Notes on Poetry

Notes on Poetry

Poetry



A Soldier

By Robert Frost

He is that fallen lance that lies as hurled,

That lies unlifted now, come dew, come rust,

But still lies pointed as it plowed the dust.

If we who sight along it round the world,

See nothing worthy to have been its mark,

It is because like men we look too near,

Forgetting that as fitted to the sphere,

Our missiles always make too short an arc.

They fall, they rip the grass, they intersect

The curve of earth, and striking, break their own;

They make us cringe for metal–point on stone.

But this we know, the obstacle that checked

And tripped the body, shot the spirit on

Further than target ever showed or shone



How does poetry help you see yourself/your world differently?



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Of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy:

I wish her a lucky passage.



But now it is she who pauses,

As if to reject my thought and its easy figure.

A stillness greatens, in which



The whole house seems to be thinking,

And then she is at it again with a bunched clamor

Of strokes, and again is silent.



I remember the dazed starling

Which was trapped in that very room, two years ago;

How we stole in, lifted a sash



And retreated, not to affright it;

And how for a helpless hour, through the crack of the door,

We watched the sleek, wild, dark



And iridescent creature

Batter against the brilliance, drop like a glove

To the hard floor, or the desk–top,



And wait then, humped and bloody,

For the wits to try it again; and how our spirits

Rose when, suddenly sure,



It lifted off from a chair–back,

Beating a smooth course for the right window

And clearing the sill of the world.



It is always a matter, my darling,

Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish

What I wished you before, but harder.



What are frail? Spring blossoms and youth;

What are deep? The ocean and truth.



How can sorrow be heavy as said in the poem? Today and Tomorrow be brief? Youth be frail? And truth be deep?



Sounds of Poetry



Sounds of poetry contain many different elements including rhyme, rhythm, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and there subtopics.



Rhyme –The repetition of the sound of the

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