Analisis poetry

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

Many kinds of poems that we can read or make by our creativity. But my topic today for my paper is poetry and personal identity. According to the Wikipedia that poetry is a form of literary art which uses the aesthetic qualities of language to evoke meaning in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning. Then personal identity is the numerical identity of persons through time. In this paper we will also discuss about race and ethnicity, gender, and personal identity.

The ethnic of the writer is also influence the writer’s poem. The ethnic itself according to the Wikipedia is a group of people whose members identify with each other, through a common heritage, often consisting of a common language, a common culture (often including a shared religion) and/or an ideology that stresses common ancestry or endogamy. Next about gender is a range of characteristics used to distinguish between males and females, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them. And about personal identity come from the poems that poets create, can make the critical thinking of it.

After knowing the point of this paper, so the writer will continue this paper with the title “Poetry and Personal Identity” in more explanation. The writer hopes that it will give many advantages for the reader who read it.

CHAPTER II

In this chapter, the writer wants to analyze the poem from Julia Alvarez that has content in race and ethnicity, and personal identity. Before that, the writer will write about the meaning of each point.

Poetry is honestly from the poets to create their poems. In the poems there are Confessional poetry made such frank self-definition and Successful poem; the readers can feel the emotion of the poem that can be powerful.

Then about gender as my first definition is in the poem that can catch male and female, experience of life and often influence how we speak, write, and interpret language. In the poem also implied the race and ethnicity which content of the country or habitual language. It is also about the member of identity in the poets’ country. Next personal identity come from the poems that poets create, can make the critical thinking of poem. It shows how the poets using their languages come real powerful emotion.

Before going to the poem’s analysis that Julia Alvarez has dual identity; as Dominican and American. She wants born in New York but spent her childhood in the Dominican Republic.

Julia Alvarez

THE WOMAN ON MY MOTHER’S SIDE WERE KNOWN (FROM “33”) 1984

The woman on my mother’s side were known

For beauty and were given lovely names

Passed down for generations. I knew them

As my pretty aunts: Laura, who could turn

Any head once, and Ada, whose husband

Was so devoted he would lay his hand

Kerchief on seats for her and when she rose

thank her; there was Rosa, who got divorced

twice, her dark eyes and thick hair were to blame;

and my mother Julia, who was a catch

and looks it in her wedding photographs.

My sister got her looks, I got her name,

And it suits me that between resemblance

And words, I got the right inheritance.

The woman on my mother’s side were known

Based on the data that mother’s side is the family of the poet whom includes her mother. It is the implicitly reflects the close extended family structure of Latin cultures.

For beauty and were given lovely names

According to that word, Beauty refers to the Alvarez’s sister and her mother’s side of the family. Alvarez explores the word beauty to impress about her proud of in her family. It is not only the name but also the culture or language of her family.

Passed down for generations. I knew them

In my analysis for the word generations is about the decline of Alvarez’s family. She understands about her family and her relatives more. It is also back to the identity of private mythology of the poet.

And it suits me that between resemblance

Based on the data that resemblance is refers to the face and attitude of Alvarez who gets the same behavior from her sister. In this case Alvarez also puts the implicitly of gender in her race family.

And words, I got the right inheritance

According to data, the right inheritance is refers to the ethnic of Alvarez’s family and culture of her life. It is the background of Alvarez in the writing her poem.

ENDING of the ANALYSIS

Based on the Alvarez’s poem that she writes her life in that poem. She gives implicitly of her poem as gender, race and ethnicity, and personal identity. But we have to consider that the categories do not eliminate other writers to explore their writing. According to Alvarez that writing poem’s personal perspective is reflected in its formal aspects likes imagery, tone, metaphor, and sound. Observing how formal aspects embody the author’s special themes and subjects will be central to appreciating his or her voice.

Tugas Poetry

INTRODUCTION

The structure or pattern of organization that apoet chooses in writing a poem is referred to as being either open or closed. An open form does not have an established pattern to it, whether it be in line length, meter, rhyme, imagery, syntax, or stanzas. An open form poem allows the poet to write freely without worrying about trying to make the words fit a speseific meter or rhyme scheme.

