“End” Langston Hughes
-made up of three stanzas
-One stanza equals one sentence
-each line could not stand on its own without the next line
-no rhyming
-has somewhat of a beat/ rhythm
-no metaphors
-Kind of bland poem – not much excitement and doesn’t really make me think
-some imagery: “No shadows that move/ from dawn to dusk.”
-makes you think of an empty room with no windows
-tone: feels like you are lost
-no direction in life confused or in a daze
“The World Is Too Much With Us” William Wadsworth
-One big stanza
-a little bit of rhyming but I think it’s coincidental: “hours, flowers” “boon, moon”
-words that may need to be looked up: sordid, boon, Pagan, creed, forlorn, wreathed, lea
-metaphor: “And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers.”
-only metaphor in the poem
-Tone: starts out that we have abused the naturalness of our world and have abused our power
-all of these bad things are occurring and if he/she could just see something happen that wouldn’t make him so sad
-would want to see Triton or Proteus put him in a happier mood
-a lot of punctuation is used
-stanza is more than one sentence
-has a rhythm but not a definite one
-feels more like a story rather than a poem the lines are pretty long feels like all prose but is just broken up into short lines
-personification: “the winds that will be howling at all hours”
-gives the wind an animal/person characteristics
The line “For we are out of tune” makes me feel that we have changed the world itself
-we have changed the movement of the sea, and the direction of the wind
-even though we are “out of tune” it doesn’t really bother us
-this makes me think of Global Warming we have ruined our earth for the worse, and even though we have done this horrible deed a lot of people don’t really care/ don’t want to change their habits for the better
“Acquainted With the Night” Robert Frost
-made up of five stanzas
-the last word in the first line rhymes with the last word in the third line of each stanza, “night, light, “lane, explain” “feet, street” “good-bye, sky”
-the last stanza is a couplet: “right, night”
-has a really good rhyming when read I think the rhyming helps this rhythm
-The lines are end- stopped even though they all don’t have periods or punctuation at the end of them:
“I have been one acquainted with the night” no punctuation but can still be end- stopped
-all three lines in the first stanza start with “I have”
-good imagery: “I have looked down the saddest city lane.”
Makes you think of a really dirty, grimy street that has trash everywhere and the houses are pretty dumpy looking
Another example: “I have walked out in rain – and back in rain.”
-makes me think of a huge storm
-a little twist saying he’s walked out in rain and back in this diction plays off each other
-Tone: a little depressing all dark adjectives: “night, rain, saddest, dropped my eyes, not to call me back or say good-bye”
-the line: “And further still at an unearthly height,/ one luminary clock against the sky.”
-makes me think of the moon
-the moon is really far away from earth, and it is a pretty bright source of light
-could be considered a “clock” because it can be used to tell time depending upon its position in the sky, how much of the moon is showing, how high or low it is in the sky
-interesting poem makes you think
-the lines seem pretty straight forward but I feel that you have to kind of read beyond what’s written on the page
-trying to paint a picture and I don’t think this one is very simple
-words that may need to be looked up: proclaimed, unearthly, luminary
-the last line: “I have been one acquainted with the night.”
Makes me feel that this person may go on adventures at night or may just take walks at night
-also kind of gives me a bad feeling vampires, dark/scary
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