Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Example: My stick fingers click with a snicker And, chuckling, they knuckle the keys; Light-footed, my steel feelers flicker And pluck from these keys melodies. —“Player Piano,” John Updike. Euphony –A series of musically pleasant sounds that give the poem a melodious quality, conveying a sense of harmony to the reader.
The poem begins "We have a small hand with five fingers, Wax fingers thin to breaking. The pulse beats at their beginning and at their end—fingernails." [ 2 ] The poem is celebrated [ 3 ] for its re-imagining of the religious imagery of Judaism in terms of the settlers' Zionist pioneer construction ethic.
Thirteen, for example, have as their solution an implement, which speaks of itself through the riddle as a servant to its lord; but these sometimes also suggest the power of the servant to define the master. [15] The majority of the riddles have religious themes and answers.
An example of dactylic meter is the first line of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem Evangeline (1847), which is in dactylic hexameter: This is the / forest prim- / eval. The / murmuring / pines and the / hemlocks, The first five feet of the line are dactyls; the sixth a trochee.
The crossed fingers represent this kanji resembling an "X". [14] A clenched fist. Chinese number gestures are a method of using one hand to signify the natural numbers one through ten. Clenched fist is used as a gesture of defiance or solidarity. Facing the signer, it threatens physical violence (i.e., "a thumping").
Air quotes, also called finger quotes, are virtual quotation marks formed in the air with one's fingers when speaking. The gesture is typically done with both hands held shoulder-width apart and at the eye or shoulders level of the speaker, with the index and middle fingers on each hand flexing at the beginning and end of the phrase being ...
[5] [6] R. W. Franklin's 1998 edition The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition also organized the poems by assumed chronology and numbered the poem 320. [7] Since the poem was untitled in the original manuscript, it is commonly referred to by the first line or by one of the numbers assigned by Johnson and Franklin.
A treatise on poetry by Diomedes Grammaticus is a good example, as this work categorizes dactylic hexameter verses in ways that were later interpreted under the golden line rubric. Independently, these two trends show the form becoming highly artificial—more like a puzzle to solve than a medium for personal poetic expression.