Following you will find a video of the poem ¨The Tyger¨
How important are sounds to convey meaning to a poem?
First of all, according to William Stafford, The sound itself seems to have some significance. He thinks that the sound somehow suggests something about a number of linked ideas and feelings.
Ass a personal opinion, I can tell you that sounds uplift or elevate the significance to make some features of a poem to stand out, as they poet wants reader enjoy and pay more attention to it. The poet wants the reader to identify its secret meaning and mix the letters with feelings
1- What is Onomatopoeia and how it is represented in the poem?
The word Onomatopoeia is when a word depicts the sound of a word
Example in the poem: burning bright (first line, first stanza)
beat (third stanza, third line)
Such sounds makes the reader to imagine those sounds to brings the power of such sound come alive, reminding the power of the a tiger.
2- What is the Alliteration and how it is represented in the poem?
It is the repetition of the initial consonant in a series of words.
Example in the poem: ¨Tyger, Tyger, burning bright¨ (First ine, first stanza)
Alliteration makes the reader to pay close attention to important words in a poem. Besides it creates some sort of musicality.
3- What is Consonance and how it is represented in the poem?
It is the repetition of consonant sound in a line.
Example in the poem: (letter t ) ¨could twist the sinews of thy heart¨ (Second line, Third stanza)
4- What is assonance and how it is represented in the poem?
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in the same line such as rthe sound of /ae/ in : ¨Dare its deadly terrors clasp!¨ (Fourth line, Fourth stanza)
5- What is rhyme scheme and how it is represented in the poem?
Rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyme in each of the lines in a poem.
What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!
The rhyme here is exact . Vowel and the consonant sounds following it are the same: chain and brain—- Grasp and Clasp
Peter Schakel & Jack Ridl in their book Approaching Poetry, state that rhyme leads to various effects: it gives emphasis to important words: it can create a type of connection or bonding; it can strengthen organization and unity; it can contain meaning; it can provide a sense of completion.
6- what is end rhyme and how it is represented in the poem?
It involves rhyming words that occur at the ends of lines; in internal rhyme, two or more words within a line, or within lines near each other, rhyme with each other, or words within lines rhyme within words at the ends. (Schakel&Ridl, 1997, p.123)
When the stars threw down their spears
And water’d heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
7- What is internal rhyme and how it is represented in the poem?
It is when a word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line.
Example: What dread hand? & what dread feet?
8- What is near rhyme and how it is represented in the poem?
It occurs at the end of lines. Words with identical final consonant sounds but different vowel sounds.
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