POETRY

Poetry



Poetry

“Amends” Poem by Adrienne Rich

The poem changes, is written by Adrienne Rich who is an American poet and is 80 years vintage already. This poem is fundamentally about the relationship between the moonlight and the humans. The moonlight desires to make amends, because it sympathizes with the lives of the sleepers. As night heals up, and also assists the sleepers to get away with bad memories.

The first stanza is about how at night in the dark it is very freezing with stars showing up, lighting up every single piece of stone that is on the ground. The first stanza is illustrated as:

“Nights like this: on the cold apple-bough

a white star, then another

exploding out of the bark:

on the ground, moonlight picking at small stones”

While, the second stanza is telling us about how the stars light up the larger stones it starts showing more, and then rests on the sand, as it comes to the broken ledge, it lights up the high cliff. The third stanza is about how it continues lighting up the rest of the land. And at last, the fourth stanza is about how the star light gets through the cracks of windows and how it gets on the eyelids of sleepers as if it wants amends (Keyes, 1986, pp: 44).

In general it is telling us how better the night - star light is the best from the day light. How the star light lights up every piece of ground at night and how it proceeds gradually lighting up as much as it can. The verse has no tempo or rhyme. The mood of the poem is not neutral; it is normal and very imaginary! There is a lot of alliteration and the tone of this poem is quite miserable to be honest, how the poet wrote it makes it sounds as if the poem is not suppose to be explaining beautiful how the star light is nice at night (Keyes, 1986, pp: 55).

“On The Grasshopper And The Cricket” by John Keats

John Keat's Sonnet " On The Grasshopper And The Cricket " was written on December 30th 1816. The note of this poem is foregrounded in these two lines:

"The poetry of earth is never dead" which is the opening line of the octave and the verse; and "The poetry of earth is stopping never" which is the first line of the sestet. Keats asserts emphatically that no matter ...