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The poet’s tone changes as we move throughout the poem. The poem starts out with the poet declaring that his love for his mistress is limitless and will stand the test of time. “My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires and more slow.” Suddenly, the poet’s tone seems to takes on a sense of urgency. He contradicts his previous beliefs about time, as he now believes time is running out and will prohibit him from loving his mistress forever or ever loving her at all. “Times winged chariot hurrying near; / And yonder all before us lie / Deserts of vast eternity.” He now sees time as a looming death that will prohibit him from loving his mistress indefinitely. Considering that time is of the essence, the author’s attitude suggest

This poem brought me back to my home town and the wonders and beauty that it brings around winter time, and made me nostalgic with memories of past winters with my family and slightly saddened for those who have never seen the magical ability snow has. This poem reminded me that there are people who live in states where their change in seasons is not as noticeable, as the ones that I grew up with and have come to miss. Similar to many of the romantics, natures true beauty can transform the mundane into a work of art that would never have existed

Similarly, the phrase ‘the next moment, you are no longer there’ is perhaps suggesting that he was shocked at seeing her go so suddenly. However, the fact that when she next reappears she is ‘perfectly framed shows us that the joy of seeing her after thinking she has gone for good is a surprise to him. ‘Fragrant survivors of last night’s frost’ shows us that the flowers are strong, which is a suggestion that their love is strong. In the fourth verse the phrase ‘my heart misses a beat at love for you’ shows us that the love was so intense that time seemed to stop too. ‘Knowing a time will come when you are no longer there’ shows us that he is not looking forward to that time and that he knows it is inevitable. ‘Meanwhile let us make sure we clasp each shared moment’ shows us that he wants to make sure they use their time together wisely, and ‘in cupped hands, like water we dare not spill’ shows us they know that their time together is precious.

“Sunshine seemed like gold,” (line 4) and “Whole damn world’s turned cold,” (line 5). The poet

In the poem, “Written at the the Close of Spring” by Charlotte Smith, Smith appreciates and envies the closing of spring. The sonnet is written in the traditional Shakespearean form with fourteen lines and a stable rhyming scheme. Along with a couplet, and the couplet making no exception to usually playing a pivotal role is the clear turning point. The sonnet goes from an appreciation of nature towards that of a melancholic view of nature and it's ease to become “new” again. Apart from using a clear change in tone to convey her depression, at not being able to start anew, Smiths’ continuous vivid imagery “ The primrose wan, and hare-bell, mildly blue” (4) evoke an intense emotion of happiness only to have it ripped away “ The garlands fade

Modern poets introduced a movement in the literary world that broadened style, subject matter, and form choices in poetry. Deeper and more personal meanings could be conveyed during this era of poetry that wasn’t possible before. Traditional symbols has the ability to add depth to a poem without becoming too wordy or distracting from the main idea. The poems: “In a Dark Time” by Theodore Roethke, “One Perfect Rose” by Dorothy Parker, and “The Sunlight on the Garden” by Louis MacNeice utilizes traditional symbols to give additional meaning to their poems. The use of traditional symbols has the largest impact on MacNeice’s poem because of his consistent use of symbols.

summer sing the lives/I’ve come to love. A vireo whets its bill./The great day balances upon the leaves;/My ears still hear the bird when all is still;...”. He explains the world around him but also connecting it to his feelings. There is nothing in nature that he does not love.

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Millay uses free verse elements, more specifically thought-provoking questions, to enhance the overall poetic feeling of “Spring”. Beginning with the proposal of a question, “To what purpose, April, do you return again?”(1) Millay blatantly challenges the reason behind natural order. Millay again does this when stating, “It is

At the time Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, radical changes were occurring throughout Europe. During this time, there were great advances in science and technology and the Romantic Movement came about due to this new found industrialism. It is Shelley’s feelings about these radical scientific and technological advancements which she had portrayed through Frankenstein that leaves the readers with an overwhelming impression of the dangers of scientific hubris when they have come away from the book. The Romantic Movement itself was a reaction to Europe’s new found industrialism and had quickly developed into the basis for a new society.

Death is often feared by people due to being unsure of what comes next. Some do not fear it at all due to the fact that there is an afterlife, and they will live on for the rest of eternity in a better place. The author of “Holy Sonnet 10,” John Donne, is a well known English poet who was famous during his time. His writing lived on for a few decades after his death, but soon went out of style. His writing did not become popular again until later in the nineteenth century. Dylan Thomas, writer of “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” was surrounded by poetry growing up. His father would read poetry to him before he was could read it himself. Thomas moved to London in his early twenties to continue his career as a successful poet. In “Holy Sonnet 10” and “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” Donne and Thomas have two completely different views on Death. Donne jokes about Death as if the thought of it does not even phase him, while Thomas considers Death as a terrifying thought.

He describes love as a Hawthorn tree. Hawthorn trees are quite beautiful trees from the outside with beautiful flowers that bloom in the spring, but on the branches underneath all the luscious leaves and flowers where you cannot see, there are thorns. Love is represented as this tree because it seems like it is remarkable and beautiful, but there are always problems in love, the thorns, which are not always seen from the outside but are always there. In the story of this poem the characters’ thorns is the fact that their love is looked down upon and possibly forbidden by others. “Trembling in the night, a prey to hoar- frost and the showers.” (15-16) Since their love is seen as improper to others, the only time they can be together is at night. So when they can be together, at night, they are afraid they are going to be discovered, like prey to a predator. “Till the next morning when the sun enfolds the leaves and the boughs.” (17-18) This quote displays how the next day they hide and cover up their love just as the sun covers the tree. In the third stanza it explains how one morning, when they usually hide their love, they did not. It states that they “put an end to skirmishing,” which shows how they must usually argue in the morning about having to hide their love. So they put an end to their arguing and she gave him her body. He then asks God to keep him alive until he can

They try to pay tribute to the woman by making the comparison of her beauty to a summer’s day. The narrator even describes their lover as being more beautiful and temperate then what can be found in nature. Noting the fact that nature’s beauty can be very sporadic over time and the sun can even become dim. “And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; and every fair from fair sometime declines,” (Shakespeare). The narrator then concludes that the appearance of the woman that they are referring to isn’t going away because it will be forever captured in the verses of this sonnet. “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and gives life to thee” (Shakespeare). The narrator starts making them out to be more of a goddess rather than an actual

She compares the new grass that is sprouting to flames of fire and there is a visual of the grass flickering just as flames do. There is almost an ominous feel as if the grass is under attack, just as her heart is from grief. The imagery of the flames also relate to symbols of romantic desire that she feels for her dead husband. The imagery describes in line 2-3 are very vivid and lively in comparison to lines 13-14, where the imagery is generalized and flat. She describes the flowers by just naming the colours like yellow and red and lacks specificity when she says “some bushes” (13). After such beautiful imagery there is little image-making vividness, it is easy to tell that the widow lacks interest in what formally gave her joy and excitement because of her grief. I believe that the masses the widow is referring to is not quantity but instead size as in heaviness, massive etc. and this relates to her grief- as I stated before, the heaviness of her grief. From this we can conclude that the speaker’s emotional condition is dazed and dull. It is as if she cannot appreciate the beauty surrounding springtime anymore because she is so focused on her grief regarding the death of her

He says summer is far too short, because in summer the flowers will bloom. If he compares her to a flower she´ll bloom in summer and die after summer, as will her love.