What’s he saying? "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up remembrance of things past‚" When I am in a pensive state and recall my memories of past things‚ "I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought / And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste:" I regret that I did not achieve many things I tried to get‚ and with old regrets renewed I now grieve over having wasted my precious time: "Then can I drown an eye‚ unused to flow / For precious friends hid in death’s dateless
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Introduction Poetry has been a special genre and it is one of the many genres that remain consistent (structural means) even after being exploited for years. Looking back at the British poems in the late 80s‚ the stanzas and lines have not changed much‚ at least not the structure of it. Even until today‚ these shapes remained the same‚ although altered in position such as the use of indentation or tabulation in each line‚ alternatively. Besides‚ poetry has become a medium of communication in various
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written by Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo‚ he highlights what Sunday O. Anozie says‚ who observed that the poetry of “Christopher Okigbo … was beginning to show maturity and coherence in his vision of art‚ life and society‚ and greater sophistication in poetic form and phraseology.” REVIEW OF POINTS TO KEEP IN MIND So the more that
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autumn evening. The poem epitomizes the way that family members share long-buried and unarticulated sorrows‚ simultaneously hiding and revealing what they know of themselves and of each other. The title‚ "Sestina‚" appears to simply identify the poetic form that Bishop chose for her story: the sestina is a complex‚ interwoven structure of six stanzas‚ wherein six end-words repeat themselves in a set pattern. Reading this poem‚ however‚ we do not experience it as a display of cold or abstract mechanics
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A comparison of structure‚ poetic/language devices and themes between ‘Hour’ and ‘Sonnet 116’ Both ‘Hour’ and ‘Sonnet 116’ were written 500 years apart‚ yet both of these poems explore the significant characteristics of love and time. Both poems explore that time and love does not match. But in ‘Sonnet 116’ love is the dominant figure from time and in ‘Hour’ time is the dominant figure from love. In the poem‚ ‘Hour’‚ Carol Ann Duffy is talking about how one ‘Hour’ of their day can be spent as
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What are the salient features of Blake’s poetry? Of all the romantic poets of the eighteenth century‚ William Blake (1757-1827) is the most independent and the most original. In his earliest work‚ written when he was scarcely more than a child‚ he seems to go back to the Elizabethan song writers for his models; but for the greater part of his life he was the poet of inspiration alone‚ following no man’s lead‚ and obeying no voice but that which he heard in his own mystic soul. Though the most
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“Sonnet 83” by William Shakespeare conveys the indescribable beauty of a person using punctuation‚ imagery‚ and figurative language. The word “painting” as used in the first line of the poem is a type of poetic imagery that means praise or poetic flattery. This accompanied with “painting set” creates a much more elegant image than simply writing the word praising. Imagery and figurative language is more heavy and emphasized in the last two lines of the quatrains. The last line of stanza one for example
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establishes the importance of the “little star”(20) offering a starting point to employ diction and juxtaposition cohesively to contrast this object of reverence against humans. The contrast between these two is made palpable through the use of one poetic
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’little song‚’ is a lyric poem usually with 14 lines of iambic pentameter and a set rhyme scheme. While sonnets can explore all sorts of themes‚ love is the most common‚ and the original topic of the sonnet. Two Major Types The sonnet takes many forms‚ including the Spenserian sonnet and Miltonic sonnet‚ which is just fun to say. But the two most-studied sonnets are the Italian sonnet‚ known as the Petrarchan sonnet‚ and the English sonnet‚ known as the Shakespearean sonnet. Each type uses its 14
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Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Letters to a Young Poet‚” the author advises Kappus‚ the young poet‚ on how to write poetry. By writing the letter in educative and inspirational tones‚ Mr. Rilke aims to help Kappus improve his poetic prowess. In his letters‚ Rilke gives guidance in the form of commands. He tells the young poet to “go into himself” several times. Rilke also begs the young poet dig “into the very depths of [his] heart‚” instead of seeking acceptance and expecting rewards for his work. Rainer
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