It's not a poem, it's a speech. Have you ever seen a snail? Do you think you could find one who would outrun Usain Bolt? Thought not. Snails move slowly, as does the schoolboy, creeping like a snail unwillingly to school. I'm sure you know people who aren't that enthusiastic about going to school and move slowly when they have to do so.
All The Worlds a Stage.
It is neither. It is a speech, extracted from the play As You Like It by William Shakespeare. It is poetic, but it is not a poem since it is not intended to stand alone as a poem. It is not a sonnet--it does not rhyme as all sonnets do.Just for your info: If something is a sonnet then, believe me, it has to be a poem as well. Guaranteed.
It is not a poem, but rather a speech said by the character Jaques in the Shakespeare play As You Like It, Act 2 Scene vii. As You Like It was written around 1600 but not published until the First Folio in 1623.
A poem by its very nature can be continually changed, added to, rewritten; at some stage the poet has to decide that he or she has refined the poem to a point at which they are content to leave it. To get to the stage where a poem is offered for reading, the poet may have working on it for months. At some stage they have to decide to stop reworking, and to consider the poem finished. This is the abandonment that Paul Valery speaks of.
Things that can be compared and put into a poem, rhythmically speaking.
All The Worlds a Stage.
It is neither. It is a speech, extracted from the play As You Like It by William Shakespeare. It is poetic, but it is not a poem since it is not intended to stand alone as a poem. It is not a sonnet--it does not rhyme as all sonnets do.Just for your info: If something is a sonnet then, believe me, it has to be a poem as well. Guaranteed.
It's not a poem. It's a speech from the play As You Like It. And "foregrounding" is not a helpful term when discussing speeches or poetry, because all it means is emphasis, and of course there is emphasis in all speeches and poetry.
It is not a poem, but rather a speech said by the character Jaques in the Shakespeare play As You Like It, Act 2 Scene vii. As You Like It was written around 1600 but not published until the First Folio in 1623.
Peter Orlovsky's snail poem is about observing the slow and deliberate movements of a snail as it navigates its way through the world. The poem reflects on the beauty and simplicity of nature while also touching on themes of patience and mindfulness in the face of a fast-paced society.
its a ss s s s s
The sage stood on the stage.
A poem by its very nature can be continually changed, added to, rewritten; at some stage the poet has to decide that he or she has refined the poem to a point at which they are content to leave it. To get to the stage where a poem is offered for reading, the poet may have working on it for months. At some stage they have to decide to stop reworking, and to consider the poem finished. This is the abandonment that Paul Valery speaks of.
Evening is compared to a "long brown bag of years" in the poem "At Sundown", suggesting a sense of heaviness or burden associated with the passage of time and the approaching end of the day.
In "The Seven Ages of Man" by William Shakespeare, personification is evident when he describes the stages of life as acting on a stage. For example, in the second age, Shakespeare personifies the whining schoolboy with "creeping like snail unwillingly to school." This technique gives human-like qualities to each stage of life, enhancing the imagery and making the poem more relatable.
Things that can be compared and put into a poem, rhythmically speaking.
picture of the seven ages by staga by stage