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.
- 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
- 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
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