Poetry Maggie Chang

Poetry ● 3 uses of language: practical, literary, and argumentative ● Practical: sharpens our feeling of existence and widens our experiences; lets us think outside the box ● Literary: clarifies that feeling and helps readers understand what they are experiencing; literature does not tell us about experience, but allows us to participate in it ● Argumentative: persuades readers to obtain the speaker’s or the author’s specific viewpoint

“The Whipping”, Robert Hayden This poem shows humanity for its animosity and anger, as well as the continuous pattern of habits passed down to the next generation.

“To His Coy Mistress”, Andrew Marvell Had we but world enough, and time,Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;My echoing song: then worms shall try This coyness, Lady, were no crime.Two hundred to adore each breast;That long preserved virginity, We would sit down and think which wayBut thirty thousand to the rest;And your quaint honour turn to dust, To walk and pass our long love’s day.An age at least to every part,And into ashes all my lust: Thou by the Indian Ganges’ sideAnd the last age should show your heart;The grave’s a fine and private place, Shouldst rubies find: I by the tideFor, Lady, you deserve this state,But none, I think, do there embrace. Of Humber would complain. I wouldNor would I love at lower rate.Now therefore, while the youthful hue Love you ten years before the Flood,But at my back I always hearSits on thy skin like morning dew, And you should, if you please, refuseTime’s wingèd chariot hurrying near;And while thy willing soul transpires Till the conversion of the Jews.And yonder all before us lieAt every pore with instant fires, My vegetable love should growDeserts of vast eternity.Now let us sport us while we may, Vaster than empires, and more slow;Thy beauty shall no more be found,And now, like amorous birds of prey, An hundred years should go to praiseNor, in thy marble vault, shall soundRather at once our time devour

“To His Coy Mistress”, Andrew Marvell, cont’d. Than languish in his slow-chapt power.“To His Coy Mistress” expresses the imagery and irony that Let us roll all our strength and allthis man appears to be in love with this shy woman no matter Our sweetness up into one ball,what in the world. Yet, he really desires to get in her pants And tear our pleasures with rough strifeand be lustful instead of romantic. Thorough the iron gates of life: Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

“The Second Coming”, William Butler Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre Surely some revelation is at hand; The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Surely the Second Coming is at hand. Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereTroubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert The ceremony of innocence is drowned;A shape with lion body and the head of a man, The best lack all conviction, while the worst A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Are full of passionate intensity.Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it

“The Second Coming”, William Butler Yeats Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it “The Second Coming” is basically a biblical allusion for Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. the upcoming new chapter in life. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

The End “Common language is the one dimensional language communicating information. Poetry is the multidimensional language that expresses senses, emotions, imagination, and experience.”