Peter Kirkpatrick's Suburban Moment

end of the poem the words " What?" , " dare" and " dread" make several

A distinguished sense of hollowness, and darkness is discernable in George Elliot Clarke’s poem “Blank Sonnet”. This poem expresses, the author’s difficult and awkward communication with a lover through a broken relationship. word choice and imagery is imperative to the overall effect and tone of the poem. The usage of an atypical sonnet stylization, broken sentences, forms of metaphors, symbolism, sensory language, and alliteration form strong imagery, and a sense of disconnect. The overall effect leaves the reader with a resonating feeling of emptiness.

Construct a close reading of this poem that demonstrates your awareness of the poet’s body of work.

Now that you have read the poem and considered the meanings of the lines, answer the following questions in a Word doc or in your assignment window:

The tone of this poem is established by the way the lines seem flat and void of emotion. The

Apart from that, the poem consists of a series of turns that reflect different parts of the speaker’s feelings and the experiences he had. The significance of these turns is made possible through the use of stanza breaks. For example, the first

Poetry is an art form that has been used to express certain messages or beliefs, and can potentially change a reader’s view on a subject. Suburban Sonnet, written by Gwen Harwood has a lot of social commentary and is speaking to you about a lot of things that it feels are important. It is looking to make a lot of points about Australian society and the sacrifice of having children and of living a suburban lifestyle. Gwen Harwood’s ‘Suburban Sonnet’ is a fourteen line poem with strong values of urban Australia.

symbolic richness, but at the same time the poem supplies the reader with a wide

      Yet this darker revelation is quickly eclipsed by one last happy irony, a revelation of sorts: the poem so artfully represents it subject, its conspicuous ingenuities of form so undulate and glitter like the mist of mayflies, that the poem itself becomes the mayflies?or means to come as close as language can take it.  As a special way of seeing, the poem means to breech the gulf between seer and thing seen and thus forge a connection to the object world, the speaker?s own absence from which he ostensibly laments.  That this attempt is successful seems implicit in the last lines of the poem.  There, it occurs to the speaker that his sense of separateness and mortality can be allayed by the idea that he has been ?called? to be a poetic seer, ?one whose task is joyfully to see/ How fair

My favorite lines come from the middle section of the poem I find there can be so taken just from these few lines:

I really appreciate your detailed and insightful grammatical comments that pertain to both specific lines within the poem as well as the submission as a whole. I am sure that they will be helpful to the author as he/she moves forward with the piece. Your general comments, in regards to the artistic style of the poem, are also very beneficial to the author, as they help him/her to work on

One of the main elements of poetic structure employed in this poem includes the use of lines on the margin and those that are indented. The purpose of indenting lines is to place emphasis

With the use of the alliteration "weak and weary", in addition to the internal rhyme of "dreary" and "weary", we are instantly struck by the tone of the poem as being one of loneliness, grief and depression.

The short stanzas containing powerful imagery overwhelm the readers forcing them to imagine the oppression that the speaker went through in

Students may have difficulty understanding the use of the present simple to talk about the future. (M)