Examples of Anaphora in Poetry Gwendolyn Brooks uses anaphora by repeating the single word “we” in We Real Cool, emphasizing the speakers’ steady movement toward a tragic end. As Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem The Hill We Climb nears its end, the poet repeats “we will” to inspire unit...
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Poets use anaphora to establish arhythm, structure a poem, or highlight certain ideas. Some poets use extreme anaphora as a stylistic choice. “Howl,” by Allen Ginsberg, does this. Almost every line in the first section starts withwho. The second section repeats the nameMolochat the beginni...
Robert Frost’s use of anaphora in his poem “Acquainted with the Night” adds a sense of weariness and age. The repetition of the phrase “I have” to begin these different lines creates the image of someone with a vast amount of life experience. The poem is dark and despairing, and t...
An expression that uses language in a nonliteral way, such as a metaphor or synecdoche, or in a structured or unusual way, such as anaphora or chiasmus, or that employs sounds, such as alliteration or assonance, to achieve a rhetorical effect. 翻译结果4复制译文编辑译文朗读译文返回顶部 An ex...
A good example of the reverence offered to this field is an illustration “Fig. 5.1. Roger Payne”, of a Folger library copy of “the famous binder Roger Payne” that was included as an “engraved picture of him in his workshop” in one of the facsimile copies of the Folio he created...
Joan La Prade Cannonis a native of Manhattan. After attending college in Minnesota, most of her adult life was spent in rural Connecticut with her husband, rearing their children in the country. She has been a secretary, a teacher, an editor, a retail manager. European travel and a year ...
Monte explains that Shakespeare’s Sonnets“seventeen groups of poems whose first group contains seventeen sonnets, and whose subsequent groups decrease in size incrementally from sixteen sonnets to one poem.” This is curious, but Monte fails to mention at this point that Sonnets was a combination...
George Cruikshank, the infamous cartoonist and satirist presents his 1820 long, illustrated poem, The Queen’s Matrimonial Ladder, which bitingly relates the various indescretions of the English Queen. In a later, 1838, unpublished essay, Jeremy Bentham makes the highly controversial at the time ...