Limit Experience

Introduction

Limit experience is a common aspect in humans after encountering various incidences that

make them lose hope and encourage pursuing their desired goals. Notably, this is because such

aspects always push them to the intensity of reaching impossibilities by taking over their mind's

thoughts. Such experiences may be expressed in form of desertion, obsession, suffering, insanity

and above all, poetry. In many literatures from various authors who speculate on almost the same

topic, a lot of similarities have been noted within the readings. Considering the poem "Hope is

the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson and "When heavy lid of low sky” by Charles

Baudelaire, the poetic forms in these pieces of literature limit present much about limit

experience. Focusing on the two poems, it is essential to analyze how limit experience can

conveyed to the poem reader through the figurative language, rhythms, the importance of the

poetic form used in relation to the portrayed images and ideas.

Conveying Limit Experience to Readers

The art of poetic experience can transform density into clarity, thoughts into restoration in a

way one composes a presentation. Considering the figurative language in Dickinson’s poem

“Hope is the thing with feathers”, she compares hope to a bird with feathers perched permanently

to human souls. She was motivated by her love for birds and used them since they never give up
their quest to sing even when in tough times inspiringly. In context to compose an

understandable line representing her inspiration, her poem spoke her heart out with interruptions

by dashes and comers to pause, which creates extra emphasis on phrases. Basing on the specific

parts the poem communicates about the rhythms vary in particular places that may not be visible

at first sight. With an in-depth analysis of the poem, the music expresses the poet yearning for

fulfillment in creativity and love. Therefore, the poem’s rhythmic music expounds on how hope

can inspire an individual to fly and move on even in tough times.

On the other hand, in Baudelaire’s poem “When heavy lid of the sky”, analytically portrayed

how people lose hope and faith and eventually stop working towards their good goals and

objectives. In other words, humans are good at setting goals and objectives, and starting to work

towards them in life. According the poem “When heavy lid of the sky”, the first stanza indicates

how people always feel whenever they are challenged by any situation from meeting their goals.

In line 4 of the first stanza, the author uses the term “A black day sadder than any night” of the

discouraging uncertainties that one may encounter. In the same line, it is noted that the author

compares the terms “black” and “night”, for expected risks, and unexpected risks that may

consume one’s objectives. In the second stanza, the author elaborates more of the “black” termed

used in the first stanza. In the first line of the second stanza, the author uses the statement “When

the changed earth is but a dungeon dank” showing how limit experience makes people see earth
as something useless only existing to consumes people’s hopes and goals. When people lose

focus, they begin to operate on chances and blindly leading them to more painful challenges as

noted in the line 2-3 of the second stanza. Analyzing the third Stanza, the author tries to

demonstrate that the one is most likely to be a permanent failure with their brains filled with

impossibilities. Admittedly, this is because the author acknowledges being a failure, which he

confirms with the last statement in the poem “Plants his black banner on my drooping skull”.

Importance of Poetic Forms and its Relation to Image or Ideas Represented

When presenting literature written in lines or stanza, the writer’s feelings and ideas should

be expressed in a rhythmic form. As for poetry, writers always confine their focus specifically to

the length and placement of particular stanza as well as grouping lines in their presentation,

termed to be a form. Simecek et al. continue to explain that these forms are arranged in a way

that is to capture and cause an effect on the poem reader. These lines in poem lyrics are intended

to create an emotional feeling corresponding to the situation described in the poem. Poetic forms

are arranged systematically ranging from the sonnet, rhythm, and rhyme scheme to represent an

image or an idea in a figurative language. Therefore, write-ups with such poetic structure tends

to have the ability to move their readers.

The sonnet of Baudelaire’s poem "When heavy lid of low sky”, has 20 lines with

particular rhythmic patterns. In the given piece, Baudelaire ended up with pairs of lines set aside
from others to emphasize what the content is delivering hence giving the message sent the

ultimate priority. Furthermore, the ultimate adaptability in various purposes and necessities as

witnessed in the work of Dickinson has played a crucial role in poetry. Following the strict

rhythms incorporated in the lines, the authors highlight that sonnets could be the best poetic form

of elaborating or uttering out individuals’ thoughts and mindset within short lines of verses

consisting of five metrical feet. Therefore, the sonnet form of poetry perfectly favors emotional

writers whose inspiration base on what they feel and love.

Another form of poetic structuring is the rhythm, which brings out the beat of the lyrics

in the poem. These rhythms are measured in meters of a set of loud syllables (stressed syllables)

and soft syllables (unstressed syllables). Organizing words in meters often enables the poet to

compose a particular sound or beat in a poem. Developing such a tone in the poem lyrics arouses

emotions and enhances more ideas of expression in the writer’s vocabulary. The essential aspect

of paying attention to these rhythms is that it is the root key to understanding the full effect of the

poem. Focusing on poetic songs, we listen to the rhythmic music of the words which tells

whether the singer is angry or miserable. On the other hand, the musical notes and meters may

vary according to the situation from being fast, harsh, or short and later becomes slow, soft

finally drawn-out. Therefore, these rhythms add more effect on the whole message passed to the

reader.
 The other structural aspect a poet can use may be the figurative language technique that is

mainly established to create an effect on the overall poem. Using repeated final sound patterns

forms a rhyme scheme together with meters at the last word with the same letters of each line

making the poem more of a musical. Alongside giving memory for reciting, rhymes also aid in

providing predictability pleasures. Formulating rhyming patterns in a write up has significant

effects on the rhythm of a poem and also acts as the captivating art in a poem. Coherently

emphasizing the use of rhyming lines consistently in every stanza of a poem stresses the writer’s

message to their readers. Therefore, rhyme schemes are fundamental poetic forms used to

convey an author’s note excitingly.

Conclusion

Limit experiences range from expressive forms through desertion, obsession, suffering,

insanity and above all, poetry. Considering the poem "Hope is the thing with feathers" by Emily

Dickinson and "When heavy lid of low sky” by Charles Baudelaire, the poetic forms in these

kinds of literature the limit of what is to be understood, represented or spoken. Admittedly, their

poetic works have significantly accounted for conveying limit experience to readers as well as

portraying the importance of poetic forms and their relation to the image or ideas represented.

Dickinson’s rhythmic music in the poems summarizes the belief everyone has of hope as an

inspiration that makes us fly and move on even in tough times. On the other hand, Baudelaire's
poem reflects the lively dynamics of evil and the imaginative inner world reactivating people’s

memory about the sin in eroticism and perversion. Consequently, the arrangement of the poetic

forms of the lines systematically rang from the sonnet, rhythm, and rhyme scheme to represent

an image or an idea in a figurative language.