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Poem 1

I like to see it lap the Miles By Emily Dickinson

This is a poem in four stanzas. It does not rhyme. The poet achieves a since of connectedness which goes past the line breaks. She uses “and” to string together ideas like the journey of the locomotive. On the other hand she uses dashes to interrupt the lines so that the poem sort of creates a stop and go effect rather like the jerky motion of a train.

The poet compares the train to a horse not just any horse but a spirited horse that gallops proudly around the landscape. She personifies the train as a living thing using action verbs to describe its journey: it “laps” miles “eats” valleys, “steps” around mountains and “pears” into houses. The descriptive adjectives that she uses are also generally used for people: “prodigious” “supercilious” “complaining.”

Throughout the poem the author stress the power of the locomotive until the last several lines when the locomotive is described as “docile and omnipotent.” With these two adjectives, the author seems to say that the horse/locomotive is very powerful but is tamed by the power of man who leads it to its own “stable door,” or station house. All the nouns are capitalized except the last one, “door.“

Poem 2

Annabel Lee By Edgar A. Poe

The poem is very lyric. It has a musical quality created by in rhyme, a regular rhythm internal rhyme repetition of words and phrases and alliteration. The rhyme scheme of the first verse is ababcb; the scheme of the second verse is dbebfb after that the rhyme scheme varies, but each verse has some of the same rhyme sounds, for example the repetition the long e sound in each verse. Examples of words that are repeated often are “sea” “Annabel Lee” “me” “we.” Examples of internal rhymes are “for the moon never beams without brining me dreams,” “And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes.” Phrase that are repeated include “ of the beautiful Annabel Lee”, “to love and be loved”, “many and many.” An example of alliteration is “can ever dissever m soul from the soul,“ “sepulcher by the sea,” tomb by the “sounding sea.” The alliteration is and s sounds like a whisper.

The language is not simple and straightforward. The tone is sorrowful and mournful its created by the words such as sepulcher and chilling killing demons tomb. The poems seems to start out as a simple story at first, but it quickly becomes a bizarre of a man who believed that angles were jealous of his love and so therefore sent a chill wind to kill her. In the end the reader learns that at night-time he lies down by her tomb because he believes their love is stronger than death.