The Winter Sundays By: Robert Hayden Explication In the sonnet “Those Winter Sundays”‚ the theme is the warmth of the coal fire becomes the warmth of the love that radiates throughout the house. An adult speaker presents memories of how his father expressed love for him through his actions. In particular‚ the speaker remembers that his father rose very early on Sunday mornings to stoke the furnace fire. Only when the house was warm did he awaken his son to dress. Line 12 notes that the father
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loved ones they leave behind. The following essay will show that in the anti-war poem‚ “Anthem for Doomed Youth”‚ Owen uses sensational description to evoke the anger that he feels within his readers. “Anthem for Doomed Youth” is a Petrarchan sonnet‚ with an octave and a sestet written mostly in Iambic Pentameter. Owen does include variations in this form‚ such as line 1 which has eleven syllables and line 3 which contains Trochee and is not pure Iamb. These variations in the form work to
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Examine the ways in which poets portray the experience of love in 2 poems that you have read. You may wish to explore the types of love‚ the effects of love and how the poets use language and structure. In Havisham and Sonnet 43 we are given a good idea of how two poets can have different opinions on the experience of love. Havishams experience of love is violent with dark implications of death “Beloved sweetheart bastard.” The plosive alliteration of B emphasises her hatred towards her ex and
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Michael Drayton By looking at a poem which has a specific form‚ for example the sonnet‚ consider to what extent its particular techniques enhance its meaning. The parting by Michael Drayton is a sonnet. It is a poem about the break up of the relationship between the author and his partner. I feel that the meaning of the poem is greatly enhanced by its form‚ and for a variety of reasons. Firstly‚ because the sonnet is a very strict form‚ the author has to be very careful in constructing his poem
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construction of the poem works to enhance the reader’s interpretation. The poem dwells within a sonnet form‚ extolling all the virtues of "sleep." Falling within the general bounds of the sonnet‚ the poem is the obligatory fourteen lines of iambic pentameter coupled with an elaborate rhyme scheme. Although most closely resembling the English sonnet‚ the deliberate wanderings of the poem from this strict sonnet form merely serve to enhance the meaning of the poem. Within the first two quatrains of the
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lines of the poem represent a type of poem called an octet. An octet is defined as an eight-line stanza. The next six lines represents a sestet or better identified as a six-line stanza. The entire poem represents an Italian sonnet made up of fourteen lines total. An Italian sonnet is sometimes called a Petrarch after a famous Italian poet. William Wordsworth gained most of his inspiration to write poetry based on the world around him. Communication with nature is the bases of “The World Is Too Much
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General Comments Keats was so moved by the power and aliveness of Chapman’s translation of Homer that he wrote this sonnet--after spending all night reading Homer with a friend. The poem expresses the intensity of Keats’s experience; it also reveals how passionately he cared about poetry. To communicate how profoundly the revelation of Homer’s genius affected him‚ Keats uses imagery of exploration and discovery. In a sense‚ the reading experience itself becomes a Homeric voyage‚ both for the
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Shakespeare’s sonnet‚ My Mistress’ Eyes‚ explores the common and oft-heard comparisons created concerning one’s love to the material objects of beauty‚ and considers the value within such correlations. As the essay explores these associations‚ it ultimately comes to the conclusion that such comparisons can not properly depict the love that is present towards a close other. As the speaker begins his sequence of comparisons regarding his “mistress‚” he takes an unusual turn‚ pointing out that his
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is a fourteen line poem which follows a strict rhythmic pattern of “abba abba cddc ee”‚ has an iambic pentameter and therefore is known as a sonnet. It is not just any type of sonnet‚ but actually a Petrarchan sonnet. The sonnet is constructed by an octave‚ which are two quatrains combined then a sestet following after that. It was one of the thirty sonnets written by Sir Thomas Wyatt‚ and was believed to be written for Anne Boleyn‚ the second wife of King Henry VIII and the woman he broke out of
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hopes. As the poem ends‚ the narrator ceases his own unimportant musings and follows the scythe’s example: seizing on the pleasure of hard work and making hay. Analysis In terms of rhyme scheme‚ “Mowing” does not follow the traditional form of the sonnet‚ though it does include the standard fourteen lines. Instead of using the strict Petrarchan rhyme scheme (ABBAABBA CDECDE) or the Shakespearean rhyme scheme (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG)‚ Frost creates an amalgamation of both: ABC ABD ECD FEG FG. This poem
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