rarer gifts than gold. Gold is very rare‚ so by dying they have been them valuable and unique. Brooke is trying to signify that not many people sacrifice their lives this way. This in Brooke’s belief is a very honourable and glorious practice. The sestet explains to us how the soldiers dying bring England a lot of honour and credibility. Honour has come back‚ as a king‚ to earth‚ And paid his subjects with a royal wage; The peace that has
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With possessions and machinery such as iPods‚ GPS systems‚ advanced voice-recording‚ photo-shooting‚ video-taking cellular phones‚ one can securely say that the present world is fully consumed by materialistic goods and behavior. Society has gotten so caught up with flaunting their valuables and questing to unearth more that they have completely forgotten to slow down and simply savor nature. In his poem‚ “The World is Too Much With Us‚” William Wordsworth displays an ignorant world in a constant
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Thomas and Frost both write about birds. Compare and contrast two poems‚ one by each poet‚ taking account of the methods (the situation of the speaker‚ and the form‚ structure and language‚ including imagery and tones) which each poet uses to write about birds. Both Edward Thomas and Robert Frost write about birds in their poems ‘The Owl’ and ‘The Oven Bird’. ‘The Oven Bird’ by Robert Frost was written in 1916 and published in the Mountain Interval. It is a poem about an Oven Bird who sits on a
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English 1121 — Winter 2010 Literature and Composition II: Drama and Poetry Essay 1 University of Ottawa February 8th 2010 During the Elizabethan age‚ love sonnets were usually written by men communicating their love for unattainable women and displaying courtly love. However‚ Spenser’s Petrarchan sonnets from the Amoretti sequence break conventional love poetry in many ways and challenge the usual pessimist look at love to give it a buoyant look. Spenser then sets his own approach of love to
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Both Spenser ’s Sonnet 75 and Shakespeare ’s Sonnet 19 similarly claim to bestow immortality upon the beloved. Despite similar themes‚ however‚ these sonnets contrast sharply. Spenser ’s sonnet ostensibly reports a conversation between the poet and his beloved‚ whereas Shakespeare ’s sonnet directly addresses personified time‚ and shows the greater dramatic flair. Spenser ’s first two words‚ "One day"‚ eschew drama by setting his poem in a vague and unparticularised past. Line 1 tells
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were first published in 1609. These poems are two of one hundred fifty four poems written by Shakespeare. The poems consist of fourteen lines that is divided into two parts. One is an opening octet with eight lines‚ and the other one is a closing sestet with six lines. Shakespeare uses many poetic devices in both poems‚ which include end and internal rhyme‚ consonance‚ assonance‚ metaphors‚ repetition‚ symbolism‚ personification and alliteration. Both poems talk about love/relationships with a delight
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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 and a sestet. Analysis: “With how sad steps‚ O Moon‚ thou climb’st the skies!” Poets usually described the Moon as the lonely companion and ‘someone’ they would groan to‚ comparing themselves to the Moon because he walks over the sky alone. The Moon
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image of Adam and Eve. Perhaps Hopkins is trying to create the image of the Garden Of Eden. ’Spring’ is a sonnet and is divided into two parts: the first part is eight lines which is called an octave. The second part is six lines which is called a sestet. It has fourteen lines and uses the rhyme scheme ABBAABBA CDCDCD. Hopkins uses a technique of stanza breaks to emphasize the mental change of direction which occurs in this poem. In the first few lines of the poem‚ we get the beautiful description
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present tense. The imitation of ’patter out’ and ’wailing shells’ reflect the sounds on the field. Thus the focus is almost exclusively on the sounds and frantic pace of war that the young soldiers experienced. In contrast‚ in the last six lines (sestet)‚ rhetorical questions are
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Robert Graves‚ “The Naked and The Nude” Let’s start with a bare bones summary. Stanza 1: Dictionary makers say the words “naked” and “nude” are synonyms‚ but Graves says they’re very different. Stanza 2: Naked is natural and innocent. Stanza 3: Nude is sneaky‚ uninnocent. Stanza 4: So the nude could defeat the naked; but in the end‚ they’re the same. But‚ bare bones summaries never tell the whole story (With this poem’s title‚ I couldn’t resist the “bare bones”; if you caught it
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