increasingly cluttered thoughts. As the sonnet moves from uncertain-resistance in the octet to certain-obedience in the sestet responders are able to observe Milton as he reaches a point of spiritual resolution. This follows as his faith in God is strengthened and he comes to the conclusion that ‘“God doth need either man’s work or his own gifts.” The faster pace of the sestet reflects his certainty about his faith in God while the use of enjambment produces a fluidity that was absent in the octet
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Where I Come From – Elizabeth Brewster Summary Elizabeth Brewster’s Where I Come From talks about the place where she spent some of her life and contrasts it with the place to which she belonged. We are all shaped by the places where we have lived – not just the places we come from but also the places where we have lived. The first stanza describes the city where everything in shining and new and impersonal. There are very distinct smells in the city and none of them very nice. Even the tulip does
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A Concise Commentary on Anthem for Doomed Youth "Anthem for Doomed Youth" is an elegy in which Wilfred Owen conveys his heart felt sadness and disgust for the loss of life in World War I. This poem shatters the fantasized images of war by juxtaposing the opposite worlds of reality and the romanticized rhetoric that distorts it. He writes about the true experience of military death‚ and effectively expresses these powerful sentiments in only fourteen lines by use of a somewhat violent imagery that
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identical). Structure: There are 3 stanzas of six lines each (sestets)‚ with three uneven stresses per line. The rhyme scheme is ABCBAC. Each stanza marks a different period in the speaker’s life up to the present. Language and Imagery: Notice the colloquial language‚ which Larkin employs (‘getting my nose in a book’) right from the start of this poem. This casts a comic light on the poem’s serious-sounding title. The first 3 lines of the sestet show us the physical reality of the speaker as a child
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speaker’s feelings are successfully portrayed in this sonnet. This poem is a traditional sonnet‚ with the first eight lines‚ an octave‚ showing the dark‚ depressing mood of the speaker. Suddenly a happy‚ more joyous tone‚ the sonnet transitions to a sestet‚ the last six lines of the poem. The first tone that is portrayed is despair. Because of the plague‚ all of the actors and playwrights had very little work to do since all of the theatres had been closed down. The poem reads‚ “When‚ in disgrace
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rhymes that are arranged according to a certain definite scheme‚ which is in a strict or Italian form‚ divided into a major group of eight lines‚ which is called the octave. The octave is followed by a minor group of six lines which is called the sestet. In common English form it is in three quatrains followed by a couplet. Sonnet 18 is one of the most popular sonnets written by Shakespeare. He opens the sonnet with a question‚ “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” he is saying should I compare
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PEEFWE’S ON MY FISRT SONNE Throughout On My First Sonne we are able to see that Jonson is trying to find the positive aspects of his son’s death and is looking at it in a positive way. Jonson would actually like to stop his emotions‚ to stop feeling like a father: “O‚ could I loose all father‚ now”‚ i.e. if only I could give up feeling this terrible grief for my son – but‚ of course‚ he cannot. If he could stop feeling like a father‚ then he might be able to see some faintly positive side to what
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develop the scene‚ while the third and fourth convey and offer a commentary on what has preceded. ‘The Soldier’ is a Petrarchan sonnet divided into two stanzas. The initial octave lays out Brooke’s thoughts and feelings regarding his subject‚ with the sestet offering a definitive final comment. There are various differences between ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘The Soldier’. While ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ conveys the ruthless reality of war and mocks the very act of patriotic death‚ Brooke uses ‘The Soldier’
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unusual literal devices Frost uses in the last three lines of the octet. The simile "Like the ingredients of a witche’s broth..." explains the later‚ unconventional comparison of the moth’s dead wings to a "paper kite." In the second stanza‚ the sestet‚ the poet reflects upon the irony of the situation and wonders how this coincident (a white spider with a white moth on an unusually white flower) could have occured. Searching for an explanation for the contradiction between the color symbolism
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Essay: What significance does the poet sees in the cockroach? How does he convey it to us? The poet “Kevin Halligan” has been traveled around the world and he wrote this poem when he was in somewhere in Asia‚ he has brings some idea of Buddhism through this poem. The cockroach in this poem can represent in two ways. First‚ the more obvious meaning is the poet is watching a cockroach “pace” around the floor. However‚ after reader analysis and understand that Kevin Halligan uses the “giant” cockroach
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