including how the theme of journey firstly impacts and links in with life choices, secondly the loss of innocence and youth and finally the strong, yet overlooked, aspect of enjambment.

The poem suddenly becomes much darker in the last stanza and a Billy Collins explains how teachers, students or general readers of poetry ‘torture’ a poem by being what he believes is cruelly analytical. He says, “all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it”. Here, the poem is being personified yet again and this brings about an almost human connection between the reader and the poem. This use of personification is effective as it makes the

The quote, "Poetry aims for the economy of truth and loose and useless words must be discarded" is an important quote for writers or poets to understand. When Ta-Nehisi Coates says economy in this he doesn't mean money. He means care because the truth is very fragile. It can be broken very easily and effortlessly. Truth can be broken with a little lie or without even realizing it. Poetry can help keep the truth together or remember the truth.

Poetry is literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm, poems collectively or as a genre of literature. It is also a quality of beauty and intensity of emotion regarded as characteristic of poems. Poetry (poem) is something that follows a particular flow of rhythm and meter. Compare to prose, where there is no such restriction, and the content of the piece flows according to the story, a poem may or may not have a story, but definitely has structured method of writing.

It is extremely easy to associate late Victorian poetry with simple and beautiful things when poems about the aesthetics of both nature and city life were so popular at the time. Decadent poets in particular loved to write about the beautiful, especially the beautiful in everyday things. They believed that surrounding yourself with beautiful objects, including poetry, led to a better way of life, and that art required no further purpose than being aesthetically pleasing. When it comes to the theme of suffering though, Victorian and late Edwardian poets had different ways of framing and expressing pain, some of them through aestheticism, others by rejecting it. Between Wilde’s extremely realistic portrayal of suffering, Housman’s simple poetry and Naidu’s lush use of language to describe torment, it is clear that the famed notion of aestheticism of the period was not always prevalent when it came to the expression of human pain. Through word choice, rhythm, symbolism and imagery, Naidu, Housman and Wilde each approach human suffering in their own particular way, with Naidu embracing aestheticism to send a message and Housman and Wilde choosing a much more grounded and realistic style. By focusing on and analysing The Ballad of Reading Gaol, To the God of Pain and The Day of the Battle and Farewell to Barn and Stacks, those varying approach to the expression of suffering become quite obvious.

In many occasions, people may find poems without rhyme schemes uninteresting, bland, or maybe not even poems at all. Though rhyme is not necessarily needed to make a poem good, it is a technique used by poets to create emphasis on certain aspects of specific themes they are trying to express. Rhyme schemes may contribute to the mood or tone of a piece, or even be used to create a certain rhythm or flow. Poems like “Sound and Sense” by Alexander Pope, “That Time of Year” by the famous William Shakespeare, and “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar, are perfectly good examples of professionals taking their writing to the next level with a touch of rhyme. Each of these authors have contributed greatly to the art of writing, and though their situations, or motives, for writing the poems may be different, their effective use of the different schemes help the authors create a certain feeling to each verse in their work. The rhyme schemes in “Sound and Sense,” “That Time of Year,” and “We Wear the Mask” contribute to the author's feelings on vital situations they face through their daily life.

Physicians’ notes are in some sense biographies of their patients. Those that are unwell have to be encouraged to find a narrative and the clinician has to tease out the significant lines in their story. It is the stories of private lives offered up to doctors, often at times of crisis and vulnerability, which explain, at least in part, why so many doctors are also novelists.

Diction is important part of writing and understanding poetry because each story helps create the poem tone, mood, and all the poetic literary devices. Each word helps create a thoughtful heartfelt short story. No word is put in a poem without a reason, in my poem I mentioned Jospeh colorful coat because coat rhymed with boat. Poetry is about the diction and understand why they are there, to reveal the hidden message within the poem. In the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost the message about sinning and how that stays with a person. Robert Frost did not use the word sin once in his poem but used other words to get his message across like "Eden sank" (Frost 6) and "nothing gold can stay" (Frost 8). To me the diction is the key to poetry because the author wants to send a message of the story to the readers, but also wants the readers to use their mind to understand what the hidden message is.

The imaginative response to experience reflecting a keen awareness of language. Types of Poetry • Ballad – Songlike poem; tells a story • Lyric - musical verse; expresses observations & feelings of a single speaker. • Haiku - 3-line verse form. First & 3rd lines have five syllables; 2nd has 7.

Then, when the Achaeans start loosing, Athena and Hera harness Heras’ chariot and put on their armor. When they get Zeus’ approval to aid the Acheans, they fly to the battlefield, and Hera gives courage to the Achaean forces.Athena flies to Diomedes to remind him that she will protect him and that there should be no reason to be afraid, in fact, she criticizes him. Diomedes replies that Ares is dominating the battle resulting Athena to get into Diomedes chariot to attack Ares. With Athena’s help, Diomedes spears Ares; In a panic, Ares flies away. The gods constantly intervene in the war, and to some extent, the tides of war can be measured by a gods intervention. Usually, when a god arrives, it changes the outcome on the battlefield, as soldiers will are given new courage. With Athena’s help, Diomedes’ glory reaches its peak as he spears the god of war himself. The passage is interesting because it suggests the relationship between free will and divinity in the poem. Diomedes deemed a strong fighter, and yet he's dependent upon the gods for support. He not a free agent: instead, he needs the help of gods and goddesses. In this way, the passage reinforces why religion and divine worship are so important in the poem: without the gods maneuvering them, the characters couldn't accomplish much.