Notes On A Poem Unwritten

Assignment 1.7 Poetry Assessment How does communication change us? 1.Does communication change us? Write a paragraph in which you answer this question and provide at least 3 reasons to support your opinion. (20 points) Yes, Communication can change people in many different ways, depending on the type of communication and the message it conveys. Communication changes people by educating them; allowing people to exchange feelings and ideas with others; making possible arguments and reconciliations; and in many other ways. Communication can be misunderstood too there’s many different types of communication. 2. Provide an example of each poetic device from any of the assigned poems. For each quote, explain the author’s intended meaning. What is the author really saying? (36

Discuss how your investigation of the generic conventions of poetry has influenced your understanding of at least one poem that you have studied in this unit.

Provide one example of each sound device from any poem assigned in this course. Explain the effect the use of that device has on the author’s communication of the poem’s message. Sound DeviceExampleEffectAlliterationPoem: Romeo and JulietQuote:From forth the fatal loins of these two foes; A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life.It kind of makes the meaning of the quote more strong and intense. Its showing that their love is fetal.AssonancePoem:Romeo and JulietQuote:My bounty is as boundless as the sea, and My love isdeep, the more I give to thee. Assonance kind of helps draw the readers eye, to help draw them to understand the meaningof what shes trying to sayConsonancePoem: Romeo and JulietQuote: "Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast! Would I were sleep and peace, sosweet to rest!"Helps show how importat and happy its makes her to sleep. SHe loves sleep OnomatopoeiaPoem: Romeo and JulietQuote:Who, nothing hurt withal, hissedhim in scorn" Yelled loudly. The effct is has is ithelps the reader understand thathe was really mad, yelled loudly.4. Think about an important point you want to make to someone. Maybe you want to tell someone you love them. Or, you need to ask your boss for time off. Perhaps you want to let your neighbors know to quit letting their dog use your lawn for a restroom. Whatever the message, however lightor serious the tone, use the poetry techniques from Lesson 1 to help youcommunicate it in the form of a poem. Use at least two examples of figurative language and at least two sound devices (you may choose rhyme as one of your sound devices). Bold print or highlight the figurative language and sound devices in your poem to point them out to the reader.This is a creative writing endeavor. Have some fun with it!! Original

“Introduction to Poetry” has irregular meter with some lines using iambic pentameter. It is 16 lines made of 7 stanzas, written in free verse with no set rhyme scheme. This allows the poet to use a variation of styles and tactics to express the idea of the poem. The author, Billy Collins is an American poet, who served two terms as Poet Laureate of the United Stated and has been an educator most of his life. He is currently a Professor of English at Lehman College in New York. This information is important in understanding Introduction to Poetry, because it is written from the perspective of a teacher explaining to his students, how poetry should be examined, something Collins has firsthand knowledge of. Introduction to Poetry compares and contrasts how the poet wants his students to approach poetry, to the unforgiving nature of their examination, which distorts the intended experience of the poem.

Literary devices are tools that many authors use to make their novels, short stories, and poems rich with vivid details. However, poets are the ones who tend to use the most complex literary devices in their pieces. In doing so, they make their poetry abundant with many distinct emotions and sensations. In addition to that, authors mainly use literal devices to portray their message more effectively. For example, the poet Robert Frost in “Design” he uses rhyme scheme to explore the existence of good and question whether darkness will always be omnipresent.

The reason I chose a free verse poem was simply because I liked listening to the audio files of Walt Whitman’s “Song of myself” and was intrigued by the amount of freedom it gave him to express not merely a single idea, but almost all of his life philosophy

your own is trying to become word and melody”. He also describes the young poets poems by

Out of all these poems “Ars Poetica” by Archibald Macleish is the poem that accurately expresses what my view of poetry is, what it does, and how we should read it. The reason that this poem represents what my view of poetry is, the way that Archibald is able to describe poetry in a way I had never thought about before but a way that I am still fully able to understand. He explains how poems should be able to stand on their own, that they shouldn’t need words. What this choice says about me is that when it comes to reading poetry I read it in a way that the poem should be what it is trying to say. “Ars Poetica” expresses my view of poetry because it says, “ A poem should be palpable and mute,” meaning that a poem should be silent but it should

The poet uses cacophony where words are rhymed contribute to the whimsical effect of the work. An

In this unit, we have learnt some wonderful poems. However, each poem has a different topic. Some poems are story-telling, some are just describing objects, and the others are expressing emotions. So, they are not all short stories, there are still some poems like haikus, they have nothing to do with stories.

One goal I have for this class is to expand my repertoire of vocabulary. I also wish to refine my analytical and argumentative skills. Furthermore, I aspire to write with heightened clarity, nuance, and purpose. In addition, I’m interested in understanding metrical structure and learning how to express myself through poetry.

What is poetry? According to the 47 Essential Poetry Terms, poetry is “abstract language.” There are multiple ways of exploring the abstractness of poetry. One is DIDLS, touching upon the areas of Diction, Imagery, Details, Language, and Sentence Structure. Another is TPCASTT, which touches upon Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude, Shift In Attitude, Revisitation of the Title, and Theme. The last one is the aforementioned 47 Essential Poetry Terms, 47 devices that describe various occurrences found in poetry. The 3 poems that will be examined in this in this essay. Alliteration, Couplet, and Personification reflect the three most prominent poetry devices found in Holy Sonnet 10, Macavity The Mystery Cat, and The Sunshine Kid.

I was surprised when I started to read a poem for this assignment as I am not what one would call a “poem reader”. I googled most famous poems of all time then a tons of result came out. However I saw the name Edgar Allan Poe in the list of the poets. I recalled reading his poem “The Raven” and remembered how good I thought it was. So I decided to dig a little deeper into his poems. In the process I stumbled upon this gem of a poem called “Annabel Lee”. It was something I read and could instantly connect with. I could see the poem’s progression as how my life was when I first fell in love and the poets feeling throughout his relation matched mine perfectly. I could easily connect the start, the time of my relation and its end with his stanzas of falling in love, being in love, then the aftermath of love.

If one is aiming to write a poem it is useful to know by detail the basic elements of poetry to understand and control better what and how to say things, they are: voice, stanza, sound patterns, figures of speech and the poetic forms.

In my preparation for this essay I thought that there was going to be very little that I would learn about the elements of poetry. This is not because I am an expert and have nothing new to learn, but rather the opposite. I have never really spent the time to break down and appreciate poetry. One of the reasons I think that I haven’t spent the time on poetry is due to my reading habits. I usually read to gather information and poetry is on the other end of the spectrum. Fredrick Gruber sums this up, “Poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.” (Gruber) Having said all of this though, I did see a couple of things that I could apply to my own writing. I will first start off with some elements of poetry that I