POEMS EXPLAINED

1) John Keats uses a lot of imagery in this poem. There is no setting yet there is an atmosphere created. He creates this atmosphere by using words. The reader can see the “high-piled books.” He is also giving a list of things he will not be able get to do. For example, “Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace.” This builds an uncertainty in the reader. From this example He keeps listing other things that he will not be able to do.

2) John Keats wants his last poems to be his best ones. This is why he makes rhyme and meter such an important part of his poem. This poems gave Keats something to look forward to. He worried that according to Martin and Jacobus, “He may die before he can write his best poems” (195). Keats took the time in his last poems to make sure they were his best ones.

Pg 196

1) At the end of each line I emphases a fall. In line 6 where all of the words are pushed together I tended to rush the smaller words to make it one long big word. This type of poems breaks up the natural follow that one would have reading a regular poem. This poem makes one stop where they usually wouldn’t.

2) The two poems “Buffalo Bill’s Defunct” and “When I have Fears” are structured in two different ways. “When I have Fears” is the most common structure of poems. “Buffalo Bill’s Defunct” by E.E. Cummings plays with the structure of the poem. Cummings lines don’t go all the way from left to right on each line. The way that this poem is set up makes the reader stop where they normally wouldn’t stop. He also plays with words. He puts together the words one, two, three, four, and five to make one big word. This makes the reader read the words at a much faster pace than if he had kept them separated.  The two poems “Buffalo Bill’s Defunct” and “When I have Fears” read in very different ways.

Pg 202

2) “The Tyger” by William Blake and “Song To Celia” by Ben Jonson are opposites to me. The word usage is different in the two poems. “Song To Celia” uses action and descriptive worlds words. For example, “raise, light, night, and taken.”

3) “Ballard Of The LandLord” by Langston Hughes I could set to music. There a difference between reading and singing. When I song this poem to music I had more emotions in the words. I even put more of my attitude into the words. This poems sounds a lot better when set with music. 

5) The poem “The Tyger” by William Blake has the most powerful imagery. This imagery conveys to emotions. These images play an important role to the poem. The imagery helps the reader try to understand the “Tyger” as being relate to things in nature.

Pg 206

1) The man’s age is appropriate to compare to “yellow leaves, or none” because yellow can be used to describe youth and the man doesn’t have any more youth. The “bare ruined choirs” could be found in the man’s heart because of the use “where the late sweet birds sang.”

2) The “sunset” fading “in the west” is a comparison to the man’s past life. This is an very effect imagery because the man life is coming to any end as an indication or of age and so is the sun coming to any end.

3) The “glowing” fire is an indication of the passion inside the man. The metaphor shows how the man feel inside. The fire has been “nourished by” the man’s life around him.

4) “Love” which is talked about in the end also has to do with life.