LINK your WHY to the writer’s efforts to create a specific tone or mood in the text. You get to enter and participate in an ongoing conversation. Word play involving the use of a word with two different meanings or two words that sound the same but mean different things. It stands for or represents the idea of the ocean. Why? Does it have a connotation or a literal meaning that influences the message of the piece? These general effects can be considered whenever you are analysing what a particular rhyme might be doing in a poem you are investigating. This is used to emphasize whatever is being said or written, or to mimic repetition in nature. It is also used this way in poetry. The Poetic function Is considered a function of language whose main purpose is to produce an aesthetic sensation of beauty, pleasure or grace.. “This book weighs a ton.”, Litotes. It describes a use of language that is perhaps pretty but also empty, something meaninglessly ornate. It gives us a feeling of completion. What links are there between the ideas I got from the title and the ideas I got from the ending? Usually at the ends of lines in poetry, but may be internal (within a line). Sarah Law Poetic Language and Poetic Form
All [poems] are verbal spaces, marked out deliberately, with deliberation, and for deliberation. Listen to them. Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap, These have a minimum of two complete verbs and each part of the sentence can stand on its own. neon lights / urban sophistication, These are a form of shorthand to emotions – an author can use a symbol so that the reader / audience understands the emotions invested in the object without describing those emotions every time the object is used. In everyday usage, figurative language is usually used to help us understand what a literal statement cannot. You can call a police officer “the law,” for example, as in “The law is coming to give me a speeding ticket.”, Hyperbole. It has to do entirely with the way the words are used or understood in a specific context. Poets use different sounds and tones throughout poetry to change the way it sounds. Poets often use such complex figures. This section is the nuts and bolts of poetry analysis. This technique created the idea of………by using it to………………. Others are more complex and individual to an author / character, eg. I’m assuming that by “features” you mean “devices,” which is the usual way of referring to the poetic bag of tricks. Apostrophe: An apostrophe we speak to an inanimate object or an absent person. An advert for an omega-3 margarine has this statement: meaning to an old figurative phrase which involved romance rather than health. Poems may use metaphor to make seemingly simple things no longer simple. The poet feels for a space that seems at one demanding and accommodating, whether given by tradition or made anew. (MICRO i.e. Draws our attention to this phrase. waving at the author’s name on the shore. WHY? Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening, ), Maxine Kumin, “After Love” (Links to an external site. Turning away and looking out the window are actions that suggest more meaning than the actions alone convey. This is because in a poem the thing we are directing our attention at is an emotion or an experience rather than a meaning. “The sweat of the brow” for “hard labor.”, Synecdoche is similar to metonymy; it is the substitution of a name of some part of a thing for the whole thing: You say “trunk” for tree in a sentence such as “We have fourteen trunks on our property,” or “wheels” for “car,” in the expression, “a nice set of wheels.” With synecdoche you can also do the opposite and choose a whole to name a part. This may not be true either. Quote from the text, describe and explain. Language is a means of communication, it is arbitrary, it is a system… So, to discern the effect of a technique, think about how the words are legitimately acting upon you. Can tie together the middle and end of verses. Each group may or may not start with the same word/s. That means two things: it means that everything we do when we use language outside of poem, we also do in poems. Using more unusual or specialized or technical words, The wind moaned, a low-pitched, unutterably eerie. It’s an unfortunate use of the word. pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. (you must decide on the specific effect relative to the text). To get the readers’ / audience’s attention and make them think about the answer before giving it. Language feature. Figurative language is therefore not necessarily “roundabout.” Figurative language is often more direct than “literal” language. Therefore it makes the ideas being presented feel like they should be somehow comfortable. ), Sarah Lindsay, “Without Warning” (Links to an external site. Instead, he fell down the stairs.”, Compare some other common figurative expressions that at first glance sound literal: “he was on fire,” “he bought the farm,” “he got burned,” and “he lost his way.”. We are socially conditioned to obey commands so the advertiser or speaker may get some affirmative response. In utterances where the poetic function is dominant (e.g. “Western wind, when will thou blow?” I’m talking to the wind. Really, she started to cry. Why not? is tie the poem to a chair with rope It is also called “figurative language.” It is opposed to so-called “literal” language. We also need to say a few words about the distinction we made above, that literal language is “more direct” than figurative. Poetic language is the fullest possible language. Stays the same? ... the poetic pace and flow created from a measure of balance and pattern within the language structure. What is literally happening in the title? General effect (you must decide on the specific effect relative to the text) Rhyme: The ends of words have the same sound. Eliot does in this image from a poem not on our syllabus. Many books have been writing trying to understand all there is to understand about metaphor. A man going to a fun fair might literally be about him seeing all the crowds and rides but the idea created could be regret and isolation. Saying of a beautiful painting, “Oh, isn’t that ugly.” In irony we perceive that the words deliberately fail to coincide with their usual meaning. For example, the poet may use alliteration, which is when multiple consecutive words start with the same letter. Did it get us to reflect, relate, be challenged? Nature of Language It provides the instrument of expression and emotive displays. But it’s not entirely figurative either. What idea(s) did it give me? This is not how “literal” tigers are made. The ideas might be quite different from what is being literally portrayed. Makes the character come alive. We resist without even knowing we are resisting. You need to be able to name and point to them. Take this simple sentence: “He fell down the stairs.” You’ll probably want to say, “that’s obviously literal.” But is it? Persuade, inform, entertain? A group of sounds is repeated throughout a sentence or a group of lines in a poem, not just at the beginnings of words. I opened the door wide, then opened my eyes wider when I saw a small black dog sitting on the step. That effect or impact might be a particular sound effect, a sensory experience or image, a connotation (positive or negative), etc. Everyday language tends to say exactly what it means—or at least tries to. Understood in the context of actual poetry, poetic language is not nice-sounding words that have no real meaning. did this apply to you or the wider world? We quickly infer upon reading the poem that the book is compared metaphorically to a child. What tone/mood is created? Why has Blake chosen these metaphors? Second, a given example of figurative language may qualify as more than one type of language. And seeing that it as a soft October night, From what happened in the title – what ideas did I get? (MACRO i.e. have never seen them or thought about them before. Some Other Forms: ode, ballad, elegy, epic, dramatic monologue, villanelle, sestina, 12. Using the techniques in this way was especially relatable for people who….. It is the most effective because it is both literal and figurative. What tone/mood is created? (Daniel Carter loves Jockeys). As we said, so-called figurative language is usually opposed to what is called literal language. He thought he was going up in the company. What links are there between the title and the ending? Did the text make you believe, understand or imagine? What links are there between the title and the ending? Definition or explanation. Used for emphasis to get a point across. The main features of the literary language The literary language is a non-dialectal form of existence (subsystem) of the national language, characterized by certain features. This worked together with the technique of ……in the example of “…………………..”. across the surface of a poem So instead of saying “My book is my child,” You say, “My book is like a child.”, Metonymy and Synecdoche. I may want to use a sword to symbolize the sexual prowess of a knight, but since a sword is also associated with knights, it may also be said to be a metonymy. It’s not overstating the case to say that poetry is a part of language itself and that poems are merely the most concentrated expressions of language’s inherent poetry. Two more notes: First, these are dictionary kinds of definitions. 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