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Arts & Humanities: Poetry: “Question: Can you give me 2xamples of figurative lang in this poem (down below) and explain what figurative lang does to the poems content?” plus 5 more

Arts & Humanities: Poetry: “Question: Can you give me 2xamples of figurative lang in this poem (down below) and explain what figurative lang does to the poems content?” plus 5 more


Question: Can you give me 2xamples of figurative lang in this poem (down below) and explain what figurative lang does to the poems content?

Posted: 19 Aug 2014 04:01 PM PDT

When things go wrong as they sometimes will;
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill;
When the funds are low, and the debts are high;
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh;
When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Success is failure turned inside out;
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you can never tell how close you are;
It may be near when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things go wrong that you mustn't quit

Question: Please help with poem...?.?

Posted: 19 Aug 2014 02:16 PM PDT

"I'm sorry that I wasn't strong"
Something with "belong"

Perhaps you could add on to make it easier to rhyme with. Like, "So long, goodbye to all I know". 'Know' is much easier to rhyme with, like phrases such as "long ago", "all a show", and perhaps "flow" (like the first line could be all that she wrote, and the rhyming line could be something else, like "And all her memories started to flow").

And may I suggest "Her parents found her, and together they cried?"
And perhaps a few more syllables in the first line. Like, "It happened on that warm, dark night"
I do like the poem though. Hope it works out for you.

Question: What's the point of poetry?

Posted: 19 Aug 2014 12:39 PM PDT

What's the point of poetry? What's your favorite song? If it has lyrics, you can trace the roots of the song back to poetry. Rhythm has long been a key component of poetry.

Nietzsche is a philosophical writer and is highly regarded as one of the most important and influential philosophers, but this is the first I've heard him regarded as a poet. I've only read of him for his philosophical impact.

Reading famous poets is all well and good but I really think it's best to look backwards through poetry from more relatable contemporary forms. There are very powerful poems for the finding, accessible for their entertainment value, no matter what subject matter or presentation might suit you best.
Personally, I never thought about poetry much before hearing certain rappers with an active, deep awareness of their craft from a lyrical standpoint. I was able to take an intellectual interest from there and apply it to more classical poetry. Wordplay to old-school composition.There's relativity.

Question: I used to have the FULL "Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind..." poem on a poster. ANYONE know where I can find again?!?

Posted: 19 Aug 2014 07:53 AM PDT

I used to have the FULL "Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind..." poem on a poster. ANYONE know where I can find again?!?

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Question: The meaning of the following poetic line: "What does he but soften Heart alike and pen? " Thank you!?

Posted: 19 Aug 2014 07:51 AM PDT

You can't understand this without reading the whole poem. Don't rip a single line out of its context and expect people to understand it.

"He" refers to the south wind, or good weather in general. (The only way to know this is to read the WHOLE poem, not just this one line.) The poet is humorously mocking other poets who write poems praising balmy pleasant weather; he says that weather like that makes people "soft," whereas weather like they have in England (nasty cold stormy winds) make people tough, which he thinks is a good thing.

Question: Help finishing my poem?

Posted: 19 Aug 2014 04:34 AM PDT

You could say how you're:
"stuck on Band-Aid brand
'cause Band-Aid's stuck on me"
... Joking, sorry. Unless it means something to you, please drop the brand name! Besides, a Band-Aid doesn't fix a broken bone, and the imagery of the little scrapes doesn't fit the impression of having only physical experiences as the first part of your poem suggests. Broken bones are near an extreme of such a playfully rough-and-tumble mind and they make what you wrote more powerful. Even I can feel the sort of morbidity that might have kept you from finishing the poem, so what you wrote is very good poetry, whether you know it or not. Going from that physical extreme, as a sort of "can't get any worse than this" attitude, to an emotional extreme- a whole new pain which your childhood experiences didn't prepare you for- which hits like a ton of bricks
but you don't see it coming like when the world flipped ;)

(i feel sorry for trying to sneak you a rhyme, since i like so much what you wrote on your own)

Even if originally you don't care how close to perfect a poem is, (which is a fair approach for novice and expert alike) because poetry isn't your thing or whatever the reason might be, if you poke the hornet's nest often enough in search of constructive criticism, sooner or later it gets tiresome to hear that something from your mind could even possibly be wrong, even from the gentlest critics. I've been there and I wrote like an idiot full of bravado and ego and not giving a ...darn... what anybody thought. The first time I asked what someone thought, I expected a certain kind of praise; whether I got it or not, I was forced to realize that what I wrote (and, to a lesser extent, how it was received) did actually mean something to me. Just food for thought, maybe.

Well now, if what you wrote doesn't mean anything to and my trying to convince you how well you write won't change that...
Giving yourself a re-read or two could help to improve what you have. For a get-it-in poem for an English class you might just scan for details like, for example, instead of
"healed with comforting words"
try "healed BY comforting words."

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