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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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    Christmas ...............................6 Sonnet: ‘The barn door is open’ ...................................................................11 The Wheat Ripening......................................................................................13 The Beans in Blossom ...................................................................................16 Sonnet: ‘The landscape laughs in Spring’ .....................................................19 Sonnet: ‘I dreaded walking where there was no

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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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    months that Wilfred Owen served in the army‚ he managed to write 46 poems2 (mostly sonnets). The sonnet was introduced by the Italian poet Petrarch (1304-1374). A Petrarchan sonnet consists of a stanza with eight lines followed by a stanza with six lines. William Shakespeare later adopted the sonnet‚ however he changed form slightly. Shakespeare wrote three quatrains followed by a couplet. Owen wrote his sonnets in the Elizabethan

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    appear: "My name is Ozymandias‚ king of kings: Look on my works‚ ye Mighty‚ and despair!" Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck‚ boundless and bare‚ The lone and level sands stretch far away.   Introduction: It is a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley‚ published in 1818 in the 11 January issue of The Examiner in London. It is frequently anthologised and is probably Shelley’s most famous short poem. Theme: Pride: in the inscription on the pedestal Ozymandias calls himself

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    my lips have kissed‚ and where‚ and why” In the 1923 sonnet‚ “What lips my lips have kissed‚” Edna St. Vincent Millay speaks about several loves coming to an end and the emotion its gives her while she reminiscences through her past. Two major themes of this sonnet are change and loss. The theme loss is throughout the entire sonnet. Some parts 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

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