The epic poem Omeros by Derek Walcott is written in non-rhyming, non-metrical tercets. However, the third canto in Chapter XXXIII deviates from this structure and takes the shape of a smaller poem comprised of 17 rhyming couplets. The diction in this section creates an ominous tone, that is emphasized by the metrical cadence, to highlight the narrator’s feelings of loneliness and grief being alone in the house he once shared with his lost lover. The regularity and rhythm created by the rhyming couplets

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT Research Questions 1-Did Gawain have the qualities of chivalry ? 2-Did Gawain fail the quest of spiritual ? INTRODUCTION An alliterative poem Sir Gawain and Green Knight is one of the most important Arthurian romance . It was like written in late fourteenth century.

In “Brass Spittoons,” Hughes demonstrates the ways in which the American Dream fails due to an absence of unity. In “I Hear America Singing,” however, Whitman illustrates a vision of America in which peoples of all professions and class levels revel in both individuality and unity. Through each poet’s unique rhetoric and thematic use of opposites, Hughes and Whitman develop images of the American Dream that contrast in their exploration of unity and individualism, the perception of work, and symbols

Anne Bradstreet: The main themes of Bradstreet’s poems seems to be surrounded around sickness and death, humility, feminism, nature, matrimonial love, and motherhood. For example, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” is a poem that shows her uncontrollable love for her husband. A line that shows this is, “My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense” (Anne Bradstreet 120). Another poem “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August

Identity is perceived differently in “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes, “Won’t you celebrate with me” by Lucille Clifton, and “Identity”by Noboa Polanco; yet all different interpretations of the announced word agree that one’s identity defines an individual. Throughout these poems, different aspects of identity are explored with the use ofvarious literary devices to further reveal its true definition according to the author. While in one poem, race does not contribute to one’s identity, in

Fragments 22 and 26 CA come from Aristoxenus’ treatise upon meter. Parts of five columns are preserved in POxy XXXIV 2687. The subject of the second and the third columns (from where these fragments come from) is the occurrence in various meters of syncope. The scholiast uses as examples of this figure quotations from lyric poems. These fragments are examples of the occurrence of syncope in iambic meter. Wilamowitz was the first to stress that the metric variation encountered in these fragments,

I have been reading the book " Whiskey words & a shovel " by R.H. Sin it is a poem book about his feelings and his thoughts about relationships and women. He is a feminist and talked about how women should be treated and how they deserve better than what they get and I love it. I respect Sins' work so much I like what he writes, how he writes it and why he writes it. It is beautiful art it if good good having a male feminist that writes about how he feels and is not afraid to say whats on his mind

“…E.E. Cummings experimented with poetic form and language to create a distinct personal style. A typical Cummings poem is spare and precise, employing a few key words eccentrically placed on the page. Some of these words were invented by Cummings, often by combining two common words into a new synthesis.” (E.E. Cummings). As stated by Poetry Foundation, E.E. Cummings has a unique poetic style, which is no different from his poem anyone lived in a pretty how town. In this poem, Cummings writes about