The initial style of sound is alliteration, where Hopkins uses more than two or three alliterating phrases, where he follows the form of medieval English poetry, in a sonnet, where the core patterning development is based on rhyme. Hopkins has defined the use of alliterations in each line, so anyone can note the increased complexities of the b/br alliterations in the last three lines.
Hopkins' Use of Alliteration
Hopkins frequently employs parallelism to demonstrate the parallel structure of sentences, as in the line 'Everything is seared with an exchange,' which parallels 'bleared, smeared with toil,' or 'and wears man's,' which parallels 'and shares man's scent.' Hopkins's poem is a typical structure of the Bible poetic, where the 'and' has a strong rhetorical force, which is used for building up emphasis.
Hopkins' Use of Parallelism
Also the use of simple repetitive patterns, like 'have trod' which is repeated three times; or the internally rhymes of 'seared, bleared, smeared' adding to the parallelism. Also the use of two interjections: 'oh' and 'ah'. Hopkins uses interjections to illustrate deliberate and the force they show in the middle of a sentence to provide some resonance emotions to give fresh voice to the poet.
Hopkins' Use of Repetitive Patterns and Interjections
Imagery as used in I felt a funeral, in my Brain poem by Emily Dickinson. The poem is about the speaker’s irrationality and madness decency, Dickinson employs physical sensations to portrait the breakdown. Emily uses the senses of touch, sight, and hearing to communicate to the speaker’s funeral metaphoric. Dickinson uses imagery to show how the mourners are treading to and from in mind of the speaker’s mind: the metaphorical casket. Emily tries to compare the battle between sanity and insanity that is going in the speaker’s head. A drum is represented in the funeral service. The drum is said to numb the head of the speaker. That signifies the first slowdown of mental shutdown the speaker he is experiencing. The significant that Emily tries to show in this poem is the insanity falling off the speaker. In the modern parallel, Dickinson relates this to the modern society in the instance when a person loses a family member and the tracing of falling into a depression, and the losing grasp on the rationality.
Imagery in Emily Dickinson's "I Felt a Funeral, in my Brain" Poem
Theme development in Herrick’s poem – To the Virgins, to make much of time. Herrick uses the theme of time in his poem of 'To the Virgins, to make much of time', to exemplify the meaning of the term 'to the virgins, to make much of time', which is about one should make most of his/her time, about the time passage, and also that as we get older we change. We become less vigorous and less healthy, less warm, and eventually, we die. Time theme is developed where Herrick's says that mortality is a word-fancy because death is inevitable. "To the Virgins" as Herrick's talks of it, the end of a flower life, the sun-setting is another kind of death, and human life as a metaphor, and about how getting old means because it is getting closer to death, and the possibility of living death a sort of. He exemplifies it in the poem’s vision of nightmarish of single life. Although death is everywhere, still we can try and make most of the time we have.
