The excerpts from Elegiac Sonnets by Charlotte Smith come across as very sad. From the four separate readings by her it is seemed like Smith was maybe depressed. Beginning with Written as the Close of Spring the beginning is beautiful with talk about flowers blooming and spring. Then‚ begging at line 9 it gets sad. She begins talking about humanity and how frail and fair it is. She is talking about how when we age we loose our youth and don’t bud anymore‚ as flowers do. The next excerpt in Charlotte
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“The comedy in The History Boys centres around the opposition created between the two teachers‚ Hector and Irwin.” What is the significance of Bennett’s use of opposition? The book ‘The History Boys’ provides opposition between the two teachers Hector and Irwin. These two characters are presented by Bennett to show the audience the difference in the teaching of both characters. Hector is described on page four as ‘a man of studied eccentricity. He wears a bow tie.’ By this‚ we get a first impression
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John Donne’s petrarchan sonnet “Batter My Heart” is written traditional sonnet format. It is an apostrophe in which the author‚ hereafter referred to as the speaker‚ speaks to God. Whether the speaker is Donne himself is debatable as many elements of the speaker’s identity‚ including their gender‚ is unclear. Through careful use of imagery and simile‚as well as paradox‚ John Donne delivers a concise image of the speakers desired relationship with God. The speaker begins their first quatrain by asking
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William Shakespeare has written not only plays but poems as well.the key poems here‚today‚ include “Shall I Compare Thee To a Summer’s Day‚” and “My Mistresses Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun.”These two poems talk and describe love but in two very different ways and perspectives‚yet they were written by the same poet.This can either be because he was in both situations or his inspiration just struck.Be it as it may‚they still both express love in a faithful‚passionate way and a not so desirable way
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William Shakespeare‚ in his sonnet‚ “Sonnet 97” laments about how being separated from his lover feels like winter‚ no matter what season it may be. First‚ to reveal the feeling of loss caused by the separation from his lover‚ Shakespeare employs simile: “How like a winter hath my absence been/ From thee”; second‚ Shakespeare uses visual and tactile imagery to reiterate the sense of winter already established by stating‚ “what freezings have I felt‚ what dark days seen!”; third‚ Shakespeare compares
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One of the themes discussed in class was beauty. One poem we read was “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing like the Sun” by William Shakespeare. He is describing the love he has for his mistress. A play called “Beauty” written by Jane Martin shows society definition of beauty. Both poems are showing ugliness masked by beauty. Shakespeare wrote his poem about a mistress who is not beautiful but he finds beauty in her flaws. Shakespeare uses metaphors to describe his mistress. “If hairs be wires‚ black
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Queen The Show Must Go On Today’s main point of poetry is music. One example of poetry in music is “The Show Must Go On” by Queen. In this song we can find poetic elements like the following: a couplet‚ simile‚ and a thematic statement. This song contains a couplet; a couplet is a pair of successive lines endings must rhyme with one another. “ Another hero‚ another mindless crime. Behind the curtain‚ in the pantomime.” We can find this quote in the song. Crime and Pantomime endings rhyme and they
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Sonnet 13 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning says that the beloved wants the speaker to tell him of her love for him‚ but she is hesitant because she is afraid that she cannot appropriately relay her sentiments. The speaker first compares herself attempting to express her love for her beloved as holding “a torch out‚ while the winds are rough” because she believes that there is risk in conveying her emotions. She then states that she drops the torch “at thy feet” because although her beloved wishes for
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In sharp contrast‚ sonnet 130 and 147 use dark diction to express the dark lady. In sonnet 130 the speaker uses comparison / “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;” to begin the sonnet to express the almost demonic mysterious appearance of the lady. Another comparison is the dark lady to a “goddess” and how a goddess does not walk‚ but rather floats‚ but the speaker’s lady “treads on the ground” (pp550). The speaker shows how his dark lady is far from perfect and may lack many of the qualities
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Louise Labé conveys the relationship between pain and joy‚ as well as the back and forth nature of not only love‚ but also life in her sonnet‚ “I Live‚ I Die‚ I Burn‚ I Drown.” The poem acts as a personal diary of sorts‚ in which the narrator‚ Labé‚ is spilling her feelings out‚ possibly about an unrequited love. These emotions are very raw and conflicting of each other‚ and through this use of contrast‚ the ups and downs of the narrator’s emotions are clearly presented. Furthermore‚ Labé introduces
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