Practice Essay Notes

5. Patterns, aimed at the mind, the heart or the ear of the reader, are used by poets to
achieve their purposes. In the work of at least two poets you have studied, examine various
patterns and their effects.

1. Hope is a thing with feathers (Dickinson)

Slant rhyme + meter
--> Iambic meter? Tweet-tweet like bird?
      Smooth sounding
               Like bird? Soaring/freedom… Sound symbolism?
Emphasis on certain parts
Emotion/heart and mind
--> Melodic in a way
      Optimism
      Tone/mood

1. Blood (Nye)

Repetition of “True Arab”
-->Emphasis on background and emotion
No rhyme =harsher?
-->More real & less melodic?
Repetition of questions
-->First she responds, last ones are for reader?
     Thought-provoking
     Emphasize theme/make reader think about topic
Free verse
-->Patterns in structure are nonexistent