I need a poem with assonance and/or allusion in it?

This has a list of poems that include assonance.

Google is a beautiful thing. I wish I had it to do my homework….

@Cruiser yeah except for when it helps you find jack SQUAT! _

@ashleyvvv When is this? You aren’t doing it right – post here on Fluther with what you can’t find, and we’ll help you learn the ropes of Google-fu.

@MyNewtBoobs fu?

@ashleyvvv Like Kung-fu – the skill of knowing how to properly Google and get the most out of Googling.

@MyNewtBoobs ok…well i just REALLY need to find some poems with those in it Fast! :/

@ashleyvvv I will help you if you tell me what assonance and/or allusion mean.

@bkcunningham You know I’ve already given her the help, right?

@MyNewtBoobs after I posted I saw your link with the definition. Perhaps she doesn’t understand the definition. @ashleyvvv? Would that help if you understood what the phrases mean? At least it would be a start and I’ll try to help you more from there to get you started.

@bkcunningham Yeah his link I’m having trouble trying to understand it?

@ashleyvvv So if you scroll down, it has a list of examples – Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Bells” uses assonance – Hear the mellow wedding bells. It’s the vowels (the e’s, in this case) that are doing the rhyming.

It is a little hard to understand at first. But really, when you say a poem with assonance in it, it means the poem has a repeating vowel sounds, like a, e, i, o, u. Like the silly children’s poem by Dr. Suess:

East Beast to West Beach

Upon an island hard to reach,
the East Beast sits upon his beach.
Upon the west beach sits the West Beast.
Each beach beast thinks he’s the best beast.

Which beast is best?...Well, I thought at first
that the East was best and the West was worst.
Then I looked again from the west to the east
and I liked the beast on the east beach least.

Some poets, like Edgar Allan Poe use the technique and it is harder to see unless you are really looking for the sounds and vowels.

@MyNewtBoobs thing is that i didn’t mention is they have have to do with one of these (children, religious, patriotic, friendship, love)

@ashleyvvv Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is about love and children.

Allusion in poetry, @ashleyvvv alludes to something. What alludes means is, it doesn’t say it directly, but sort of says one thing and makes you think of something else. Like if I call you a Scrooge. You know I mean you are stingy and not going to give me money. You know that because Scrooge was the selfish guy from the Christmas Carol story.

@MyNewtBoobs too long:/

@ashleyvvv what is your favorite poem? Do you have any you know or like?

@bkcunningham okay that helps the understanding but i cant find poems still:/ and no.. :(

What grade are in attending in school?

@bkcunningham sophmore

Look up Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Have you ever heard of her? She has one poem about love that is famous and really awesome (and short) that might help you. Let me know what you find.

Why are you guys giving her answers instead of making her do her own homework?

Assonance has been explained very well up above, so I’m going to tackle allusion. An allusion is when one work makes a brief reference to another work without explaining it in depth.

Even if you’re not familiar with allusions, you’ll see them all the time in works of fiction. For example, one of the episode titles in “Lost” is “White Rabbit,” a reference to “Alice in Wonderland.” Two characters on the show, Locke and Rousseau, are named after Enlightenment philosophers.

Many, many works of fiction have allusions to the Bible or to mythology. For example, the short story The House of Asterion by George Luis Borges is an allusion (or a reference?) to the myth of the Minotaur. It starts with a narrator describing the house he lives in, which starts to sound more and more like a maze. At the end of the story you realize the narrator is the Minotaur. This is different from an allegory, where one thing is a symbol or a representation of another thing.

Here’s an example from pop culture: Lord of the Rings allusions in Led Zepplin lyrics. There’s the song “Misty Mountain Hop” and these lines from “Ramble on” :‘twas in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair/ but Gollum and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her.”

So if you can convince your teacher that lyrics= poetry, you’re gold. Otherwise, I just googled “allusions in poetry” and came up with a few pretty good results, but I’m not sharing.

Try to pick something you like, because I smell another assignment just around the corner. I bet you a million dollars your teacher is going to assign you to analyze all the allusions in your poems after you hand them in.

You probably think this assignment sucks, but writers do this to add richness and depth to their fictional worlds… it can really make a work more rewarding. At least when you figure one out, you’ll get a clever “A-ha!” moment.

@faye Because doing homework is pointless and she won’t actually learn anything.

@MyNewtBoobs You learned.

@faye I learned what?

@MyNewtBoobs You learned assonance, of course!

@faye From homework? No.