Who Am I? Poetry in the Key of Life

How does non-literal or figurative language suggest a certain meaning? What mood or feeling is evoked via this figurative, non-literal language? What imagery, if any, is most striking, frequent, or patterned? What images seem related or connected to each other? What mood or atmosphere is created by the imagery? Which details stand out? What sense if any seems to dominate the poem: What allusions, if any, can you detect? What effect do the allusions have upon the poem?

If it is a literary allusion, how does it relate to or connect with the original text?

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What tone do these sounds create quiet, loud, sensual, aggressive, etc. Does the poem move differently at different places in the poem? Does a particular sound or sounds dominate the poem? When you count out scan the syllables of a line, do they follow a rhythm? Is there a name for it? If so, in what way or ways? Do words at the end of lines rhyme? Why kind of rhymes are they? Do they form a pattern a rhyme scheme that is regular or irregular?

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Do the rhyming words have any relationship with each other? Does the rhyme concentrate meaning in any way? Does the speaker seem attached or detached from what is said? Is it possible to figure out to whom the poem is addressed? Is there an ideal listener or reader? What is happening in the poem?

What action, drama, or conflict is present? Is there more than one event in the poem? Does anything change in the poem is an action completed, does an attempted action fail, or does someone change in an important way? Who tells the story, and what relationship does the narrator have to the story?

What is the temporal structure of the poem? Does it take place in one time the present, the past, the future or does it move back and forth between times? Does it present single actions in time or continuing actions?

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Does it bring different times together or set them apart e. Is there a particular occasion for the poem an incident, an event, a realization? Are different parts of the poem located in different times? Does time move smoothly? Are different states of being, or different ways of thinking, associated with different times?

Is a sense of place clear urban, pastoral, forest, desert, beach, etc. As much as it has ever done, poetry renews and deepens the gift that most surely makes us human: And that is as essential to public as it is to private life, because the more imaginative we are, the more compassionate we become — and that, surely, is the highest virtue of all. Get the best at Telegraph Puzzles.

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Accessibility links Skip to article Skip to navigation. Marianne Williamson herself has commented on this mistaken attribution. For Marianne's website, click here. Inspirational Poem About Life 6. Angels must be confused by war. Both sides praying for protection, yet someone always gets hurt.

Someone cries so deep they lose their watery state. Who can they help? Who can they clarify?

Whose mercy do they cast to the merciless? No modest scream can be heard. No stainless pain can be felt. All is clear to angels except in war. When I awoke to this truth, it was from a dream I had last night. I saw two angels conversing in a field of children's spirits rising like silver smoke. The angels were fighting among themselves about which side was right, and which was wrong. Who started the conflict? Suddenly, the angels stilled themselves like a stalled pendulum, and they shed their compassion to the rising smoke of souls who bore the watermark of war.

They turned to me with those eyes from God's library, and all the pieces fallen were raised in unison, intertwined like the breath of flames in a holy furnace. Nothing in war comes to destruction, but the illusion of separateness. I heard this spoken so clearly I could only write it down like a forged signature.

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I remember the compassion, mountainous, proportioned for the universe. I think a tiny fleck still sticks to me, like gossamer threads from a spider's web. And now, when I think of war, I flick these threads to all the universe, hoping they stick on others as they did me. Knitting angels and animals to the filamental grace of compassion. The reticulum of our skyward home. For more heart-opening, inspirational poems about life by the WingMakers, click here. For the intriguing website of the enigmatic WingMakers as it originally appeared, click here.

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Spirit infuses matter, ever enhancing its life and awareness. Matter, in turn, gives form to spirit, ever striving to express and embody the limitless amidst limitation. And it never winds down. On it goes for ages, back and forth, round and round, patiently, playfully, sometimes exhilarating, sometimes frightening, and the secret one slowly growing a body.

Kabir saw this for fifteen seconds, and it made of him a servant for life. Inspirational Poem About Life 8. Embracing All Author Unknown. Light that lies deep inside of me Come forth in all thy majesty Show me thy gaze Teach me thy ways That I a better person may be. Darkness that lies deep inside of me Come forth in all thy mystery Show me thy gaze Teach me thy ways That I a better person may be.

Love that lies deep inside of me Come forth in all thy unity Let me be thy gaze Let me teach thy ways That I a better person may be.