Poetry question????????plz help?

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Explain how the author of "the lonely land" uses language to create images in the reader's mind....plz give evidence ur full thought and plz anwer in sentences...tnk u so much...i know it uses descriptive words........but what else. plz write appropriate answers

THE LONELY LAND
--A.J.M. Smith

Cedar and jagged fir
uplift sharp barbs
against the gray
and cloud-piled sky;
and in the bay
blown spume and windrift
and thin, bitter spray
snap
at the whirling sky;
and the pine trees
lean one way.

A wild duck calls
to her mate,
and ragged
and passionate tones
stagger and fall,
and recover,
and stagger and fall,
on these stones -
are lost
in the lapping of water
on smooth, flat stones.

This is a beauty
of dissonance,
this resonance
of stony strand,
this smoky cry
curled over a black pine
like a broken
and wind-battered branch
when the wind
bends the tops of the pine
like a broken
and wind-battered branch
when the wind
bends the tops of the pines
and curdles the sky
from the north.

This is the beauty
of strength
broken by strength
and still strong
 
if u asked this to do some home work too bad. FIND OUT YOURSELF.. thats the great way to find out something. just close your eyes and visualize on the poem.
 
I have written poetry for over fifty years. You must look at the poem, and look into the poem. The writer is painting a picture for you, not only with the words that he is using, but also the way he is using them. What do you feel as you read the poem? are there words or sound in the poem that make you feel that way? Do you hear sounds that make the trees come alive, are there any human noises, why or why not?
 
If you use the simple language in your poem, and keep the lines short and inter -related to one another, with the proper use of adjectives that best fits along with a word or a phrase in the poem, your poetry is gonna come out really good. This actually makes a reader to imagine the things described in the poem.

You can find the synonyms of a word(that you have in the mind) that best fits in the poem over here.

www.synonym.com

www.dictionary.com
 
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