TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.0Introduction

2.0The Poem

3.0Close Analysis

3.1Word Choice

3.2Form

3.3 Structure

3.4Imagery

3.5Simile

3.6Metaphor

3.7Personification

3.8Symbolism

4.0Conclusion

5.0Bibliography

1.0INTRODUCTION

Poetry is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. It consists largely of oral or literary works in which language is used in a manner that is felt by its user and audience to differ from ordinary prose.

It may use condensed or compressed form to convey emotion or ideas to the reader's or listener's mind or ear; it may also use devices such as assonance and repetition to achieve musical or incantatory effects. Poems frequently rely for their effect on imagery, word association, and the musical qualities of the language used. The interactive layering of all these effects to generate meaning is what marks poetry.

2.0THE POEMLIFELife is but a passing glimpseA small frame of time out of manyToo short for PleasureToo long for Suffering

Its a sand of uncertaintiesOf Happiness, Sadness ApprehensionIts the eternal cycle of FateSometimes motherly, sometimes a tyranny

Its but a shadow playAnd we the insignificant puppetsPlaying the short scripts of DestinyDirecting our little historiesApplauded by Death.

ByLajimanJanoory

3.0CLOSE ANALYSIS3.1Word ChoiceWord choiceis a term used to describe the words chosen by an author, using words that are very specific and descriptive of exactly what you want to say. There are 65 words contain in the poem whereby the word choices in the poem are also suitable and each word that have been used in the poem have very deep meaning. Overall, the words used in this poem are informal and do not use specific dialect. Majority of the word gives indirect meaning which need the reader to think beyond the normal meaning. 3.2FormThis poem is organized purposely to reflect the meaning of the title which is life. This poem also consisted of three short paragraphs and thirteen lines. Each paragraph contains approximately 20 words and above. The first and second paragraph consisted of similar form of poem while the third is quite different. First and second paragraph have four lines while the third paragraph has five lines. First paragraph explain the scenario of life but in aspect of time particularly. Second paragraph explain the situations and also the situations in real life beside also wrote the common elements in life. While for the third paragraph explain the roles as humans to survive in the challenging life and the challenging life ended with death.3.3StructureStructure of poem usually refers to the framework of a work literature, the organization or over-all design of a work. In this poem which the title is life, the poem begin with the introduction of life with time element. Then, continue with the reality of life in the context of positive and negative aspect of life. After that, the poem continued with the explanation about the job or the task as human in their life. 3.4ImageryImagery" refers to language that evokes a physical sensation produced by one of the five senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell.In the second paragraph states that sometimes motherly, sometimes tyranny contains an imagery whereby motherly refers to such nice situation while tyranny refers to cruel scenario in life. Motherly also can be view with harmony and very peace situation that makes people live happily but tyranny explain the hard and cruel situation that makes people feel disappoint in certain circumstances in their life. 3.5SimileA simile is an easy way to compare two things, so examples ofsimile poemsinclude any poem that makes comparisons using the words "like," "as," or "than. However, in this poem, there is no sentence that can be categorized as simile since no comparison being made using words like, as or than. 3.6MetaphorAMETAPHORdirectly compares two things, which may be quite different, because one has a characteristic that is similar to the other. In this poem, the metaphor can be seen are; Life is but a passing glimpse, Its a sand of uncertainties, Its but a shadow play. Life is but a passing glimpse refer how quickly and fast the life for human whether human realized or not. Its a sand of uncertainties means many or a lot of things that human cannot sure of it which have many possibilities. While for Its but a shadow play refer to the actions of humans in surviving their lives. 3.7PersonificationPersonificationis giving human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas). There is no personification used in the poem.

3.8SymbolismA "symbol" is an object, person, or action which represents an abstract idea. A person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance. This poem do have symbolism such as And we the insignificant puppets and Playing the short scripts of Destiny. The insignificant puppet refers to the ordinary people who run their lives with normal routine and playing the short scripts of Destiny gives meaning how people or human run their lives.4.0CONCLUSION

Based on the analysis of the elements in the poem titled Life above, it can be concluded that this poem have many elements of literature such as word choice, structure, imagery, form, metaphor, personification and symbolism. Each element had affected the influence of the poem to the reader. All the elements are needed to make poem to become more interesting to read and also would give consciousness to the reader. First paragraph or the poem elaborates regarding the time of the life itself whereby people usually do not realize how time flies in their life. The writer in the first paragraph also wrote that people would feel time flies so fast when people in happy situation and people would feel time flies very slowly whenever they are in disappointing period.The second paragraph also had explained regarding people will face many types of unexpected experiences whether positive or negatives things and those things are the reality of life that people cannot avoid from happen. People need to be pleased with what they will face in their problems. Then third paragraph elaborates the roles played by each the human in this world which each of human have determined destiny and their lives will be ended by the death.Through the explanation above, this poem is about the reality of life which contains many challenging things that need to be faced by human. Human also must aware the consequences of the things that they have done and every human in this world will face the death absolutely.

5.0BIBLIOGRAPHY1. Adams, Stephen J (1997).Poetic designs: an introduction to meters, verse forms and figures of speech. Broadview.2. Corn, Alfred (1997).The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody. Storyline Press. 3. Fussell, Paul(1965).Poetic Meter and Poetic Form. Random House.4. Hollander, John(1981).Rhyme's Reason. Yale University Press.5. Pinsky, Robert(1998).The Sounds of Poetry. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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