William Shakespeare My Misstress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun The Surprise Reversal in the Rhyming Couplet. "And yet‚ by heaven‚ I think my love as rare As and she belied with false compare." In lines thirteen and fourteen‚ the poet explains how down to earth she is and how the speaker’s love is rare. The change in tone tells us that the poet in the first eight lines are not discontentment but truth. Shakespeare ends the sonnet by proclaiming his love for his mistress despite her lack of beauty
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“Evening Solace” allows Charlotte Bronte to dramatise the conflicts between the speaker’s past emotions to their current emotions by using imagery‚ similes‚ and an ominous tone to describe the speaker’s loneliness. In order to create the ominous tone seen within the first stanza the speaker uses diction that draws on the feeling of loneliness while avoiding to portray these feelings as positive or negative as seen in “In secret kept‚ in silence sealed” (2). The ominous atmosphere is further created
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In “After Death‚” Christina Rossetti portrays that life has no value until it is taken away: The curtains were half drawn‚ the floor was swept And strewn with rushes‚ rosemary and may Lay thick upon the bed on which I lay‚ Where thro’ the lattice ivy-shadows crept. He leaned above me‚ thinking that I slept And could not hear him; but I heard him say: “Poor child‚ poor child”: and as he turned away Came a deep silence‚ and I knew he wept. He did not touch the shroud‚ or raise the fold That hid my
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------------------------------------------------- How does Marvell present his love in Coy Mistress? This poem is a ‘carpe diem’ poem meaning seize the day. The poem is split into three stanzas. In the first stanza Marvell gives us the impression that he is calm‚ caring and in no hurry. But then in the second stanza he makes it clear that they have not got much time‚ and death is near. The final stanza shows that they are in a fight against time and they should pursue pleasure while they are
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Isabella Martin Courtney Medel English F December 10‚ 2012 Midterm Essay What happens when you realize that turning a year older doesn’t mean to have achieved one more year of life‚ instead being one year closer to death? Uncertainty and fear will take hold of you and this is all due to time. Time has the power to give us joy‚ but it also has the power to give us mourn and sadness. William Shakespeare portrayed the idea of time being destructive in many of his sonnets. In the following essay
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The best way to tackle Sonnet 18 is by breaking up the Quatrains and the Couplet. The first thing to look at is the opening stanza: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: The first thing to note is line one. It is a prompt. Looking at the sonnets in a bigger picture it is comprised into two sentences. Shakespeare asks us‚ and more reasonably‚ himself‚ if he shall
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Desert Places Snow falling and night falling fast‚ oh‚ fast In a field I looked into going past‚ And the ground almost covered smooth in snow‚ But a few weeds and stubble showing last. The woods around it have it--it is theirs. All animals are smothered in their lairs. I am too absent-spirited to count; The loneliness includes me unawares. And lonely as it is that loneliness Will be more lonely ere it will be less-- A blanker whiteness of benighted snow With no expression‚ nothing
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In the prose‚ The Red Wheelbarrow‚ a rain slicked red wagon with a broken wheel‚ desolate and decrepit‚ stands sombrely in the tawny-patterned mud. It is a rather simplistic image that evokes the sense of a worn down agricultural household;slowly‚ diminishing along as the red wheelbarrow rusts in the rain. But‚ how could the speaker present such a mundane idea so brilliantly‚ so intensely‚ so eloquently? Simply. He performs it simply. Through a sadden tone‚ William Carlos Williams illustrates the
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The Metaphors of Emily Dickinson Metaphor is a writing technique used to make comparisons between two things that are not alike. Sometimes the things are so far apart that they look like you cannot see any similarities. This is especially true in Emily Dickinson’s work. The best way to show the metaphors in the poem‚ There Is No Frigate Like a Book by Emily Dickinson‚ is to go two lines at a time. The first two lines are “There is no Frigate like a Book and “To take us Lands away”. Books cannot physically
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In the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot‚ I found it easy to relate to the author’s feelings of inadequacy. The narrator was constantly bringing up other famous artists and comparing himself to them‚ only to inevitably fall short of his own expectations. Eliot exemplified it best through the repeated line “In the room the women come and go/ Talking of Michelangelo”. The narrator brings up the famous and very talented artist Michelangelo‚ who is still talked about by the women
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