The Line of Beauty

able to the nature of London and the beauty that lies within through the city’s citizens, streets, and environment and community that London brings upon its people. Through their use of rhetorical devices, William Blake and William Wordsworth were able to illustrate

Petrarch’s works. Petrarch was a man who was in love with a girl name Laura de Noves. He wrote 366 poems about his love for this woman from the year 1327 all the way until 1368. His works were very stereotypical love poems that included lines like, “She ruled in beauty o'er this heart of mine, / A noble lady in a humble home, / And now her time for heavenly bliss has come, / Tis I am mortal proved, and she divine.” Petrarch wrote in such a way to charm a woman, as did many other writers of his time

3 Messages from Tintern (Pages 780-785) The poem, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, by William Wordsworth is a poem that works from the simple to the complex. William Wordsworth is a generation one romantic poet. The poems are meant to be short and brief, but the poem Tintern is quite a bit longer. This poem by Wordsworth was written in 1798, during his second visit to the valley of the River Wye and what’s left of Tintern Abbey, which was once a great medieval church, in Wales. Wordsworth

person has experienced the beauty of summer. In this time of the year, nature is full of life, the weather is at its finest, and the paramount joys of life can be experienced to their fullest. Then the fall comes, the trees turn lovely shades of red and yellow, and the wind offers a nice chill breeze for relief. Unfortunately, seasons change and the beauty that people once experienced vanishes. People focusing only on the material and petty aspects of life, rather than the beauty around them, will let

Beyond Beauty Appearance in today’s society has a significant impact on adolescent girls. Young women are bombarded daily with advertisements of weight loss options such as diets, surgery, and pills. Today’s culture has become overly obsessed with an unrealistic image of what beauty really means. Many works of literature are concerned with this issue as well. Two amazing works of literature that specifically considers this issue are “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy and “Hanging Fire” by Audre Lorde

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 makes the audience feel ashamed and almost embarrassed to be associated with the nature of humans not to acknowledge the beauty that they are surrounded by. Wordsworth is frustrated with the way humans act and ignore the beauty of the natural world around them by acquiring

speaker suggests to the reader the importance of nature. In different ways, each poem views the beauty and innocence of nature without human interaction and the lack of aesthetic pleasantry with human interaction. In turn, the subliminal message to the readers is warning them not to disturb nature when it is in its purest form. Coleridge and Wordsworth both warn the reader about disturbing the beauty of nature; Coleridge shows this through symbolism of animals and personification of nature, while

poems often feature beauty as a motif, their approach to beauty changes throughout time. In the Restoration, William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18: Shall I compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” and Ben Jonson’s A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces feature speakers that attempt to control beauty through their poetry. In the Romantic period, reflecting movements against the Industrial Revolution, William Wordsworth’s “She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways” and Lord Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty” try to understand

love, beauty, and mortality. Out of all the Sonnets, Sonnet 130 is the most significant because Shakespeare mocks the concept of traditional Sonnets. The traditional sonnet were usually love poems or Sonnets that person would show how much they praise someone or thing by exaggerating their beauty through imagery and comparisons. In Sonnet 130, Shakespeare does the complete opposite compared to his peers and compares his mistresses beauty in an unflattering way. He compares her beauty to the

poem “I died for Beauty – but was scarce” by Dickinson, Dickinson writes about two people that have both just died for beauty and truth. One can hear the speakers’ melancholy tone throughout the poem because they are both dead. It is clear that the two people in the poem have died for something and are now laid beside each other. An interesting element that Dickinson uses is juxtaposition in stanza one “I died for Beauty – but was scarce”. Dickinson juxtaposes ideas in this line. The tone of the