Sonnet 43

Discontent by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Explication The sonnet “Discontent” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning pinpoints two separate types of unhappiness, discontent led by a need to show unhappiness despite superficial subject matter, and a quiet pain that with time distances one from discontent and leads to submission to the will of God and the world. Browning examines these differences throughout the poem and emphasizes the meaninglessness of discontent and the distance brought by pain to show why the human race gravitates toward the superficial, until time forces a calm upon it.

In the World of Hunt, there was a region called UNNAMED_LAND. In UNNAMED LAND was a luscious field called UNNAMED_FIELD_24. The field had bright green grass, and the breeze there made you feel wonderful. There was a mountain to the north, where hunters went to hunt for mountain goats and to catch Toads. The birds chirped so beautifully that the sound made you want to fall asleep. The wafting smell of spring came around and it had a wonderful effect on the plants. In a small cement hut on the beautiful field, there was a Pixie named Onix who was a farmer and hunter. Onix was very poor, but he was humble and didn’t like to see people mad. When he and his son didn’t have enough money anymore, he decided

In sonnet 95, the speaker depicts a paternal feeling while speaking to the addressee, where indeed the poet reminds his audience about way appearance can be so deceiving. The young man is relying on his good appearance to veil his sexual immorality. Being that he is handsome and attractive, people are reluctant to disapprove his behavior. In the first quadrant, the poet employs different stylistic devices, which include simile, as the young man is likened to a fragrant rose, and on the other hand, he is compared to a destructive worm, but all his dark side of life is hidden under his good looking and charming nature. What is important about this poem is the manner in which the speaker reminds the young man about his bad behavior and draws examples that makes him feel sorry about what he does behind his good-looking nature. By the use of diction, imagery, diction, images, metaphors and other figures of speech, such as tone of voice, allusions, syntax and structure of the speech, the speaker warns the young man against his sexual immorality, and reminds him that there are detrimental risks associated with his behavior if he does not change.

In the poem "Sonnet 43" Elizabeth Barrett Browning use the theme of love to express her love feelings about her husband Robert Browning. tone: Elizabeth express her love by saying "i love thee with a love i seemed to lose". Her love looks sincere,and she also express her love with figurative language.

In William Shakespeare’s 33rd Sonnet, the speaker remarks on the ultimate beauty of the sun and its continuous daily cycle. However, the sun is not completely unmarked as the occasional cloud shields the world from its glory. In Greek mythology, the sun was the ultimate ruler as legend says Helios would drive the sun everyday across the sky in his golden chariot. A similar myth is mirrored in Egyptian history as Ra, the sun god, was the ultimate ruler. The sun holds a vital place in the the human history of power and strength and is the keystone to all life. Although at first read, the speaker seems to be remarking on the sun’s eternal glory despite the occasional shielding cloud, in actuality, the speaker is drawing a parallel between his

The readers can immediately relate to the romantic notion of sincere love. The overall tone in this poem is loving and it also has a religious feeling. She talks about her everlasting love and how she puts her trust for love into God’s hands. The mood of this poem is kind of a mix between positive and happy / negative and unhappy. She seems to be positive and happy about her everlasting love but at the came time she is unsure about what’s to

Finley's breath caught in her throat, memory after memory of her senior year crashed into her mind. They all flickered in bright flashes behind her eyes. Her breathing became shallow, and her eyes fluttered fully closed as she tried to hold back the tears in her eyes.

In the following chapters, I am primarily concerned with how the sonnet functions as a

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.

     The sonnet, being one of the most traditional and recognized forms of poetry, has been used and altered in many time periods by writers to convey different messages to the audience. The strict constraints of the form have often been used to parallel the subject in the poem. Many times, the first three quatrains introduce the subject and build on one another, showing progression in the poem. The final couplet brings closure to the poem by bringing the main ideas together. On other occasions, the couplet makes a statement of irony or refutes the main idea with a counter statement. It leaves the reader with a last impression of what the author is trying to say.

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 modern times, youth and beauty is an image seen everywhere. For example, a Versace billboard, magazine ad, TV commercial, all of which displays images of beautiful people. But what happens when this beauty fades? Shakespeare in his 12th sonnet talks about his experience and fading beauty. The purpose of this poem is to encourage a young man to not lose his beauty to the ravages of time. In order to do this, one must reproduce so beauty will live.

In both sonnets the word "confound" is used to describe the actions of Time. This word in both sonnets express the destructive nature of Time. Also, in sonnet 64 there is a sonic pattern. 10 of the 14 lines end with a word that contains a long "a" sound for example: defaced, age, razed, rage, gain, main, state, decay, ruminate, and away. This repetition could symbolize that Time's effects are constant. The poem also ends with the word "lose" so this could mean Time's effects are constant until the thing it is effecting is lost. There is one subject per quatrain in sonnet 60. In quatrain one the subject is waves, quatrain two the subject is nativity, and in quatrain three the subject is Time. In sonnet 64 there is only one main subject and verb which is "I" and the verb is "Seen". However, in the couplet of sonnet 64 the subject is ambiguous. It could be the "thought" or "death" that is doing the action of weeping for something that it will

How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barret Browning is an iconic and powerful love poem. The work is part of Sonnets from the Portuguese, a collection of poems that Elizabeth Browning wrote for her husband, poet Robert Browning. It is a passionate declaration of love from one who is in love, which had resonated with many generations of readers because of the rawness and relatability of its feelings.

For this response I will focus on Sonnets 1, 18, and 130. In Sonnet 1, I noticed how the themes of beauty and human life and introduced. Sonnet 1 starts off by saying that no one lives forever, and in order to keep the beauty, people need to have children. It then continues to say that some people are obsessed with their beauty and keep it for themselves. These people are encouraged to change their ways or less their beauty will start to fade and eventually disappear. I believe that Sonnet 1 is urging people to help the world by having children.