Explain 6 Poems Elements

Post 6 poems and explain how they use the elements of poetry (speaker and tone, diction and syntax, figures of speech, sound, rhythm and meter, and theme) How do you go about this? Go through the different sections of poetry and find a poem that fits each of the 6 elements. 30 words for each poem. Diction and syntax: word choice Read Wordsworth poem The World is Too Much with Us First lines: The world is too much with us; late and soon. Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; The speaker is referring to work–that we spend so much time of our economic issues and money. Word choice? Getting and spending…we lay waste our powers. We let our minds and bodies and morality go to waste. For example, for Speaker and tone: Ballad of the Landlord by Langston Hughes demonstrates the power of the landlord over the person of color tenant. The landlord gets the tenant arrested for saying he wanted to overthrow the government. The poem ends with the headline in the newspaper about the black tenant getting 40 days in jail, no bail.   Situation and Setting: In Dover Beach the speaker laments the decline of Christianity. One of the worst sins of poetry is to get sentimental, and Arnold does it, saying that since the last thing there is is love, “let us be true to one another.” The situation is all too familiar and while the descriptions of the beach and the ocean are beautiful, the poem is not so great. Rhyme and meter