Summary Of Reaping By Arna Bontemps

Beginning in the first stanza we open with a peaceful and joyous mood of the outdoors and then it ends with closing the day. Assonance is used in the first line where the vowel “e” sound is really empathized to make those words deepen in sound. Lawrence employs a lot of metaphors in his poem by having mother nature and

The poem describes the weather and its effect on cotton flower by pointing out the dying branches and vanishing cotton. The image of insufficiency, struggle and death parallel the oppression of African American race. The beginning of the poem illustrates the struggle and suffering of the cotton flower; which represent the misery of African Americans and also gives an idea that there is no hope for them. But at the end the speaker says “brown eyes that loves without a trace of fear/ Beauty so sudden for that time of year” (lines 13-14). This shows the rise of the African American race, and their fight against racism. The author used mood, tone and

He then continues to encourage those who are being oppressed, through a metaphor, to “[l]ook deep to find the grains of hope and strength”. He is cleverly indicating that hope and strength in times of oppression may seem inconceivable, hence the stating of tiny, mere grains: something retrospectively insignificant and out of reach to man. However, if one looks hard enough, he will indeed liberate himself and free himself from the illusory power of oppression. Furthermore, he metaphorically describes hope and liberation as “the new spring grass”. One can conclude that the poet is hinting to one suffering from oppression to set a fresh, vivid outlook on life. One’s mindset is what creates reality for him, and so if on his outlook on life is negative, he will be negative: this is the power of illusion. Therefore, he must be devoid of the physical and mental imprisonment he is facing through oppression. The poem ends with the poet giving instructions to “endure my brothers, endure my sisters”, telling the oppressed to never lose hope and stay strong, for liberation will come, just as the new spring grass will

He was writing about the issues regarding American literary. In the, To a Waterfowl, he is talking about the falling of the mist and how the he guides them the boundless sky and how the lake and the river merge. He is speaking about a house that sits on land near a river and a lake that merges together seems like there is a storm. In the Prairies, he is talking about the birds in the sky and the beautiful garden with flowers

Levine’s uses some end rhymes along with some slant rhymes in his poem. For example, “...long line” (line 1) would

Rhyme contributes to the pattern of sounds in a poem that is usually used at the end of the poetic lines.

The speaker lacks a rhyme scheme in most or all of the poem. He didn’t include a rhyme scheme on purpose, so that the reader could focus on what he was saying not how it sounds rhythm wise. Each “poem” it mentions the boy writes in “Absolutely Nothing” represents and symbolizes the mood and effect of each stanza. For example the first stanza it talks about how he wrote a poem called chops because it was about his dog. His dog represents the innocence and childlike qualities of him at the beginning of his life. And furthermore the words the speaker uses emulate a depressing

What do you notice about how the poem is structured? How does it affect how you read the poem? You don’t stop at the end of each line, you just continue through the lines because they don’t rhyme.

The thought of one sentence continuing onto the next line creates a very specific tone and message throughout the piece. Enjambment is used in the poem when it says, “I hope you know the effect / that you are having on me” (Hays lines 31-32). There are several lines with enjambment in the poem and this causes the piece of writing to have a certain flow and a different reading effect. Another poetic device the poem uses is a very straight forward writing style. From the start of the poem, the reader knows exactly what the author is feeling and the emotions that they speaker is trying to convey. This is very important to the poem because there had to be something in the writing that makes the reader want to keep reading. The article, “Is Poetry Dead,” says, “These days, poetry is institutionalized. Everyone can write it. But if you want a lot of people to read it, or at least the Right Interested Persons, there are a few choked channels of Reputable Publications. Or you can just spray it liberally onto the Internet and hope it sticks” (Petri 1). This quote really emphasizes that poetry has to have something special about it that attracts people and keeps them interested. Another poetic device used in the poem, “I Could Fall in Love,” is alliteration. Although it is not used several times, it is used when the author says “I get goose” (Hays line 18). Besides these three poetic devices, there are not any others present in the poem which is why the song is more artistic and poetic than the

Langston Hughes uses end rhyme to fulfill his message. In stanza one, the words "bank" and "sank" rhyme. The poet also uses imagery. Langston Hughes uses imagery in stanza four so people can see in their mind's exactly what is going on in the poem. In conclusion, both of these poetic devices are used very often in this specific poem.

These sentences often don’t follow any specific meter, if they do it is most likely by accident. The rhyme is more often than not end rhyme. I write the poems to tell a story, but I don’t want it to be completely free verse which is where the end rhyme comes in. I don’t usually have any concrete rhyme scheme so that way I can reach a more diverse range of content without having to worry about not having words to rhyme. Tennyson’s however was very gifted at understanding rhyme and meter, which allowed him to use many different styles when writing his poems. In some poems Tennyson would use a simple style while in others he would employ a more complex style to increase the depth of the poem.

The poet further emphasizes the fierceness of the thistle by likening them to the Vikings, legendary Scandinavian warriors. The final stanza explains how, when the thistles grow old and are cut down, they fight back even more strongly because their seed-pods burst and spread new seeds (their ‘sons’) over the territory which had been cleared, consisting of parent plants.

Alliteration is shown in the poem, in the lines one and two have there is the sound of the letter “L”.

Edgar Allan Poe most likely wrote this poem for the public, so they might understand what it's like, living the childhood he did, and perhaps partly for himself, finding poetry a way to express his emotions in a way that would make sense. The end-rhyme pattern probably isn't as much importance, for when younger children think of poems, they think of rhyme. Perhaps Poe thought that this poem could be used to think that there are some unfortunate people out there, or he wrote this poem just to express himself. Either way, it has been read for years, and will probably be read for more years to come, just like all of his other