Curie Chiou 3.2.16

Similarities and differences can be found while comparing two poems together. For the similarities of poetic devices, both of my poems contain repetition and alliteration. In both poems, authors used repetition and alliteration to make the poem sound more interesting, create the poem’s rhythm and make the poem easier to memorized. The two poems I annotated contains a variety of differences on poetic devices. First, two poems being presented in different tone and mood or either same tone but different background. In the first poem “Forever Friends” by ​Janilyn B. Rentillo, the tone/mood changed from happy to sad, and then finally ends as confidence. In the second poem “Shine” by AnitaPoems.com, the author described life and uses a confidence tone to end the poem. In the poem “Forever Friends”, the author started the poem as a happy mood, describing how lucky and happy he/she is when he/she found a true friend. Next, as it’s time for the author to bid farewell to his/her friends, the author is extremely sad. It is being presented as a tone and mood of sadness. At last, the author stop crying and told his/her friend to stop crying too, because the author believes that true friendship will never end even apart. In the poem “Shine”, the author simply described what is “life” in his/her opinion and what does life simply means. However, the author ended the poem and points out the theme in the last line with a confidence tone, teaching the audience a lesson of following passions to make better accomplishment. Secondly, the first poem contains consonance and is being presented in the first person view. On the other hand, the second poem contains simile and has an AABB rhyme scheme, which is also called “couplet”. To make reading more interesting, the first poem used consonance to create a rhyme in texts in all the stanza except for stanza three. The rule of consonance is that words has to end with the same sound (alphabet) so it rhymes. For example in the third line of the first stanza in the poem “Forever Friends”, words that apply to consonance are “came” and “time”. Came and time all end with the same sound and also the same alphabet. Lastly in the poem “Forever Friends”, the author also used first person view to write the poem. First person view is a point of view that the author is the narrator, which means the author is the people who is describing the things that had happened to him/her. The author used first person view to describe how himself/herself had to bid farewell to his/her friends and all the laughters and tears they had met together. In the second poem, the author applies simile to the poem to compare a familiar object with the thing he/she is describing. Simile is a poetic device that let the author compare things together using “like” or “as”. The author used simile in the second line of the poem, using “like” to analogy “life” as “oxygen”, teaching us a lesson if sharing life together, just like sharing the oxygens in the air. Lastly, the author also used couplet, which is one form of rhyme scheme in the second poem. Using rhyme as a poetic device makes poem harmonious. It matches up sounds and syllables at the end of lines. For example in the poem’s first two line, “share” and “air” ends up with the same sound, following the order, every two line ends up with the same sound, slowly, it forms a rhyme scheme, couplet, which represents AABB in poetry. For the poetic organization, the first poem has four line in a stanza and the second poem has two line in a stanza. Comparing the similarities and differences between two poems can make a poem easier to understand with more clearly directions.

T = Thesis

I = Introduction

E = Evidence

A = Analysis

sources:

• consonance
• why does author uses rhyme scheme?
• advices from Sandy Chang