In Percy Shelley’s “Ozymandias”‚ the broken and irregular form of the poem is highly significant to the content. The poem itself is written about a ruined statue of the once great Ozymandias‚ whose works have crumbled and disappeared‚ along with his civilisation. The overall message that Shelley is trying to convey throughout the poem is that the pursuit of power and glory for one’s own sake is an unworthy ambition. As history takes its course their legacy will be forgotten and their laws will be
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From: Eric Castelli Not all illnesses are created equal. Tuberculosis occurs frequently; cholera does not because of the reasons below -It should be picturesque -It should have strong symbolic possibilities -It should be mysterious in origin Tuberculosis- A wasting disease Physical paralysis can mirror moral‚ intellectual‚ political‚ spiritual and social paralysis. Plague: divine wrath Malaria: Literally “bad air” Veneral disease: Reflects immorality or innocence. AIDS:
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CLASSIFICATIONs OF LITERATURE I. Divisions of Literature Literature Prose Poetry Fiction Nonfiction Dramatic Narrative Lyric Drama Short Story Novel Tale Fable Myth Legends Folktales Essay Biography Autobiography Diary History Chronicle News Anecdote Tragedy Comedy Opera Operetta Ballad Epic Metrical Tale Metrical Romance Ode Sonnet Song Elegy POINT OF COMPARISON | PROSE | POETRY | Form | Paragraph | Verse | Language | Words and rhythms of ordinary and everyday language | Metrical‚
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Compare the ways the poets portray war in ‘Attack’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ Both ‘Attack’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ portray war negatively‚ revealing the brutality and indignity of death on the battlefield. ‘Attack’ explores the shock and anger during war suggesting the desperation of the soldiers whereas ‘Anthem’ has a calmer approach expressing the melancholic side of war. Siegried Sassoon uses lists and strong adjectives to convey the despair and horror in ‘Attack’ as well as writing
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Written with an octet followed by a sestet‚ the full poem consists of fourteen lines rhyming in a customary way‚ creating an attractive flow for this piece. Easily detected and practically placed‚ literary devices added a beautiful touch. In stanzas seven and eight‚ Donne portrays reason as
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poems could probably be described as elegies‚ considering they are all laments for the dead. Anthem for Doomed Youth ’ is almost a Shakespearean sonnet‚ but the rhyming is wrong‚ so technically it is a Petrarchan sonnet (divided into an octave and sestet). The other poems are either separated into regular stanzas like Beach Burial ’- or have no real structure‚ such as Homecoming ’. There is plenty of imagery in most of the poems. The Send Off ’ used the oxymoron faces grimly gay ’ to describe
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scheme is ABAB CDCD EBEB FF. As noted by Bernhard Frank‚ Sonnet 29 includes two distinct sections with the Speaker explaining his current depressed state of mind in the first octave and then conjuring what appears to be a happier image in the last sestet[1] In his criticism of Stephen Booth’s analysis of the work‚ Murdo William McRae explains two characteristics of the internal structure of Sonnet 29 that Booth failed to mention that make the work distinctly unique from any of Shakespeare’s other
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SONNET ‘A very useful book indeed‚ and one which will add to the scope of current debates about the sonnet.’ John Drakakis‚ University of Stirling In this indispensable introductory study of the Renaissance sonnet‚ Michael R.G.Spiller takes the reader on an illuminating guided tour. He begins with the invention of the sonnet in thirteenth-century Italy and traces its progress through to the time of Milton‚ showing how the form has developed and acquired the capacity to express
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bright. Withstanding Mortality through Verse Melissa Zyduck Explication #1 Sonnet 65 Carducci Feb. 21st‚ 2001 Sonnets are rhymed poems consisting of fourteen lines‚ the first eight making up the octet and the last six lines being the sestet. The basic structure of the sonnet arose in medieval Italy‚ its most prominent exponent being the Early Renaissance poet‚ Petrarch. The appearance of the English Sonnet‚ however‚ occurred when Shakespeare was an adolescent‚ around 1580 (Moore and
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Wilfred Owen shows a binary comparison of deaths in the war‚ and a normal funeral in the poem ’Anthem for Doomed Youth’. Through this contrasting‚ Owen is able to portray notions of horrors and pity of war. This poem is specifically a sonnet‚ where the sestet includes mournful entities to represent and complete the mock of a funeral for the youth. For instance‚ the metaphor "not in the hands of boys but in their eyes" referring to the substitution of candles for tears in the friends of the soldiers’ eyes
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