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    language‚ means ‘star’‚ so therefore we have Astrophel who is a star lover and Stella who is the star who Astrophel loves so much. The sonnet I choose to analyse represents a Shakespearean type of a sonnet‚ which is composed with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg. Shakespearean sonnets are almost all built from three four-line stanzas‚ which are referred to as quatrains and a final pair  composed in iambic pentameter. On the other hand‚ we can also say that they are written in a combination of one octet

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    Nettles and Manhunt

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    Nettles Relationship Parent and child: My son aged three’. The speaker loves his son and is fiercely protective of him. He describes his skin as ‘tender’ (L6). He responds to the nettles in a violent way- ‘slashed in fury’ (L10). He approaches their destruction in a methodical way ‘next task’ (L12). Subject The subject is a small vulnerable boy and ‘he came seeking comfort’ (L5)- he looks up at his father. The alliteration of ‘blisters beaded’ shows the harshness of the skin on his ‘tender

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    Sonnet 33 Analysis Essay

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    Sonnet 33 by William Shakespeare‚ expresses the love that poet has for his lover or son. The poem follows the conventional English sonnet format with a rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefef‚ gg. The poem contains three quatrains and one couplet. How does the poet’s image of alchemy contribute to love and the motif of gold coinage and valuation? The poet begins by talking about his experiences of many beautiful sun rises. The sun could be looked at in two different ways. The “sun” in the poem suggests

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    making sure that the elements used in her poem come together as one to make it significant‚ unique. Edna’s poem is made up of one stanza of fourteen lines and the last two lines have rhyming endings. The poem has a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. With 10 syllables in every line‚ it uses the iambic foot which creates the effect of stress‚ unstress‚ stress‚ unstress (/-/-) in every line. Out of the whole poem‚ only the lines 5‚7‚11 and 13 are enjambed with the rest of the lines having

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    Even though Dickinson only wrote a few poems in her lifetime‚ she is still considered one of America’s finest poets. Dickinson is well-known for being involved with the Romanticism ideal. A literacy movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century. It eventually made itself known to America and started to appear more in America literature in the 1800s. The movement’s emphasis consists of nature‚ emotion and particularly the individual. Emily Dickinson was not only famous for

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    Sonnets and the Form of

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    ways. Traditionally‚ sonnets are structured with iambic pentameter and there are a few fixed rime schemes. The Petrarchan Sonnets had a rime scheme of abba‚ abba‚ cde‚ cde. The Shakespearean Sonnets’ quatrain has an alternating rime scheme: ababcdcd‚ and efef. The final riming couplet has the rime scheme: gg (Roberts and Jacobs 612). When the sonnet was adopted to English during the early 16th century‚ Shakespeare wrote his poems with seven rimes instead of five because not as many words rime in

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    Literture Final Exam Notes

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    1st Semester Exam Review Questions English 4 SELECTIONS FOR TESTING 1. Beowulf 2. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” 3. Canterbury Tales “Prologue” 4. “The Pardoner’s Tale” from CT 5. Sonnets 6. Elements of Style author’s names Terms (know by definition‚ characteristics or example). 1. Kenning: two-word poetic renamings of people‚ places‚ and things such as the kenning whales’ home for the sea ex from Beowulf: “I have come so far

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    Romanticism: Blake and Keats Blake and Keats were renowned poet during the period where Romanticism played an essential part in creative art and works. Romanticism is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world. Poets like Blake and Keats writings were influenced by the fundamentals of nature‚ human emotions‚ feelings‚ imagination‚ instinct and intuition‚ reflection

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    1. The tone of the poem is ABAB/CDCD/EFEF/GG which is a typical tone for William Shakespeare. 2. The poem should be a love sonnet but instead it has some humour to it and he mocks his mistress by saying “My mistresses eyes are nothing like the sun” ‚in line 1‚ as to say that his mistresses eyes don’t even compare they pretty much normal‚ and there’s nothing wonderful about it. In the 2nd line he says “Coral is far more red than her lips”. Coral is a red/ orange colour‚ and is perceived as beautiful

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    Sonnet - to Science

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    verse and continuing till the end. For what and how he is blaming science will be explored in more detail further in this essay. As the title says the poem is a sonnet and is following the standard rhyming scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet‚ ABAB CDCD EFEF GG‚ but in this case B and C also rhyme. The sonnet consists of fourteen verses and consists of four stanzas. The metrical structure of the poem is an iambic pentameter‚ also very common in Shakespearean sonnets. The poet asks why science has

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