Poetry
In this essay I am going to analyse two different poems. I am going to analyse the subject matter, language, rhyme / rhythm, form, ideas and attitudes and the overall tone of each. The two poems that I will be analysing in this essay are "Like a Flame" by Grace Nichols and "The Thickness of Ice" by Liz Loxley.
"Like a Flame" is a modern poem written in the 20th Century. The title "Like a Flame" is implying that the atmosphere is very hot and is full of youthful spirit around it. The poem is about one girl falling in love with a man. It is written in their first meeting, giving her first feelings between being a girl and becoming a woman.
The whole poem has no rhyming pattern, but some structure is evident. The first four verses, which have three lines in each, they set the scene as well as the mood. It uses the suggestion in the words "ripening cane" to describe herself grow up quickly, already of riper years. His eyes attracted her when she first met that man. As the second verse "my eyes make four with this man." But the third and fourth verses are written she only laughs and feels so confused. She doesn't know she is falling in love because she does not understand the feeling of love. The last four verses of the poem reveal the girl has some sweet feelings when she starts to talk with that man. And it is written the girl is looking for love and they starts to meet to each other. The fifth verse that has five lines describes the physical appearance of the man. Then, there are two single line verses, which give more emphasis to her decision to meet him and to her reaction when they meet. Finally the concluding verse starts what she is thinking about him. Grace Nichols who wrote this and compared the meeting to "a flame", maybe she feels it could be dangerous; maybe it could be secret to her why she meets him at night, but despite this, she feels drawn to him, like a moth to the light. However, the real meaning of this is describing the atmosphere is very hot "Like a Flame" that I mentioned before.
In this essay I am going to analyse two different poems. I am going to analyse the subject matter, language, rhyme / rhythm, form, ideas and attitudes and the overall tone of each. The two poems that I will be analysing in this essay are "Like a Flame" by Grace Nichols and "The Thickness of Ice" by Liz Loxley.
"Like a Flame" is a modern poem written in the 20th Century. The title "Like a Flame" is implying that the atmosphere is very hot and is full of youthful spirit around it. The poem is about one girl falling in love with a man. It is written in their first meeting, giving her first feelings between being a girl and becoming a woman.
The whole poem has no rhyming pattern, but some structure is evident. The first four verses, which have three lines in each, they set the scene as well as the mood. It uses the suggestion in the words "ripening cane" to describe herself grow up quickly, already of riper years. His eyes attracted her when she first met that man. As the second verse "my eyes make four with this man." But the third and fourth verses are written she only laughs and feels so confused. She doesn't know she is falling in love because she does not understand the feeling of love. The last four verses of the poem reveal the girl has some sweet feelings when she starts to talk with that man. And it is written the girl is looking for love and they starts to meet to each other. The fifth verse that has five lines describes the physical appearance of the man. Then, there are two single line verses, which give more emphasis to her decision to meet him and to her reaction when they meet. Finally the concluding verse starts what she is thinking about him. Grace Nichols who wrote this and compared the meeting to "a flame", maybe she feels it could be dangerous; maybe it could be secret to her why she meets him at night, but despite this, she feels drawn to him, like a moth to the light. However, the real meaning of this is describing the atmosphere is very hot "Like a Flame" that I mentioned before.
