Allow me to present to you the poem “November” by Lorna Davis. This beautiful piece uses vivid imagery to describe the desolate and melancholy turn of seasons between October and November. It is a classic Shakespearean sonnet, made up of three quatrains with perfect ABAB rhyme schemes, a volta, and a couplet. The author has really taken advantage of this structure to amplify the messaging by grouping together lines with similar meanings to create poetic rhythm as well as isolating certain parts to allow them to stand out more. If you look at lines 3-6, there is a motif of things deteriorating; the trees “have grayed”, the sunlight is “cold and tired”, and the “fruitful time’s approaching end”.
The agony the writer is feeling about his son 's death, as well as the hint of optimism through planting the tree is powerfully depicted through the devices of diction and imagery throughout the poem. In the first stanza the speaker describes the setting when planting the Sequoia; “Rain blacked the horizon, but cold winds kept it over the Pacific, / And the sky above us stayed the dull gray.” The speaker uses a lexicon of words such as “blackened”, “cold” and “dull gray” which all introduce a harsh and sorrowful tone to the poem. Pathetic fallacy is also used through the imagery of nature;
At the beginning of Sonnet XXIX, the poet reveals that he feels like a complete social outcast, deprived of self-esteem, and beset by many internal conflicts. He also feels fiercely insecure, ashamed, unlucky, and jealous of those people around him, whom he thinks are more friendly, successful and hopeful than him. Besides, the speaker alludes to heaven, for which this makes him kind of a believer of a religion. For example, he claims, "And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries. " In other words, he says that he prays God with meaningless cries, but it seems that nobody in heaven does not want to hear him anymore.
Both poems use the sense of sight and touch greatly. The autumn poems describe the trees similarly. Such as in “Autumn”, Kellum
“Sonnet 89” offers a mature and raw point of view that is not found in “Sonnet 75,” and this helps get across the worldview of immortal love. Furthermore, though the symbols in “Sonnet 75” were well appreciated because they made the poem more complex and interesting, Neruda used every quatrain and tercet to bring to life this endless love he feels for his lover. He adds a form to realism in the way he writes his sonnet, and this in turn, makes the poem much more relatable than “Sonnet
The reason given in the final couplet for the fair lord to forget the poet and not mourn his death appears rather weak: the criticism of others is hardly a reason not to mourn a friend. However, Sonnets 57 and 58, which discuss the speaker's plight while he waits for attention from the fair lord, who prefers to spend time with other people, suggest that the opinion of the world is, in fact, very important to the fair lord. Thus the final couplet of Sonnet 71 can be seen as a bit sarcastic, pointing out the fair lord's shallow nature.
I chose these two sonnets because of the way he uses references to the Gods . I think it’s interesting that he chose them to use as ways of explanation because of the time period that he was in when writing them . At that point in time, I don’t believe that they really believed in Gods so much as they believed in one singular God . At least in England I believe, the major religion was Christianity .
That time of the year is autumn. By comparing himself to autumn, he is saying that he isn’t quite a dying, old man yet, but his health isn’t getting any better. Although his life isn’t the end of winter, it’s not the first week of spring anymore. The branches
Landles states in "An Analysis of Two Poems" that, the poem is about the feeling someone gets when watching a leaf fall and describing loneliness to be like a leaf falling. He also mentions that the way the poem is set up almost looks like the motion of a leaf falling (landles). The letters are separated into small groups and almost looks like they are falling down the page. Furthermore he suggests that, when the readers thinks of falling leaves, they sometimes think of Autumn and associate that with the end of the year or even death (Landles). Additionally, the poem has either the letter “l” or the number “1,” but the reader could not tell which one Cummings meant because years ago when people used typewriters the key for both was the same.
Faisal Mazen Mr. Ali Alshehab English- 10N 30 November 2016 Sonnet 18 Sonnet 18 is a poem written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. William Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon.”
The lilacs are a symbolize perseverance because lilacs die and resurrect in the springtime. The poem is set in the early spring so the lilac trees are just beginning to bloom.
The sonnet was an important part of Renaissance literature. After its invention, by Petrarch in Italy, the beloved poem form spread over Europe (Baldick para 1). Though every country adjusted the strict pattern to their own liking, the main form of the rather short fourteen line poem remained (Baldick para 4). Originally the sonnet was designed as love poems, which would later be elaborated to discuss several themes. Petrarch, as well as later, William Shakespeare and Sir Philip Sidney, wrote their sonnets in sequences.
In Sonnet 71 He is saying that he only wants his love to morn over him when she is at his funeral. And when she reads this he needs her to forget who wrote it and know that he loves her so much that he needs her to move on. That if she holds onto him she will not ever be happy and he needs her to be so the towns people don’t make any more fun of her as much as they already have for loving someone so much older than she is, that she must be blind to have not known this was coming in the first place. In Sonnet 73 it is saying that when you look at him you can see all the seasons whether it is the yellow leaves or the birds singing on the bare branches waiting for the cold to end. You scan see the twilight in the sky as the sun already set and is slowly turning into a dark night which is equivalent to death that closes up on everyone’s everlasting sleep.
An Exegesis of Shakespeare Sonnet 87 In his plays and poems, the Bard fails not to explore all aspects of love – including rejection. Sonnet 87 is a testimony of breaking up, not because of relationship issues, not due to external forces (such as an affair), but because on some social scale in the poet’s eye, the woman is higher up. Yet the sonnet is deliberately ambiguous. As is characteristic of Shakespeare’s writing, a close reading reveals that we can’t tell if he is talking about a too-expensive call girl, or the love of his life.
Each year after summer, a herd of all things new descends upon the planet. New school year, new trees, and new choices are all among this herd of novelty. At the beginning of the poem, Robert Frost references “a yellow wood”. This “suggests that the poem is set in autumn... woods...full of trees that had grown after older ones had been decimated” (Robinson); just as one forest replaces another, there are two choices, and the traveler, only able to make one, decimates the other (Robinson).
