mood and tone – underline key words that contribute to the speaker’s tone or the poem’s mood. Step 5: Structure – comment on the poem’s structure [rhyme scheme‚ meter‚ enjambment‚ form (sonnet‚ ode‚ ballad‚ lyric‚ etc.)] Step 6: Identify examples of figurative language – identify metaphors‚ similes‚ examples of personification‚ alliteration‚ etc. Step 7: Imagery – identify central images and/or the juxtaposition of images. Step 8: Diction - circle significant words and words that you don’t
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Jane’s thoughts of the relationship one has with God relate to the form of upbringing that she has received from her Aunt’s household. She talks of her understandings of religion but does not address God himself. In comparison‚ Donne’s Holy Sonnet No 14’ shows a detached tone in a religious address. A typical association with prayer is that of formality and reverence. Donne has a control over his poem in terms of form and structure in that he uses a combination of the Italian
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the most famous metaphysical poets of the seventeenth-century versifiers. In fact‚ historians of literature consider him the father of metaphysical poetry. He wrote many wonderful and great holy poems. An example of his religious poems is sonnet number ten‚ “Death‚ be not proud”. In this sonnet he speaks about death and how it should not be proud because it is neither mighty nor fearful. To prove his point of view‚ he uses an argumentative tone and logical elements taken from science as well as nature
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Parting" by 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
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literary genres the sonnet in England was imported from abroad. Most probably it was originated in Italy in the 13th century with Dante who wrote a number of sonnets to his beloved named Beatrice. A sonnet is according to M.H. Abrahm‚ “A lyric poem of fourteen lines that has a specific rhyme scheme written in iambic pentameter.” The flowering of the sonnet came with Petrarch‚ a generation later. It was Wyatt who introduced the sonnet in England. He wrote much earlier but his sonnets were published in
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poems have an Indian theme and an Indian background. The poem‚ ‘The Lotus’ is a sonnet in the Petrarchan type. Toru Dutt’s mastery over the sonnet form is proved in this poem. The sonnet is divided into two divisions‚ the Octave and the Sestet. The octave consists of eight lines and the sestet consists of six lines. A sonnet deals with a single idea‚ the octave proposing and the sestet resolving. Within 14 lines of the sonnet‚ Toru Dutt raises a problem in the Octave and resolves it in the sestet. In
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Sonnet 18 Explication Sonnet 18 is a typical Shakespearean sonnet that hardly departs from the “classic” rules of an English sonnet. It has fourteen lines in a simple iambic pentameter; although‚ there are a few strong first syllables in the poem and some lines have eleven syllables instead of just ten. None of the lines flow into the next one. All of them have a distinct stopping place except that of line 9 (as far as punctuation goes.) There are three quatrains in the poem‚ the third one changes
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elements that actually illustrate chaos in the poem. Structurally‚ there isn’t anything chaotic about the poem. The sonnet is broken down into two parts: an octave followed by a sestet that resolves the issue at hand. However‚ the last two lines in the sonnet can be interpreted as an unrhymed couplet‚ contributing to the "chaos" that Millay claimed to trap. The order of the sonnet is in Yang 2 the rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA CDCDCD‚ which is classically Italian in terms of rhyming pattern
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their pieces‚ a majority of their work is known. However‚ after analyzing Shakespeare’s sonnets to the Tell Tale Heart and The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe‚ one can compare and contrast the poetic devices used in these bodies of literature. In each piece of writing‚ the similarities and differences of the poetic devices of structure‚ descriptive language‚ and figurative language are profound. The structure of both Sonnet XVII and The Raven have there connecting features of how they both have the use of end
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A comparison of structure‚ poetic/language devices and themes between ‘Hour’ and ‘Sonnet 116’ Both ‘Hour’ and ‘Sonnet 116’ were written 500 years apart‚ yet both of these poems explore the significant characteristics of love and time. Both poems explore that time and love does not match. But in ‘Sonnet 116’ love is the dominant figure from time and in ‘Hour’ time is the dominant figure from love. In the poem‚ ‘Hour’‚ Carol Ann Duffy is talking about how one ‘Hour’ of their day can be spent as
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