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    Audit is a poem written by editor, translator, fiction writer, and poet Tony Barnstone. He has written a collection of varied and unique poems, from topics of the Second World War to a poetry book based on material in classic pulp fiction and B-movies. Barnstone has won numerous awards and literary competitions for his diverse work, including the Pushcart Prize in Poetry and the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry. This poem offers an interesting take on relationships and love and its relation to the world

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    considered a sonnet, “Design” does not express the true nature of a sonnet’s meaning. In contrast of pleasing or inspiring, it is unexpectedly doubtful. Frost made changes to the typical sonnet form. He made his own design. Primarily, the usual pattern of a question in the octave followed by an answer in the sestet, is reversed in this situation. The octave in the poem is an observation, and the successive sestet is a question. Additionally, Frost made changes to the usual rhyme scheme of a sonnet; the "cdecde"

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    considered a sonnet, “Design” does not express the true nature of a sonnet’s meaning. In contrast of pleasing or inspiring, it is unexpectedly doubtful. Frost made changes to the typical sonnet form. He made his own design. Primarily, the usual pattern of a question in the octave followed by an answer in the sestet, is reversed in this situation. The octave in the poem is an observation, and the successive sestet is a question. Additionally, Frost made changes to the usual rhyme scheme of a sonnet; the "cdecde"

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    all it has to offer. In this Italian sonnet, the narrator, who is Wordsworth himself, is standing on a grassy area overlooking the sea while wishing he could see the glory of nature which humanity has chosen to disregard. He also expresses the frustration that he has towards all of humanity for choosing to neglect the raw beauty and joy that nature has to offer by destroying its beauty with material objects. The language that Wordsworth uses in this Italian sonnet engenders a feeling of depression that

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    Scansion and Analysis In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX),” the poem’s writer originally discredits the value of love, claiming that it is not essential because it does not support life; however, later Millay describes that love has some value. "Love Is Not All" is a Italian or Petrarchan sonnet, with fourteen lines of rhymed iambic pentameter. It has one stanza and it uses the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet with three quatrains and a couplet. Each line contains between

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    The topic I am choosing for the project is sonnets, with a focus on John Keats. I think that sonnets fit into the focus of this seminar because they are a form of a lyric. Like we learned in Jackson’s “Lyric” article, “"the early modern sonnet becomes the semi-official vehicle of contemporaneous lyric, and both theory and commentary respond to it as a given.” It also talks about the Romantic period was when “the lyric became a transcendent genre by remaining an idea that could blur the differences

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    Name-Chiagozie Harry Okeke Course-ENGL 200 Instructor-Prof.Scott. Maisano Date-10-20-15 (Revised Essay) Marriage of Love (Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare) ‘’Love is not love,’’ alters when it alteration finds,’’ or bends with the remover to remove’’ the first phrase ‘’Love is not love,’’ alter when it alteration finds, simply means that love is not love when it continues to change even when one person has noticed that their beloved has changed. However, If one

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    John Donne’s poem, “Death Be Not Proud” (1633), is only one of the impressive poems in his collection: The Holy Sonnets. In “Death Be Not Proud”, Donne expresses his Anglican beliefs as he addresses death’s fraudulent image and unjustified pride. Donne’s audience is death, but his poem is also intended for its readers, who “some have called [death] / Mighty and dreadful” (1-2). He begins the poem with a calm, conversational tone, but becomes more aggressive and expositive as his poem progresses.

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    was written. Leda and the Swan is written as a sonnet. The particular type used by Yeats is referred to as a Petrarchan sonnet; a sonnet is defined as “…a fourteen-lined poem divided into unequal parts.” (“Kennedy, X J, and Dana Gioia.”). There are multiple types of sonnets, such as Italian sonnet, English sonnet, etc. Yeats was very creative in the sense that he starts out with an English style sonnet and then switches to an Italian style sonnet as the poem develops. The general rhyming scheme

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    In the modern view of long-distance relationships, many immediately assume that the pairing will ultimately result in failure, with an eventual lack of love leading to a broken ending. This belief has largely existed throughout history, with multiple unions dissolved due to one spouse physically departing from the other. However, in John Donne’s Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, Donne presents a speaker in 1612 giving a farewell address to his lover to soothe her worries, emphasizing that the strength

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