It is allows the poet to place the words anywhere on the page to create a desired effect, such as setting lines off by themselves for emphasis or creating a picture with the placement of the words. It is indicate a fresh and individual arrangement for words in every poem. Many open form types exist, and good poets have often mastered several over the same period, even mixing them in the one poem.

Poets who write in open forms usually insist on the form growing out of the writing process, i.e. The poems follow what the words and phrase suggest during the composition process, rather than being fitted into any pre-existing plan. Some do employ vestiges of traditional devices rhyme, meter, alliteration, but most regard them as hidrance to sincerity or creativity.

In this paper we will learn about how to write an open form in poetry, what is visual poetry and how to read a poem in open form. Also we will learn and analyze the open form poem by Walt Whitman (1855).

CONTAIN

Poetry in open form used to be called free verse. The rhythms of poem by using a little white space or a lot, a slight identation or deep one, depending on whether a short pause or a long one is intended. In open form, you may read just as you would normally read a sentence in prose. Free verse is a form of poetry that refrains from consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. When we write an open-form poem, try to be very concious. Everything in the poem, every feature, every aspect, must have a reason for being there. Open form poetry usually has no meter to lend it rhythm. Poets writing in open forms argue that their approaches make for greater freedom to find the appropriate expression, and the words are not regimented into set meanings.

Use experimental techniques that blast open the possibilities of words on the printed page. When you use the open form, you start to impose on your poem and youself all sorts of rules. Think of open-form poetry as a way of thinking an especially intense awareness of every single aspect of the poem, from subject and tone to music and rhythm, from the physical shape of the poem to the length (in space and in time) of the lines, from the grammar you use to the parts of speech.

Visual poetry is poetry or art in which the visual arrangement of text, images and symbols is important in conveying the intended effect of the work. It is sometimes referred to as concrete poetry, a term that predates visual poetry, and at one time was synonymous with it. The act of writing an experimental or visual poem is limited only by your imagination. You can spin or form your words, write them up, down, or circled around the page, draw pictures and play with the lettering to your heart’s content.

A poem in stanzas can please us by its visual symmetry. And far from being merely decorative, the visual devices of a poem can be meaningful, too. Typographical devices such as capital letters and italics also can lay stress upon words.

POEM ANALYSIS

Song of Myself

By: Walt Whitman

Here and there with dimes on the eyes walking,

To feed the greed of the belly brains liberally spooning,

Tickets buying, taking, selling, but into the feast never once going,

Many sweating, ploughing, thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,

A few idly owning, and they the wheat continually claiming.

Analysis:

This poem is trying to say how unique his feelings and thoughts are, Whitman emphasizes his ordinariness. The idea behind “Song of Myself” is that individual identity is temporary but transcedent. As I wrote before, in the introduction that it is indicate a fresh and individual arrangement for words every poems. And allows the poet to write freely without worrying about trying to make the words fit a spesific or difficulty.

In this poem also indicate that open-form poem mix with every feature, every aspect and they must have a reason for being there. It’s simply in the line two and three, “Tickets buying, taking, selling, but into the feast never once going,

Many sweating, ploughing, thrashing, and then the chaff for payment receiving,”.

“Song of Myself” includes many modulations of tone as it moves towards and its climax. To work out the theme of endless renewal, between description and emotion. As I wrote before in contain, that poets writing in open forms argue that their approaches make greater freedom to find the appropriate expression into set meanings.

CONCLUSION

An open form poem allows the poet to write freely without worrying about trying to make the words fit a spesific meter or rhyme scheme. Usually open form is called by free verse poem. Free verse is a form of poetry that refrains from consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. Poets writing in open form argue that their approaches make for greater freedom to find the appropriate expression, and the words are not regimented into set meanings.

The act of writing an experimental or visual poem is limited only by your imagination. You can spin or form your words, write them up, down, or circled around the page, draw pictures and play with the lettering to your heart’s content. The only rule of thumb, if it can even be called such it is to remember that visual poetry combines what you see and feel inside with the words you put on the page. Sometimes, your experience will be so graphic and visual that you will find the poem to be very sparse in word count, but loaded with eye-catching features.

analysis poetry

SOUND

Introduction

Sound represents an essential aspect of most poems, but it can be elusive element to isolate for analysis. Even professional critics often disagree about the sonic effects of particular poems.

