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The poem Cat in an Empty Apartment comprises five strophes made up of a varying number of rhymeless, free verses. Gerhard Bauer describes the simple language as an " elegy in a child's tone". [ 2 ] There is often an antithesis between the pairs of lines, for example when in strophe two a sensory impression is followed by the negation of the ...
Kendrew Lascelles (pronounced Lassels; 20 September 1935 – 1 March 2022 [1]) was an English-born actor, performer and writer from South Africa. [2] His works are known for raising the profile of issues of major social conscience, particularly Apartheid and the Vietnam War.
"Abandoned Farmhouse" is an American poem in three 8-line stanzas, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning and Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser.. First published in 1980 with Kooser's collection Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems, [1] the poem uses open verse, simple diction and personification of inanimate objects to infer a family's story and possible reasons for their departure, through observation of ...
"Spirits of the Dead" was first titled "Visits of the Dead" when it was published in the 1827 collection Tamerlane and Other Poems. The title was changed for the 1829 collection Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems. The poem follows a dialogue between a dead speaker and a person visiting his grave. The spirit tells the person that those who ...
A clear example of this can be found in Walt Whitman's poems, where he repeats certain phrases and uses commas to create both a rhythm and structure. Pattern and discipline are to be found in good free verse: the internal pattern of sounds, the choice of exact words, and the effect of associations give free verse its beauty. [ 40 ]
Wyatt returns to the ship, and ties himself to the box with a rope. "In another instant both body and box were in the sea—disappearing suddenly, at once and forever." About a month after the incident, the narrator happens to meet the captain. Hardy explains that the box had, in fact, held the corpse of Wyatt's recently deceased young wife.
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Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, usually in iambic pentameter. It has been described as "probably the most common and influential form that English poetry has taken since the 16th century", [1] and Paul Fussell has estimated that "about three quarters of all English poetry is in blank verse". [2]