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    the third quarter

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    HuhLOG IN SIGN UP ENTERTAINMENT TECH LIFESTYLE FOOD HEALTH POLITICS MONEY SPORTS ALL SECTIONS ANSWERS CLOUD SERVICES in POETRY‚ DEFINITIONS‚ THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN What are the differences between poetry prose and drama? Jeffrey A. Beard Answered Last poetry often has a formal structure or even a cadence while you are reading it... it is a form of writing where the words are usually chosen more carefully and people are effectively presenting it Prose is normal

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    Sonnet 71 Analysis

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    “Sonnet 71” is part of a sequence of sonnets that talk of the love surrounding a young man‚ then describes a love triangle‚ and then ends with the talk of a mysterious dark woman. “Sonnet 71” is a typical fourteen line sonnet with a ten syllable iambic pentameter; a five stress line. Sonnets were usually written this way to emphasize the end of the line‚ or last syllable. Although all so far is described close to an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet‚ Shakespeare actually started his own form of sonnet writing

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    Shakespeare’s sonnets The author and the period: William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright. His extant works consist of about 38 plays‚ 154 sonnets‚ two long narrative poems‚ two epitaphs on a man named John Combe‚ one epitaph on Elias James‚ and several other poems. His plays have been translated into most of the language and are still performed in the theatre nowadays. Shakespeare

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    sonnets. The sonnets written by Shakespeare generally follow the path opened by Petrarch in this literary genre two centuries before.These are actually poem forms consisting of 14 lines‚ each with 10 stressed and unstressed syllables known as iambic pentameter‚ with a set rhyme scheme of: a b a b c d c d e f e f g g. The rhymes may be ear-rhymes or eye-rhymes: an ear-rhyme is one that rhymes in sound‚ e.g. "soul" and "control"; an eye-rhyme is one that rhymes by sight‚ e.g. "presage" and "age". Shakespeare

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    cummings. However‚ Cummings has struck the fine balance between maintaining traditional form and introducing radical reform. His sonnet ‘it may not always be so’ conforms to the conventional fourteen-line length‚ positioning of the volta and iambic pentameter rhythm of a sonnet; the allowances that Cummings has made in terms of conforming to traditional conventions has served the purpose of allowing his work to remain recognisable as a sonnet. This introduces the added dimension of what his audience

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    structured in an identifiable‚ categorical style with systematic stanzas and perfectly paired couplets. Some verses in “The Census-Taker” carry unstressed and stressed syllables‚ which echo the seemingly similar attempt in “The Wood Pile” at flawed iambic pentameter. In addition‚ Frost places himself in the poem‚ as the sharp first person narrative‚ simply passing through a nearby wood to perform his job duties. The poem is cognitive. My favorite element of Frost poetry that he purports in “The Census-Taker”

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    and 4 rhyme red and head‚ lines 5 and 7 rhyme white and delight‚ lines 6 and 8 rhyme cheeks and reeks‚ lines 9 and 11 rhyme know and go‚lines 10 and 12 rhyme sound and ground‚ and lines 13 and 14 rhyme rare and compare. The poem is written in iambic pentameter as were many poems in traditional English poetry and verse drama. The poem follows this meter closely including the two rhyming lines at the end called a couplet. “And yet‚

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    Poetry and W. H. Auden

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    ESSAI Volume 7 Article 22 4-1-2010 An Explication of a Poem: W. H. Auden ’s "Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone" Scott Hixson College of DuPage Follow this and additional works at: http://dc.cod.edu/essai This Selection is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at DigitalCommons@C.O.D.. It has been accepted for inclusion in ESSAI by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@C.O.D.. For more information‚ please contact koteles@cod.edu. Recommended

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    Those Winter Sundays

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    Every adult has gone through a phase where they were rebellious towards‚ or simply didn’t appreciate‚ their parents. While most parents have a great deal of affection for their children‚ some parents express themselves through their actions. For children who grew up with affectionate parents it may seem hard to visualize what it would be like to have a secluded and strained relationship with them. And unfortunately some children grow up with cold distant parents who have little to no affection for

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    English Romeo and Juliet

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    have the same structure‚ each one has 14 lines with three quatrains with alternate rhyme and end with a rhyming couplet (Volta). The rhyme scheme of a sonnet is always “a b a b‚ c d c d‚ e f e f‚ g g”- also the lines of sonnet are written in iambic pentameter that is ten syllables across each line. This has the effect of internal rhythm within the poem which creates at tension between the two characters. Each of the sonnets have different language‚ are set in different places and have different speakers

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