Poetry

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One of the most inauthentic sonnets of the Elizabethan Era is that of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130. “My Mistress’s eyes,” fails to provide an accurate portrayal of love and the unencumbered passion that is typically seen in many of the traditional sonnets of his time, such as that of Sonnet 18. Unlike Sonnet 18 which testifies a beauty which transcends the heavens, Sonnet 130 merely satirizes the unequivocal devotion to one’s love, as well as love itself, found in many traditional sonnets during the Elizabethan Era. The sharply contrasted styles of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130 are exemplified within the opening lines, where Shakespeare opens both sonnets with a traditional comparison.

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

Perhaps the greatest symbol in the entirety of the story was the use of the sea. The sea is commonly used in literature as a symbol of life and its hardships. Undoubtedly, this is a correlation between the mystery of the sea and its inevitable digression from serenity to turbulence. In Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, the sea represents the universe and it is there, the main character, Santiago, experiences his most difficult challenge (Hemingway 15). In The Awakening, the sea is where Edna faces her “most difficult challenge” as well. Except, her challenge is to find the independence she has always longed for. Ironically, not only was the sea where Edna’s life truly began, but it is also where her life ended. The sea wholly represents freedom, and this is where Edna “discovers herself”. One could say that when a person first engages in intercourse, they “discover themselves”, and the sea represents this as well. The sea is described as “sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft embrace” (Gilbert and Gubar 1263). Perhaps this is why Edna found the sea to be alluring, and its touch allowed her to become aware of her body and her place in this vast universe. She was a woman and was subjected to the standards of being a woman- her family was her primary

A wise man does not want to die without his words of wisdom making their own mark on this world. By the third stanza he uses an image of the ocean as a symbol to describe last generation of men that dieing. By using the ocean he shows that by the waves crashing against rocks it is giving life in a green bay.

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).

The passage personifies the ocean by talking of its playful nature of the currents “weaving in and out of one another” and its ability to change, as it has a mind of its own. The last sentence within the passage states “it was not dead but alive” the use of short sentencing emphasised its point and indicates its importance. However this short verse changes the mood of the passage, the reader is confronted by the abrupt word “dead” this single word changes the tone of the sentence and explores that along with the capability to be alive there also is the capability to be dead. This foreshadows the next passage and the future of the ocean.

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.

To those who lack the real understanding of poetry, it is seen no differently as any other literary composition; a text, written and understood by a certain group of people. However to those who appreciate, and possess even the slightest bit of understanding that the poet intended, is considered an accomplishment. Poetry is an art of discovery, it requires immense effort not only to understand but to compose. Indian Woman, a poem written by Jeanette Armstrong, evokes a number of emotions and thoughts. The poem describes the unfortunate lifestyle of an Indian women in that day and age, the duties and tasks which were performed, whether willingly or not. Indian Woman is a poem containing painful images,

The natural elements of nature as found in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s, “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls, ” William Bryant’s, “Thanatopsis,” and John Whittier’s “Snowbound,” each suggest a meditative mood towards the consistency of nature’s course. Through this illustration of a meditative state, each poet captures the anticipation and the silence that is reflected in the regularity of nature. Within each poem, the reflective contemplation on the consistency and regularity of nature creates the feeling of regularity and the inevitable. 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).

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 sees collective pain and suffering as a commonality between them. Women through their conscious and unconscious efforts towards conservation of biodiversity realized that they were not the only victims of male prepotency. Machismo had its way to everything through its use of power. This power driven thinking induced exploitative methods of utilizing everything to its own benefit. The interconnectedness of female agony and nature's

At school Daniel was often alone, but at the sea he often runs in and out of the seashore without knowing what he will do when the tide returns. The climax of the story occurs when the sea begins to recede and Daniel goes exploring. It reads, “Daniel ran through the field at the bottom of the sea, without knowing where he was going. He didn’t stop to check the position of the waves” (Le Clézio). This type of adventure makes him feel exuberant. The story goes on to state, “There was a kind of drunkenness, an electricity that vibrated, because the salt and the light did not want him to stand still; they wanted him to run, to dance, to jump from one rock to another—they wanted him to flee across the bottom of the sea”(Le Clézio). Daniel is expressing the daring side of Le Clézio through his exploration of the sea and all it has to offer. He is able to break free from the loneliness he felt at boarding school and enjoy the adventures the sea has to

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.

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.

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 man to a huntsman in pursuit. Sonnet 67 appears to have been inspired by an earlier work by Petrarch, Rima 190, but with a different ending. In this paper we will take an in depth look at this work, also commonly referred to as “ Lyke as a Huntsman”.