The Winter Sundays By: Robert Hayden Explication In the sonnet “Those Winter Sundays”‚ the theme is the warmth of the coal fire becomes the warmth of the love that radiates throughout the house. An adult speaker presents memories of how his father expressed love for him through his actions. In particular‚ the speaker remembers that his father rose very early on Sunday mornings to stoke the furnace fire. Only when the house was warm did he awaken his son to dress. Line 12 notes that the father
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Jessie Teskey In Edna St Vincent Millay’s Petrarchan sonnet “What lips my lips have kissed”‚ the speaker talks about past lovers that are in her life no more. Millay uses a variety of poetic devices such as‚ imagery‚ tone‚ and metaphor. She uses imagery of pleasure‚ intimate love‚ and nature. Her tone alters throughout the poem from feelings of wistfulness in the octave‚ to loneliness and abandonment in the sestet. The sestet signifies a shift from the speakers internal to external perspective
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still in existence today. Authors from the nineteenth and twentieth century are using literature and poetry as a vehicle for the new role and passion of the woman. Such authors as Kate Chopin‚ Mary Wilkins Freeman‚ Marge Piercy‚ Edna St. Vincent Millay and Henry James evoke a new sense of expectations for women in their use of literary language. One must acknowledge the differences in the expected roles of women and those the authors are portraying in order to penetrate the effect the author is
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“Love is not all” by Edna St. Vincent Millay is a sonnet about love written in iambic pentameter‚ with traditional structure and follows traditional sonnet rules. It expresses the confusion and emotion of the poet in a way to give the reader the idea that he has suffered or is suffering. It also goes from speaking broadly about love‚ to making it more specific and then finally making it personal with the last line. After the first eight lines of the poem the speaker completely flips the way the poet
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The structure helps to show how the author breaks down that love is not all by listing what love is not‚ and then carrying on to show that‚ while love is not necessary for survival‚ it is key for a person truly living. In the poem‚ Edna St. Vincent Millay expresses many different things necessary for survival‚ all of which love is not: “meat”(line one)“drink”(line one)‚ “slumber”(line two)‚ and not a “roof against the rain”(line two). Because the poet begins the poem addressing everything love cannot
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thoughts and feelings. The poems discussed in this essay are about one of the most powerful and complex emotions of all‚ love. The chosen two poems are the following; "Since Feeling Is First" by E. E. Cummings and "Love Is Not All" by Edna St. Vincent Millay. While these two poems share the same topic‚ the themes presented in each poem varies slightly. Love has no logic. That is the theme of the poem " Since Feeling Is First." Even the title itself is quite an indication as to what E. E. Cummings
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about what career path I should take. In the poem‚ “Sympathy”‚ I saw the use of repetition to convey a point‚ as well as rhyming. In the poem‚ “Dirge Without Music”‚ I saw the use of repetition of key phrases and imagery. Finally‚ in the poem “Sonnet”‚ I say the use of rhyming and
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’Both these poems are love poems with a twist.’ Do you agree? ’i wanna be yours’ by Cooper Clarke and ’Stop all the Clocks’ by Auden are both unusual romantic poems. To judge whether they’re both love poems‚ and if so‚ if they have a twist‚ we’d have to analyse classical love poetry. Cooper Clarke wrote ’i wanna be yours’ in the 1980s for a ’punk’ audience (being a self-proclaimed punk poet). The poem is intentionally mocking of the blossoming consumerist culture that valued possession over emotion
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known to be easily written‚ many factors are involved when creating a good poem. It cannot be just made up of lines and lines of words with some ideas thrown into some of the sentences‚ but with an understanding of the poetic theory. Theory like the sonnet‚ punctuation‚ rhyme scheme and caesura are one of the few areas in which the poem is based on when writing one. For my essay‚ I have chosen to write on Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “I Shall Forget You Presently‚ My Dear”. I find it to be a sad poem‚
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First Love The poem ‘First Love’ is about experiencing young love for the very first time. Firstly‚ Clare uses many forms of figurative language such as metaphors‚ personifications and hyperboles to show the negative impacts of love throughout the poem. Phrases such as his “face turned pale a deadly pale” and “stole my heart away” show this. Love shocked him as if he was a dead ghost and as if life was taken away from him. At the beginning‚ he mentions‚ ‘I ne’er was struck before that hour’‚ telling
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