Alvarenga 1
Tirzah Alvarenga
Ms. Fortier
English II
11 January 2011
Narrative and Lyric Poetry
Poetry has been around for centuries. Most often poetry is used when someone is down or when someone wants to show his or her love to someone else. Poetry is basically language condensed for artistic effect. Two types of poetry are narrative poetry and lyric poetry. Narrative poetry tells a story, a particular event, or happening, it often relates to a long story. Lyric poetry is any fairly short poem in which the speaker expresses intense personal emotion or state of mind.
Narrative and lyric poetry may seem like they are similar, but there is a big difference between the two. An example for narrative poetry is the poem Confession by Bruce Lansky. In the poem he confesses about what he has done wrong. An example for lyric poetry is the song Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton. In the song,Vanessa sings about her feelings about how much she needs and misses the person she states as ‘you’.
The poem Confession by Bruce Lansky is a narrative poem because he tells his story about what he did do instead of what he was supposed to do. He starts out by saying “I have a brief confession that I would like to make.” By reading this first line the reader automatically can assume that this will be a narrative poem. As the poem goes own he tells about everything he did that day. This is a narrative poem because he tells about his life and everything he did.
Alvarenga 2
The song Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton is a lyric poem. In Vanessa’s song she pours out her emotions over the person she sings about. Vanessa’s feelings are expressed by the lines “ And I need you, and I miss you...”. This here explains how much she misses this person. Vanessa also talks about how she would even walk a thousand miles to see this person. From this it is understood that this song Thousand Miles is a lyric poem because Vanessa expresses her feelings over her love.
Narrative poetry tells a story just like the poem Confession by Bruce Linsky, thats why this poem is a type of narrative poetry. Lyric poetry expresses emotional feelings, and so the song Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton is a type lyric poetry. Poetry is a beautiful form of language and is used everyday to give someone a smile or even shed a tear.
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Explanation:
Hi friend, it's been a while since we spoke even though you promised to reach out soon during our last conversation. I need to know if you've been working on some of the issues we discussed last time out especially those related development engagement.
As you might have noticed how things are changing so rapidly, and the time refusing to hold up, it has become more pertinent to start today rather than tomorrow, as population and workforce keeps growing and will continue grow, getting into industries have become more competitive as time goes by. Speaking if value offered, just line the time value of money, Entry level skills requirements haverisen so high and this trend Will only continue as the influx of peoe who wants to gain entry continues to soar. For instance, basic theoretical knowledge was enough to get started decades ago, However, it isn't enough tmgetvib anymore as the need to possess good software skill is very important and so will the trend continue.
Talking of businesses a d startup, growing today is better than growing tomorrow as sowing today means reaping a day earlier than sowing tomorrow. Hence, friend, time is of the essence and the need to act today is of extreme importance.
Answer:
OA. I went to look for my watch, but I can never seem to find the time.
Explanation:
A pun is usually a comical play on the actual statement itself. There usually two elements that are inter connected to each other in some way.
Let's look at A: watch and time correlate since a watch tells time. The statement is ironic the speaker doesn't have his watch, therefore figuratively but maybe actually as well "doesn't have the time". It's therefore a pun.
B: It's a different figurative language technique, but I'm not sure what it is. 100% sure it's not a pun though.
C: it's a metaphor. It's a comparison between two things, in this case the novel was so well explained it had he accuracy of hitting a nail directly on the head.
D: That's just a statement, maybe a poetic quote.
The both had people die men fought in both
the locations are different
