John Milton Sonnet

“Blank Sonnet” by George Elliott Clarke is a sonnet expressing struggled communication with a lover through a broken relationship. This poem expresses communication struggles through the stylization that is atypical to a Shakespearean or Petrachin Sonnet. Clarke

In the poem “Unholy sonnet 5,” Mark Jarman shows us a philosophical reflection about what is worth to do in this life based on a repetition of some patters during the poem. The structure of this poem make it a Petrarchan sonnet. This kind of sonnet is composed by two arguments, the first consist on two octaves with a rhyme ABBA and ABBA. Denoting repetition of the words have, hive, mean and men; highlighting these as significant to found sense to the first argument of the sonnet. In a deeper reading of the poem, this first argument is centered in questioning que purpose and meaning of life for human beings, coinciding with the pattern of rhymes and sounds. Following this structure of a Petrarchan sonnet, the second argument is composed by a sestet. This means that the sonnet has a rhyme CDECDE, denoting repetition of the words joy, death and forget; highlighting these as significant to found sense to the second argument of the sonnet. Also, the second argument of the poem centered on a practical analysis of what is worth to do in life (enjoying) before the death, coinciding with the pattern of rhymes and sounds.

The main theme within Clarke’s Sonnet is his distance and inability to communicate with a lover. This poem is written for his lover as an attempt to connect with her, although within the poem, he is continuing to communicate poorly. The way in which he copes with this broken relationship drives the tone of the poem.

The main word that pops out at me is the word doubt. The poet could have said “I absolutely know God is good” yet he added the word doubt as if he is unsure of what he is saying. The tone pattern of uncertainty continues to be expressed throughout the sonnet. For example, line 2 “And he did stoop to quibble could tell why” and line 4 “Why flesh that reflects him must some day die”. The ending word of line 2 and beginning word of line 4 is the word “why”, which shows again the author questioning God and His ways. That one word ends up rhyming with the word “die” and if you combine those two words in a sentence you get “why die” as if it was another form of a question in disguise. Cullen wraps up what he is saying by repeating the title of the sonnet “Yet Do I Marvel” as if he is still searching for an answer from God which he will never receive, exemplifying of the entire poem which in a whole is about

At first glance, the reader notices that the poem is divided into two parts in order to resemble a conversation. When reading the sonnet for the first time the reader may make the mistake in thinking that what the “echo” replies is an answer to the questions the “voice” asks. But in reality the “echo” isn’t replying to the “voice” but is actually performing its normal job. The “echo” only repeats back the last prominent sounds

BibliographyMilton, John. The Complete Poetry of John Milton. New York; Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. , 1971.

John Milton’s’ poem “When I consider how my light is spent” is a great piece of art that he creates during his blindness. The sarcasm and the word choice in this poem also have a great impact on how he masts feel. Milton also presents us with a key point on how God plays an important part in his point of view and his life. One of the best thing of this poem is the tone and the feelings that where put into it. Looking at John Milton life through one of his best piece of art “When I consider how my light is spent.”

In “Holy Sonnet 14” by John Donne, dramatizes the conflict between contradictions and a relationship with God.

Milton is also characterized in this epic, in his role as a humble servant in God’s eyes and as a haughty superior over other authors. There are many parallels in Milton’s life and the epic, which enforce the dichotomy of darkness in Satan and the light in God and the power of hierarchy in mankind and in nature. Milton connects them together, signifying that one has the light and the freedom that it brings when obeying the most superior, God. While Milton contains prideful darkness in himself, but he humbly requests for God to shine His purifying light, signifying the power that light has over darkness. While Adam may have fallen from Paradise, all hope is not lost.

John Milton wrote Sonnet XXIII ("Methought I saw my late espoused Saint") as a portrayal of a memory dream he had of his wife. The sonnet recollects the best of his wife 's qualities as well as the best of his own, while exuding feelings of true love. Milton believed in true love and the importance of finding a soulmate. He believed in the importance of finding a soulmate in life to rise together to the pinnacle of existence, the epitome of love, sex and life. Critics have written many works trying to understand which wife Milton was writing about. There is an array of critical writings that focus on the sonnet in a biographical manner concluding that the sonnet is written about his second wife, Katherine Woodcock. Ward and Waller state “Katherine lived but fifteen months after the marriage, dying (as the twenty-third sonnet records pathetically) in childbirth on 10 February, 1657/8. The child was another daughter, but survived her mother only a few weeks. Attention has often been drawn to the “veiled face” of the sonnet as implying that Milton had never seen this wife.” The indication is that Milton was never able to see his wife due to his blindness which he did not suffer from while married to Mary and that Katherine died right before the poem was written thus the poem must

A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines that rhyme in a particular pattern. William Shakespeare’s sonnets were the only non-dramatic poetry that he wrote. Shakespeare used sonnets within some of his plays, but his sonnets are best known as a series of one hundred and fifty-four poems. The series of one hundred and fifty-four poems tell a story about a young aristocrat and a mysterious mistress. Many people have analyzed and contemplated about the significance of these “lovers”. After analysis of the content of both the “young man” sonnets and the “dark lady sonnets”, it is clear that the poet, Shakespeare, has a great love for the young man and only lusts after his mistress.

Truth and honesty are key elements to a good, healthy relationship. However, in Shakespeare's Sonnet 138, the key to a healthy relationship between the speaker and the Dark Lady is keeping up the lies they have constructed for one another. Through wordplay Shakespeare creates different levels of meaning, in doing this, he shows the nature of truth and flattery in relationships.

In Sonnet 7 (“Lo, in the orient, when the gracious light..”), one out of the 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet, William Shakespeare, focuses on the burden of beauty and how human life can be compared to the passage of the sun rising and setting. Throughout the whole poem, the advice is given to the young man, to follow the sun and its direction. This sonnet is written in iambic pentameter, consists of three quatrains and ends with a couplet while following the rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. The poet 's way of using poetic and literary devices such as rhythm, alliteration, and caesuras strengthens the poem’s argument that the sun and man must coexist to live on and that the only way for the youth to ensure their

Starting off with a reflection of “how [his] light is spent” (Milton 1), the speaker reminisces over the time before when he had his sight. Now he spends his days in a “dark world and wide” (Milton 2) as it is always night for him. This leads into the primary struggle in the poem as he asks himself, “Doth God exact day-labour, light denied” (Milton 7). The speaker is conflicted whether he must continue his service to God, even though he is blind. As a consolation mechanism for his impairment, Patience appears to answer the speaker’s question. It reminds him that God doesn’t require all his followers to work, but only hopes that they should “bear his mild yoke” (Milton 11). Enduring through suffering and pain is a sign of strength and satisfies God. As Patience could be the speaker’s subconscious, his free will is apparent as he chooses to “stand and wait” (Milton 14). Thus, “Sonnet 19…” portrays stronger self-control than “The World…”

Milton’s poetry/sonnets are different from any other. He involves Politics and Religion. In his sonnets he will start them off one way, and then with the last two lines throw a twist on it. This is one reason Milton is famous.