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In Hecht's poem she "caught the bitter allusion to the sea", imagined "what his whiskers would feel like / On the back of her neck", and felt sad as she looked out across the channel. "And then she got really angry" at the thought that she had become "a sort of mournful cosmic last resort". After which she says "one or two unprintable things".
One of the earliest rhyming poems in English is The Rhyming Poem. As stress is important in English, lexical stress is one of the factors that affects the similarity of sounds for the perception of rhyme. Perfect rhyme can be defined as the case when two words rhyme if their final stressed vowel and all following sounds are identical. [8]
Ekphrasis: a poem that vividly describes a scene or work of art. [1] Elliptical; Epigram; Folk. Folk ballad; Gnomic: a poems laced with proverbs, aphorisms, or maxims. [1] Hymn: a poem praising God or the divine (often sung). Lament: any poem expressing deep grief, usually at a death or some other loss. Dirge
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
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 ...
American literary critic Elaine Showalter considers Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah as Achebe's best books. [7] In addition to his novels Achebe also wrote two non-fiction books. Another Africa contains his essays and poems, and photographs by Robert Lyons. [8] There Was a Country recounts his personal experiences during the ...
In addition to reprints of the complete poem in Lyrikanthologien, the last two verses of "Nur zwei Dinge" in particular were frequently quoted. Friedrich Kienecker spoke of the "drawn ego" as a metaphor "for modern man's sense of self and self-image", expressing "a basic human experience", which he found in a modified form in many contemporary ...
It is a repetition of similar sounds occurring in lines in a poem which gives the poem a symmetric quality. Caesura–A metrical pause or break in a verse where one phrase ends and another phrase begins. Enjambment–The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.