In the poem Good Times by Lucille Clifton the speaker is a child that is comes from a low income family. Throughout the poem the speaker describes the good times by saying that the lights are back on and her mother has made bread. These seemly little events are the reasons why their family is drunk and dancing in the kitchen. Clifton exercises the use of repetition in her poem by repeating the phrase “good times”. By repeating this phrase numerous times throughout the poem it creates a theme, and causes the reader to focus on the good times.
Conyus uses repetition at the end of this stanza to demonstrate time, how he sat watching this horrific scene for a while as the waves came and went, taking in what he was seeing and trying to digest how this oil spill got to this point where a new morning brings a new nightmare. This line also lacks the presence of other humans in this scene; the fact that he does not comment that others are watching with him gives the idea that he alone is observing, and that he alone is going through this feeling of sadness and mourning as he watches the carcass float in the tide of regret. The imagery is infused with the idea of being forced to relive a mistake over and over again, like a recurring nightmare that does not seem to ever leave because it haunts one’s unconsciousness from the inside
The use of repetition puts the message into the reader’s head. 5. The purpose that the clause serves in the sentence is to create imagery so therefore the reader can visualize the “burning brimstone lake.” Another example of an appositive
Always Something More Beautiful “Always Something More Beautiful” is a poem by Stephen Dunn, born in Forest Hills, NY. I got attracted to this poem, because it reminded me when I was at the Regionals for a Cross-Country race and reflected how humans’ life can be fair or beautiful. The cluster “time, clock, finish” clarifies for a measurement that refers to a competitive race.
In any discourse community, leadership is a crucial factor and on a sports team, this should be a responsibility dedicated to the player that shows the qualities and can bring satisfaction. This feeling can be gained by working hard at practices and showing the results at the soccer games. The feeling calls you to set personal and team goals. Physical and soccer skills are not the only qualities needed to be part of the soccer discourse community. There are other skills that can help the players develop such as relationship skills.
The multiple stanzas that all end with “more” (1) create a certain type of suspense that changes depending on the word that is before the “more” (2). The use of multiple sentences in stanzas makes the poem longer but also gives the reader more time to speculate what will happen next, which creates suspense. The use of the five different parts of a story is used in the poem. This makes the poem longer but it also makes it more interesting as there is a lot of
Throughout Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man, we see a plethora of themes corresponding with the main character’s journey and growth along with many of the background characters and the backgrounds themselves. One that is constantly present throughout the film is repetition. Repetition presents itself in many different ways, a certain word, the reappearance of certain items over and over, or even the narrators own action. Repetition serves as a catalyst to the character’s revelations throughout the novel. The theme of repetition is by far the most important aspect of the book.
Reading the title “ White Lies” I imagined that the poem would be about someone telling a little lie because, a white lie is a harmless or trivial to avoid hurting one’s feelings. The theme is struggle of identity because the girl goes around stating that she is white but in reality she is black. Trethewey uses a child as the speaker because with children you see purity and innocence, but this poem was written during the times that if you had darker skin you were automatically portrayed differently. And as a kid you want to be accepted and looked at the same as everyone else.
Just because the concept of repetition still proliferates, the research on its complex causes and its variables remains to be further studied. From a small perspective, repetition is a rhetorical device. From a large scope, repetition is a literary creation art. From a wider perspective, repetition is an extension and development of philosophical ideas and views. Repetition is by no means mechanical.
Repetition is a strategy used to attract a person 's thoughtfulness regarding a sure thought. Consider school. On the off chance that an instructor needs to express what is on her mind, is she going to say it once? No, she is going to repeat it various times so it starts to sink in. The same works with the repeated verses in this epic.
Many times, an artists lyrics become repeptitive. This could be because there is a message or feeling that the artist hopes the listener will recieve. The chourus is usually the repetitive part and almost emphasizes the feeling from the song to the listener. In modern day books we do not see much repetition. However, metaphors are still a very common thing with writers.
In “The Trouble with Poetry”, and “Introduction to Poetry” Billy Collins focuses on the issue of forced inspiration, and the lack of appreciation readers, and aspiring poets have for the feel of poetry. In “Introduction to Poetry”, Collins mentions that some poetry enthusiasts try too hard to find the meaning of a poem; to try and decipher it like some ancient hieroglyphics, that they forget that poetry is not an essay and does not necessarily have to have a distinct message. In stanza’s seven and eight, the speaker states that poetry should be felt, and that what one poem means to a group of people could have a completely different effect on another group. In stanza eight “Feel the walls” is the speaker’s ways of saying that one should feel a poem and let the poem speak to them, instead of searching for what they believe to be its true meaning.
Throughout the poem “New Orleans,” Joy Harjo utilizes repetition in order to emphasize her message. One example of repetition paired with a metaphor as well outlines her reasoning for visiting the city, “My spirit comes here to drink. / My spirit comes here to drink” (Harjo 98). Harjo is comparing one’s ancestry or past with a nourishing drink.
“Heartstoppingly chilling.” That’s what the Daily express says about the book ‘The Woman In black’ by Susan Hill. This gothic book is set in Victorian England and its about a lonely man called Arthur Kipps. He tells a haunting story that happened in his youth when his boss asked him to attend to an old woman’s funeral, Alice Drablow. He travels to sort the complicated papers that Mrs. Drablow left in her eerie house,Eel marsh.
In Lament of the Frontier Guard, Li Bai uses repetition to describe the aftermath of a war and the anger felt by a single guard. Bai describes the guards ascent into a tower to look over “the barbarous land” where he observes a lonely city, a “desolate castle, the sky, the wide desert.” Regarding the abandoned and empty city, Bai asks, “Who brought this to pass? Who has brought the flaming imperial anger? Who has brought the army with drums and kettle-drums?”
