In sharp contrast‚ sonnet 130 and 147 use dark diction to express the dark lady. In sonnet 130 the speaker uses comparison / “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;” to begin the sonnet to express the almost demonic mysterious appearance of the lady. Another comparison is the dark lady to a “goddess” and how a goddess does not walk‚ but rather floats‚ but the speaker’s lady “treads on the ground” (pp550). The speaker shows how his dark lady is far from perfect and may lack many of the qualities
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One of the themes discussed in class was beauty. One poem we read was “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing like the Sun” by William Shakespeare. He is describing the love he has for his mistress. A play called “Beauty” written by Jane Martin shows society definition of beauty. Both poems are showing ugliness masked by beauty. Shakespeare wrote his poem about a mistress who is not beautiful but he finds beauty in her flaws. Shakespeare uses metaphors to describe his mistress. “If hairs be wires‚ black
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humans and humans are sensitive. Emily ended the poem with a dash rather than a period that means that there’s some type of continuation. The author used metaphors to express what she means and to attract the readers. The poem is a balled and it’s an iambic tetrameter. There’s no exact setting in the poem. -6858000The poem: Tell all the truth but tell it slant — Success in Circuit lies Too bright for
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is some shit I will not eat”” (28-39)‚ which contains too many syllables to fit into a conventional song’s rhythm‚ so these lines are interpreted as a poem rather than a song. The entirety of this poem is written in an unusual form of meter called iambic tetrameter. This meter has a very strict pattern‚ which Cummings uses to represent the strictness of military orders‚ and. Furthermore‚ most of the time when Cummmings uses parentheses‚ it is to represent a side note‚ which is typically difficult
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English “Nothing Gold Can Stay” The poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost is written in aabb rhyme scheme with iambic trimeter. Through the use of paradox‚ Frost suggests that the most cherished elements of life will eventually fade. The poem depends heavily on metaphors to show what we value will eventually succumb to time. The poem begins with contrasting nature’s green with gold. It’s as if the
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lines 344 to 347 I identified the rhythm and meter as trochaic pentameter. The word ‘required’ is identified as iambic and it is important to the meaning‚ because it emphasizes that these syllable have to be equal. The second line of this section of lines is iambic tetrameter. The third line of this section of lines is identified as anapestic pentameter. The fourth line of this section of lines is identified as anapestic pentameter. The different types of rhythm and meter in this poem help emphasize
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background detail as it relates to the play Macbeth. The class will be take a test on Monday‚ 5/12 including all of these concepts: Topics: -aside -apostrophe (literary term‚ not punctuation) -hyperbole -subtext -paradox -soliloquy -iambic pentameter -meter vs. prose in Shakespeare -When and Why Shakespeare uses rhyme -clothing metaphors in Macbeth -use of threes in Macbeth -the historical‚ real Macbeth -the Globe Theater -acting companies in Renaissance England -Why King James is
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Another similarity is that both odes are written in iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter is the most common meter used among English writers. Keats does an excellent job of keeping the meter fairly regularly through the poem‚ without making it sound awkward or strained. “Ode to a Nightingale” has eight separate stanzas of ten lines each‚ and the meter of each line‚ except for the eighth‚ is iambic pentameter. The eight lines are written in iambic trimeter‚ which means it has only six syllables per
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ring on their arrival home. Both poems contain lines of iambic pentameter‚ in fact in ’The Send Off’ lines one three and four of each stanza are written in iambic pentameter. This gives the poem a constant rhythm‚ much like that of the train the soldiers are traveling in on their way to France. This makes the images of the men being sent of and rushed away secretly stronger for the reader. In contrast‚ the lines of iambic pentameter in ’Anthem For Doomed Youth’ are used in contrast to lines such
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Faustus. I shall be noting Iambic Pentameter‚ Repetition of words and Alliteration‚ as well as my own interpretation of how Marlowe wished Faustus to be received by the audience. Faustus shows us his arrogance with his first sentence ‘This word ‘damnation’ terrifies not him’ (Line 60‚ Act 1‚ Scene 3)‚
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