Directions: Identify and analyze the purpose of each. Go beyond the definition.
“When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
"The Artilleryman's Vision"
Repetition:
(Matter of fact: black & white. Objective)
The first four lines of the poem starts with “when” which is heavily emphasized. This is to done to display the narrator’s recollection of a past memory. In this flashback, he remembers sitting in a room listening to an astronomer lecture about the stars.
Parallelism:
Ideas phrased in similar ways
(Inference from repeating. Could be subjective.)
At the very beginning of the poem, the author exemplifies educational or conceptual learning through the lectures of the astronomer. Which the author finds boredom and dullness in. Later on in the poem, or at present time, when the narrator is outside of the lecture room, he applies what he has learned to the outside world. In this case, starts. This is learning through experience.
Onomatopoeia: the creation of words that imitate natural sounds
Couldn’t find any. I guess the “silence” of the starts. The narrator gained more understanding through silence than through action or words from the astronomer.
Catalogs: Lists of things or people
The narrator himself, the astronomer himself, and the audience in the lecture room.
Identify and analyze the purpose of each. Go beyond the definition.
“When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer" "The Artilleryman's Vision"
Repetition:
(Matter of fact: black & white. Objective)
• The first four lines of the poem starts with “when” which is heavily emphasized. This is to done to display the narrator’s recollection of a past memory. In this flashback, he remembers sitting in a room listening to an astronomer lecture about the stars. • In the poem “The Artilleryman's Vision”, repetition is presented by the narrator telling a story from a first-person perspective. Throughout the poem, the narrator uses phrases such as “I...