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death. Although What the Living Do is written as an anthology, this collection allows for individual poems to stand alone but also to work together to tell an overarching story. Using the poetic devices of alliteration, enjambment, repetition and couplets, Howe furthers her themes of gender and loss throughout her poems in her anthology. Alliteration is prevalent in most of the poems in What the Living Do. Howe uses alliteration to bring attention to the line of poetry and her word choices are meant

The poem Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare follows a typical Shakespearean sonnet structure; fourteen lines, three quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet, a basic ababcdcdefefgg rhyme scheme, and predominately following iambic pentameter with one additional unstressed syllable in the first line of each quatrain and the couplet. The sonnet as a whole is an extended metaphor for the aging and process and death; however, it is broken into three smaller metaphors all supporting the speaker’s impending

able to understand the feelings of the Duke towards the Duchess. The rhyme scheme of this poem is organized in rhyming couplets (AABBCC) this is used to show the relationship between him and the duchess (couplets) it may also be used to show is obecession with controlling everything and having everything organized and planned. The lines are paired in rhyming couplets, but these couplets are open" which shows the Robert Browning uses various literary devices to provoke a feeling to the reader. By his

the middle of the poem, especially in the fourth verse which is interrupted by a caesura. Both the fourth and fifth verse are not only end-stopped but also stressed on the last syllable and thus further highlighted. The rhyme scheme of two rhyming couplets enclosing an enclosed rhyme (aabccbdd) points again towards the middle of the poem in addition to mirroring the birds’

Comparison of Four Poems about Loss I am comparing “On my first Sonne” by Ben Jonson (a pre-1914 piece of poetry, written in 1616), “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning (a pre-1914 piece of poetry, written in 1845), “Mid-Term Break” by Seamus Heaney (a piece of poetry from the Heaney bank) and “Cold Knap Lake” by Gillian Clarke (a piece of poetry from the Clarke bank). The poem, “On my first Sonne” is about the loss of a close family member, Ben Jonson’s first son, who died at the age

Love in "To His Coy Mistress", "Shall I Compare Thee," "Let Me Not," and "The Flea" The four poems I am going to be comparing are, “To His Coy Mistress,” “Shall I Compare Thee,” “Let Me Not,” and “The Flea.” All four of these poems are based on the subject matter of love. The four poems have a lot in common but each poem touches a different aspect of love. Two of the poems, “Shall I Compare Thee”, and “Let Me Not”, are sonnets and both were written by Shakespeare. “To His Coy Mistress”

In a world in which abortion is considered either a woman's right or a sin against God, the poem "The Mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks gives a voice to a mother lamenting her aborted children through three stanzas in which a warning is given to mothers, an admission of guilt is made, and an apology to the dead is given. The poet-speaker, the mother, as part of her memory addresses the children that she "got that [she] did not get" (2). The shift in voice from stanza to stanza allows Brooks to capture

her country, while simultaneously discussing the assimilation of her aunt to American culture. In this way, she uses this poem as an outlet to express her experience of becoming American. Through the use of passionate diction, realistic imagery, couplet form, Asghar is able to paint a clear picture of the struggles of immigrants trying to assimilate to American culture, and the relationships between man and woman. Asghar starts the poem off by describing her aunt’s actions as she prepares what

In the poems ‘Let Me Describe for You Her Eyes’ by Glenn Colquhoun, and ‘Sonnet XVIII’ by William Shakespeare, both writers’ describe their experiences and ideas of love in two very contrasting ways, which can reflect on the world around us, and helped me learn about the how different relationships can affect people, and the world around them. Though their ideas may differ, both writers used similar techniques, such as the use of an extended metaphor. Similarly, both writers tone and structure supported

can describe how as a child he’s always felt alone and continues to feel so. In his twenty-two line poem, Edgar Allen Poe uses eleven sets of rhyming couplets and an AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKLL rhyming scheme. The use of rhyming couplets and a different rhyme following each couplet allow Poe to create a suspenseful and foreboding effect. The first couplet “From childhood’s hour I have not been/ As others were – I have not seen” set out the theme of the poem, that being that the narrator wasn’t like other