J Singh English Coursework John Donne and Tony Harrison both discuss death in their poems. They were written in different eras and both poems have different views on this subject. John Donne had a rather privileged upbringing as he was born into a prosperous family and studied law at Oxbridge. Donne‚ however‚ was also unfortunate as he lost is father very early in his life and this could have affected his views on death. Tony Harrison on the other hand was born into a proud working class family
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|Summary/Themes |Born Yesterday and Nettles | | | |Born Yesterday and Nettles are both written about adults’ thoughts regarding children and how they will survive in the world. | |Born Yesterday explores the poet’s feelings about the birth of his friend’s daughter and rejects traditional‚
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Elizabethan times so they knew what they meant and how there were used. All Sonnets 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
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duchess but never quotes her words‚ the duke a performer who mimics the voices of others‚ chilling sinister tone‚ etc. Setting: the duke of Ferrara’s palace‚ upstairs in the gallery‚ 16th century setting‚ etc. Dramatic monologue‚ written in iambic pentameters‚ reads like blank verse in a drama/contains 3 formal elements: an occasion‚ a speaker‚ a hearer/ words are heard and intended to be heard by an implied auditor (the count’s envoy)/ has the appearance of being excerpted from the body of a verse
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When a conversation involving William Shakespeare arises‚ it is almost certain that one of his two‚ arguably‚ most famous lines are mentioned; “Romeo‚ Romeo‚ where for art tho Romeo? and “To be or not to be‚ that is the question” (CITATION). Over Shakespeare’s life‚ he wrote countless means of literature‚ some better known than others‚ but each using traditional forms of literary techniques to some degree. Within his 18th Sonnet‚ “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” Shakespeare strategically
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up into three quatrains‚ that is four-line stanzas‚ and a final couplet -or two lines of verse. The rhyming pattern is abba‚ cddc‚ efef‚ gg as‚ notably "Lute" (l.1) rhymes with "mute" (l.4)‚ "far-away" (l.2) with "day" (l.3) and "dispute" (l.5) with "fruit" (l.8). Moreover‚ the lines are iambic pentameters since they contain five iambic feet for instance : _ / _ / _ / _ / _ / "O Gol/den-tongued /Romance‚ /with se/rene Lute!" Like most of Keats’s poems‚ this text deals with the speaker’s encounter
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Out of Love In William Shakespeare’s play‚ Shakespeare has a character recite a monologue in iambic pentameter. When a character has an iambic pentameter monologue it means they are making an important decision that will change the play. With every formal decision‚ it comes with pros and cons. In William Shakespeare’s play Othello‚ Othello becomes conflicted with his beliefs and his emotions. In Act 5‚ Scene 2‚ Othello’s soliloquy reveals his reasons for killing Desdemona. Othello’s insecurities
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play. Shakespeare uses dramatic irony to emphasise the loss that these two share and in turn play to the audiences curiosity. Despite this many readers rarely realise that the prologue is in fact written in sonnet form; consisting of 14 lines‚ iambic pentameter and a rhyming couplet at the last line written. The structure may connote not only the strong love that both Romeo and Juliet share for one another but also perhaps the love of constantly attempting to evade their fate and follow passion as opposed
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In this poem‚ William Shakespeare illustrates a woman who is not so imposing. Throughout the piece‚ the narrator compares his lover to beautiful things‚ but she comes out with the short end of the stick. She was not blessed with desirable attributes‚ yet he loves her. Unlike most poets from his time‚ Shakespeare does not write to please the reader’s ears but to be brutally honest in a way that is endearing‚ in a roundabout way. His sonnet is very atypical in the way that he describes his beloved
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The Seven Ages of Man” is a dramatic monologue in William Shakespeare’s play “As you Like it.” The monologue is addressed by Jacques who has a gloomy look on life. This poem reveals to the reader the seven stages that a man plays throughout his life. It starts from a baby puking and whining‚ and ends with a dead man who has lost everything. The success of this piece relies to a great degree on the extended metaphor because it relates our roles in life to acts on a stage. Poetic devices also further
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