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Week 6:Question, Address,

Repetition and I nversion.


Robert Frost(1874-1963)
1553404A Poetry

Academic Year 2013 Semester 3

Overview this week 6.
You will learn Question, Address,
Repetition and Inversion.
With many examples.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Stopping By
Woods On Snowy Evening, Fire and Ice
You will feel enjoy, I guarantee.

Question.
This is the simplest form of devices. A
question may be more emphatic way of stating
something than a plain statement. Some poets use
questions in their poems to arouse our curiosity or
to leave us to ponder over them.
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In the poem the Tiger, William Blake starts
this poem by asking a question which is repeated at
the very end of the poem. And questions appear in
every stanza.
Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright,
In the forest of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

The poet put in a question instead of a plain statement.
He cannot conceive how even a god, an immortal
hand; could shape the frightening form of the tiger.
Obviously the answer to all questions have not been
found. We are left pondering on what be brings up for
attention.
In the following lines Shakespeare asks a question but
he answers it himself.

Shall I compare thee to a summers day?
You are more lovely and more temperate.

He is wondering what to compare the woman he loves
to. He considers a summers day but he decides that
this is too inadequate.
Address
Very often poets address their readers or other people
who is alive or someone who is long dead in their pomes.
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Wordsworth, lamenting over the state of England in
his days, thinks of John Milton.
Milton thou shouldst be living at this hour;
England hate need of thee
John Keats, knowing that his short life was drawing to
an end, looked at the evening star which shines steadily and
brightly wrote his last poem.
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art.

Robeert Herrick is aware of the frailty of life and asks
the beautiful flower which he compares to life to stay longer.

Fair daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon:
Repetition
Repetition is used to make an impact on the poems tone.
Words or phrases are repeated throughout the poem.
Repetition is used for emphasis, to express emotion
and to give pleasure to the ear.

In The Ancient Mariner, the poet says:


Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breathe nor motion.
The repetition conveys the sense of a long endless day.
A poet is impressed by the beauty of the woods on a
snowy evening, he says:

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

Why does the poet repeat the same words in the last two lines?
He wants to emphasize that he must go even though he prefers to
stay longer.
Inversion
The emphatic place in the English sentence is the
beginning, is that if we wish to place particular emphasis on
something we bring it to the beginning of the sentence.
The inversion is made also when the poet wants to give
the required rhythm to the line
Why did Wordsworth say:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance.

The poem The Ancient Mariner says:
The sun now rose upon the right
Out of the sea came he.
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Poetry

A Boy's Will (1913)
North of Boston (1914)
Mountain Interval (1916)
New Hampshire (1923)
West-Running Brook (1928)
The Lovely Shall Be Choosers (1929)
The Lone Striker (1933)
From Snow to Snow (1936)
A Further Range (1936)
A Witness Tree (1942)
Come In, and Other Poems (1943)
Masque of Reason (1945)
Steeple Bush (1947)
Hard Not to be King (1951)

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

He the horse. Usually it would be used to refer
to animal.

sweep the blowing of the wind, perhaps with the
sound of a broom sweeping across a floor.

easy wind : the snow falls in soft bits or pieces,
like the down or soft feathers of a gooses.
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
1. Who seems to be the speaker in this poem?
2. Why did the man stop in the woods?
3. Where was he going when he stopped there?
4. How was he travelling?
5. Why does the horse think it strange for him to stop there?
6. Why does the horse shake his harness bells?
7. Point out the poetic device the poet sues to describe the
horse?
8. What is the other sound besides the shaking of the bells?
9. What images occur in the poem?

10. Why does the speaker of the poem leave the
place?
11. What is the literary meaning of the last 3 lines?
12. Discuss the central thought or the theme of the
poem?


End of
his Stopping By Woods on Snowy Evening.
Fire and I ce
by Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I have tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice is also great
And would suffice.

For your Home work.
1. Read the poem and use all technics you
have learned to analyze and summarize the
pome.

Your opinion? Lets try.? ( ^ _ ^)

End of Week 6.

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