Showing posts with label Non-African Poetic Analysis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Non-African Poetic Analysis. Show all posts

Thursday 21 January 2016

Read The Analysis Of The Pulley By George Herbert

The poetic analysis you are about to read/study is title ''The Analysis Of The Pulley By George Herbert''

 Now here are the themes of the poem, “The Pulley” by George Herbert:
(1) The limitation in human existence
(2) The blessings bestowed man through creation
(3) The problems associated to riches
(4) The vanity of possessions in presence of loneliness

The following are the figuratives within the poem:
(1) Rhyme pattern of ABAB CDCD, etc.
(2) Personification in line 19-20 “If goodness lead him not, yet weariness/May toss him to my breast”
(3) Allusion to the creation story in the

Friday 20 November 2015

Read This Poetic Devices In Snakes By D.H. Lawrence

This is poetic devices in SNAKES by Lawrence D.H
the poet made use of carefully selected words in describing the actions of the snake: “He lifted his head from his drinking as cattle do and looked vaguely as drinking cattle do. And flickered his two forked tongue from his lips and mused a moment…”
The poet made use of images such as “Sicilian July” “Accursed human education”
He personified the snake with the use of the third person pronoun “a king in exile”
“and l like a second comer, waiting” “his head as cattle do” “like a king” are few examples of

Thursday 19 November 2015

Read The Analysis Of The Mountain By Louis MacNeice

Read The Analysis Of The Mountain By Louis MacNeice

ABOUT THE POET: A Non-African Poet
VERSIFICATION: Six Stanzas
MAIN SUBJECT: Comparison
PROSODY: No Specific Rhythm Or Rhyme Scheme
MAJOR FIGURE OF SPEECH: Metaphor
THEMES: (1) Height And Perception (2) Pleasure At The Top (3) Instability And Discomfort
DICTION: Prudent Structuring And Construction of descriptive lines to fit each stanza.
SETTING: Mountainous Town Or City
PLOT: The poet compared his perception from above to when he got down from the mountain, and blah blah blah.

THE POET:
This is a non-african; he belongs to the British group of poets. He was born in Belfast United Kingdom in 1907 but death him away in 1974.
STYLE:
Under The Mountain by Louis MacNeice is a six stanza poem with three lines per stanza. Though the poem lacks a vivid rhythm and end rhyme pattern but the language is poetically simple because it’s easy for readers to point at the exact representations in the poem; words like “foam”, “flap”, “worth-while crop” can easily be noted and

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