Explication for “A Diamond Guitar” The final scene of Truman Capote’s “A Diamond Guitar” helps the reader develop a perfect view of how the characters in the story truly are. Mr. Schaeffer‚ a man of 50‚ is in prison because he killed a man‚ and Tico Feo‚ a boy of only 18‚ is there because he cut a sailor’s ear off. From details throughout the story you can tell that each man has done this for a different reason‚ but I would not say that either are bad men. Mr. Schaeffer is claimed to have
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THE SONNET ________________________________________ A sonnet is a lyric poem of fourteen lines‚ following one or another of several set rhyme-schemes. Critics of the sonnet have recognized varying classifications‚ but to all essential purposes two types only need be discussed if the student will understand that each of these two‚ in turn‚ has undergone various modifications by experimenters. The two characteristic sonnet types are the Italian (Petrarchan) and the English (Shakespearean). The
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William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was born in the Hole Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire on April 23‚ 1564. He was the first son and third child of John Shakespeare‚ a leather tanner and a maker of gloves‚ and Mary Arden Shakespeare. William’s parents were married around 1558 and had a total of eight children‚ three of which died in childhood. William’s family had been living in the area of Warwickshire for many years and was respected. William’s father was at one
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Poetry Explication Wonderwall Oasis Today is gonna be the day That they’re gonna throw it back to you By now you should’ve somehow Realized what you gotta do I don’t believe that anybody Feels the way I do about you now Backbeat the word was on the street That the fire in your heart is out I’m sure you’ve heard it all before But you never really had a doubt I don’t believe that anybody feels The way I do about you now And all the roads we have to walk are winding
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Romantic Sonnet The Romantic sonnet holds in its topics the ideals of the time period‚ concentrating on emotion‚ nature‚ and the expression of "nothing." The Romantic era was one that focused on the commonality of humankind and‚ while using emotion and nature‚ the poets and their works shed light on people’s universal natures. In Charlotte Smith’s "Sonnet XII - Written on the Sea Shore‚" the speaker of the poem embodies two important aspects of Romantic work in relating his or her personal feelings
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Shakespeare We do not know much about Shakespeare’s life. He comes from the small provincial town Stratford that lies on the Avon. His father was a workman‚ and he was a member of the town council; and he was also the mayor of the town for three years. Shakespeare most likely went to Stratford Grammar School‚ which can still be seen in the town‚ however we do not know much about what he learned in school. In 1582‚ when he was 18 years old‚ he married Ann Hathaway who was 7-8 years older; she
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William Shakespeare Quotes - Plays - Sonnets - Pictures - Timeline- Facts - Biography - Poems - Bubonic Plague - Globe Biography - Dictionary - Elizabethan Theater - Identity Problem - Biography - Black Death - Stratford The World of William Shakespeare and details of his biography have fascinated people for centuries. The questions and mysteries which surround William Shakespeare the Great Stratford playwright and his biography‚ life‚ times and works (including his plays‚ sonnets and poems)
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Sonnet 75 by Edmund Spenser seem to be about author attempts to immortalize his wife and the love of his life by use of symbols‚ her name and heaven‚ external conflicts‚ and alliteration. He puts himself in the center of his poem‚ express very personal thoughts‚ emotion and convictions. This poem‚ the author uses the poetic elements quatrains‚ couplet at the end. The 1st stanza is quatrain and the rhyme scheme is ABAB. The author and his woman were walking along the shore of the beach‚ and he attempts
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Dawson College Work presented to Mr. Roy Cartlidge English 101 10/18/06 An explanation of Sonnet CXXX The poem I chose to analyze is Sonnet CXXX (130) by William Shakespeare. This poem can be seen as either a humorous tribute to his lover or a way to mock other poets of his time. I say humorous because there is no use of over the top metaphors or allusions as he does not compare his love to a goddess nor compare her beauty to rare and beautiful objects found in nature. References
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Sonnet 116 is about love in its most ideal form. It is praising the glories of lovers who have come to each other freely‚ and enter into a relationship based on trust and understanding. The first four lines reveal the poet’s pleasure in love that is constant and strong‚ and will not "alter when it alteration finds." The following lines proclaim that true love is indeed an "ever-fix’d mark" which will survive any crisis. In lines 7-8‚ the poet claims that we may be able to measure love to some degree
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