"Annabel Lee" By Edgar Allan Poe What is the theme in this poem? And how is it expressed? The main theme raised in this poem is the strong and eternal love between a lover and a beloved. Many figures of speech‚ diction and several figures of sound are used to convey it. To begin with‚ hyperbole-in line nine and thirty six-is employed to describe the intensity of the lover’s feelings to magnify Annabel Lee’s beauty and innocence and to reaffirm the speaker’s grief and sorrow. The poem
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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 how he wrote his beloved ’s name on the beach‚ and line 2 of how
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similes‚ metaphors‚ and other literary figures to create the aesthetic atmosphere of the poem. Personification: The most widely used device of the poem is personification. The central image of the poem is the Night that is a personification of the beloved woman. Personification is used through the whole poem: the Night has clothes ("the trailing garments" and "sable skirts"). Moreover‚ the Night is spelled with the capital letter like a person’s name. In the fifth stanza the poet describes it as a
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View of the evitable In “Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare and “Death” by John Donne‚ both poems describe how death is escaped. Both writers suggest that we shouldn’t fear death‚ because with death comes life. The use of imagery‚ metaphors‚ and personification are used to develop these themes of the sonnets. However‚ each sonnet addresses how they view immortality in different ways. While “Sonnet 18” focuses on immortality by capturing beauty‚ immortality in “Death” is viewed through a religious
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aroused the fire of love. The tone is lighthearted‚ in keeping with the time of the year‚ but tinged with frustration because of the attitude of the speaker’s beloved.The seasons are changing from winter to spring‚ but his beloved remains as cold as winter toward him. Only his beloved remains out of step with the season. When the poet
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Analysis of Edmund Spenser’s Sonnet 75 This poem is one of the eighty-nine sonnets that Edmund Spenser wrote about his courtship and marriage with Elizabeth Boyle. By reading through some of them we can get a clear picture of what was their relationship like and how Spenser could put into verse his deep emotions that he cherished towards his wife. In this essay I will analyse this sonnet by examinig and interpreting its formal and contextual structure. First of all‚ I will analyse the formal structure
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employs this method of confusion throughout her poem in order to establish a comparison between the perplexity with which humans view death and the optimism with which Rossetti views it. Rossetti‚ in her poem‚ ponders upon death and whether or not her beloved and she may "remember" each other after she dies. In the first stanza‚ Rossetti requests her dearly loved to perform certain actions "above" her grave once she dies. By presenting this image of an ideal ceremony occurring above her grave through the
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quatrain his sonnets take a turn‚ which is when the mood of the poem changes for the better‚ taking a more optimistic approach. His sonnets speak of political events‚ love‚ beauty‚ and sex. In “Sonnet 71”‚ Shakespeare discusses the mourning of his beloved after his death. The speaker of this sonnet appears to be an older man who doesn’t want his lover to mourn for him. The sonnet suggests that the speakers love is much younger than he is. Before the turn‚ the speaker has a very pessimistic tone
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pledges to his beloved‚ a shepherd who is eager to give everything‚ opposing the fact that his offerings are transient‚ if only “His love” will accept his pleas to “Come live with me and be my Love.” The shepherd promises that if his beloved will come live with him‚ they will enjoy together all the pleasures that the “Valleys‚ groves‚ hills and fields; craggy mountains can offer. In the second stanza‚ implies that the shepherd begins by setting the scene in which he and his beloved will live‚ they
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own idea and theme‚ but on the whole they make the poem be integral. The first part of the poem tells us about the end of some relationships which still have the influence‚ which still are alive. The lyrical hero says‚ that no matter how he and his beloved have tried to forget everything what they had together (“to let the road between us/ Fall to disuse”‚ “bricked our gates up‚ planted trees to screen us”‚ “turned all time’s eroding agents loose”)‚ they could not do that (“our neglect/ Has not had
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