Juanita James 11/30/09 16th Century British Literature Final Paper Sonnet Evolution When readers hear the word sonnet‚ they usually think of Shakespeare; however‚ he is not the first sonneteer‚ nor the last‚ of course. The sonnet got its beginnings centuries ago and has endured. One might ask why it has endured over such a lengthy period of time‚ and the answer is a simple one: EVOLUTION. Just as humans have had to evolve over time‚ the sonnet has had to do so as well. The two main forms
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God ’s works while keeping in mind that God is separate from His creations. It is quite interesting that Hopkins’ poem talks about oddities while it in itself‚ is an oddity. A normal sonnet consists of an eight line octave and then a six line sestet. Hopkins ignored this guideline and shortened the former grouping to six lines and the latter was cut down to four and a half. Despite this modified form‚ the work is still considered a sonnet. Upon reading this work out loud one can also pick up
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Love Prevails “Idea: Sonnet 61” by Michael Drayton is a fourteen line Petrarchan sonnet that dramatizes the conflicting emotions that arise from an intimate relationship coming to an abrupt end. After analyzing and doing several closer readings‚ I learned that “Idea: Sonnet 61” is actually about the poet’s own conflicting emotions and feelings from a harsh break up. However‚ it was no ordinary and flippant relationship. It was a serious relationship that involved great amounts of passion that
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have five syllables; 2nd has 7. Topic is always nature • Limerick – a rhymed nonsense poem of five lines. Types of Poetry • Sonnet - 14 line lyric poem (usually unrhymed iambic pentameter) – Petrarchan (Italian) octave & sestet; octave states a theme or asks a question‚ sestet comments on or answers the question. – Shakespearean 3 quatrains & a couplet; Usually not printed with the stanzas divided. Verse • Free Verse – poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter • Blank Verse –
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often considered the first of the sequence. “Ode to Indolence” follows a strict structure‚ like the majority of Keats’s odes. It is made up of ten line stanzas‚ with a rhyme scheme that is composed of a Shakespearian quartet‚ ABAB‚ and a Miltonic sestet‚ CDECDE. In this poem‚ the speaker is visited by three images‚ Love‚ Ambition‚ and Poetry. These figures try to persuade the speaker‚ but the speaker rejects these parts of his life as he is content with his indolence‚ or laziness. Thoughts of death
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intense love for a man. This is a Petrarchan sonnet; made up of fourteen lines‚ contains an octave‚ sestet‚ and volte. It is written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme of the octave being different from the sestet; that is abba‚ abba‚ cdcdcd to make the poem a question and answer poem. The octave poses a rhetorical question in the first line of the poem saying “how much do I love thee?” and the sestet gives the answer to how much she loves him. She uses alliterations like thee/ they‚ soul /sight
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dedicated or about one single person. This one in particular is about the memory of several lovers. This poem is written in iambic pentameter‚ with a rhyme scheme of abbaacdecde. The fist part of this poem is an octave‚ leaving the second half to be a sestet‚ which follows the traditional format of an Italian sonnet. Millay in this poem uses wonderful imagery and metaphors to communicate an overall theme of change in her life. The speaker in this poem is reminiscent on her younger‚ more promiscuous
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Sonnet-The Lotus Love came to Flora asking for a flower That would of flowers be undisputed queen‚ The lily and the rose‚ long‚ long had been Rivals for that high honour. Bards of power Had sung their claims. “The rose can never tower Like the pale lily with her Juno mien”- “But is the lily lovelier?” Thus between Flower-factions rang the strife in Psyche’s bower. “Give me a flower delicious as the rose And stately as the lily in her pride”- “But of what colour
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of this sonnet are traditional while other parts are untraditional. This is a modern Italian sonnet. The speaker looks back on her younger days and feels pain and a sense of loss. The poet compares her lost lovers to ghosts in the octave‚ and the sestet would be the summer birds and passing of time. I think that Millay the poet is describing her own life experiences with her lost lovers. I think Millay used “what lips my lips have kissed‚ and where‚ and why” for the first sentence was to give the
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The Forge by Seamus Heaney 1969 ‘The Forge’ is a sonnet with a clear division into an octave (the first eight lines) and a sestet (the final six lines). While the octave‚ apart from its initial reference to the narrator‚ focuses solely on the inanimate objects and occurrences inside and outside the forge‚ the sestet describes the blacksmith himself‚ and what he does. Heaney begins with the line All I know is a door into the dark. This can be interpreted as the blacksmith stepping out of reality;
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