*ΔLyric: Originally a lyric signified a song sung to the accompaniment of a lyre. Thus lyric still carries the sense of a poem written to be set to music. A lyric is a common short poem uttered by a single speaker who is expressing his state of mind very often in solitude. In dramatic lyric the speaker is represented as addressing another person in a specific situation like the poem Canonization by John Donne. The genre comprehends a great variety of utterances from say the Dramatic Monologues of
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named after him‚ Shakespeare did not originate the English sonnet form. The English sonnet differs slightly from the Italian‚ or Petrarchian‚ Sonnet and the Spenserian Sonnet in that it ends with a rhymed couplet and follows the rhyme scheme (abab cdcd efef gg). Thus‚ the octet/sestet structure can be alternatively divided into three quatrains with alternating rhymes and ending in a rhymed couplet. William Shakespeare ’s Sonnet 65 is part of a sequence of one hundred and fifty-four sonnets allegedly
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an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet‚ Shakespeare actually started his own form of sonnet writing. It became known as the English variation or Shakespearean rhyme. The rhyme scheme of “Sonnet 71” is: abab‚ cdcd‚ efef‚ gg. This is quite different than an Italian rhythm which is generally: abba‚ abba‚ cdcd‚ ee. Shakespeare took the sonnet format and made it his own. Each quatrain can mean something different and the ending couplet usually produces the meaning behind the sonnet. The fact that the sonnets
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In the poem “Richard Cory”‚ Edwin Arlington Robinson depicts a “grass is greener” presumption with a twist. The speaker in this poem‚ representing the working class‚ tells about a gentleman by the name of Richard Cory; a man everyone admired. This poem is an ironic illustration of how the “glitter[y]” (l. 8) illusion that wealth and stature projects in ones appearance does not always mean the individual has internal happiness. In the first stanza‚ Robinson methodically distinguishes the differences
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Shall I Compare Thee To a Summer’s Day? William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines‚ And oft’ is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines‚ By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d: But
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Shakespeare casts the prologue at the beginning of Romeo and Juliet in the form of a sonnet. He uses the Elizabethan rhyme scheme of a sonnet‚ which is composed of three quatrains and a final couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg. Both translators keep the original rhyme scheme in their translations. Shakespeare makes use of two structural devices to clearly separate the four parts of the sonnet from one another. He firstly uses punctuation deliberately and ends each
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UNIT 10 SPENSER’S POETRY - I Structure 10.0 10.1 10.2 Objectives Introductioil 10.1.1 The Sonnet 10.1.2 The Courtly Love Tradition and Poetry The Alnoretti Sonnets 10.2.1 Sonnet 34 10.2.2 Sonnet 67 10.2.3 Sonnet 77 Let’s Sum Up Questions for Review Additional Reading 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.0 OBJECTIVES The intent of this unit is to: 4 4 4 4 Provide the student with a brief idea about the Amoretti sonnets in general. Familiarize the student with a select few of Spenser’s sonnets‚ specifically
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Literature Poetry Compare and contrast the portrayal of nature in “Report to Wordsworth” and “The Flower-Fed Buffaloes” Both poets of “ Report to Wordsworth” and “The Flower-Fed Buffaloes” depict nature in their poems in different ways as well as similar ways with the usage of imagery‚ figurative devices and through the structure. Vachel Lindsay talks about the approaching of modernization and its wreckage to the natural environment‚ including the buffaloes. Boey Kim Cheng is informing
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altar as a magical point of transition between the material and immovable world of objects and the fluid‚ musical world of human consciousness. The rhyme scheme of the sonnet is: abba cddc efgfef‚ a departure from the standard Shakespearean (abab cdcd efef gg) or Petrarchan (abba abba cde cde) sonnet form. The unrhymed 11th line He leans out on the jam‚ recalls a clatter is perhaps the most striking feature of the rhyme scheme‚ and‚ combined with the poem’s second run-on‚ serves to emphasise the
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The two poems I chose to bring into comparism are sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare and Song:To Celia by Ben Jonson. Both poems are similar in the sense that they both come under the broad theme of romantic love although they differ much in terms of aspects. In sonnet 18‚ the persona expresses his deep admiration towards the beloved while rating her beauty of one that is even more impressive than that of the lovely and lively season summer putting across a subject matter of admiration and adulation
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