But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep

But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep

Whose woods these are I think I know
His house is in the village though
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake

The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep

Poet: Robert Frost

ادبیات انگلیسی اصطلاحات شعر انگلیسی "enjambment"

Unless you happen to be a poet—better yet, a French poet—you may not be familiar with the word enjambment. Enjambment, from the French meaning “a striding over,” is a poetic term for the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of poetry to the next. An enjambed line typically lacks punctuation at its line break, so the reader is carried smoothly and swiftly—without interruption—to the next line of the poem

You may also not be familiar with the poet Mary Oliver. Put her on your summer reading list. Why? "You do not have to be good." That’s the first line of one of her poems. Come on, what else could you want from a first line? In her Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry, Mary Oliver explains that “When… the poet enjambs the line—turns the line so that a logical phrase is interrupted—it speeds the line for two reasons: curiosity about the missing part of the phrase impels the reader to hurry on, and the reader will hurry twice as fast over the obstacle of a pause because it is there. We leap with more energy over a ditch than over no ditch.”
That’s one reason poets use enjambment: to speed up the pace of the poem or to create a sense of urgency, tension, or rising emotion as the reader is pulled from one line to the next. Enjambed lines pique the reader’s interest—if the sentence or thought isn’t completed by the line break, one’s curiosity (where are we headed with this?) leads them down to the next line, which might complicate the previous line, expand upon it, or clarify it. Poets can also create a sense of surprise or introduce some humor with their enjambed lines, moving the reader toward unexpected ideas or subjects

ادامه نوشته

شعر انگلیسی درباره شهادت امام جواد علیه السلام

The leaves were falling, the winds were cold
The heart of his beloved could not hold
The martyrdom of Imam Jawad, she implored
To endure, to persevere, to be strong, she urged

In a world of oppression, of deceit and lies
Imam Jawad came, to guide and to advise
He sought knowledge, he sought truth
To show the path to the misguided youth

But his enemies, afraid of his light
Plotted and schemed, to end his life
They trapped him, they took his breath
But his legacy lives on, beyond his death

So let us remember the sacrifice he made
And strive to follow in his righteous shade
Let us seek knowledge, let us seek truth
And fight against oppression, in his eternal youth