FELIX RANDAL The Poem “Felix Randal” is a sonnet with an Italian or Petrarchan rhyme scheme (abba‚ abba‚ ccd‚ ccd); although not published until 1918‚ it was written in 1880. The title character is known from extrinsic evidence to have been a thirty-one-year-old blacksmith named Felix Spencer‚ who died of pulmonary tuberculosis; Father Gerard Manley Hopkins‚ while a curate in a slum parish in Liverpool‚ visited him often‚ administered the last sacraments‚ and officiated at his funeral. Hence the
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Keats uses many methods to tell the story in his poem ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’. The story is first hinted at in the title‚ which translates as ‘The beautiful woman without mercy’. For those who know of Keats’ background‚ it is easy to assosiate this poem with his instinctive distrust of women. Keats’ mother abandoned him in 1806‚ and these feelings of neglect influenced his poetry heavily‚ as he writes of women trapping men for their own gains rather than out of love. This is also visible in this
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the poem comparing his mistress’s appearance to other things‚ and tells the reader how she doesn’t measure up to the comparisons. While using the standard Shakespearean iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of AB-AB/CD-CD/EF-EF/GG‚ he goes through a laundry list‚ giving us details about the flaws of her body‚ her smell‚ and even the sound of her voice. Yet at the end of the poem‚ he changes his tune and tells the reader about his real and complete love for her. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 takes a turn
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sentences; this made the poem more interesting to read. The title “cross” is also repeated twice in the second stanza to explain that the characters barely talk to each other. The poet uses dash in third stanza to create emphasis. This poem tells the reader that if you want someone in your life you have to make the effort‚ not just sit there and regret that they are gone. In this poem neither of them are making the effort‚ they are waiting for the other person to make the effort. They don’t even have
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anger. ‘Who but Maude‚ my sister Maude’ suggests a betrayal‚ the caesura emphasizes the fact that it was the speaker’s own sister who is the cause of her anger. The repetition of ‘Maude’ emphasizes the speaker’s anger as each time it is repeated‚ the reader is reminded of the cause of the anger. Also‚ the poem has many references to religion. At the time the poem was written‚ religion was a big part of society and many people believed in an afterlife. ‘My father may sleep in paradise’ is referring
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‘forth’ beauty that is constant such as natural objects. Hopkins’ point of view on this poem characterizes him to be a very religious man who sees God as the Ultimate. In a world that is ephemeral‚ Hopkins’ sees God as beyond all of that‚ giving the readers a sense of stability‚ as his ‘beauty is past change.’ The last line ‘praise him‚’ slowed the rhythm down from the use of sibilance which created a good balance. Furthermore‚ in the second stanza of the poem‚ Hopkins touched on the importance of contrast
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For one‚ this isn’t a elegy instead it is a story on rituals. O’Connors story displays how the genre can come off as a elegy to many readers who misread but also it addresses a small part of a elegy which is rituals. Tarwater‚ being one of the main characters isn’t aware of how to mourn or what exactly is mourning. His Uncle seen his death and before he did he asked for a traditional burial
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This poem is written based on fear of our contemporaries and this is a moment when they looked back themselves suddenly‚ that’s why this poem is titled “Alone”. Sometimes people look back self suddenly just because by a chance to reflect their lives. Based on that concept this poem narrates the moment when they reflect themselves in first stanza‚ when we recognized it is time to rest their body and away from something that makes us tired in second stanza. And then‚ the third stanza talk about the
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“You may forget but let me tell you this; someone will think of us in the future”(Top 25 Quotes). This line was stated by Sappho one of the world’s first poets who originated in lesbos and one that indeed was thought of in the future (Meet Sappho). She shows that something so small now could mean a lot more in the distant future. Infact people still talk about sappho and her information for writing. Research shows us that sappho acquired information for her poems by her rejected love life‚ everyday
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dream state drawn from his sickness. The speech‚ narration in the poem is also intriguing‚ There are two speakers but what kind of speaker is the unnamed person who finds the knight? Is it supposed to be the poet himself? Or is it supposed to be the reader? Or an anonymous passerby? We don’t know a lot about the speaker‚ but we can make some guesses based on what he says in those first three stanzas. Whoever it is‚ he uses old-fashioned
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