Poetry Case Study Examples

I have recommended “Eating Alone” because it is tone and motif. The tone of the poem is nostalgic. The author mentions the earth now is “brown and old” while remembering before how he used to walk with his father. He cannot remember if he talked with him or not, but the memories of his, “left hand braced on knee, creaky—to lift and hold to myeye a rotten pear.” The memories are so strong he almost sees his father, only to find it is actually a shovel standing in dirt. The author also uses nature as a recurring theme of life, showing us through food (“sweet green peas fried in onions”) or his father reaching up to mingle his hands among the branches, that life is fleeting, and only strong memories remain. The poem is powerful and nostalgic, reminding us how connected we are to the things we do, each other, and the things around us.
The diction and word choice of “The Value of Education” lend themselves to many aspects of the poem, including music, tone, and meaning. The lack of punctuation in some places, for example, “I go now to the library. When I sit in the library I am not illegally dumping bags of kitchen garbage in the dumpster behind Clippinger Laboratory, and a very pissed-off worker at Facilities Management is not picking through my garbage and finding several yogurt-stained and tomato-sauce-stained envelopes with my name and address on them.” Allows the poems music to flow smoothly. Due to this style, the tone and emotion of the poem are also impacted; the reader senses a note of listlessness in the writer’s words. The entire poem, when read just right, eventually flows together like the notes of a song. The lack of punctuation can become a jumble if the reader is not looking for beat, but even small sentences, such as, “No one in town is approaching my chair with a summons, or a bill, or a huge fist.” appear to give off a cadence. The repetition of the word, “or” creates the illusion of beat that continues to play, setting the tone for the poem. “To The Athlete Dying Young had much the same tone and flow to its sound. For example, “The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place; Man and boy stood cheering by, And home we brought you shoulder-high,” shows punctuation, but nothing that would stop the cadence of the poem. A beat it set that follows the rest of the stanzas.
The poems “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and “Sleeping in the Forrest” lend themselves to the creation of visions, sounds, textures, and folds, using a variety of methods. “Nothing Gold Can Stay” is a long metaphor, using language to compare the beauty of life, youth, and time, to the seasons. “Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.” could be compared to the beauty of a young person, or the joy one feels at the beginning of a love affair. Things are always easy in the beginning, but it is never easy to hold that type of joy. We see a beautiful forest, bursting into bloom slowly fading and dying at the approach of winter, much like many things do in life as the world takes its told. “Sleeping in the Forrest” is similar, likening the earth to a person. We see the earth as a woman when the poem says, “She took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts.” The poem is layered and dark, as we get the notion of eternal night: I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars.” Other lines speak of doom and birds doing their work in darkness, suggesting not only is the earth a woman, but also that she might be evil.
“Oh, My Love is Like A Red, Red Rose,” uses certain phrases and speech to show unexpected emotion. It is evident throughout the first two stanzas that the writer is in love with the object of their affections. However, red roses typically die, and the end of the poem suggests the writer’s love will not. “And I will love thee still, my dear, While the sands o’ life shall run.” proposes the individual’s love will outlast a rose. “The Secretary Chant” uses certain speech to add unexpected interest. From the first line, “My hips are a desk, From my ears hang chains of paper clips.” the reader becomes interested in what the secretary chant is about, and what these words mean. “File me under W because I wonce was a woman.” Not only gives the illusion that she only feels like a filing clerk, but also the strong sense that she is so committed to letters see spells “once” with a “W” for woman. “Because I Could Not Stop For Death” uses speech to show unexpected emotion. Death typical evokes fear and anxiety in people. The writer could not stop for death, not out of fear, but apparently out of work ethic. Her desire to work kept her in the living world. Eventually death made her pause and took her kindly, as a friend. He allowed her the time she needed to depart the living world slowly, “We slowly drove – He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility,” shows she may not have been ready to leave and death was sensitive to this.
Blackberry Eating: “Overripe, icy” :AssonanceAunt Jennifer’s Tigers: finger fluttering: AlliterationM is for Morganand MS: “crunchy swoosh: Onomatopoeia