Blog 9
“A Description of the Morning” by Jonathan Swift
This poem is written into one stanza but with eighteen lines within it. The poem follows an aa bb rhyme approach and the rhyme scheme remains consistent throughout the entire poem. You can tell that this poem was written a long time ago because in the poet’s vocabulary are words like “master,” and “lordships.” No one these days have masters. There are also a lot of words that I would not understand if it wasnt for the key notes on the side. Words like “hackney-coach” which is a horse-drawn cab, “duns” which are bill-collectors, “turnkeys” which are jailkeepers and “bailffs” which are constables I would have never been able to figure it out the meaning because no one uses the same vocabulary three hundred years later. This poem flows fairly easy and I think that is because of the simple rhyme scheme. This poet paints imagery because the entire poem is just description of what is going on that morning. There is Betty running away from her master and his bed, people brooming, little boys with their bookbags in their hands. I dont think this poem has a deeper meaning because it seems like it is the description of a random morning. Maybe this poem has signifigance for historians studying the olden days but anyone can write a poem about the morning and describe it and have it rhyme. I think this poem is only okay.
“The Farm on the Great Plains” by William Stafford
This poem has seven stanzas with quadtrains in each stanza. This poem does not rhyme in any way. Each stanza is a sentence with line breaks throughout it. The line breaks seem appropriate because I think the way the poet has them the poem is able to flow and read easier. The poem uses a lot of description to write this poem and paints the scenery by saying things like “A telephone line goes cold;/birds treat it wherever it goes”.That line sounds descriptive but it also may have a deeper meaning. He also uses some dialouge and answers the dialouge in italics: “‘Hello is mother home?’”/No one is home today” I think this poem is about loving a specific place and having it go to ruins. I am not sure why but it seems like this poem has a sad tone to it. Maybe it is because he is talking about things being gone and “because both ends will be home”. I dont really like this poem very much because I think it is kind of boring. I think the author is trying to get meaning across but not on the surface of the poem but I believe it has a deeper meaning.
“Piazza Piece” by John Crowe Ransom
This poem only has two stanzas but one stanza has eight lines and the other stanza has only six lines in it. The rhyme scheme follows an a bb aa cc a rhyme. I think that this poem is interesting because it starts with a dash instead of starting with the poem. I am not sure what kind of message the poet is trying to get across by using dashes to start his poem off. The second stanza also starts off with a dash as well. All of the line breaks start with words like “For”, “And” “But” and “To”. This poem is about love because the poet says “Until my truelove comes, and then we kiss”. I like this poem because the first stanza is a man talking to a woman and the second stanza is a woman talking to a man. The last lines and first stanza of the first stanza are the same and the first and last line of the second stanza are the same. The first and last line of the first stanza is “I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying” and the first and last line of the second stanza is “I am a lady young in beauty waiting”. I think this is a cool approach to writing a poem and to have them be different but correspond to each other. The poet uses a lot of punctuation by using dashes, periods, commas and question marks. I am interested in the title because I am not sure what “Piazza Piece” has to do with a man and a woman trying to find each other. Maybe this poet found his wife or lover in a Piazza and its a prequel to their relationship and how they found each other.
“Sorrow Moves in Wide Waves” by Lorine Niedecker
This poem is written in four stanzas with quadtrains within them. It is interesing because the poet decided to indent the second and third lines of each stanza. The rhyme scheme is unique it follows x a x a rhyme scheme because the second and third lines do not rhyme but the second and last lines of each stanza do. Maybe the second and fourth lines are indented to give emphasis on the rhyme scheme. Some of the lines in the poem are enjambernment because some thoughts start and a new thought starts on the same line. This poem brings a sad tone with words like “misery” “blind” “blue “death” and “deaf”. I think the poet is trying to say that we are so conscious of sorrow and it passes through us like a wave. This poem uses a lot of punctuation by using numerous numbers of commas, periods, exclamation points, and quoatation marks. I like this poem a lot but I am unsure of what it means.
