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The Importance Of Balance In Poetry

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“In life one is always balancing”, balance is seen in some form in all aspects of life. It said true that balance is a reaction, without balance there could be chaos or turmoil much like in The World Is Too Much with Us by William Wordsworth. However unbalanced nature gives way to challenge but restores balance by giving triumph this is shown in Diving into the Wreck by Adrian Rich, Still I Rise as well as I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou. Balance is a force stronger within nature rather than in people, it persists much like in Still I Rise by Maya Angelou but also in Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth also aspects of Ode on A Grecian Urn by John Keats explores the issue of one action has a reaction maintaining balance within it consequently bringing joy at the same time as sorrow.
The World Is Too Much with Us by William Wordsworth is a Petrarchan which poses questions about what the ¬¬world has become because of how the human race has cause ‘pain’ and ‘loneliness’ much like …show more content…

These poems use free verse which brings about the interpretation that they are defying convention because in the eyes of the reader the speakers are or will be as free as the verses. It allows for more expressive tones and atmospheres to be created, foregrounding the emotive diction and the struggles the speakers are breaking free off. The emphasis of the “alone” in Diving into the Wreck carries with it the solidarity in the struggle and challenge the speaker is fighting against much like Adrian Rich during the time she has produced the poem. Maya Angelou uses end rhyme in Still I Rise to create a fluidity in the poem as if a story was being retold in the perspective as the oppressed rather than what is expected of them by the

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