What Is The Mood Of The Poem 'Luck'?

Gascoigne uses three quatrains and a couplet to create the English sonnet “For That He Looked Not upon Her.” The first quatrain introduces the reader to the speaker and his issues with his beloved, while also describing the speaker’s appearances after being heartbroken. In the second quatrain, the speaker builds onto his accounting of suffering and sorrow with an analogy of a “mouse” (Gascoigne

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.

In Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” tells of an individual reminiscing about their father and the sacrifices he made to provide for them. In the poem, the father was not appreciated for his contribution but the narrator seems to now acknowledge the hard work of the father. As the poem progresses the tone of the narrator is one of regret and remorse. The relationship of the parent and child is often one of misunderstanding and conflict until the experiences life more and come in grasps of the parent’s intention. So, the relation between a parent and child evolves as the child emerges to adulthood.

Gwen’s poem, Father and child, represents the cyclical nature of life through the inevitability of consequence and growth. Paternal guidance and familial relationship is seen as a key

“Those Winter Sundays’” and “My Papa’s waltz” are poems based on father-son relationships. The relationship in “Those Winter Sunday” characterizes the father to be hard-working as well as thoughtful. “When the rooms were warm, he’d call…”, shows that although the father would wake up to “blueblack cold” he wanted his son to wake up in comfort. However, the relationship demonstrated in “My Papa’s Waltz” characterised father to create a possibly abusive relationship as well as very toxic household. “I hung on like death” gives an example of how the “waltzing” was not fun for the child.

The tone of the poem changes as the poem progresses. The poem begins with energetic language like “full of heroic tales” and “by a mere swing to his shoulder”. The composer also uses hyperboles like “My father began as a god” and “lifted me to heaven”. The use of this positive language indicates to the responder that the composer is longing for those days – he is nostalgic. It also highlights the perspective of a typical child. The language used in the middle of the poem is highly critical of his father: “A foolish small old man”. This highlights the perspective of a typical teenager and signifies that they have generally conflicting views. The language used in the last section of the poem is more loving and emotional than the rest: “...revealing virtues such as honesty, generosity, integrity”. This draws attention to a mature adult’s perspective.

The sonnet begins by awkwardly detailing how the persona arrives at some location. He recounts: “I get there early and I find a chair.” Rather than describing any details about the event, the audience is only presented with two seemingly trivial details. Nonetheless, it is evident that this speaker is out of place from the beginning. It is socially unacceptable to get to parties early and antisocially slump down in a chair. More conventionally, partygoers arrive “fashionably late” and spend the evening mingling. From the instant this disparity in what is expected is recognized, the mood of the poem remains combative with the reader; provoking a uneasy and repulsive feeling regarding the speaker’s behavior. The first stanza continues with clumsy and elaborate depictions like

In Sonnet XX, the author reveals to the readers that he has a new found love but he finds difficulty in pursuing it. The reader sees the battle the speaker takes on as he contemplates what he should do. The author’s use of personification, conflict, and various poetic devices all come together to show how society can trigger the struggle one faces trying to accept the fact that they cannot be with the person they love. Within the Sonnet, personification is used to bring nature to life and show how she created this human the speaker desires but he cannot have because of societal standards.

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.

This sonnet serves to invoke a strong sense of realism in love, arguing that as strong an intensity of emotion as may be held, may be held, without the need for delusions of grandeur, taking the view that trying to reconcile two essentially different and diverse things as equal is to do true justice to neither. The beloved in this case thus represents more the need for a character developed to challenge stereotype than an actual real-life woman,

In order to describe the nature of the world, the lyrical subject of the sonnet uses dark and negative metaphors, which present the world as a "painted veil" (l. 1) and as a "gloomy scene" (l. 13). This symbol of

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.

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

This sonnet initially appealed to me because I really liked the metaphors and figurative language, later on, when I started to think about the deeper meaning of the sonnet, I was interested in how Shakespeare chose to convey his understanding of time’s relationship to humanity through the metaphors that initially drew me in. The central theme of the sonnet is how time gives the gift of life; however, as it moves forward and time takes back the gift of life no one is able to escape the ultimate end, which is death. Instead of using a singular central metaphor to express his ideas, Shakespeare changes time into a wave, a child and a killer, through similes, metaphors, and personification, to illustrate his interpretation of time’s effect on humanity.

A master of Southern gothic poetry and novels, Carson McCullers was born and raised in Columbus, Georgia. Eventually moving to New York City, she pursued writing at both Columbia and New York University, studying under some of the most influential literature teachers in her time. Writing was a pastime that she acquired during a sickness that was eventually diagnosed properly as rheumatic fever. Soon after, she fell in love with Reeves McCullers; however, after both struggled with their sexuality, they divorced. Because of this struggle that she held within, many of her poems and books are about the difficulties of love. And, her poem “Saraband” is a perfect example of this. A nontypical name, “Saraband” employs the imagery of a triple-time