Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Analysis Of Ballade Of The Poverties And The Men Of...

The Power of Propaganda in Poetry Poets speak their minds on paper through poetry, generating a secret language that needs to be deciphered. Adrienne Rich and Percy Bysshe Shelley both create poems that do not require deciphering since both poets had a contrasting approach. In â€Å"Ballade of the Poverties† and â€Å"To the Men of England,† Rich and Shelley use poetry as a ‘social media’ that airs their concerns to the public. In â€Å"Ballade of the Poverties,† Rich concentrates on the idea that the world around her is getting abominable; everything is losing value. Rich mentions ‘Princes’ in her poem, which is to be understood as the government, politicians, and rich people in general who consume but never produce. Similarly, Shelley expresses the same complications with England as he uses poetry as a tool to create awareness to and for the Men of England. Rich and Shelley both wrote poems that are simple and comprehendible to their g eneration. The success of the poem is accredited to the techniques used to lure and persuade people of their time to issues concerning them. The Rich and Shelley use diction, rhymes, lines, and repetition to protest against the arbitrary episodes of their historical time to settle an inflexible voice and firm tone to the distant audiences. In the beginning of â€Å"To the Men of England,† Shelley beings by questioning the men of England as to why they cater to the lords of England; as he states in the first stanza: â€Å"Men of England, wherefore plough/ For the

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