DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: "Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur Originally read: March 6, 2013 More information about the Poet:  Richard Wilbur Alternating rhyme scheme in an octave form.  There's a loose iamb and meter, but it's mostly iambic pentameter.  And when I see a form like this, I think that both stanza work similarly like the first part of the Italian sonnet -- the questioning part, rather than the sestet -- the answering part.  And I think most importantly there shouldn't be a volta, that sharp turn which changes the subject or gets to a point. I'm not writing that this poem doesn't have a point -- rather the question is the point, right? However, the first part of the poem borders on the sentimental (I keep writing borders, but one day I'll actually state that 'this is sentimental') because the whole scene in the couple of lines is a boy weeping seeing his creation -- a snow man -- melt in the rain.  Also there are techn...

Original poem reprinted online here:  "The Universal Prayer" by Alexander Pope Originally read: January 26, 2013 More information about the Poet:  Alexander Pope The poem is constructed in quatrains with alternating rhyme scheme (abab).  I wrote that first because I don't know what I should write about this one.  Yes, I did choose this poem, and I think I chose it because of the inconsistencies or, maybe, humor in the poem. The last line in the first stanza, "Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!"  shows a sense of desperation or rather overstatement (over-dramatization) of need.  From here on out, I get a sense of sarcasm from the poem.  In stanza two, "To know but this -- that thou art good, / And that myself am blind: / Yet gave me, in this dark estate to see the good from ill"  Within four lines there's a quandry.  An omnipotent being is good, but made me blind, but in my blindness, inflicted by a good omnipotent being, I am able to see the good in th...