Structure in “Sonnet” In his poem “Sonnet”, Billy Collins uses the Petrarchan method to carry his reader through the creation of a sonnet. He takes his reader line by line through all fourteen lines explaining metaphorically the complexity and conflicts that are contained in the octave. He also uses his octave to almost post mockery at the strictness of Elizabethan sonnets. He then finalizes with the resolving manner of the remaining six lines. He creates this poem ignoring the iambic rule associated
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Have you ever considered the impact of war on our society? Have you considered the futility of its outcome? Famous Australian poets Bruce Dawe and Mary E. Fullerton discuss this themes in two confronting poems about war and the devastating effects it has on our community. The poem Phantasms of Evening written by Bruce Dawe and War Time by Mary E. Fullerton examine the futility of war and death, and the inability of the human race to learn from past mistakes in order to avert future occurrences.
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Galway Kinnell’s ability to express the multifaceted process of being lovers and parents within each stanza of this poem creates a paramount understanding, therefore sanctioning one line to carry on the setting and tone to the next. Kinnell’s dramatics on his references to acquainted engagements of a married couple permits the reader to visualize the scene as the narrator and his wife loll in bed, “after making love, quiet, touching along the length of our bodies” (10). Two of the most vigorous forms
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for immortality because of his lover and “When I Have Fears that I may Cease to Be” surrounds Keats’ fear that he may not reach his full fame before his death. He conveys this anxiousness through the poetic devices of consonance, paradox, rhyme and sonnet form. Keats uses the paradox to express his desire for immortality in order to fulfill his wishes of love and fame. Keats wishes to be “Pillow'd upon [his] fair love's ripening breast/...Awake for ever in a sweet unrest” in the poem “Bright
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he Glass Menagerie is a very character oriented poem. Tom, Amanda, and Laura are all very well developed characters. They all have significant and unique characteristics that are shown well throughout the poem. Tom is the most interesting to me though because of his qualities and even his flaws. Tom has a few different and contradicting characteristics such as he is easily persuaded, his determination and his strong sense of guilt. Tom Wingfield seems to be easily entrapped and persuaded into
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A common question posed throughout time is whether people can feel love or joy without also feeling grief and heartbreak or not. Neruda answers if human beings can feel true joy without first experiencing sadness with his use of stars throughout his poetry. Neruda uses a star motif to indicate a positive feeling or outlook surrounded by the harsh darkness of negativity. A star signifies a light in the dark. Neruda suggests that there can only be light if there is also darkness. The emotional highs
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In George Gascoigne’s poem, “For That He Looked Not upon Her,” Gascoigne addresses the tempting and enticing aspects of a seducing female he deems dangerous to even look at in fear of what a relationship could bring. To do so, Gascoigne uses poetic elements such as vivid imagery, descriptive diction, and a framed form of writing to artfully display the speaker’s complex attitude. When initially describing the speaker’s actions and other elements throughout the poem, Gascoigne implements imagery
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poem seem as flawless and ethereal as humanly possible. However, there are notable subversions to this general rule, as seen in William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130, which employs descriptive metaphors to emphasize how ordinary the speaker’s lover is. Similarly, Theodore Roethke’s Elegy For Jane also utilizes metaphors while mimicking the form of the sonnet to describe his dead student. Additionally, both poems utilize soothing and pleasing sound to give the reader a sense of the emotion that the speaker
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This excerpt is from a lyric poem in which the persona, a lover, is addressing his beloved. He expresses his sense of how his beloved has the capacity to open and enclose him, meaning to understand him deeply in every way even when he tries to hide his innermost thoughts and feelings. The mood and tone of this poem convey a feeling of wonder, as if the persona is in awe of his beloved’s capacity to affect him in that way. The poet’s abundant use of tactile imagery allows us to see, through all this
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