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5 Assonance
Assonance is when vowel sounds are repeated in two or more words that are close to each other in the poem and have different consonants.
An example of this would be “The octopus flopped on the cot – kerplop!” Several words in the example contain the short “o” sound, but the words contain different consonants.
6 Simile
Similes are a type of figurative language that compare an object, person, or event to something else.
They help readers to better understand the characteristics of something by showing a relationship between the two things.
Similes use the words “like” or “as” in the comparison, such as “The dog ran as fast as a race car.” Or “His words cut through my heart like a knife.”
7 Metaphor
Like similes, metaphors show the relationship or commonality between two objects or actions.
Unlike similes, however, metaphors do not contain the words “like” or “as” in the comparison.
In addition, metaphors describe the object or action in a non-literal way.
In other words, metaphors equate two objects or actions just for the sake of comparing, even though the two things are not literally the same.
Some examples of metaphors would be “The shark’s teeth were daggers ripping through flesh.” Or “Her hair was a winding path of intrigue.”
8 Hyperbole
Among other techniques used in poetry, Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration in a text. This can be used for emphasis or humor, such as “He practiced for a million hours.”
9 Symbolism
Symbolism is when a poet uses objects, colors, sounds, or places to represent something else.
For instance, snakes are often associated with evil, while white doves are related to peace.
These are only a few of the techniques that have been used by poets past and present.
They provide a wide variety of options for a poet to develop a unique style while expressing his or her thoughts and ideas to readers.
Conclusion on Chapter 1
Conclusion Poetry, though, may be considered by some as dull, drab and a mere abstract literary reserved and is only enjoyed by a few whimsical and eccentrics. However for human rights communities worldwide, poetry like any other literary genre has become a medium of advocacy. It is an artistic form of expression which conveys a message that ordinary people can relate to. There is no right or wrong way to write a poem. No one can tell someone what and how they are supposed to write their own feeling and views of reality. As in poetry one can express what is within him or her. Poetry appeals to one’s moral sensitivity and sanity to evoke the unspoken and serves like a voice of the universal conscience. Poetry has the ability to reflect the innermost sentiments of heart and soul. Human rights issues in poetry are usually based on traumatic and horrifying conditions. However poetry also serves to demonstrate the creativity, ingenuity and resilience of the human spirits. While depicting the doom and gloom, and pain and grief, it can also bring with it the freshness of hope in the face of the intolerance, slavery, injustice, cruelty, discrimination and oppression. The artistic and literary genre like poetry is also a powerful instrument to point …show more content…
In this respect, poetry is superior, both to history and philosophy. For philosophy presents merely abstract precepts, which cannot be understood by the young. And History deals with concrete facts or examples of virtue, but from these facts the readers must themselves derive the universal and general truths. But poetry combines both these advantages. It presents universal truths, like philosophy, but it does them through concrete examples like, History. Its general truths can be easily understood for they are conveyed through examples, and its examples are drawn from an ideal world and so are more vivid and effective. It teaches virtue in a way intelligible even to the ordinary men. Hence, just like any other forms of poetry, such as religious poetry, which praises God, philosophy and informative poetry, which imparts knowledge of philosophy, history, astronomy, etc.
There are many significant benefits of poetry for writers, readers, educators, and students alike. Some students resist learning poetry because they feel that it is too difficult to understand and write and therefore boring and pointless. Discussing the benefits of reading and writing poetry with students can help make it more enjoyable and give everyone get a better sense of the importance of this field of study.
Poetry can go a long way to building strong communities both in educational contexts and in the world at large. In school, students can build community through poetry by sharing poems that they love with their classmates. Such an activity first requires that students have the tools to find poems that they love. Teachers can help them find appropriate options by helping students see how diverse the world of poetry can be: there is something for everyone, even students who do not think that poetry is for them.
Plato has beliefs that do not separate aesthetics from ethics because his concerns with poetry are purely ethical. Nehamas believes this causes a significant philosophical embarrassment because it suggests Plato does not understand the real value of art and that there is much more than just the ethical part of the art. Furthermore, Plato makes his greatest objection against poetry because the kind of person that one would be ashamed to resemble because of unethical behavior is admired in poetry. Socrates states that instant gratification is the cause of this absurd line of thinking among. The poet relates what may happen within the laws of probability. He universalizes particular facts and invests solidity on transient happenings. Poetry is superior to history and philosophy because it teaches us what should happen and the moral truth but not what has happened as history does. For Sidney poetry is ancient and superior to other branches. From the neo-classist point of view towards Shakespeare and the nature of dramatic illusion.
Sidney begins his defence against the charge that poetry is not a ‘fruitful’ knowledge by redefining the status of poetry, claiming ‘neither philosopher nor historiographer could at the first have entered into the gates of popular judgements if they had not taken a great passport of poetry.’ (Sidney, p.1047) Through this depiction of poetry, philosophy and history become a consequence of poetry’s merits, as Sidney implies the knowledge that poetry contains was essential in their dominant status as forms of knowledge. Sidney further dismisses the primacy of philosophy, arguing that ‘the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him, that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught; but the poet is the food for the tenderest stomachs,’ (Sidney, p.1057) Poetry is portrayed as more accessible in this depiction, while the nature of philosophy is presented as self-indulgent and less legitimate, as it cannot be accessed by those who are not ‘learned’ (Sidney, p.1057). It is therefore conveyed that poetry is more enticing to readers, it is ‘food for the tenderest stomachs’ and implies that it ‘teaches more effectively than philosophy.’ Sidney pushes the reader further as he claims ‘of all sciences’ poetry is ‘the monarch.