Essays on Poems

historical imaginings have been used for centuries to tell moral lessons, stories of love and tragedy, and offer fantasy and magic in return. John Keats, Alfred Tennyson, and Christina Rossetti all managed to incorporate legend or fantasy into their poems in way in which they can be used as further insight into the authors’ ideologies and personal desires. In “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, “The Lady of Shalott”, and “Goblin Market” all use legend, myth and historical imagination to describe the authors’ ideas

used in Shakespeare’s assigned sonnets, Herrick’s “To the Virgins,” and Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress.” Although their images differ, what do all these poets seem to be saying about time? Be specific when referring to the poems. The imagery is very different, but all of the poems and poets seem to be saying time is important in life. In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 he says, “And every fair from fair sometime declines,” when explaining the inevitable decline in appearance of his friend (Line 7). In Shakespeare’s

their reader’s head in order to bring a story to life. William Shakespeare was nowhere shy of doing these things. He compared aspects of life such as love, time, nature, death and even sickness to each other to create themes and importance to his poems. Many of them show strong feelings which showed the strong passion he had for writing. His passion carries along today because it painted a picture for new writers to create works that would change literature and views of life altogether. What made

In Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, the relationship in lines 1-8 between the young man’s “loveliness” and “temperateness” when compared to a “summer’s day” can be connected through the times of the Elizabethan. When Shakespeare wrote his sonnet it was very common to write with the theme of love and often weather used to create moods. In this Sonnet, Shakespeare happens to be talking about a young man of great beauty and promising expression and affection. In this sonnet, he first uses the word “loveliness”

Sonnets:  The Power of Love           The majority of Elizabethan sonnets reflect two major themes: time and love. William Shakespeare, too, followed this convention, producing 154 sonnets, many of which deal with the usual theme of love. Because the concept of love is in itself so immense, Shakespeare found several ways to capture the essence of his passion. Therefore, in his poetry he explored various methods and used them to describe the emotions associated with his love for a mysterious

Shakespeare’s sonnets of 14 lines, are written in iambic pentameter, five metrical feet to a line, each foot having one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, with three quatrains and rhymed couplet scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. Often the beginning of the third quatrain marks the line in which the mood turns, and the poet expresses a revelation or epiphany. Shakespeare in his unique way, wrote Sonnet 99 with fifteen lines, Sonnet 126 has six couplets and two blank lines marked with

Sonnet 29 1. In the introductory clause of the sonnet, the speaker makes it clear that he envies those with “hope.” By this, the speaker means that he resents those who have a clear, bright future ahead of them, a future made possible by the qualities he goes on to describe. These qualities are friendships, skill in art, and power (lines 6-7), and the speaker makes it clear that he envies these people by explicitly stating that he desires what they have. 2. The turn of the sonnet

The “Poem of Standards,” written by an anonymous teenager is a poem that conveys many messages that can be related to various readers. It is very straightforward going through the life of the narrator as he faces the challenges of life and experiences the consequences that result from them. It is written in a way that it can be reached to many audiences with different personalities. In this poem, the anonymous author uses foreshadowing, personification, and situational irony to suggest that the

Nettles This poem is an account of the day the poet’s son got stung when he fell into a bed of nettles and his reaction to that. It shows the poets paternal instincts and his sense of duty to protect his young son. This poem is a singular paragraph, flowing organically and its lack of punctuation and multiple run on sentences which show us that’s it's the poets chain of thoughts. At the first glance, the poem seems simple, however as you analyze it many of its layers are uncovered. The

fuel? Reginald Gibbons uses stimulating imagery, and metaphors in his poem, “Wood”, to illustrate the difficult task of chopping wood through a first-person perspective, but upon further inspection, the poem describes the need to have more than what is necessary and the different thoughts and feelings the unnamed character has during this repetitive labor. Right away, I noticed the large amount of imagery that was used in this poem "A cylinder of maple / set in place, feet spread apart— / and the heavy