Poetry Essay Prompt

In a very haunting soliloquy from “King Henry IV part II’ by William Shakespeare the reader is enthralled with the thoughts of King Henry, who is in the despairing clutches of a very common chronic disorder named Insomnia. Through author’s use of diction and imagery, we are able, as a reader, to fully understand his state of mind in such a sleep-deprived and frustrating situation.

Two of the most beautiful combinations, to me, are the use of imagery and metaphors. With the use of these two figures of speech the reader is able to paint a complete, detail picture in their from the piece they are reading. In “Elegy for Jane”, the speaker is standing over the grave of a student, Jane, of his who fell of a horse to her death. Roethke uses imagery and diction, among other figures of speech, to help the reader picture the young Jane that he loved and knew by using nature to make the connection. Roethke goes on throughout the poem to compare Jane to various types of birds, sceneries, feelings and aspects of nature by not only explaining her physical attributes but her personality as well.

Henry informs sleep that he has “all appliances and means,” yet his money and fortune are no match for sleep. The nobility of the king is weak as he acts like a child who complains because he does not get what he wants. For the second to last line of the soliloquy Henry surrenders, but also scrutinizes sleep by informing him that he should “lie down” with the low. Henry’s metaphor “Then, happy low, lie down” represents Henry’s idea that sleep will be happy with the low poor people. To display his once apparent authority Henry commands the ever-shifting role of sleep to lie down. This remark shows how Shakespeare views Henry’s mind. At first, he believed it to be a person with a drop of insanity, just as Henry viewed sleep in the first stanza. Then Henry was a ruthless god who attempted to create order, but there were powerful forces, sleep, which had control over him. Finally, Henry commands sleep to lie down like a dog who lies with fleas. Henry views himself as superior, but Shakespeare views Henry as the uneasy “head that wears a crown.” Although sleep had not taken Henry’s crown, it stole something much more important, Henry’s

Shakespeare effectively depicts King Henry’s distressed emotions and oppressed feelings, mainly revealed through his illness of insomnia by using dictions and imagery in his soliloquy. Shakespeare shows good usage of these linguistic qualities along with detailed and honest expression of each characters. This is the significance of using Soliloquy in the play and Soliloquy helps the play have a realty as well as the audiences have more sense of authenticity, or understanding, about how severe King Henry IV is suffered under his illness of insomnia. This play is one that brakes stereotype toward kings in the play. In Henry

Shakespeare’s use of imagery, diction, and syntax within Henry IV, Part II aids in portraying King Henry’s state of mind due to his inability to sleep. By personifying sleep within the soliloquy, a great impact is created which creates the illusion that sleep is purposely ignoring King Henry while bestowing its gift on his subjects.

In the poem, "Elegy for Jane", by Theodore Roethke, the speaker articulates his attitude and feelings towards his former student in a well-written, well-articulated elegy. The speaker clearly states these emotions through the use of personification, similes, as well as other literary techniques. With these techniques, the speaker articulates his attitude towads Jane that I interpreted as both intimate and lyrical.

Main Idea. Write a brief summary of the poem in English. Highlight some of the poetic features (simile, metaphor, symbols) that are important in understanding the poem.

King Henry's solilquy renders the unstable state of mind through insomnia. He lies awake at night wondering "How many thousand of my poorest subjects are at this hour asleep". The use of the word "poorest" is insultingly used to describe the lower subjects of his country, which in his perspective is everybody, considering he is king to a nation. Overcome with the lack of sleep he begs "O sleep! O gentle sleep! ......How have I frightened thee". King henry is desperate for sleep, he questions why he, a great king, cannot lay to slumber while those of lower social class lie asleep in the night. He speaks out to an unknown pressence as if he were talking to someone. This demonstrates the Kings delusions of people and how his mind is beginning to be effected by madness. "Why liest thou with the

Who are the social psychology workers? Who are the researchers? Who is the Eugenist? Who are the teachers? Why is it in this highly documented society that no one is identifiable as an individual? Auden’s main message reflects his anti-collectivism perspective as he portrays that the loss of individualism is fundamental to bureaucracy, as individuals in a bureaucratic society are represented through numbers in statistics. Although, this man was physically immortalised through a statue, to the bureau, he is just another number with no individuality.

To those who lack the real understanding of poetry, it is seen no differently as any other literary composition; a text, written and understood by a certain group of people. However to those who appreciate, and possess even the slightest bit of understanding that the poet intended, is considered an accomplishment. Poetry is an art of discovery, it requires immense effort not only to understand but to compose. Indian Woman, a poem written by Jeanette Armstrong, evokes a number of emotions and thoughts. The poem describes the unfortunate lifestyle of an Indian women in that day and age, the duties and tasks which were performed, whether willingly or not. Indian Woman is a poem containing painful images,

Moreover, the consistent integration of imagination and historical memory imparts a powerfully suggestive sense of inevitability to Carter's ethics of change. The envisioned changes, even if unrealized, are as much a part of a distinctive historical pattern, as is the past which made the present itself inevitable. And this pervasive sense of inevitability inspires recurrent images and themes of movement.

For the rewrite assignment, you noted that the poem is very circular, as there is not any evident logical flow in my writing. After re-reading the poem, I agree. You instructed me to, “write this poem as something that keeps moving forward in its philosophical exploration… Then, rewrite the poem to about one and a half times its current length, moving it continually forward.” I re-evaluated the poem and removed some lines that I thought where unnecessary. I also increased the length from twelve to eighteen lines. Further, I wrote philosophical progression into the revised poem; instead of being random ramblings (which, ironically, might be the fate of this solipsist after he discovers what he believes to be the truth), the poem now flows with

The Prelude:     William Wordsworth’s The Prelude, written in blank verse is an autobiographical poem written from 1798 to 1799. Throughout the excerpt the speaker has changing responses to his experience and conveys his responses with varying diction, imagery, and tone style. There are three changes in the speaker's response to his surroundings, which portray his changing emotion throughout the piece. The transitions occur on lines 11, 24, and 34.

These poems are all written based off of my, Miciah’s, opinions. I have a distinct perspective on religion, therefore I chose to write a poem describing hate and love and how I thing religion is a dumb idea. My poem is titled “Hate and Love”, based off of the poem “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost. In it I concur to what religion claims, symbolically saying that religion is wrong and not serious. I used the same exact syllables and rhyme scheme as “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost. “Pie” is simply an original poem by me. It has no significant meaning what-so-ever. I also have a sense of humor therefore I wrote poems that are humorous yet meaningful if the reader decides to read deeper into the meaning of

I Remember the first time I ever read poetry it was a middle school I just start seventh grade in the classroom was very decorative covered the pictures of men and women I had never seen before and phrases from which Im assuming are from their books painted the walls as if to tell their life story.Though Rose of desk each Saudi offer another as if notes on a music sheet just to show our uniqueness as we walked in we each found a seat car teacher took Center Stage and introduced herself as Miller she had a funny way of speaking when she spoke she made sure her her words rhyme as if she were a character from a dr. Seuss book after she had gone over in the class syllabus the class rules and what was expected of us she told us what our first assignment would be we would be writing a poem our own unique poem not found in any type of book when we asked her how would we do that she told us the different types of poetry we could use she gave us examples of famous authors such as Edgar Allan Poe or Nick Frost she didnt write it off the name of musicians and singers saying they were also poets and we could Taylor our poems around their forms she gave each of us a book to take home and read so we can study forms of poetry as I got home and I started reading poet poetry from the book and listen to music so I can better understand how I was supposed to try to pull myself one that was meaningful in that sense of the word as I spent hours trying to come up with a meaningful pole nothing