Analysis Of Upon The Breeze She Spread Her Golden Hair

The poem’s structure as a sonnet allows the speaker’s feelings of distrust and heartache to gradually manifest themselves as the poem’s plot progresses. Each quatrain develops and intensifies the speaker’s misery, giving the reader a deeper insight into his convoluted emotions. In the first quatrain, the speaker advises his former partner to not be surprised when she “see[s] him holding [his] louring head so low” (2). His refusal to look at her not only highlights his unhappiness but also establishes the gloomy tone of the poem. The speaker then uses the second and third quatrains to justify his remoteness; he explains how he feels betrayed by her and reveals how his distrust has led him

    The poem is structured as a sonnet which commonly expresses a theme of love throughout the lines. Also it is paired with the “ABAB” rhyme scheme to give an emotional view to the readers about the conflict he has. Also the sonnet and the rhyme scheme is a common usage of poem making and many people know what it is, so the poet uses this structure to let readers understand more easily and clearly. He also uses the “ABAB” scheme to separate parts that are important within themselves. In the first four lines, it talks about the poet himself and how much he tries to avoid the one she loves by “ hold my louring head so low”(Line 2). In the next four lines, it talks about the mouse and how its problems relates with the poet’s emotional pain. After that, the next four lines talks about the fly and how it relates with the author with his physical pain. Using these methods help the poet communicate with the readers easily.

The conflict, therefore, would be the forced structure of sonnets and how it is easy “unless you get Elizabethan and insist the iambic bongos must be played” (“Sonnet” 5-6). The author clearly does not like being confined to the rules of sonnet writing and address them here, but in the final six lines, the sestet, the speaker addresses various aspects of typical sonnets, such as a resolved conflict, longing and heartache, and also a reference to Petrarch and his love Laura. Why include these in the sonnet if these exact aspects are the

Rhyme is a defining point of Petrarch's poetry with a rhyme scheme of abba abba cde cde. Wyatt kept the rhyme scheme of the octave but changed the sestet to cdd cee. "There is written, her fair neck round about,/Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am,/And wild to hold, though I seem tame." (Wyatt line 12-14) is an example of the changed rhyme scheme. Wyatt also resorted to eye-rhyme which is also shown in the quotation for the words am and tame. Petrarch's poems held firm to the original rhyme scheme of abba abba cde cde and each rhyme is a complete rhyme rather than Wyatt's lazy eye-rhyming. Petrarch's rhyme

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Sonnet IV” follows many of the conventions of the traditional Petrarchan sonnet. It follows the traditional rhyming scheme and octet, sestet structure. However it challenges the conventions of the typical subject of the Italian sonnet, unrequited love. In the octet at the beginning of the poem Millay uses images that give a sense of transience and in the ending sestet of the sonnet she contrasts the sense of impermanence given earlier with the idea that the speaker cannot forget the smiles and words of their ex-lover. This contrast between permanence and transience illustrates Millay’s interest in a fugacious relationship with everlasting memories. After further analysis of Millay’s highly structured rhyming scheme which puts emphasis on the last words of each line. She uses these words to further express her interest in exploring impermanent relationships by using words that are associated with an end or death.

Petrarch’s love for Laura was so strong that he was unable to live happily in a world without her, but Laura’s love was unattainable for Petrarch, thus in seeking companionship with Laura, he further pushes himself into a cyclical process of

The words used in the poem is very natural and free flowing. This is further amplified with the distinctive lack of proper punctuation that the poem has. The author repetitive use of “let” shows the readers how colloquial language is used to amplify the normality of the love between the lovers. In addition, the words such as “feast to come” and “knees held in mine” reflects the intimacy that the speaker has with his lover. The poet’s use of diction further amplifies the love left by the speaker; as the speaker yearns for the lips of his lover and without it feels “abandoned like a child”.

