September 28th 2009
Laura Russell writes,
The poem under examination can be found here: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15806
Theodore Roethke (1908 – 1963) was a prize-winning American poet, and his poem “The Storm” serves as an excellent example of his talent. The basic structure of this poem is fairly simple. It is divided into three parts: the first begins with detached images of the approaching storm; the second part extends these images and introduces a first person perspective; the third stanza chronicles the violence of the storm through this perspective. Roethke employs a plethora of poetic tools; the most prominent are grammatical structure, imagery, and sound.
