Poem Analysis cx1b

The Silken Tent By: Robert Frost

She is as in a field a silken tent At midday when the sunny summer breeze Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent, So that in guys it gently sways at ease, And its ing central cedar pole, That is its pinnacle to heavenward And signifies the sureness of the soul, Seems to owe naught to any single cord, But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To every thing on earth the com round, And only by one's going slightly taut In the capriciousness of summer air Is of the slightest bondage made aware.

Significance/Speaker/Perspective/POV ● Title refers to the symbol used to describe the woman ● irer of the woman ● 3rd person

Tone/Tonal Words/ Themes ● iring, relaxed ● Gently, ease, love ● Freedom with hidden boundaries, sense of self

Figurative Language/ Symbols ● Extended metaphor of woman as tent ● Symbols - "Silk tent", feminine nature - Guy ropes, loose boundaries of woman - Pole, strength of the woman

Imagery ● Taut ropes ● Sunny ● Summer Breeze

Structure/ Patterns ● 14 Lines ● Rhyming ● Iambic Pentameter

Time Period Modern - Focus on individual - Slight optimism

Juke Box Love Song

By Langston Hughes

Significance of Title/ Speaker/ Perspective/ POV ● Poem is very much like a love song ● Infatuated man ● Man concentrating on his love a woman (and Harlem) ● 1st person

Tone/ Tonal Words/ Themes ● Free, exciting, energetic ● Drumbeat, whirl, dance ● Love, Harlem nights

Figurative Language/ Symbols ● Personification throughout -Harlem's heartbeat ● Hyperbole -Dance with you till day

Imagery ● Whirl ● Neon lights ● drumbeat ● Heartbeat

Structure/ Patterns ● Flows like a song ● Few end rhymes ● Reptition - "Dance with you" - "Take"

Time Period Modern/ Harlem Renaissance - Jazzy - Optimistic

Wild Nights By Emily Dickenson

Wild nights! Wild nights! Were I with thee, Wild nights should be Our luxury! Futile the winds To a heart in port, Done with the com, Done with the chart.

Rowing in Eden! Ah! the sea! Might I but moor To-night in thee!

Interesting Information Quote from Thomas Wentworth Higginson about the poem: “One poem only I dread a little to print – that wonder ‘Wild Nights,’ – lest the malignant read into it more than that virgin recluse ever dreamed of putting there. . . . Yet what a loss to omit it! Indeed it is not to be omitted.”

Significance of Title/ Speaker/ Perspective/ POV ● Title is rather evident.. ● Speaker yearning for a "wild night" or someone to love ● 1st person

Tone/ Tonal Words/ Themes ● Intimate, desperate, Romantic ● Luxury, wild, heart ● Love, wild romance, restrictions to sharing love

Figurative Language/ Symbols ● Metaphor (nautical) - Heart in port as someone in love - Comparing finding true love to a ship finding port ● Allusion - Eden

Imagery ● Futile winds ● Rowing in eden

Structure/ Patterns ● 3 stanzas ● Each stanza is a quatrain ● End rhyme

Time Period Realism/Romantic - Takes on the more romantic side - ion - Imaginative love

Comparison ● All poems involve some form of love, desire, or iration ● Dickenson's poem contains more ion ● Frost speaks metaphorically about his subject through a tent instead of directly.