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Alphanumeric Outline of Poetic Analysis

The document provides an outline comparing the poems "Apollyon's Demise" and "The Wine-Dark Waters of R'lyeh" by D.C. Lynn in terms of their form and content. Both poems have free verse form, but "Apollyon's Demise" has 7 stanzas while "The Wine-Dark Waters" has 2. They discuss different themes - "Apollyon's Demise" depicts a positive Christmas scene while "The Wine-Dark Waters" conveys a negative mood of loss and anxiety through allusions to Lovecraft and American history. Overall, the poems have similar free verse form but divergent content and philosophical views on the existence of good and evil

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Alphanumeric Outline of Poetic Analysis

The document provides an outline comparing the poems "Apollyon's Demise" and "The Wine-Dark Waters of R'lyeh" by D.C. Lynn in terms of their form and content. Both poems have free verse form, but "Apollyon's Demise" has 7 stanzas while "The Wine-Dark Waters" has 2. They discuss different themes - "Apollyon's Demise" depicts a positive Christmas scene while "The Wine-Dark Waters" conveys a negative mood of loss and anxiety through allusions to Lovecraft and American history. Overall, the poems have similar free verse form but divergent content and philosophical views on the existence of good and evil

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ALPHANUMERIC OUTLINE:

Form, Content, and Resonance in D.C. Lynns Apollyons Demise


and
The Wine-Dark Waters of Rlyeh
THESIS STATEMENT: Accordingly, and upon closer examination, it can be said that
there
are some similarities and many differences between Apollyon and The Wine-Dark
Waters in terms of form and content.

I.

Introduction

A.

Total composition of Fancy, Motion & Imagination

1.

57 total poems

2. Themes & styles - varied


B.

Individual composition of all three sections of the book

1.19 poems in each individual section (i.e., Fancy 19; Motion 19; Imagination
19)
2. Highly comparable and contrastable: form & content
a.

Apollyon

b.

The Wine-Dark Waters

II.

Similarities & Differences: Form

A.

Form

1.

Free Verse: both poems

2.

Strophes - Citation # 1 {Drury}

a.

Apollyon = 7 total in 34 total lines

b.

Wine-Dark Waters = 2 total in 34 total lines

c.

Space Breaks

3.

Epigraph: Wine-Dark Waters

a.

Citation # 2 (LiteraryDevices)

b.

H.P. Lovecraft

4.

Textual Organization of both poems

a.

Apollyons Demise and silence (form mirrors content)

b.

Wine-Dark Waters = non-descript 1st person narrative

III.

Similarities and Differences: Content

A.
confessional free verse Citation # 3 {A Brief Guide to Confessional
Poetry}
B.

main antagonist figure/symbol


1.

Apollyon simple allusion/trope

a.

Apollyon or Abbado - Citation # 4 {LaHaye, T. and Jenkins, J.B.)

b.

symbol/personification of evil force in life or mankind

2. Wine-Dark Waters complex allusion/trope


a.

H. P. Lovecraft

1.

Cthulhu

2.

Lost Sea of the Damned

3.

Point Nemo

4.

forbidden knowledge - Citation # 5 {Eil)

b.

Homers Odyssey

1.

Laestrygones

2.

the Scylla, the Charybdis

3.

the wine-dark waters proper

c.

American history

1.

Bataan Death March

2.

The Trail of Tears


d- something

1.

unknown monster

2.

confessional fiend/ogre

IV.

Conclusion/ So What?

A.

Resonance

1Both (via form & content) force reader to artistically feel but they are
philosophically opposite views of life and highly subjective Citation # 6 {Jacoby}
a.

Apollyon - positive mood

1-

love and caring on Christmas Day in a far-away, isolated setting

2-

positive allusion of parallel symbols (Mynah birds & married couple)

3-

the good guy/antagonist or goodness can ultimately win over evil

b.

Wine-Dark Waters negative mood

1-

forbidden knowledge

2-

deep seated anxiety of loss and alienation in complex trope

3the good guy/antagonist or goodness does not always win or can never
ultimately triumph over evil
B.

Alike in form but divergent in Content Citation # 7 {Lynn}

1.

denotation

2.

connotation

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