Sunday, March 3, 2019
Poetry and Lentil Essay
Read the English translation of the following poesy by the Armenian poet Zahrad. It will aid in your comprehension if you take tincture of the poems title. Then, in one or two cautiously constructed paragraphs, explore how rung is created in the poem and how it interacts with other elements such as imagery to create an effectan impact on the audience. In your response, be sure to describe what feeling, effect, or impact the rhythm and other elements achieve.The muliebrity Cleaning LentilsA lentil, a lentil, a lentil, a stone.A lentil, a lentil, a lentil, a stone.A green one, a black one, a green one, a black. A stone.A lentil, a lentil, a stone, a lentil, a lentil, a word.Suddenly a word. A lentil.A lentil, a word, a word next to another word. A sentence.A word, a word, a word, a nonsense speech.Then an old song.Then an old dream.A life, another life, a hard life. A lentil. A life.An easy life. A hard life. why easy? Why hard?Lives next to each other. A life. A word. A lentil.A g reen one, a black one, a green one, a black one, chafe.A green song, a green lentil, a black one, a stone.A lentil, a stone, a stone, a lentil. 1I believe the rhythm is set by the repetition of short units. For example a len/til, a len/til, a len/til, a stone. So the base rhythm for this precise source would be anapestic tetrameter. I believe the title is level(p) into the poem through a parable. The repetition of how a lentil (plant) is talked around in the poem I believe is talking about the cleaning ladys play how it is clamant and ordinary. The imagery in the poem reinforces this metaphor I believe through the quotation a green one, a black one, a green one, a black. A stone. When the quotation is said a second time it gives the reader an image of the pain the woman faces with her difficult job.The woman faces a hard life as a peasant. I feel the rhythm and imagery work unitedly sort of as I explained in the last paragraph. They connect unitedly through the metaphor of cleaning and how repetitive the womans job is. The effect it has on the audience is that the poem essentially balanceson reside and dullness. The interest is reading the poem and understanding it, and the dullness is the content of the poem, and how we cognize the womans life is very dull and repetitive. The dullness of the poem is kept to a minimum by keeping the poem so short, otherwise us as the audience would lose interest in the poem.In a quick analysis of the poem, the woman is doing a boring, repetitive job and becomes one with the rhythm. While she is doing her mindless tasks, in rhythm, her thoughts ar wandering over the life shes living, including her dreams and her pains.
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