Poetry

|SECTION B | | | |Spend about 1 hour on this section. Think carefully about the poems before you write your answer. |

As time passes, there is nothing that can be done to hold onto it. No matter how hard the narrator attempts to grasp the sand, the grains fall into the water, never to be held again passage of time continues on despite the narrator’s emotions between the two stanzas. One interpretation could be the narrators strong desire to hold on to time due to an upcoming death. The narrator says goodbye to a lover in the first stanza, but says goodbye to life in the second stanza. Life is trickling away; Poe implies life may be a figment of the imagination. The passage of time may also be related to the loss of the relationship, as shown in the first stanza. The narrator says goodbye to their lover in the first stanza and then realizes what has happened in the second stanza. The narrator regrets his decision and desperately tries to grasp what is left of the

The sea also represents how vast and deep their love was. It could show how constant it was such as the ocean is constantly lapping at the sea shore. The fact that her tomb was near the ocean, “And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side of my darling-my darling- my life and my bride,” with the wave constantly breaking against it could show that the speakers love will forever wash over her and he was always love her with a “Love that was more than love,” (Poe 2, 5).

Lexical groupings and semantic parallelism There are three redundant semantic fields in the poem. In the first stanza it is the semantic field of water: ‘waters’ (twice), ‘sea’, ‘drowning’ and ‘being drawn’. As I mentioned earlier, water is often the symbol of life but it also evokes tears, sadness and despair.

The final important message from this poem is to treat all life with respect. This main point is the climax of the mariner’s tale. He states, “All things both great and small; for the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.” When the boy hears this final statement he is put into a short of trance. No longer does he want to attend the wedding party or no longer does he have the same view of life as he did before. This mariner has told him to treat all life with respect, such as he didn’t do with the albatross, and now I believe the boy sees what position this ancient mariner is now. This boy has shown this man the respect he needs and now the larger lesson of treating life with respect was shown to the boy.

Anticipation in how nature will continue and the meditative mood it accompanies, is a recurring theme that is illustrated throughout Longfellow’s poem. Within the poem, the phrase that is repeated illustrates a sense of the inevitable course of nature’s rhythm; “ The tide rises, the tide falls” (Longfellow, 275). With the repetition

Nature's identity is unthinkable without women. They seem to have a relationship which stretches far beyond in the time. This bond is what compelled the feminists and ecologically sensitive women to cipher nature's identity as analogues to women. Domination from the patriarchal society sets the basis for this bond which

Summary The poet compares his lover like a red rose and the melodie. He loves her until the sea dry

Edmund Spenser Sonnet 67 Edmund Spenser’s Sonnet 67 is one of 85 sonnets from Amoretti which was written about his courtship of Elizabeth Boyle. Spenser and Boyle were married in 1594. Sonnet 67 uses a hunting themed metaphor common in 16th century England comparing the woman to a deer and

The couplet of this sonnet renews the speaker's wish for their love, urging her to "love well" which he must soon leave. But after the third quatrain, the speaker applauds his lover for having courage and adoration to remain faithful to him. The rhyme couplet suggests the unconditional love between the speaker and his

Then he continues with imageries in line 5 to 11. We find two personifications, the first one is: “The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;” The sea cannot bare her bosom, because only animals and humans have a bosom. But in this case it is a personification and the author illustrates that people do not see the bare bosom of the sea anymore. In our eyes it is nothing special, it became normal for us and we do not really think about it. Also, here the noun “Sea” is written in an upper case letter, which makes it a name and demonstrates that we are not talking about a sea, but about the sea, that is a gift from nature. We should appreciate these gifts. At a nice evening for example, we could see the moonlight shimmering in the sea, but we do not actually see it because we are too busy.

Shakespeare’s sonnet 60 expresses the inevitable end that comes with time and uses this dark truth to express his hopefulness that his poetry will carry his beloved’s beauty and worth into the future in some way so that it may never die. This love poem is, as all sonnets are, fourteen lines. Three quatrains form these fourteen lines, and each quatrain consists of two lines. Furthermore, the last two lines that follow these quatrains are known as the couplet. This sonnet has the rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, as most Shakespearean sonnets follow. In each of the three quatrains, Shakespeare discusses a different idea. In this particular sonnet, the idea is how time continues to pass on, causing everything to die. The couplet connects these ideas to one central theme, this theme being Shakespeare’s hope for the beauty of his beloved’s immortality through his poetry’s continuation into future times.

In this paper we will be analyzing and comparing some of Shakespeare’s famously known sonnets. William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor. He was widely referenced as the greatest English writer. I will start this paper giving you a brief summary of each sonnet individually, secondly I will then compare the sonnets drawing in on their similarities, and third I will then draw in on their differences.

The renaissance was an explosion of culture that forced Europe out of the dark ages. One of the popular new types of literature was the sonnet: a fouteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme written to earn a woman’s love. In sonnet 1 by Edmund Spenser, sonnet 31 by Philip Sidney, and sonnet 130 and 29 by William Shakespeare, the authors focus on romanticizing love in order to emphasize the importance of developing a relationship with a lady and earning her love. This is accomplished through the use of personification, similes, and allusions.

Edmund Spenser’s Sonnet 75 (One day I wrote her name upon the strand) is written in the Spenserian sonnet form, with 14 lines brought together in 3 quartets and 1 couplet with a rhyming pattern of ABABBCBCCDCDEE. It is