Although God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins isn't my favorite poem assigned because I'm a Frost fanatic, I think it has interesting rhyme within it. Not only does it have the very common and obvious end rhyme, it contains a great deal of internal rhyme as well. For example in line 6 of the poem "And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;" there are three words that rhyme (seared, bleared, and smeared). This line also contains an end rhyme with line 7. God's Grandeur also contains some figurative language such as the simile in the third line in which a rise to greatness is compared to the ooze of oil.
In Robert Frost's Acquainted with the Night, the rhyme scheme is simple. He uses end rhyme. The poem contains a metaphor in the twelfth line in which the moon is described as a clock in the sky. These tools of language may seem irrelevant but they make large contributions to the overall mood of the poem.
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I think that you looked deeper into the poem, to search for things like the metaphor and also, even internal rhymes. Good Job!
ReplyDeleteWow- I don't know if I read wrong or just didn't think of it but I really like how you caught the moon being the clock in the sky. For some reason, I went literal and pictured Big Ben or something.
ReplyDeleteI agree, I read "Aquainted with the Night" but really didn't take a lot out of it because I didn't take the time to. This is why I need a class to analyze poetry with...I can't seem to do it by myself! Great job. :)
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