This essay aims to compare and contrast two poems, William Shakespeare's Sonnet 55 and Charles Baudelaire’s Le Portrait, the last sonnet from a 4 part sonnet sequence, Un Fantôme. There are many translated versions of Le Portrait; this essay will focus on the 1997 English translation by Walter Martin from his book Complete Poems. Firstly a brief background of both poems will be reviewed, followed by a comparison of their structure. An interpretation of the figurative meaning of each will be explored, and then continued with an analysis of similarities and differences of the poetic technique used.

While the rhyme scheme does not correspond with the Petrarchan or Shakespearean forms, its does divide the poem into the two parts found in the

Both of these Petrarchan sonnets have a loose iambic pentameter, with a fairly simple and regular rhyme scheme, which appears at first to be a structure that constructs freedom and space. However, the fact that they have a form of structure at all, and are not merely blank verse, hints at a sense of cyclic monotony and, therefore, entrapment. Prefatory Sonnet is more purposefully structured than Lines Composed Upon Westminster Bridge; line thirteen (“who have felt the weight of too much liberty”) is written in contrasting trochaic meter, in turn emphasising the false perception of space created by people who think themselves surrounded by it. Each poem is monosyllabic in several places, such as the lines: “nuns fret not”, “should find short solace there, as I have found”, “earth has not any thing to shew more fair” and “at his own sweet will”. This emphasises polysyllabic words, like “narrow”, “prison”, “sundry”, “scanty”, “touching”, “garment” “solace” and “never”, which all highlight the sense of proximity and lacking that both poems inconspicuously convey. Using repetitive capital letters where not needed, Wordsworth draws attention towards words such as “cells”, “wheel”, and “city”; these industrially-associated (man-made) nouns refer to the heavy feeling of congestion that industrial places evoke. The capital letters also create a barrier in the structure of the poems, which adds to the cyclic limitations of space that they suggest. Jonathan M. Hess also argues that

Petrarch’s main idea focuses on self-betterment and focusing on oneself. His poems in Selections from the Canzoniere are an unfulfilled love story. He talks about all the states of emotion in which he goes through. He shows how his love for Laura blinds him from his aspirations and desires. Petrarch’s writings are very indicative of the humanistic thought that one should focus on himself and his feelings. The central theme of all these poems is his platonic for Laura. Another thing Petrarch expresses in his works is that people should focus on their personal happiness rather than their material happiness. He states in the poem Letters to Posterity “I have always had great contempt for money. I have led a happier life with a plain diet and ordinary foods (P: 2).” Petrarch intended his works as a self-expression of emotion, an example of how people should be willing to express themselves. Petrarch’s writings as well as the work of others helped bring back Plato’s idea of platonic, chaste and nonsexual, love. This became somewhat of the standard for renaissance love. Petrarch’s writings are unique because the style would inspire great writers of the future, such as

This poem is a Petrarchan sonnet, or can be known as an Italian sonnet, divided into an octave and a sestet, with a rhyme scheme of a-b-b-a-a-b-b-a-c-d-c-d-c-d. After the main idea

The poem discusses this concept by going into some detail about the dense fragrance from the earth that lives darkly in his body. I believe the sonnet is expressing that this love is not visible to the world. In actuality, it is a feeling that lives in the depths of his soul. The poem states it is “hidden within itself the light of those flowers.” At this point in the text, the writer lingers and there is potential for an outward expression of love. However, it remains hidden. I believe these few lines are voicing his love leaves him isolated from the world, and no one can possibly comprehend its power.

The Petrarchan or Italian sonnet was one of Hopkins’s favorite forms of poetry and one that he employed frequently in his writing. Hopkins enjoyed the fusion of form and content, and the structure of an Italian sonnet perfectly lends itself

The rhyme scheme of the poem is used largely in Petrarchan sonnets and have a specific goal. The goal is to connect certain lines together to create a flow and rhythm to the work, and also connect ideas and further emphasise a shift in idea from the octave to the sestet. The rhyme scheme in the octave is ABBAABBA which connects the beginning quatrain and second quatrain of the octave in order to emphasise the way the two feed off of each other to promote an idea. The first quatrain speaks to the power of God when it says “It will flame out, like shining from shook foil” (line 3). This is important because sixth and seventh lines rhyme