DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: "Morning Song" by Sawako Nakayasu Originally read: February 4, 2013 The poem plays on tempo.  Yes, there's the beginning where the focus is on the "equation" aspect of the poem and how, mathematically, the lines and words mold together like: far cry ------ low rise the "far cry" is part of the bigger "low rise" and the poem divides on itself and goes smaller, goes focused on the incidents that make up the equation.  However, the tempo comes when thinking of math problems. In my case, a simple person who does horribly on math, the simpler the equation, the faster I speed through it.  And, through words, the speaker simplifies the equations.  For example, "an every morning sticks, figure A, for alas, stick figures, it /  figures that we awaken in the same rectangle at different points on the time / line, these every days the sum of all our" So the speed comes when the word "figures" is re...

 Poem found here:  "Triolet on a Line Apocryphally Attributed to Martin Luther" by A E Stallings This is a tough poem.  But a tougher title. The Poem The poem itself, without the title, is a fun set of rhetorical questions in the triolet .  So why this form for this poem.  There's a certain rhythm and song like quality to this poem based on the rhyme scheme  "ABaAabAB" which the 1st, 4th, and 7th lines are the same word "tunes" as well as the 2nd, and lst line of "night."  These are the main concepts of the poem -- or at least stand out the most. "Why should the Devil get all the good tunes, / The booze and the neon and Saturday night,"  Ah, the luxury of sin on a Saturday night.  This makes me think of the type of music found in clubs and night life -- a more fast paced, open energy: dance, disco, electronic, drum and bass.  I'm trying to listen to the songs now, and just imagine being lost in the beat.   Then this line appear...

Original poem reprinted online here:  "Beauty" by Elinor Morton Wylie Originally read: January 16, 2013 More information about the Poet: Elinor Morton Wylie So I read this poem after "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron ; however, I don't remember if I analyzed them at the same time.  Judging by the line marks, I'm pretty sure no.  Anyway, reading the poem and then thinking about what Byron wrote brought a new perspective for me. Form first, this poem is written in quatrains with an alternating rhyme scheme (rhyme scheme similar to Byron), and still the technique.  There's something separate and off in the poem. Let me write down what I first thought about the poem: "Summary time!  If stanza 3 was put in place in stanza 1 -- I think the poem would be less of a definition of beauty but how beauty is defined." Although I don't agree with past me, I do see the point.  If I looked at this poem as a definition poem (title being the word to be def...

Original poem reprinted online here:  "She Walks in Beauty" by George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron) Originally read: January 16, 2013 More information about the Poet:  George Gordon Byron What I didn't write in my notes (and I just realized this after rereading this poem) is that the poem is iambic octameter with three sestets with an alternating rhyme scheme ( ababab, cdcdcd, efefef) .  What does that mean to the poem?  There's something off with the poem. Not in the sense of meaning, but the poem seems "incomplete" form wise.  The "usual"  form is iambic pentameter, rhyming couplets,  octaves (maybe even quatrains).  I'm probably looking too much into it, but form informs sound and interpretation. With that being written, the most important line of the poem is deciphering the initial simile, "She walks in beauty like the night / of cloudless climes and starry skies."  So this is a dumb point for me to address, but the simile can refer t...