Here is the greatest quote on alliteration by Charles Churchill "Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid."
How do the sound devices that we looked at contribute to your understanding of the poems that we read in class? How is your search for a song going? Was it easy to find? Remember that we're not talking about rhyme (which is not excluded) but really similarity of sound or dissonance.
Good luck.
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the sound devices that we looked in class have contribute to my understanding because at first when read the poem I didnt pay attention to the litteration ( the words and the rhytme) and then when students starts to read it to the class I saw the tick tack like a clock ...so I understood what was litteration .After that it wasn't hard to find my song.
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The sound devices that we looked to in class really helped me in my understanding of the 2 poems. When I read the poems I could really hear the sound of a clock and it's really interesting because both poems are about time. The position of the rhymes, at the ending, also give "sound" to the poem, in the second one, there are crossed rhymes and the first one is AABB. I found a really interesting song that contains alliterations and also a lot of figures of speech ,which is really interesting.
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The two poems seen in class represent really well what is Alliteration and Assonance. In "The Watch" the alliteration is present because of the "t" sound : throbbing, watch, thought, discontent, went and a lot of other words... At the end of the poem, the "Come quick, come quick..." reminds us the times' notion(time is going by truly fast). In that poem, everything is rythmical as a song.
ReplyDeleteIn "Eight O'clock", we can say assonance is present. This poem slows us down because of the sounds used. We did not spend a long time on assonance and alliteration during the last class but it was still easy to find a song containing alliteration. Finally,I enjoyed my two readings about the last poem we have seen because of the rythm in them which was similar to a song.
-Catherine Lacroix
The presence of the alliteration and assonance both give the poems a sense. It gives relief to the texts. "The Watch" is really rythmical because of the rhymes at the end of each verse (bed-head, hear-clear...). The "T-K" sounds, as Catherine wrote, is like the Tic-Tac of the clock. The watch is taking to death, indeed the person wants to die. The sounds in "Eight O'Clock" slowed down the rythm before the death of the person just about to be executed because the moment before dying appears to be the longest. There is also cacaphony in the second verse of the second strophe: "Sprinkle the quarters on the morning town."
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Sandrine
I wasn't really understanding the meaning and the rythm of the poems on my first reading. After the class I read them a couple time loudly and I really found what we talked about in class.
ReplyDeleteThe title really make sens when you read them loudly, you can hear the tic tac cause by the use of the letter "T" in the watch as an exemple.
Francis Goyer
It really helped me when you told the meaning of assonance and alliteration. I understood the poems "Eight O'clock" and "The Watch" to my second reading in class. I also agree with Catherine about the use of T and K making us think of a clock. I enjoyed reading both texts because it's the first time we read this kind of poems.According to me, the second one was really morbid with the death sentence.
ReplyDeleteFor the song we had to find,i'm not sure if it's okay... well we'll see it in class
The meaning of the two poems were hard to understand at the firt reading. But after the explanation in class it was easier to understand. I love both of them, by the writting and the rythm of them, but also because the subjet, which was very interesting.
ReplyDeleteboth poems seen in class are really good examples of what assonance and alliteration. sometimes you, the words chosen make you slow down bevause the pronounciation a more difficult. that is the puspose.
ReplyDeleteeven if they were quit short, they were both really beautiful and the sound of it as well. they were very meaningful for the puspose of the class. it was a great analyse that we did in class. it made me understand way better what can the sound of a poem can be.
finding songs was not that difficult if we look at rap music.... other than that, we just have to look closely to find some in our favorite lyrics. :)
Marilyn Quessy