James Deflake Susan Rowlandson Analysis

There are different types of poems that make up the category of poetry. Specific examples of poems are lyric poems, sonnets, dramatic monologues, elegies, odes, haikus, figurative levels, and imagist poems. Each author has their own language of poetry that comes after a lot of thought. Susan Rowland puts it best, “poetic language is the native tongue of the soul.” Each author writes their poems with different meanings. The meanings in the poems might be easy to determine, extremely hard to pick out, or some poems might not have a meaning at all. The “Italian Sonnet” by James DeFord focuses on how difficult love can be. It is easy to determine the meaning in the “Italian Sonnet” since it is the main theme throughout the poem. The poem focuses on a young man’s feelings. The man in the poem is asking for the woman to love him again. Somewhere along the way, the relationship broke off and now the man is depressed and the only thing that will cure him is the love of this woman again. The man believes if they get back together things will be the same as they
George uses third person when talking about the snowflake because another person is describing the details of it. Also, George uses personification to make the poem feel more lifelike. “Flutters from the sky,” “So soft and yet her heart/ Is cold and made of ice,” and “She will melt and die” all show examples of how personification is used in the poem to make the snowflake feel more realistic. Each snowflake is different and Elaine George wants her readers to realize that important detail. More importantly, readers must take the snowflake how she is, “But if I warm it/ She will melt and die.” This indicates that if we try and change the features of the snowflake, it will vanish completely. Therefore, readers are encouraged to view this beautiful masterpiece without trying to change