To Hear an Oriole Sing demonstrates cliche rhyming using a trimeter set up. The first two lines of each stanza rhyme with one another, however the last sentence does not rhyme whatsoever. The fifth stanza of the poem is the odd one out as all three lines rhyme with one another. These poetic devices are used to contribute to the meaning of the poem. This poem is about an oriole and the different standpoints people have on the bird and nature itself. The song of the bird can be viewed as an everyday occurance or to others, a holy and sacred situation which is everywhere in nature. The first stanza "To hear an Oriole sing may be a common thing or only a divine" portrays these different aspects as it splits up the two views by the word "or". The decision of whether or not the bird is holy, is entirely made by onself. "So whether it be Rune, Or whether it be none, is of within" implies that the decision of this bird's song rests entirely in our own hands. The poem collectively states beauty and religious perspectives are decisions made by our own beliefs. The poetic device of the cliche rhyming is indicating how a certain view can make perfect sense and flow well to someone, but from a different view could possibly not make any sense at all. This is why there is a contrast in each stanza as two lines rhyme, one line is seperate from this "couplet" (in a way) to compare the two viewpoints. The last stanza is different from the rest of the poem because all three lines rhyme. This symbolizes the joining of contrary ideas on a single object (the oriole) and how both outlooks are determined by a single idea that these decisions are made in ourselves. All in all, beauty is in the ear of the beholder parallel to the quote "beauty is in the eye of the beholder".
Desert Places written by Robert Frost demonstrates the narrator's own personal sense of isolation. Breaking this poem down stanza by stanza, we can see the different types of isolation in a snow covered field and how this vast emptiness mirrors the narrator's role in nature. Breaking this poem down stanza by stanza, we can see the narrator's urgent feeling of isolation as he describes the "snow falling and night falling fast, oh fast". Man cannot stop this natural burden as those few weeds which symbolize man's contribution to nature is "almost covered smooth in snow". The poem then continues onto the second stanza where he acknowledges the surrounding woods and how "it's theirs" and creatures such as the animals being described become "smothered into their lairs". The narrator feels isolated from the world around him as he describes being "too absent-spirited to count". The third stanza adds to the whole of the poem as the narrator speaks of predictions of the world around him becoming more desolate. Things are being described as getting worse than they are better as the snow will become a "blanker whiteness". We can even relate this description of the snow to the narrator's point of view on his importance in the world. As the snow falls "with no expression, nothing to express" so does the narrator's crumbling emotional outlook. The fourth stanza brings the entire poem together as the narrator in a way rebels against this natural setting as he states "They cannot scare me with their empty spaces." Yes, he states he is unafraid of the field, however, it's not the field he is afraid of, it's himself and his role in nature. He "scares himself with his own desert places" which is the world he creates in his mind.
To Hear an Oriole Sing demonstrates cliche rhyming using a trimeter set up. The first two lines of each stanza rhyme with one another, however the last sentence does not rhyme whatsoever. The fifth stanza of the poem is the odd one out as all three lines rhyme with one another. These poetic devices are used to contribute to the meaning of the poem. This poem is about an oriole and the different standpoints people have on the bird and nature itself. The song of the bird can be viewed as an everyday occurance or to others, a holy and sacred situation which is everywhere in nature. The first stanza "To hear an Oriole sing may be a common thing or only a divine" portrays these different aspects as it splits up the two views by the word "or". The decision of whether or not the bird is holy, is entirely made by onself. "So whether it be Rune, Or whether it be none, is of within" implies that the decision of this bird's song rests entirely in our own hands. The poem collectively states beauty and religious perspectives are decisions made by our own beliefs. The poetic device of the cliche rhyming is indicating how a certain view can make perfect sense and flow well to someone, but from a different view could possibly not make any sense at all. This is why there is a contrast in each stanza as two lines rhyme, one line is seperate from this "couplet" (in a way) to compare the two viewpoints. The last stanza is different from the rest of the poem because all three lines rhyme. This symbolizes the joining of contrary ideas on a single object (the oriole) and how both outlooks are determined by a single idea that these decisions are made in ourselves. All in all, beauty is in the ear of the beholder parallel to the quote "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Desert Places written by Robert Frost demonstrates the narrator's own personal sense of isolation. Breaking this poem down stanza by stanza, we can see the different types of isolation in a snow covered field and how this vast emptiness mirrors the narrator's role in nature. Breaking this poem down stanza by stanza, we can see the narrator's urgent feeling of isolation as he describes the "snow falling and night falling fast, oh fast". Man cannot stop this natural burden as those few weeds which symbolize man's contribution to nature is "almost covered smooth in snow". The poem then continues onto the second stanza where he acknowledges the surrounding woods and how "it's theirs" and creatures such as the animals being described become "smothered into their lairs". The narrator feels isolated from the world around him as he describes being "too absent-spirited to count". The third stanza adds to the whole of the poem as the narrator speaks of predictions of the world around him becoming more desolate. Things are being described as getting worse than they are better as the snow will become a "blanker whiteness". We can even relate this description of the snow to the narrator's point of view on his importance in the world. As the snow falls "with no expression, nothing to express" so does the narrator's crumbling emotional outlook. The fourth stanza brings the entire poem together as the narrator in a way rebels against this natural setting as he states "They cannot scare me with their empty spaces." Yes, he states he is unafraid of the field, however, it's not the field he is afraid of, it's himself and his role in nature. He "scares himself with his own desert places" which is the world he creates in his mind.
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