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    4/25/13 Emmett Till Poem #12 Indian pipe‚ bloodroot. White as moonbeams In this sonnet overall explained the lack of conscienceness people had in the 1950s and 1960s. Nelson compares the innocence of nature to the corrupt moralities of humans. The author used words like bloody‚ monsters‚ and killed to create a gloomy and dark mood. The tone is somber. The sonnet is not a Shakespearean sonnet because the rhyme scheme is a-a-b-b-c-c-b-d-e-f-d-e-f. I didn’t find any illusions but there are a lot

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    Anthem to Dead Youth

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    Anthem to Dead Youth What passing bells for you who die in herds? - Only the monstrous anger of the guns! - Only the stuttering rifles’ rattled words Can patter out your hasty orisons No chants for you‚ nor balms‚ nor wreaths‚ nor bells‚ Nor any voice of mourning‚ save the choirs‚ And long-drawn sighs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for you from sad shires. What candles may we hold to speed you all? Not in the hands of boys‚ but in their eyes Shall shine the holy lights of long

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    "Whoso List to Hunt" is one of thirty sonnets written by Sir Thomas Wyatt. Although Wyatt never published his poems‚ several‚ including "Whoso List to Hunt‚" appeared in the 1557 edition of the printer Richard Tottel’s Songs and Sonnets written by the Right Honorable Lord Henry Howard late Earl of Surrey and other‚ more briefly referred to as Tottel’s Miscellany. "Whoso List to Hunt" is held to be Wyatt’s imitation of "Rime 190‚" written by Petrarch‚ a fourteenth-century Italian poet and scholar

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    Rossetti continues her sonnet by introducing the male figure in the second quatrain. We‚ as readers‚ are not certain of the relationship of this male figure to the writer‚ but it can be assumed that the man is either a lover or her father. As the poem continues in the second quatrain

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    picked up and changed to meet the requirements of the metaphysical poets. The sonnet as a lyrical form became popular in the time of Petrarch. His kind of love poetry came into fashion in England in the sixteenth century. It became very influential throughout Europe in the following centuries. The sonnet was brought to England by Sir Thomas Wyatt. Mainly his achievements were the introduction of the petrarchan sonnets into the English society and their translation into the English language. Henry

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    affected his writing after that period‚ although he wrote this poem before that time allowing a different view of the world and religion. One thing to understand about Milton’s sonnets is their topical range was that he was not a writer of love sonnets. Milton writes political sonnets‚ occasional sonnets‚ elegiac sonnets‚ and sonnets of personal meditation‚ like this one. The result of the puritan period was a loss of freedom‚ severe persecution for all and a decline in literary progress (Hodson‚ February

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    Lines composed Upon Westminster Bridge 1. The poem is in the form of a Petrarchan sonnet. A Sonnet is a lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of 14 iambic pentameter lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme. It is of two kinds: a) Italian or Petrarchan - falls in two parts - Octave rhyming abba abba followed by a sestet rhyming cdecde or cdccdc. It was first imitated by England both in stanza form and subject – by Milton‚ Wordsworth‚ Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. b) English or Shakespearean

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    Jessie Teskey In Edna St Vincent Millay’s Petrarchan sonnet “What lips my lips have kissed”‚ the speaker talks about past lovers that are in her life no more. Millay uses a variety of poetic devices such as‚ imagery‚ tone‚ and metaphor. She uses imagery of pleasure‚ intimate love‚ and nature. Her tone alters throughout the poem from feelings of wistfulness in the octave‚ to loneliness and abandonment in the sestet. The sestet signifies a shift from the speakers internal to external perspective

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    Romeo and Juliet is written in sonnet form which created a contemporary feel to the play. Shakespeare’s sonnets were popular among the English of the time period and they came to watch his plays in the Globe Theatre. His prologue in Romeo and Juliet is influenced by the history and beliefs of England at the time. Sonnets were popular in the Elizabethan period because it was thought of as contemporary. One achievement by the English was their literature. Sonnets gained attention because of the

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    bright green snake. G The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows. F emphasis My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make. G emphasis   Robert Frost The speaker of the poem is the mower himself. It cannot be determined from the sonnet whether or not the speaker is actually male or female. His age is also undetermined‚ but we can assume that he is at least young enough to wield a scythe. After long periods of time‚ a scythe can easily fatigue someone‚ so I envision a man who is

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