Moore and Stevens

While I don't share the anger and frustration that Elise feels, I too was a bit confused at...let's say the "wording"...yeah the "wording" of the assignment. I think i got what we have to do though...i hope.

I'm going to talk about Steven's poem "The Idea and Order at Key West" and Moore's poem "What are Years?" The first thing that I noticed right away was that Stevens ends all of his stanzas with punctuation while Moore uses the stanza as a "unit of poetry" and will have stanzas lead in to one another. Because Stevens is more straight foreward I liked him better.

Both of the poets use the idea of singing in one of their poems. In "The Idea and Order at Key West" the "sound effects" Steven uses a lot are singing and mention of the sea. The reader gets the image of the ocean and the sounds it makes. The first line is, "She sang beyond the genius of the sea." so if one was to think that the singing of the sea is what we normal imagine the sea sounding like on a windy day one can image this "she" is singing/sounding much better than that.
Stevens uses other sound words such as "fluttering", "cry, caused constantly a cry" Stevens goes so far as to eventually rhyme, when he states, "Since what she sang was uttered word for word. It may be that in all her phrases stirred the grinding water and the gasping wind; but it was she and not the sea we heard." I think it's one of my favorite "sound" sections of the poem. Another cool example is when he uses an alliteration and says, "the sunken coral water-walled," you can actually kind of hear the gurggling of water. My other unrelated favorite part was lines 38-40, "And when she sang, the sea, whatever self it had, became the self that was her song, for she was the maker."

In Moore's poem "What Are Years?" he almost focus' on the silence by stating, "dumbly calling, deafly listening" which is impossible because dumb is not being able to speak and deaf in not being able to listen. However he uses other words like "stirs" and the rhyme, "the sea in a chasm, struggling to be free and unable to be," this is one of the only rhymes in the poem other than, "So he who strongly feels, behaves. The very bird, grown taller as he sings, steels his form straight up. Though he is captive, his mighty singing says,"

So I hope this complied if it didn't...my bad

Good talk we'll see ya out there