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Poetry Collection
Poems:
Spring
A Green Cornfield
To the Lake
2 Alexander Chow
12/19/07
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Spring
Joyce Kilmer
Spring
The poem Spring explains that the time of spring is here, this shows the readers
about the beauty of spring. This poem consists of personification, simile and assonance. In
this poem the figurative languages in the line where the author wrote “The air is like a
butterfly” consists of simile because it compares the air to a butterfly. The line “The happy
earth looks at the sky” is an example of personification because the earth is given abilities
that allow it to see. Another device that is being used is assonance because in the line
“The happy earth looks at the sky” it contains the vowel A that rhymes with each other.
This poem shows how a tree first blossoms and then dies after a few days.
4 Alexander Chow
12/19/07
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A Green Cornfield
Christina Rossetti
A Green Cornfield
something that flies around and that sings very nicely. The author explains that in between
the sky and earth there is a land where everything is beautiful. Rossetti wrote about the
butterflies can not really dance instead only humans can. Alliteration is another device
when she wrote that there was “A singing speck above the corn”, because it repeats the
first letter s twice in this line. Another example of a figurative language is that she uses
consonance, when she wrote “A silent sank and soared to sing”, it had the consonant S
repeating over and over again. Symbolism is also another device; the cornfield symbolizes
a holy place where everything is good and beautiful. The author also uses repetition by
including the line “The earth was green, the sky was blue” it shows the repeating word of
both the and was. This author used many figurative languages to show and describe the
To the Lake
Edgar Allen Poe
To the Lake
In this poem To the Lake, it explains that once upon a time a man was happy, and
then one day he came across a lake. A lake that he thought it haunted him; he was scared
and thought that was his grave. He uses many descriptive languages that include
metaphor, allusion and rhyming. The author uses the figurative language metaphor, when
the line states “Death was in that poisonous wave” meaning that death was like a
poisonous wave that killed everything in its path. Allusion is found when the author said
that “Whose solitary soul could make an Eden of that dim lake”. Allusion is the figurative
language that refers to something or someone historical, so that is why she states that you
could make an Eden, which is a historical place of the dim lake. Another language that is
in the poem it rhymes, this poem has a rhyme scheme that goes A A B B C C. Every last
word of each line rhyme with each other, for example lot and spot. This poem creates
many different languages that make this poem into a poem of fear and nature about a man
Sources:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1133/seasonalpoems/spring.html
http://judithpordon.tripod.com/poetry/christina_rossetti_a_green_cornfield.html
http://judithpordon.tripod.com/poetry/edgar_allan_poe_to_the_lake.html
9 Alexander Chow
12/19/07
English
Pd. 1
Spring
The poem Spring explains that the time of spring is here, this shows the readers
about the beauty of spring. This poem consists of personification, simile and assonance. In
this poem the figurative languages in the line where the author wrote “The air is like a
butterfly” consists of simile because it compares the air to a butterfly. The line “The happy
earth looks at the sky” is an example of personification because the earth is given abilities
that allow it to see. Another device that is being used is assonance because in the line
“The happy earth looks at the sky” it contains the vowel A that rhymes with each other.
This poem shows how a tree first blossoms and then dies after a few days.
A Green Cornfield
To the Lake
In this poem To the Lake, it explains that once upon a time a man was happy, and
then one day he came across a lake. A lake that he thought it haunted him; he was scared
and thought that was his grave. He uses many descriptive languages that include
metaphor, allusion and rhyming. The author uses the figurative language metaphor, when
the line states “Death was in that poisonous wave” meaning that death was like a
poisonous wave that killed everything in its path. Allusion is found when the author said
that “Whose solitary soul could make an Eden of that dim lake”. Allusion is the figurative
language that refers to something or someone historical, so that is why she states that you
could make an Eden, which is a historical place of the dim lake. Another language that is
in the poem it rhymes, this poem has a rhyme scheme that goes A A B B C C. Every last
word of each line rhyme with each other, for example lot and spot. This poem creates
many different languages that make this poem into a poem of fear and nature about a man
being scared of a lake.
10 Alexander Chow
12/19/07
English
Pd. 1