Elements of Poetry and Essay Writing :: Education, Writing

I was surprised to find that I could use so many of the techniques that poets use in writing my own essays. For example, by choosing certain quarrel, I can set the tone for the essay and demonstrate certain attitudes. Also, I can take advantage of several technical methods, some(prenominal)(prenominal) as abstractions, assonance, and figures of speech to make an essay more interesting. Further, I think it is important to try and understand the poets meaning behind their word choice. After analyzing the poems of conjuring trick Donne, Anne Bradstreet, and Robert icing the puck, I will discuss how I think certain elements can be utilise in my own writing.Anne Bradstreet used words such as loved, happy, and reward to set a positive tone (963). The authors attitude came across as grateful and appreciative. In contrast, Robert Frost chose to use words such as perish, nauseate, and destruction, which displayed a negative tone and attitude (1009). I never really gave this much consideration before, but I think I could use this technique in the future. By choosing the correct words, I can make sure the readers be interpreting my writing as I mean it to come across. I in addition discovered several technical methods that can be used in my essay writing. This is another area that I never really paid attention to. Sure, I have used some of them, but never knew what they were called or understood the full effect of them. Abstractions and several figures of speech were amongst some of the methods that were found. For example, Batter my heart, three-personed God (Doone 988), To My Dear and Loving Husband (Bradstreet 963), and Fire and Ice (Frost 1009), abstractions were used. Abstractions are words that we use to describe something that has no concrete reality (Charters 787). For example, in Doones poem, the author used words such as weak and untrue (989). Bradstreet also used this technique by using the word love (963). And finally, Frosts word choice was cleverly utilized with using desire and hate (1009). These are also considered examples of figurative speech in that they use simile or metaphor in describing the subject (Charters 795). I feel by winning advantage of some of these techniques, I can make my essays more interesting for readers.To add, I found several figures of speech techniques such as metonymy, apostrophe, hyperbole and symbols were used in Anne Bradstreets poem To My Dear and Loving Husband (963).