QUESTION:
Patterns, aimed at the mind, the heart or the ear of the reader, are used by poets to
achieve their purposes. In the work of at least two poets you have studied, examine various
patterns and their effects.
Notes:
Poems used:
Emily Dickinson’s “Nature is what we see”:
"Nature" is what we see— A 5
The Hill—the Afternoon— B 4
Squirrel—Eclipse— the Bumble bee— A 5
Nay—Nature is Heaven— C 4
Nature is what we hear— D 5
The Bobolink —the Sea— A 4
Thunder—the Cricket— E 3
Nay—Nature is Harmony— A 4
Nature is what we know— F 5
Yet have no art to say— G 6
So impotent Our Wisdom is H 5
To her Simplicity. A 3
- poem is contained of only one stanza
- rhyme scheme: ABACDAEAFGHA
- repetition of the rhyme A such as in: see, bee, sea, Harmony, and Simplicity
- underlines the poem’s last word ‘simplicity’
- litle periods used common for Emily Dickinson
- lines alternate between containing 5 and 4 words
- trait is first broken by the Line ‘Thunder-the Cricket’ → only contains 3 words and thus acts as a break in the text
- pattern is completely broken, the last three lines being 6, 5 and 3 words
- makes the end of the poem stand out
- amount of words in the last three lines decrease
- each word in the line seem more significant.
- “Nature” is repeated five times→ clearly significant
- thought the poem is only made of on stanza there are some lines that act as breaks
- start with the word ‘Nay’ and as there is two of the the (poem is divided in three sections)
- Author capitalises certain words to make the stand out.
Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Blood”
- Rhyme scheme: free verse
- more of a story
- Two stanzas
- Ends in question → thought provoking
- Begins with Arab being peaceful (cups the fly rather than kills it) but ends with war
- Who is a true Arab to which the author keeps on referring too? What makes one Arab truer than another one?
- Pattern peace vs war
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