outline of the movement. First‚ a number of key figures of the movement were part of another literary movement called the ‘Fugitives’ or the Southern Agrarians‚ including John Crowe Ransom‚ Allen Tate‚ Donald Davidson‚ Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks. There was an inherent hostility to the industrialism and materialism of a United States dominated by the ‘North’. This Southern-oriented movement thus has consanguinity with Arnold‚ Eliot and Leavis‚ in opposing the modern ‘inorganic’ civilization
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William Shakespeare sonnets are easily identified by the diversity of tones that he uses to express the speakers emotions to an audience‚ such is case of Sonnet 71 that contains lines that have totally different meanings among each other. According to the first 4 lines of this Sonnet it can inferred that what the speaker is trying to express to the audience is not to grieve for him when dies. “No Longer mourn for me when I am dead‚ Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to
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“Sonnet 75” by Edmund Spenser What distinguishes Spenser’s poem from earlier poetry is the personal note it strikes. Sonnet 75 was written in 1595 by Edmund Spenser. His Imagination creates a picture of tender young love through the conversation between his lady and himself‚ absorbed in each other‚ against the back ground of the sea. Another theme to this poem is that a man wrote his beloved’s name in the sand‚ but it was washed away by the tide. Edmund Spenser was born in 1552 and attended the
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Sonnet 75 by Edmund Spenser seem to be about author attempts to immortalize his wife and the love of his life by use of symbols‚ her name and heaven‚ external conflicts‚ and alliteration. He puts himself in the center of his poem‚ express very personal thoughts‚ emotion and convictions. This poem‚ the author uses the poetic elements quatrains‚ couplet at the end. The 1st stanza is quatrain and the rhyme scheme is ABAB. The author and his woman were walking along the shore of the beach‚ and he attempts
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Sonnet 130 Overview Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 is about imperfection vs. perfection‚ personal preference on beauty‚ love and stereotyping. These ideas are developed throughout the poems quatrains and couplet through techniques. The technique that stood out for me and represented all of the ideas Sonnet 130 is about is imagery‚ whether it be negative or positive‚ Shakespeare uses the technique well in conjunction with other techniques to make his point stronger. These ideas are introduced in
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Sonnet 116 is about love in its most ideal form. It is praising the glories of lovers who have come to each other freely‚ and enter into a relationship based on trust and understanding. The first four lines reveal the poet’s pleasure in love that is constant and strong‚ and will not "alter when it alteration finds." The following lines proclaim that true love is indeed an "ever-fix’d mark" which will survive any crisis. In lines 7-8‚ the poet claims that we may be able to measure love to some degree
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word “love” isn’t just a 4 letter word… It’s way beyond that. This is what William Shakespeare is trying to clarify in his Sonnet 116. He wants to expound what love is‚ & what it isn’t. Using a couple of metaphors‚ Shakespeare’s main aim is to elucidate the theme that real love is immortal‚ consistent and certainly not under the mercy of time. Shakespeare starts off sonnet 116 by saying that true love overcomes impediments and doesn’t get affected by the changes in the surrounding. Following
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Sonnet LX In this Shakespearean sonnet with 14 lines‚ we can note that it includes 3 quatrains with 4 lines each and a couplet at the end of the sonnet‚ each underlying a recurring theme ; Time and Death; in which we can note the passing of human life from childhood to old age. In the first quatrain Shakespeare is looking at the beach and at the waves racing towards the shore and disappearing hence he uses the metaphor: ‘like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore’ to compare the movement
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fair sometime declines.” The final quatrain of the sonnet tells how the beloved differs from the summer in that respect: his beauty will last forever (“Thy eternal summer shall not fade...”) and never die. In the couplet‚ the speaker explains how the beloved’s beauty will accomplish this feat‚ and not perish because it is preserved in the poem‚ which will last forever; it will live “as long as men can breathe or eyes can see.” THEMES: LOVE: Sonnet 18 opens up looking an awful lot like a traditional
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1. Lennie held his closed hand away from George’s direction. “It’s on’y a mouse‚ George.”“A mouse? A live mouse?”“Uh-uh. Jus’ a dead mouse‚ George. I didn’ kill it. Honest! I found it. I found it dead.” (pg. 5)2. George said “Ya know‚ Lennie‚ I’m scared I’m gonna tangle with that bastard myself. I hate his guts. Jesus Christ! Come on. They won’t be a damn thing to eat.” (pg. 37)3. “Gotta bad gut ache‚” said Candy. “Them God damn turnips give it to me. I knowed they was going to before I ever eat
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