Poetry project Essay

He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled, That lies un get up now, come dew, come rust, still still lies pointed as it plowed the dust. If we who sight along it round the creative activity, confab nothing worthy to have been its mark, It is beca phthisis like men we look in any case near, Forgetting that as fitted to the sphere, Our missiles al trends make too short an arc. They fall, they rip the grass, they frustrate The curve of earth, and striking, break their own They make us cringe for metal-point on stone. But this we know, the obstacle that checked And tripped the body, shot the spirit on bring forward than target ever showed or shone.How does poetry ease you see yourself/your world variedly? Imagery Imagery is when the poet describes the items in the poem and the reader tail assembly picture or feel as the poet urgencys them to. When poets use imagery they want the reader to be able to see in their mind what the poem is about. Imagery is used with adjectives. The Gladiator Kevin Prufer When I died When my blood feathered a steering(predicate) and I stared blankly and sideways into the grass.When the grass ceased against my cheek, I could not help but remember the gladiator who, in falling, never groans, who, ordered to hope it,does not contract his neck for the final blow. And the agglomerateside grew quiet. The bombers passed withering the trees and the city to flame. The empire fell. My empire, like a blood hurtle into the grass. It is of little consequence to the beholder if the gladiator falls forward into the dirt. He is of a mind, merely, to do as he is told.He will not see the emperors thumbs. His city fell to its knees and burned, rolled on its side, but he wont think of it. Those who once cheered for him are cheering still. The airplanes flew over the hill and I, crouched in the grass, was terrified but did not look up, did not remonstratewhen a lost bomb startled me away. Seal William Jay Smith reveal how he dives From the rocks with a zoom See how he darts finished his watery room Past crabs and eels.And green seaweed Past fluffs of flaxen Minnow feed See how he swims With a swerve and a twist, A flip of the flipper, A flick of the wrist Quicksilver-quick, Down he plunges Softer than spray, Down he plunges And sweeps away beforehand you can think Before you can utter lecture like Dill pickle Or Apple butter, Back up he swims Past sting-ray and shark, Out with a zoom, A whoop, a bark Before you can say some(prenominal) you wish,He plops at your side With a mouthful of fish1. In Seal how does the use of poetry scheme keep you entertained throughout the poem? 2. After you have read both poems How do the authors study and contrast in their use of imagery? Which one did you like come apart? why? After you read How did your poem compare to these ones? How was yours different. Did you like the way these poets used imagery? Why/Why not? Figures of Speech A figure of speech is the use of a word or du plex words that can do many things. Simile A similarity of two things using like or as. mannikin I am as sly as a fox.Metaphor A analogy of two things not using like or as. Example manner is a Journey. Personification Giving an inanimate object human quality. Example The tree waved. Hyperbole An extreme exaggeration of something. I stood there, waiting for you, for 74 hours. And there are other kinds of Figures of Speech but these are the to the highest degree common ones. Before You Read Do you use figures of speech when you indite your poems? Why do you use them or dont use them? While you are reading Do you understand these uses of figures of speech? Why does the author use the simile/metaphor/etc.in this way? The Writer Richard Wilbur In her room at the prow of the house Where groundless breaks, and the windows are tossed with linden, My daughter is writing a story. I pause in the stairwell, hearing From her shut door a commotion of typewriter-keys Like a chain hauled over a gunwale. Young as she is, the stuff Of her heart is a great cargo, and some of it heavy I wish her a lucky passage. But now it is she who pauses, As if to reject my thought and its unproblematic figure. A stillness greatens, in which The whole house seems to be thinking, And accordingly she is at it again with a bunched clamor.Of strokes, and again is silent. I remember the daze starling Which was trapped in that very room, two years ago How we take in, lifted a sash And retreated, not to aff adjust it And how for a helpless hour, through the crack of the door, We watched the sleek, wild, dark And iridescent creature Batter against the brilliance, drop like a glove To the hard floor, or the desk-top, And wait then, crookback and bloody, For the wits to try it again and how our spirits Rose when, suddenly sure, It lifted off from a chair-back, Beating a smooth course for the right window And clearing the sill of the world.It is always a matter, my darling, Of life or d eath, as I had forgotten. I wish What I wished you before, but harder. What are imperfect? Spring blossoms and youth What are deep? The ocean and loyalty. How can heartache be heavy as said in the poem? straight off and Tomorrow be brief? Youth be frail? And truth be deep? Sounds of Poetry Sounds of poetry contain many different elements including hoar, rhythm, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and there subtopics. Rhyme The repetition of the go of the stressed vowel and anything by and by it. Approximate rhyme Not exact rhyme, not an echo.Internal rhyme Rhyme inside of a line or lines. End rhyme Usual rhyme at the end of lines. Rhythm A melodic quality of repetition. Meter Regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. iambus Unstressed followed by stressed. Foot Stressed followed by one or more unstressed. Trochee opposite of an iamb. Anapest Two unstressed followed by a stressed. Dactyl Stressed followed by two unstressed. Spondee Two stressed syllables. Onomatopoeia Wor ds that sound like what they mean. Alliteration The repetition of the same consonant sound in several words. Assonance The repetition of vowel sounds.