poetry

The phrase upon my verse ' in line 8 and the desire to write great poetry comparable to the great poets that he enumerates in the beginning imply that the speaker is a poet . He is probably by himself along the seashore as he writes this poem in praise of the sea . Whitman employs free verse in the lines , the effect of which approximates the irregular yet rhythmic movement of the waves . One could almost hear the waves rolling in and out through the reading

The poem is written in the first person , in

the voice of the 7 pool players . The imageries in the poem convey an everyday scene for these people . They are young , they love to drink and have fun but not school The poem uses the language of these young men to point out the ironic meaning behind their self-proclaimed coolness . In the end , the reader is made to ask : are they really as cool as they believe themselves to be ? Aside from end rhymes , the poet uses alliterations (i .e . lurk late , strike straight ) and assonance within lines (i .e . cool , school , think gin ) for a musical effect Furthermore , the purely one-syllable words create the effect of rap music , the music associated with the speakers

The speaker is the poet describing the sounds and feelings during her own funeral . She is the one whom the burial and funeral are for . The predominating sense evoked by the imageries is the sense of hearing . The poet could hear the mourners .treading , treading (lines 2 and 3 a drum .beating (lines 5 and 6 , a box .creak , a bell ' and finally , silence . All these sounds affect her state of mind as one by one they reach her from where she was . Any imagery that denotes the speaker 's sense of sight is absent from the poem . This is in keeping with the imageries that can only be conceived by someone who has died and left the land of the living for another dimension . At the end of the poem , the speaker descends into sense of hearing

The speaker is a lover praising his mistress . Yet , unlike most poems comparing one 's beloved as greater than anything , natural or not , lines 1 to 12 appear to mock the woman the poet is describing . She is ordinary and he confesses that all the metaphors that other poets use to describe how beautiful their women are (rose , perfume , music and a goddess ) do not apply to his own love . In the last 2 lines , however , the mocking tone changes into sincere praise as the poet proclaims his love in spite the imperfections of his mistress...