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    open John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 10‚ setting the tone‚ as the narrator addresses death himself. Donne‚ inspired by his experiences with religion‚ wrote a collection of poems known as “The Divine poems‚” in which he establishes a connection between the narrator‚ and God. Holy Sonnet 10 is unique in that‚ the narrator addresses not God‚ but Death. As explored by both Joanne Woolway and Roberta J. Albrecht‚ Donne employs masterful use of apostrophe to address death‚ stylized structure giving rise to ambiguity

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    Explication of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 73” In “Sonnet 73‚” William Shakespeare utilizes a somber mood‚ strong imagery‚ and intense metaphors‚ which construct a window into the soul of a dying old man for Shakespeare’s audience to visualize the dreadful oncoming of death and question the meaning of life. “Sonnet 73” is identical in structure to Shakespeare’s other sonnets with three quatrains and ending in a couplet. In the three quatrains Shakespeare compares the narrator to the transition from

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    John Donne is widely known to incorporate or allude to various religious symbols and concepts throughout his poems. His poem “Holy Sonnet XII: Why Are We” questions the concept of creation‚ humankind and all elements‚ exploring the ideas of the original sin and God’s relationship with man and nature. The poem also explored the concepts of human supremacy over nature. Through several language devices such as metaphors‚ rhyme and rhythm‚ repetition and tone‚ Donne attempts to understand the Creator’s

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    the tradition of the poet Petrarch‚ whose sonnets dealt with a wooing male lover. Petrarch arranged his sonnets into ‘sonnet consequences’ or ‘sonnet cycles’‚ in which series of sonnets were linked together by a common theme based on the various aspects of the lover’s relationship. Spencer also arranged his ‘Amoretti’ in ‘sonnet sequences’. Spencer himself evolved his own structure for the English sonnet which has come to be known as the Spenserian sonnet. It had the same three quatrains but with

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    Sonnets are rhymed poems consisting of fourteen lines‚ it is divided into two different lines‚ the first eight lines making up the octet and the other last six lines being the sestet. The Shakespearean sonnet however differs from the Petrarchian sonnets and the Spenserian sonnet‚ it ends with a rhymed couplet and follows the rhyme scheme. Therefore‚ the octet and sestet structure can be unconventionally divided into three quatrains with alternating rhymes concluding in a rhymed couplet. Till present

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    Sonnet 116 Literary Analysis Sonnet 116 is one of the most famous of the sonnets for its stalwart defense of true love. The sonnet has a relatively simple structure with each quatrain attempting to describe what love is (or is not) and the final couplet reaffirming the poet’s words by placing his own merit on the line. The opening lines of the sonnet dive the reader into the theme at a rapid pace‚ accomplished in part by the use of enjambment--the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line

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    potentially change a reader’s view on a subject. Suburban Sonnet‚ written by Gwen Harwood has a lot of social commentary and is speaking to you about a lot of things that it feels are important. It is looking to make a lot of points about Australian society and the sacrifice of having children and of living a suburban lifestyle. Gwen Harwood’s ‘Suburban Sonnet’ is a fourteen line poem with strong values of urban Australia. The poem‚ Suburban Sonnet‚ idealizes the harsh realities of an Australian housewife

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    I. Reform and Protest in the 1960s   A. Cold War Tensions Thaw      1. Buoyed by the rapidly expanding economy of the postwar era‚ the political consensus in western Europe shifted to the left.      2. In Britain‚ the Labour Party returned to power in 1964.      3. In the Scandinavian countries of Denmark‚ Norway‚ and Sweden‚ Social Democratic parties maintained a leading role throughout the period.      4. In West Germany‚ Willy Brandt (1913–1992) became the first Social Democratic West German chancellor

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    Casey Purdy 2/12/09 Dr. Alan Kersten Dep 4130 Learning English as a second language: A case study of a Chinese girl in an American preschool A study of a three year old Chinese girl named Jasmine‚ focused on the semantics of her learning English as a second language. She was the only participant in the study who was learning a second language. Others in the study consisted of the teachers‚ interns‚ children in the class‚ and the observers of the study. Her native language was Chinese

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    Comment that the sonnet 130 of Shakespeare is an unconventional poem. Most of the sonnet sequences in Elizabethan England were modelled after that of Petrarch. Petrarch’s famous sonnet sequence was written as a series of love poems to an idealized and idolized mistress‚ Laura. In those sonnets Petrarch praises her beauty‚ her worth‚ and her perfection. He has used an extraordinary variety of metaphors‚ largely based on natural beauties. But in Shakespeare’s day these metaphors had already become

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