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Written while Donne was a student at Lincoln's Inn, the poem is one of his earliest works and is thematically considered to be the "first" work in Songs and Sonnets. Although referred to as a sonnet , the work does not follow the most common rhyming scheme of such works—a 14-line poem, consisting of an eight-line stanza followed by a six-line ...
"Anecdote of the Jar" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. Wallace Stevens is an important figure in 20th century American poetry. The poem was first published in 1919, it is in the public domain. [1] Wallace Stevens wrote the poem in 1918 when he was in the town of Elizabethton, Tennessee. [citation needed]
The first stanza of the poem introduces a young girl, the narrator of the poem, who describes her life through childhood imagery of playfulness and innocence. It recounts how she married her husband when they were both very young and innocent. She was shy and seemed unhappy as she didn't respond when spoken to and kept her head bowed.
The stanza has also been known by terms such as batch, fit, and stave. [2] The term stanza has a similar meaning to strophe, though strophe sometimes refers to an irregular set of lines, as opposed to regular, rhymed stanzas. [3] Even though the term "stanza" is taken from Italian, in the Italian language the word "strofa" is more commonly used.
In this poem, Whitman uses synonyms and antonyms to give structural integrity to a poem comprising two yoked stanzas, much like (but not exactly like) the way poets working within closed forms use meter and rhyme to give structural integrity to their poems. The poem has form, but the form was not imposed by previous conventions. It has open ...
In the example passage from Don Juan, canto I, stanza 1, lines 3–6, the Spanish name Juan is rhymed with the English sound for the words true one. Therefore Juan is spoken in English, as / ˈ dʒ uː ən / JOO-ən, which is the recurring pattern of enunciation used for pronouncing foreign names and words in the orthography of English. [7]
Joseph Holbrooke's Symphonic Poem Ulalume, Op. 35 is based on the poem. All three titles of TJ Klune's post-apocalyptic duology Immemorial Year, [34] consisting of the novels Withered + Sere and Crisped + Sere, can be found in the first stanza of the poem. The main character, grieving his dead wife and son, is given a copy of the poem, and it ...
Piercy’s diction in this stanza “create[s] a powerful vision of the way people exert their influence on impressionable young women, as well as undermine young women who, at heart, want to resist the influences of the dominant culture.” [14] The girl in the poem is easily influenced because she has conformed to society since she was a ...