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Poetry Collection

Poems:

Spring

A Green Cornfield

To the Lake
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Spring
Joyce Kilmer

The air is like a butterfly

With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings.
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Spring

The poem Spring explains that the time of spring is here, this shows the readers

about the beauty of spring. This poem consists of personification, simile and assonance. In

this poem the figurative languages in the line where the author wrote “The air is like a

butterfly” consists of simile because it compares the air to a butterfly. The line “The happy

earth looks at the sky” is an example of personification because the earth is given abilities

that allow it to see. Another device that is being used is assonance because in the line

“The happy earth looks at the sky” it contains the vowel A that rhymes with each other.

This poem shows how a tree first blossoms and then dies after a few days.
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A Green Cornfield
Christina Rossetti

The earth was green, the sky was blue:

I saw and heard one sunny morn
A skylark hang between the two,
A singing speck above the corn;

A stage below, in gay accord,

White butterflies danced on the wing,
And still the singing skylark soared,
And silent sank and soared to sing.

The cornfield stretched a tender green

To right and left beside my walks;
I knew he had a nest unseen
Somewhere among the million stalks.

And as I paused to hear his song

While swift the sunny moments slid,
Perhaps his mate sat listening long,
And listened longer than I did.
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A Green Cornfield

A Green Cornfield by Christina Rossetti wrote about a person is listening to the

something that flies around and that sings very nicely. The author explains that in between

the sky and earth there is a land where everything is beautiful. Rossetti wrote about the

“butterflies danced on the wing”, this is an example of personification because the

butterflies can not really dance instead only humans can. Alliteration is another device

when she wrote that there was “A singing speck above the corn”, because it repeats the

first letter s twice in this line. Another example of a figurative language is that she uses

consonance, when she wrote “A silent sank and soared to sing”, it had the consonant S

repeating over and over again. Symbolism is also another device; the cornfield symbolizes

a holy place where everything is good and beautiful. The author also uses repetition by

including the line “The earth was green, the sky was blue” it shows the repeating word of

both the and was. This author used many figurative languages to show and describe the

cornfield’s beauty and a skylark’s singing.

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To the Lake
Edgar Allen Poe

In Spring of youth it was my lot

To haunt of the wide world a spot
The which I could not love the less -
So lovely was the loneliness
Of a wild lake, with black rock bound,
And the tall pines that towered around.

But when the night had thrown her pall

Upon that spot, as upon all,
And the mystic wind went by
Murmuring in melody -
Then - ah, then, I would awake
To the terror of the lone lake.

Yet that terror was not fright,

But a tremulous delight -
A feeling not the jewelled mine
Could teach or bribe me to define -
Nor Love - although the love were thine.

Death was in that poisonous wave,

And in its gulf a fitting grave
For him who thence could solace bring
To his lone imagining -
Whose solitary soul could make
An Eden of that dim lake.
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To the Lake

In this poem To the Lake, it explains that once upon a time a man was happy, and

then one day he came across a lake. A lake that he thought it haunted him; he was scared

and thought that was his grave. He uses many descriptive languages that include

metaphor, allusion and rhyming. The author uses the figurative language metaphor, when

the line states “Death was in that poisonous wave” meaning that death was like a

poisonous wave that killed everything in its path. Allusion is found when the author said

that “Whose solitary soul could make an Eden of that dim lake”. Allusion is the figurative

language that refers to something or someone historical, so that is why she states that you

could make an Eden, which is a historical place of the dim lake. Another language that is

in the poem it rhymes, this poem has a rhyme scheme that goes A A B B C C. Every last

word of each line rhyme with each other, for example lot and spot. This poem creates

many different languages that make this poem into a poem of fear and nature about a man

being scared of a lake.

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Sources:

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/1133/seasonalpoems/spring.html

http://judithpordon.tripod.com/poetry/christina_rossetti_a_green_cornfield.html

http://judithpordon.tripod.com/poetry/edgar_allan_poe_to_the_lake.html
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Spring

The poem Spring explains that the time of spring is here, this shows the readers
about the beauty of spring. This poem consists of personification, simile and assonance. In
this poem the figurative languages in the line where the author wrote “The air is like a
butterfly” consists of simile because it compares the air to a butterfly. The line “The happy
earth looks at the sky” is an example of personification because the earth is given abilities
that allow it to see. Another device that is being used is assonance because in the line
“The happy earth looks at the sky” it contains the vowel A that rhymes with each other.
This poem shows how a tree first blossoms and then dies after a few days.

A Green Cornfield

A Green Cornfield by Christina Rossetti wrote about a person is listening to the

something that flies around and that sings very nicely. The author explains that in between
the sky and earth there is a land where everything is beautiful. Rossetti wrote about the
“butterflies danced on the wing”, this is an example of personification because the
butterflies can not really dance instead only humans can. Alliteration is another device
when she wrote that there was “A singing speck above the corn”, because it repeats the
first letter s twice in this line. Another example of a figurative language is that she uses
consonance, when she wrote “A silent sank and soared to sing”, it had the consonant S
repeating over and over again. Symbolism is also another device; the cornfield symbolizes
a holy place where everything is good and beautiful. The author also uses repetition by
including the line “The earth was green, the sky was blue” it shows the repeating word of
both the and was. This author used many figurative languages to show and describe the
cornfield’s beauty and the skylark’s singing.

To the Lake

In this poem To the Lake, it explains that once upon a time a man was happy, and
then one day he came across a lake. A lake that he thought it haunted him; he was scared
and thought that was his grave. He uses many descriptive languages that include
metaphor, allusion and rhyming. The author uses the figurative language metaphor, when
the line states “Death was in that poisonous wave” meaning that death was like a
poisonous wave that killed everything in its path. Allusion is found when the author said
that “Whose solitary soul could make an Eden of that dim lake”. Allusion is the figurative
language that refers to something or someone historical, so that is why she states that you
could make an Eden, which is a historical place of the dim lake. Another language that is
in the poem it rhymes, this poem has a rhyme scheme that goes A A B B C C. Every last
word of each line rhyme with each other, for example lot and spot. This poem creates
many different languages that make this poem into a poem of fear and nature about a man
being scared of a lake.
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