Name: Lu’luatul Hizana

SRN: 2211417028
Poetry Analysis

Ket:
A : refers to "Metric Figure" by William Carlos Williams
B : refers to "The Disputants" by William Carlos Williams

1.
A. It's a short poem with 12 lines. We know it from the whole lines that are only single
sentences and some of that broken up into lines. There are no punctuation marks at the end of
any of the lines, so they are all enjambed (each line carries over into the next without a
pause). Nonetheless, when you read it aloud, you probably add small pauses rather than
barreling through the whole sentence at once. With its length and attention, we can highly
focused the images.

B. It's a short poem with 11 lines. We know it from the whole lines that are full of only
phrases and clauses. There are no punctuation marks at the end of any of the lines, so they are
all enjambed . Nonetheless, when you read it aloud, you probably add small pauses rather
than barreling through the whole sentence at once. The phrases and clauses in the whole lines
give a clear description, so we can imagine the image easily.
(Reference: www.shmoop.com/great-figure/rhyme-form-meter.html)

2.
A.
Imagery:
Visual: birds (1), poplars (1), sun (2), leaves (3), yellow (3), fish (3), river (4), wings (6),
phoenix (7), wind (12).
Auditory: singing (10), noise (11).
Kinesthetic: swimming (4), skims (5).

Figures of speech:
Metaphor:
The leaves are little yellow fish (3)
Swimming in the river (4)
Comparing the leaves as the fish that is swimming in the river.
Personification:
It is his singing (10)
Of leaves clashing in the wind (12)

B.
Imagery:
Visual: table (1), bowl (1), spray (3), yellow (3), green (3), spikes (3), leaves (4), red (4),
petals (4), heads (5), blue (5), curled (5), white (6), litter (6), forks (7), crumbs (7), plates (7),
flowers (8), coffee (10), brown (11), frail (11), vaudeville (11).
Auditory: loud talk (10).
Tactile: curled (5).

Figures of speech:
Metaphor:
In violent disarray (2)
Of yellow sprays, green spikes (3)
Comparing violent disarray as a yellow sprays.
The flowers remain composed (8)
Comparing flowers as a composure.

3.

Sound devices A B
Rhyme It is he that is making (8) -
It is his singing (10)
Of leaves clashing in the
wind (12)
Repetition - -
Alliteration The leaves are little (3) Of yellow spray, green
The great gleam among the spikes (3)
poplars (9)
 Of leaves, red pointed petals
(4)
Cooly their colloguy
continues (9)
Onomatopoeia - -
Rhythm - Of yellow spray, green
spikes (3)
Of leaves, red painted petals
(4)
Assonance Swimming in the river (4) Red pointed petals (4)
his wings (6) Cooly colloguy continues
is making (8) (9)
It is his singing (10)
Clashing in the mind (12)

That sound devices help us very much to get a visual images in our minds because it gives us
more intentions about the details or descriptions trough the rhyme, assonance, alliteration,
and the rhythm.

4. We can more easily get the visual imagination in our minds about the image that is
described, and also we can know and imagine something condition clearly by describing it.
When we describe something, we can instantly know the details, condition, or situation of
something. So that describe something is easy way to deliver the ideas clearly.