What are the uses of repetition in a poem?
Repetition is a knife stroke on a whetstone. An idea may be cyclical, sharpened with precision and patience until the shine is reflective. However, reckless angles and effortless pushing may do more dulling and harm than good. Repetition is applicable with any aspect of a poem, from sounds to phrases to motifs to the shape of the stanza itself, and its true ingenuity comes with its ability to give synergy to texts that at first glance were simply additive.
Writers have many tools are their disposal for repetition and can attempt to do so at their own style. Mr. Thomas’s Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night is a methodical youth, bursting with ideas revolutionary and moribund, unwilling to succumb to such ways of the natural consensus. The reoccurring first-line and third-line assonance in “-ight” is basic to the ear, but delightfully, thoughtfully frank in its context. The first-line comparisons between each stanza shoes differences in the beginning letters, showing more of a regeneration rather than repeat. Furthermore, the third-line end rhymes have an echoing effect. Thomas uses this familiarity in pronunciation to speak of a life reconsidered before dusk, and too late. This is also seen at the beginning of the first and third lines, respectively, with men being subject to such a humiliation called regret. “Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight / Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, / Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Ms. Brooks’s my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell is a lyrical piece that sways at each alliteration as the speaker speaks of life and identity. From “drag” and “dregs” to “puny” and “pointed,” Brooks makes the reader sway and stagger at a labor, hopeless and for naught. This is also emphasized with the motifs of honey and bread is introduced, only to appear at the end once more, as if to reflect a sensation of delight invested “In little jars and cabinets” but ending in nothing, as the “taste” has “turned insensitive.” “I am very hungry. I am incomplete.” gives anaphoric resonance. While the sentences are complete clauses, the subject his/herself is not. Ultimately, starting from anew, ending with unfortunate numbing.
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