Petrarch's Rime

“At that moment, when the world around him melted away, when he stood alone like a star in the heavens, he was overwhelmed by a feeling of icy despair, but he was more firmly himself than ever.” (Chapter 4, Page 41, Paragraph 2)

unfounded joy and a faith in the absence of hope, he is intent on winning the spiritual battle, even if

In the first stanza, the writer uses many techniques to convey the feeling of loss, when he says,

In “To the Harbormaster,” the word “vessel” is meant literally as a ship. He uses nautical imagery all throughout: “ship” (2), “moorings” (3), “tide” (5), “rudder” (8), “hull” (10), “cordage” (10), “reeds” (13), and finally “vessel” (14). In this way, and for the metaphor of someone at sea throughout, at the surface level of the poem, vessel is used to describe a ship. However, when further examining the word vessel as meaning a body or receptacle for the soul, and the biblical origins associated with that meaning, one is able to find several examples to back up an alternate and deeper meaning. In the lines, “To / you I offer my hull and

The speaker’s confession points to how the speaker understands why others may fall victim to desire as well, offering a hint of solidarity. But overall, the speaker advises those tempted to avoid desire by explaining the “price” he had to pay for submitting to it. The speaker describes the toll by recalling how he gained a “mangled mind” and “worthless ware,” and uses alliteration to accentuate how he had partook in desire in the past. The speaker mentions the ills that he has accumulated in hopes of waking those who are “asleep” and oblivious to the dangers of desire, like he once

Perhaps the world is a fallen, twisted place, yet that doesn't mean it can't be amended. There's always a solution that can be found, there is a good reason for everything, and though the struggles are harsh, it doesn't mean we can't overcome them. You may not save the world, but you can save the people in it. When it's dark you can find hope again. Things are constant, friends and enemies remain true to their aspects, simple quarrels can be solved. Sometimes life can be filled with angels which fight the demons locked away in the depths of a soul. I have hopes for this life, many which are attainable, even in the twilights of the skies above. Today is the only day that can conquer tomorrow,

The pattern of imagery and diction that is created in lines 7 -10, uses diction with negative and consequential words to create a negative image of a result of not making a thrust in life. If you are not doing anything interesting with life, you might be putting yourself in a position where you could be criticized and

The author’s diction makes the reader feel that death ca be defeated. For example, death has been called “mighty and dreadful” but the author shows that it is not more than a “short sleep” where men go for the “rest of their bones.” The general idea of death is frightful and scary, but the reader is told that it’s only a short phase everyone goes through. It’s an opportunity for men to separate their soul and physical body. In

He grimaced at the vortex of sorrow: his life was becoming. There was an interminable amount of things going wrong in his life.He had ventured to find a way to get his life back on track, but even the most rigorous of ways failed to succeed. Despite many failures, his persistence had finally paid off; his old life began to molt and a new life began to

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a parable of a seaman's crime against nature (pointlessly killing an albatross) and his repentance by blessing the lowly water-snakes.  Setting the poem in the Middle Ages in the then-unknown seas near Antarctica, the poet is able to make his narrative credible and give the reader what is called 'the willing suspension of disbelief.'  "

With his freedom, Petrach conducted his own form of exploration. His travels eventually led him to travel back through time, so to speak, to meet the great writers of roman times, which taught him a great deal about his personal desires in writing. Petrarch traveled to the “Rhineland, Flanders, Brabant and France meeting scholars and ransacking libraries.” (CITE PAUL JOHNSON) His travels led him to find Cicero's writing, and his own methods of rhetoric were altered as a result of this introduction. “In Liege, for instance, he discovered copies of two lost speeches by Cicero. At Verona in 1345 he stumbled on a far more dramatic find, Cicero's letters to Atticus, Brutus and Quintus – texts that brought the great orator to life for the first time.

Starting with “The Wanderer,” the speaker begins his tale by reminiscing upon his trials and tribulations of which he has suffered a great deal and “longs for relief, the Almighty’s mercy” (118). He has lost his friends and no longer has anyone to confide in, forcing him to be alone with his thoughts: “So I must hold in the thoughts of my heart” (118). In the midst of his grieving, the Wanderer recalls a joyous occasions, such as when “his friend and lord helped him to the feast” (119), only to realize that what once was, is no longer. He finds comfort in his dreams, longing to be back with his “liege-lord again” only to awaken and have reality come shattering down upon him (119). However, he comes to the conclusion that through hardship and suffering, one matures, grows, learns his place in life and how “a good man holds his words back, tells his woes not too soon, baring his inner heart before knowing the best way” (120).

In the stanza before he is so in shock from losing his love that he finds it hard to except reality. At this point, he remembers that he still has the rest of his time on earth to live without his beloved. He picks up a hand full of sand and watches it slip through his fingers. It occurs to him that we have no control of time and that time goes on without us. Then he cries out to God and “appeals to God for more time, or for time to stop.”

To begin, the speaker, in a very calm manner, describes a moment in time where she and a man called Death share a carriage together as if they were in a relationship with one another. Not only does the speaker leave with Death without any questions, but also states that she is obligated to leave her household to work for her new husband Death in lines five through nine. Due to the fact that the speaker so carelessly goes along with Death, shows just how strong her connection is with him. She is completely unaware and blinded at the fact that leaving with Death is something that is forever.

The ship mentioned in the start of the poem could easily be a symbol for just a simple person being thrown into the world with endless opportunities, yet still a big shadow or “abyss” of the scary unknown is always there to accompany it. The unknown might toss you around like the raging waves of the ocean in a storm crashing high or might make you feel comfortable in a lul between waves not knowing what’s to come. The next part of the poem, in the line, “the Master, beyond former