Moods of Poetry Essay

Poetry is a way of flavor a verbalisers feelings and emotions into a literary work. All verse forms have anomalous tones and bodily fluids which ground what the speaker feels when writing the poetry, and what the reviewer feels when reading it. For example, The Rhodora by Ralph Waldo Emerson, praise xvii Shall I Compare Thee to a summers Day? by William Shakespeare, and verse of Myself by Walt Whitman, all have the mistakable mood of happiness and vitality.In The Rhodora by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the speaker finds a flower that is peculiar in beauty compared to the rest of nature. This poem is written loosely in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of aabbcdcdeeffghgh. In line twelve the speaker states and then beauty is its own excuse for being meaning that the purpose of the flower is to show beauty, and nothing more than. The Rhodora provides the reader with a mood that is happy and uplifting and gives the reader a more respectful view of nature.Sonnet XVII Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day? by William Shakespeare, is a sonnet which consists of 14 lines and is in one stanza. In line twain the speaker writes Thou art more lovely and more temperate. The speaker is saying that she is more beautiful and low-spirited than anything he has ever seen. The speaker states that he loves her more than a summers day. The mood of this poem is uplifting and loving, making the reader happier.