APA Citation. Comic Relief. Deus ex machina. Double Entendre. Dramatic irony. Extended Metaphor. Fairy Tale. Figures of Speech. Literary Device. Pathetic Fallacy. Plot Twist. Point of View.
Red Herring. Rhetorical Device. Rhetorical Question. Science Fiction. Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. Turning Point.
The purpose of stanzas, whether in longer works or short poems, is to break the images and information into shorter pieces. Stanzas are also important in formal poems in which there is a strict meter and rhyme scheme.
In the time of troubadours and oral literature stanzas had even greater importance because they were helpful tools for the speaker to memorize long works. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. September rain falls on the house. In the failing light, the old grandmother sits in the kitchen with the child beside the Little Marvel Stove, reading the jokes from the almanac, laughing and talking to hide her tears.
She thinks that her equinoctial tears and the rain that beats on the roof of the house were both foretold by the almanac, but only known to a grandmother. The iron kettle sings on the stove. She cuts some bread and says to the child,. Tidying up, the old grandmother hangs up the clever almanac. Birdlike, the almanac hovers half open above the child, hovers above the old grandmother and her teacup full of dark brown tears. She shivers and says she thinks the house feels chilly, and puts more wood in the stove.
It was to be, says the Marvel Stove. I know what I know, says the almanac. With crayons the child draws a rigid house and a winding pathway. Then the child puts in a man with buttons like tears and shows it proudly to the grandmother. But secretly, while the grandmother busies herself about the stove, the little moons fall down like tears from between the pages of the almanac into the flower bed the child has carefully placed in the front of the house. Time to plant tears, says the almanac.
The grandmother sings to the marvelous stove and the child draws another inscrutable house. The sestina ends with a tercet that repeats each of the six words one final time. Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.
Imagine your poem is like a house that others will visit. They will move from room to room and stop for a while in each. Each little unit makes sense, but so does the whole.
Stanzas need not be an afterthought just a way of dividing up the lines you have written into more or less even units so they look neat on the page , but can and should! All of the above still applies, and perhaps even more so.
I hope this has said enough to persuade you that taking the stanza seriously and then taking this course is not a dull and technical thing. They should be for you, too. Want to understand and experiment with the structure of your poems? Book online or ring us on You must be logged in to post a comment.
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