POETRY
,Ulysses
Structure:
Blank verse
Dramatic Monologue
Iambic Pentameter – Structured life
Pace: Slow - Spondee (long syllables)
Rhythm: Enjambement – Restless to travel
Figures of Speech: “Rust unburnished” – metaphor
“Hungry heart” – personification (passionate for something)
“Experience is an arch” – metaphor (he’s trapped)
“Vessel puffs her sail” – personification (proud ship ready to sail)
“Eternal silence” – metaphor (death)
“Drunk delight of battle” – metaphor (travelled through good/bad)
Words: “Ere” – before
“Smite” – smirk
“Gloom” – Alive (verb)
“Happy Isles” – Heaven
“Gulf” - Sea
Sound Devices: Assonance – ocean rolling waves
Tone: Boredom (start)
Superior – high ego
Discontent
Hopeful
Reflective
Inspiring/ Encouraging (end)
Accepting – reality
Mood: Reminiscent
Themes: Dissatisfaction
Determination
Meaning: Brave man following Fate, he loves traveling but not ruling, but will live to fight for
country. He looks down on his morals
Purpose: Reminiscing on Ulysses old life and what made him happy – history made into poem
Live a meaningful life and never give up
*Prosody = Emotional State of Speaker from rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech*
*Soliloquy = an address to oneself but in the presence of others*
, Loves Farewell
Structure: Elizabethan Sonnet (love poem)
Iambic pentameter
Old English – English history
Pace: Fast (speaking directly to her, pouring heart out)
Rhythm: Alternating rhyme scheme
Figures of Speech: Extended personification (love is a person)
“Faith is kneeling” – personification
“Loves latest breath” – personification
Words: “SINCE” – interruption of private conversation
“Brows” – frown
“Glad, yea, glad” – happy its over (free)
“Kiss and part – “– final kiss (interrupted by another person – interlocuter)
Tone: Conversation
Decisive
Dismissive (relief its over)
Confident (no emotion)
Mood: Capricious (changes in mood)
Imperative – issuing commands
Sad – more emotion at end
Themes: Reconcilement
Meaning: Broke up with girlfriend
Cold relationship and the pair should conduct themselves – no hope for relationship
Purpose: Love could be reborn and recover – always hope (contradicts himself in rhyming couplet)
Rhyming couplet = true purpose of a discussion
*Hyperbole = Exaggerated expression = love taking its last breath*
,Ulysses
Structure:
Blank verse
Dramatic Monologue
Iambic Pentameter – Structured life
Pace: Slow - Spondee (long syllables)
Rhythm: Enjambement – Restless to travel
Figures of Speech: “Rust unburnished” – metaphor
“Hungry heart” – personification (passionate for something)
“Experience is an arch” – metaphor (he’s trapped)
“Vessel puffs her sail” – personification (proud ship ready to sail)
“Eternal silence” – metaphor (death)
“Drunk delight of battle” – metaphor (travelled through good/bad)
Words: “Ere” – before
“Smite” – smirk
“Gloom” – Alive (verb)
“Happy Isles” – Heaven
“Gulf” - Sea
Sound Devices: Assonance – ocean rolling waves
Tone: Boredom (start)
Superior – high ego
Discontent
Hopeful
Reflective
Inspiring/ Encouraging (end)
Accepting – reality
Mood: Reminiscent
Themes: Dissatisfaction
Determination
Meaning: Brave man following Fate, he loves traveling but not ruling, but will live to fight for
country. He looks down on his morals
Purpose: Reminiscing on Ulysses old life and what made him happy – history made into poem
Live a meaningful life and never give up
*Prosody = Emotional State of Speaker from rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech*
*Soliloquy = an address to oneself but in the presence of others*
, Loves Farewell
Structure: Elizabethan Sonnet (love poem)
Iambic pentameter
Old English – English history
Pace: Fast (speaking directly to her, pouring heart out)
Rhythm: Alternating rhyme scheme
Figures of Speech: Extended personification (love is a person)
“Faith is kneeling” – personification
“Loves latest breath” – personification
Words: “SINCE” – interruption of private conversation
“Brows” – frown
“Glad, yea, glad” – happy its over (free)
“Kiss and part – “– final kiss (interrupted by another person – interlocuter)
Tone: Conversation
Decisive
Dismissive (relief its over)
Confident (no emotion)
Mood: Capricious (changes in mood)
Imperative – issuing commands
Sad – more emotion at end
Themes: Reconcilement
Meaning: Broke up with girlfriend
Cold relationship and the pair should conduct themselves – no hope for relationship
Purpose: Love could be reborn and recover – always hope (contradicts himself in rhyming couplet)
Rhyming couplet = true purpose of a discussion
*Hyperbole = Exaggerated expression = love taking its last breath*
