Diana and Acteon‚ Apollo and Daphne • In Italian lauro=laurel tree‚ l’aura=breeze‚ l’auro=gold Structure: • Octave: The first eight lines of the fourteen line sonnet • Sestet: The six concluding lines • Volta (or turn): The shift in thought occurring in the eighth or ninth line that separates the octave from the sestet • Rhyme-Scheme: abba abba cde cde Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542): The Warped Petrarchan Sonnet Background: • Poet and courtier at the court of Henry VIII • Traveled to
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excelling in the sonnet form. They used the Petrarchan sonnet‚ playing close attention to rhyme scheme and using iambic pentameter. They even incorporated the Volta between the octave and sestet‚ while using the first three lines in the sestet to introduce the change in tone and the last three lines in the sestet to conclude‚ invariably identical to the traditional Italian sonnet. At a time where women did not even have the right to vote‚ Millay and Browning both struggled to find a place in poetry
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“Anthem for Doomed Youth"‚ a wartime Sonnet by Wilfred Owen The poem uses many techniques to convey its meaning. By our understanding of the use of these techniques‚ the poem becomes easier to understand and at the same time‚ more is revealed to us. Wilfred Owen was a soldier during WW1 and therefore gives us a firsthand experience of war. He was against war and was appalled by the effects of war on people and their families. By using a sonnet for the structure of his poem‚ Wilfred Owen introduces
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feels‚ which is his passion for Rome and the fact he feels that all the great things in life could have been found in the ancient city. The poem is in Du Bellay’s preferred alexandrine‚ with twelve syllables per line and an octet followed by a sestet. The rhyming scheme is ABBA‚ ABBA‚ CCD‚ EED‚ which again follows in the pattern that Du Bellay has employed for most of the sonnets of Les Antiquités. Punctuation plays an important role in this poem‚ as Du
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In contrast‚ ‘Ozymandias’ a sonnet‚ describes how an ancient king was once a powerful leader but today his work has faded by the destructive power of history which implies the insignificance of human beings over a passage of time. Whereas in ‘Poem of Thirty-Nine’ the daughter continues her life through the lessons her father taught her. ‘Ozymandias’ is about a meeting with the poet and a “traveller” who describes the story of King Ozymandias’s “shattered” statue. The traveller explains how the
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Owen‚ many techniques are used to make the poem as raw and powerful as it is. The first way that Owen conveys powerful feelings about the war in the poem is through his use of structure. The poem is in a sonnet form and is split into an octet and a sestet. The significance of structuring the poem in this way is that a sense of deep sadness and irony comes to our attention. The sonnet a form of poetry whose conventional function is love is being used to describe a sort of anti-love that is deeply moving
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Petrarchan sonnet‚ Wordsworth conveys a negative attitude towards these industrial changes and how the changes are too drastic even for religion to fix. The author uses the volta‚ the traditional shift of a Petrarchan sonnet between the octave and sestet‚ to respond to the spiritual losses caused by materialism. The poem communicates to the audience that the expansion of industry causes people to overlook the beauty of nature. Wordsworth conveys different tones throughout the poem to address that
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how women love men that are heroes‚ how they take delight in hearing dangerous war experiences‚ how they crown a man for his acts of bravery‚ and how women mourn the memories of those who perished in the war. Then the poet proceeds in the following sestet to inform women of what they had never thought of: that war itself is not about honor
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Countee Cullen’s work “From the Dark Tower‚” is an example of Harlem Renaissance poetry. This poem‚ like many others from this period‚ talk of the hardships and emotions from before the Emancipation Proclamation‚ in 1865. Slavery was seen as a very large source of inspiration for Harlem Renaissance writers and poets‚ as many saw slavery as a common ancestral hardship. Poets‚ like Cullen and Hughes‚ used slavery‚ and connected ideas‚ as themes in many of their works. This particular poem‚ Cullen states
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pararhymes here. Of more relevance is how nearly its intention conforms to received opinion on the war at that time‚ as exemplified by such as Rupert Brooke or Julian Grenfell. The contrast between the diction on the octet (lines 1 - 8) and in the sestet (9 - 14) is very marked. The octet has ‘whirled’‚ ‘rend’‚ ‘down-hurled’‚ words indicative of destructive force; then ‘famine’ and ‘rots’‚ destruction’s legacies: and ‘wails’‚ the human response; all results of that fearsome over-reaching word ‘tornado’
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