AN ANALYSIS OF AN EXTRACT FROM MARY WROTH’S SONNETT 14 The verse in hand is essentially a love sonnet‚ but rather than cite the wonders of the stars and her lovers eyes‚ Wroth is using the sonnet form to lament the inequalities of courtship and detail the agony of unrequited or forbidden love. The opening sentence ‘Am I thus conquer’d?’ sets a disparaging tone immediately and this escalates as Wroth continues to use rhetorical interrogatives throughout the poem. Perhaps the most notable example
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“Before You Were Mine” by Carol Ann Duffy "Before you were mine" is a poem written by a daughter about how she imagines her mother ’s life ten years before the daughter was born. The author describes the photo of her mother with two of her friends. They “shriek at the pavement” and seem to be sharing a joke‚ young and lightsome (line 4). She knows that the thought of having a child one day doesn ’t occur to her mother when she was young and had a lot of dreams. Now remembering her own childhood
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Madison Nasser Dr. Brenda Ayres ENGL 216-000 22 April 2013 “An Odd Poem About Oddities” A study of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ "Pied Beauty" Many early works about nature take their appreciation for our Father ’s artistic flair to an unwanted extreme. If individuals forget that nothing we enjoy would exist if the Creator did not have the urge to bring it about they displease Him for He is a jealous God. Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the few authors that was able to sit back and adore nature
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The thought fox By Ted Hughes The thought fox is a poem about writing a poem. The poet is sitting in a room late at night‚ it’s dark outside and though he can’t see anything he senses a presence: Something else is alive Beside the clocks loneliness And this blank page where my fingers move This presence is in the poet’s imagination‚ as you find out in the very first line: I imagine this midnight moments forest: It immediately shows a contrast between the first two lines. The first
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Written by the flamboyant metaphysical poet of late 16th century‚ John Donne; this poem “Good Morrow” is characterised by buoyant use of life enhancing optimism and grandeur characterised by use of far-fetched images and conceits leaving an indelible imprint on the mind of the reader. The poem was published in the Songs and Sonnets collection in 1633 and was written around the same time when Donne met his wife‚ Anne more who is therefore believed to be the fantasy woman of the private kingdom of
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The river runs red by midnight oil has very strong messages about Australia and its environmental issues. This poem is describing to us how humans are destroying nature (the river). When the river is running red it is portraying blood‚ natures blood. Midnight oil have used blood because when we think of blood we think of death. And in this case it would be the death of nature. In the first stanza the poet tells us what is happening to nature for example “you cut all the tall trees down”. This gives
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Spring and Fall‚ written by Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ is a simple and graceful poem that has a powerful religious theme. It is about changing seasons and mankind’s mortality. The poem addresses Margaret‚ which is generally assumed to be a young girl. We assume this based on the use of the word Golden grove‚ which can mean a simple‚ dream-like‚ play-world. The narrator asks the young girl why Golden grove is "unleaving"‚ or losing its leaves. This falling of the leaves occurs in the autumn as
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Nineteenth-century English poet and priest Gerard Manley Hopkins is admired for the highly original use of rhythm in his poetry‚ a quality that can be seen in the following poems‚ “The Windhover‚” “Pied Beauty‚” and “Hurrahing in Harvest.” A windhover‚ also known as a kestrel‚ is a small type of falcon. These three poems express Hopkins’s devotion to the Catholic faith‚ as well as his fascination with the natural world. Like most of Hopkins’s poetry‚ the poems were first published in 1918‚ nearly
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Jefferson‚ Poetry‚ and Dialogue: A Look into the Influence Behind Jefferson’s Writing of “A Dialogue Between My Head and My Heart” During the earlier stages of my research‚ I danced around with many topics‚ all surrounding Thomas Jefferson and poetry. I thought to write about several scrapbooks of his that have been shelved at U.VA’s library for decades. I thought it would be an intriguing topic‚ when I discovered that a professor at DePaul University‚ Jonathan Gross‚ published the collection
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Short Essay on Emily Dickinson’s Poem 712 In Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death ---“ it deals a woman who basically tells the character Death she is too busy to die‚ but he takes her away with him anyway. Dickinson seems to deal with death time and time again in her poems‚ though she does not always use the same circumstances in each poem. When you read the first stanza it looks as if Death picks up the speaker in a carriage‚ which seems to be the metaphor throughout the
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