The sound of word in itself gives pleasure. However, we might doubt Isak Dinesen’s assumption that “meaning in poetry is of no consequence.” But most good poetry has meaningfull sound as well as musical sound.

The sounds of consonants and vowels can contribute greatly to a poem’s effect. The sound of s, which can suggest the swishing of water, has rarely been used more accurately than in Surrey’s line “Calm is the sea, the waves work less and less.

The easier way to write about the sound of a poem is usually to focus your discussion. Rather than trying to explain every possible auditory element a poem possesses, concentrate on a single, clearly defined aspect that strikes us as especially noteworthy. For example, if we might demonstrate how elements of sound in a poem emphasize its literal meaning. Don’t look for hidden meanings. Simply try to understand how sound help communicate the poem’s main theme. Here us might examine how certain features (e.g. rime, rhythm, meter, alliteration. Etc.) add force to the literal meaning of each line. Or, for ironic poems, we might look at how those same elements undercut and change the surface meaning of the poem.

SOUND :

• Onomatopoeia

Relating sound more closely to meaning, the device called onomatopoeia is an attempt to represent a thing or action by a word that imitates the sound associated

Onomatopoeia is often effective in poetry.

e.g. zoom, whiz, crash, bang, ding-dong, buzz, schlurrp.

The sounds of musical instruments, the noises of wind, sea, and rain, the rattle of milkcarts, the clopping of hooves on cobbles, the fingering of branches on the window pane, might be to someone, deaf from birth, who has miraculously found his hearing. “For readers, too, the sound of words can have a magical spell, most powerlful when it points to meaning.

• Alliteration

Among such pattern long popular in English poetry is Alliteration, which has been defined as a consonant sound at the beginning of successive wordss-“round and round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran”-or inside the words.

Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial consonant in consecutive words or in words in close proximity to one another.

e.g. The D got dunked by the duct

The T was totally terrified

As we have seen, to repeat the sound of a consonant is to produce alliteration, but to repeat the sound of a vowel is to produce assonance. Like alliteration, assonance may occur either initially. It slows the reader down and focuses attention.

• Rime / Rhyme:

A rime (rhyme), defined most narrowly, occurs when two or more words or phrases contain an identical or similar vowel-sound, usually accented, and the consonant-sounds that follow the vowel-sound are idenctical: hay and slaigh, prairie schooner and piano tuner. From the example it will be seen that rime depends not on spelling but on sound.

1. Masculine Rime:

A rime of one-syllable word (jail, bail) or (in words of more than one syllable) stressed final syllable

e.g. di-VORCE re-MORSE

HORSE re-MORSE

But once, years after, in the country lanes,

Two scholars, whom at college erst he knew.

Met him, and of his way of life inquired, masculine rime

Whereas he answered that the Gipsy crew,

His mates, had arts to rule as they desired masculine rime

2. Feminine Rime

A rime of two or more syllables, with stress on a syllable other than the last.

e.g. TUR-tle, FER-ale

in-tel-LECT-u-al, hen-PECKED

And learning backward in a pensive dream,

And fostering in thy lap a heap of flowers, feminine rime

Plucked in shy fields and distant wyehwood bowers,  feminine rime

And thine eyes resting on the moonlit stream

In rime, spellings look alike but pronunciations differ Venus and menus. Rime in American poetry suffered significant fall from favor in the early1960s. recently, however, young poets have begun skillfully using rime again in their work.

CONCLUSION

In poetry, we will find poetic devices. Poetic devices are the techniques employed by poets, such as repeating sounds within a line or stanza, imitating sounds, repeating words and phrases, and utilizing comparisons, to create powerful images.

The poetic devices may be formed sound devices and figurative speech or language. We can think that make poem is not easy, we need kind of alternatif supporting part to make it good. They are contains rime, meter, alliteration, assonance, euphony, cacophony, repetition, or onomatopoeia (each striking instance of the relevant) detailed analysis, it often helps to chose a short poem.

The References

• Literature of writing by Martin Steinmann and Girald Willen, Second Edition 2004, Wardsworth Publishing Company, California