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 abab‚ cdcd‚ efef‚ 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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Devon AP English 12th Sonnet Both poems describe‚ show examples‚ and compare things to their loves‚ yet both have different attitudes towards their lovers. Edmund says noble things about his lover‚ and William says ruthless things about his lover. In Edmund Spencer’s poem‚ he explains how beautiful‚ wise‚ and smart she is. For example‚ he says how beautiful her eyes and lips are; “If saphyres‚ loe! Hir eies be saphyres plaine; / If rubies‚ loe! Hir lips be rubies sound.” He is explaining
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Sonnet 138 William Shakespeare’s sonnet 138 is published in 1599 in a poetry collection entitled “The Passionate Pilgrime”. It reveals the nature of his frustrating relationship with The Dark Lady‚ emphasizing the effects of his age and his decline in beauty‚ and the effects on a sexual/romantic relationship. When my love swears that she is made of truth I do believe her‚ though I know she lies‚ That she might think me some untutored youth Unlearnèd in the world’s false subtleties. Thus
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can turn into a war zone. Initially written in response to the 1963 Alabama church bombing‚ the poet tells a story about a mother and her young daughter having a dispute about whether a freedom march is a place for a child. In the short poem “The Ballad of Birmingham” author Dudley Randall incorporates poetic devices such as Irony to describe the unexpected church bombing that took place in Birmingham‚ Alabama. On September 15th during a morning service at 16th street Baptist‚ the lives of four little
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Leslie AP English May 5‚ 2012 An Echo Sonnet: To an Empty Page Robert Pack’s “An Echo Sonnet: To an Empty Page is established through various literary techniques that contribute to the poem’s meaning. Pack’s use of imagery and rhetorical questions gives the poem something to rely on to carry its story. The use of literary techniques exclusively defines the poem and through that‚ the reader can understand the underlying message behind the sonnet. Throughout the entire poem‚ the speaker
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Spirit in a Waste of Shame Where most poetry since Petrarch had been based on the unavailability of the love object‚ Shakespeare in sonnet 129 writes about exactly what happens when you get what you think you want. But contrary to expectations it is not an achievement devoutly to be wished‚ but rather an inevitable nightmare. It’s quite hard to pin down Sonnet 129 to one specific speech situation. Neither is there any “I” – a clear reference to a particular‚ personal experience - ‚ nor does it
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The poem Sonnet 129 focuses on human lust and its inevitable stages of shame. Shakespeare promotes the theme that as a result of lust there is only corruptness‚ whether it be while one is “in pursuit” (9) (in the future tense)‚ “in possession” (in the present tense)‚ or after the fact (in the past tense) when it proves “a very woe” (11). The negativity of lust is extremely reinforced in only the third line of the poem with a chain of adjectives to describe lust: “Is perjured‚ murderous‚ bloody
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marriage...impediments (1-2): T.G. Tucker explains that the first two lines are a "manifest allusion to the words of the Marriage Service: ’If any of you know cause or just impediment why these two persons should not be joined together in holy matrimony’; cf. Much Ado 4.1.12. ’If either of you know any inward impediment why you should not be conjoined.’ Where minds are true - in possessing love in the real sense dwelt upon in the following lines - there can be no ’impediments’ through change of circumstances
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Love‚ lust‚ murder‚ thievery‚ incest‚ death‚ and betrayal are just some of the intriguing‚ beautiful‚ and sometimes disturbing topics of a traditional ballad. A traditional what? A ballad is " a song that tells a story‚ or- to take the other point of view a story told in song. More formally a short poem‚ adapted for singing‚ simple in plot and metrical s structure‚ divided into stanzas‚ and characterized by complete impersonality so far as the
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Amber B Mr. Browne .Junior English 12 December 2012 “The Bridal Ballad” Poetry Connection The poem I have chosen to analyze by Edgar Allen Poe is “The Bridal Ballad‚” right from the title you can instantly assume what the poem is generally going to be about. The reason I choose this poem is because it seemed like the most easily understood on and I think I could elaborate more on it. From reading it the first time you realize that it is in written in a newly wed bride’s point of view‚ and
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