A typical dictionary might define poetry as literary composition written in verse with meaning. ... It is the basis of every branch of literary and artistic expression. ... The emotional content of poetry finds expression through a variety of techniques, from direct description to very personal symbolism. The most common of these techniques is the use of metaphor and simile, to change and increase the reader's imagination through implied or clear comparison. ... Poetry is a literary composition written in verse with meaning. ...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

The elements and principles of the poetic work are built up with literary tools that Blake uses to convey what he feels as the important message in which the reader must obtain. ... The capitalization technique is a thoughtful process in which Blake applies to this poem in a rather blatant way. ... By capitalizing both Man and God the result is an extremely taboo literary piece for its time period that places God in the same perspective or level as humanity. ... One must use a trained eye for the literary tools when analyzing this poem. ...

• Word Count: 1424
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

His use of natural images and traditional poetic technique give him a fashion that is desirable to the fictitious ears. Throughout his literary career, Frost had been both celebrated and condemned for his works as a poet. ... He has inspired and affected the lives of a range of people, from interested readers, to the United States Senate, to the literary critics of last century, this century, and the next century to come. ... But I shall be lying" (Columbia Literary History of the United States). ...

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• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Margaret Atwood lures her audience in the poem "Siren Song" by utilizing many literary devices and techniques, which ultimately trick the reader into thinking that she will reveal something beneficial and the "song that is irresistible" (2-3). ... This structure is one of the techniques that Atwood uses to capture the reader. ... In stanza four she begins to make a deal with the reader, another technique of persuasion. ... Along with the actual content of the "Siren Song," the various techniques in the structure of the poem persuade the reader into thinking the secret is special. ...

• Word Count: 1751
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Choose one such poem and, by close study of the poetic techniques used, show how effectively the poet has conveyed the idea or emotion. ... The strong emotions and feelings, mixed with his humour, word choice and literary techniques are effective in many ways. ...

• Word Count: 1282
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

"Her compact, forceful language, characteried formally by long disruptive dashes, heavy iambic meters, and angular, imprecise rhymes, is one fo the singular literary achievements of of the nineteenth century. ... "Her subjects are often parts of the topography of her own psyche; she explores her own feelings with painstaking and often painful honesty but never loses sight of their universal poetic application; one of her greatest techniques is to write about the particulars of her own emotions in a kind of universal homiletic or adage-like tone ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes") that...

• Word Count: 1665
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

"All Sorts of Men" Lucy Hutchinson's poem entitled "All Sorts of Men" is an instructive poem written by a respectable, well-educated woman in the middle of the seventeenth century. The persona that authors this piece is quite similar to the poet herself and may express the same views as she. T...

• Word Count: 1938
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In lines 1-2, Duffy presents somewhat of a literary crescendo. ... Duffy is world-renowned for her skilful intermeshing of intertextuality in her literary works, and, in this specific poem, we can assume that she alludes to Vincent Van Gogh's painting: "Starry Night". ...

• Word Count: 1990
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Initially as a young poet, Yeats wrote much literary ornate verse. ... Literary traditions that seemed outdated and diction that seemed too cultivated to suit the era of technological breakthrough was cast aside. ... Revolutionary techniques of composition, untraditional sources for inspiration spurned an era of work stylitically defined as modern. ...

• Word Count: 2111
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

To His Coy Mistress- by Andrew Marvell (1621-1678). Analysis of figures of Speech and Poetic Devices. To begin, the title of the poem suggests that it is written by a man to his coy (shy) mistress. The poem is a metaphysical poem expressed in a romantic form, so it could be easily categorized as...

• Word Count: 1363
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Robert Frost is famous for his ability to ask the reader about their life with the use of simplistic words. Frost does this by using the poetic technique of duality. Duality is the contraction of two opposite qualities; for example light and dark or left and right are two dualities. Along with the u...

• Word Count: 1771
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School