28 September 2014
English Studies 178
Second-Semester Poetry Course
JA Scheepers
18403255
Poetry Essay- The Sonnet
SEMESTER ESSAY
English Tutor group 71
@Katherine Morris
Image reference: (Lemes)
ENGLISH SEMESTER ESSAY
A: The Sonnet
“Every mood of mind can be indulged in a sonnet; every kind of reader appealed to. You can make love in a sonnet, you can laugh in a sonnet, you can lament in it, can narrate or describe, can rebuke, can admire, can pray.”
- Leigh Hunt, “An essay On the Desirableness of Cultivating the Sonnet” in The Book of the Sonnet (1867)
Poem: b
“Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) (Browning)
A traditional sonnet of love, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which, …show more content…
He/she cannot present his/her lover with the flowers, like they did, but instead, sets out their love in verse, as if the roots of their love, like the flowers, are embedded in his/her heart. “So, in the like name of that love of ours,/Take back these thoughts which are unfolded too,/”(6-7). This proposes that he/she has been able to realise how deeply embedded their love truly is, from the roots within heart, he/she desires the love, which they once had. The beauty of flowers, and love were present. Now, as time has passed, the words, withdrawn from his/her heart, like plucked flowers from the ground, are unfolded, in words of …show more content…
Where the title suggests he had given her “many flowers” is symbolic to their love, a sign of appreciation from him to her, whereas she has to devote her love through the form of words, possibly revealing a relationship, which was prejudiced by either one of the two lovers. Possibly caused by an argument or a sort of infidelity. The purpose of the metaphor used, is to describe, in a literal action of picking flowers as a symbol of love, to a figuratively proposed way of ‘picking the love’ from deep inside her heart. The speaker communicates with their lover, trying to remind them of their warm
English Studies 178
Second-Semester Poetry Course
JA Scheepers
18403255
Poetry Essay- The Sonnet
SEMESTER ESSAY
English Tutor group 71
@Katherine Morris
Image reference: (Lemes)
ENGLISH SEMESTER ESSAY
A: The Sonnet
“Every mood of mind can be indulged in a sonnet; every kind of reader appealed to. You can make love in a sonnet, you can laugh in a sonnet, you can lament in it, can narrate or describe, can rebuke, can admire, can pray.”
- Leigh Hunt, “An essay On the Desirableness of Cultivating the Sonnet” in The Book of the Sonnet (1867)
Poem: b
“Beloved, thou hast brought me many flowers”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) (Browning)
A traditional sonnet of love, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, which, …show more content…
He/she cannot present his/her lover with the flowers, like they did, but instead, sets out their love in verse, as if the roots of their love, like the flowers, are embedded in his/her heart. “So, in the like name of that love of ours,/Take back these thoughts which are unfolded too,/”(6-7). This proposes that he/she has been able to realise how deeply embedded their love truly is, from the roots within heart, he/she desires the love, which they once had. The beauty of flowers, and love were present. Now, as time has passed, the words, withdrawn from his/her heart, like plucked flowers from the ground, are unfolded, in words of …show more content…
Where the title suggests he had given her “many flowers” is symbolic to their love, a sign of appreciation from him to her, whereas she has to devote her love through the form of words, possibly revealing a relationship, which was prejudiced by either one of the two lovers. Possibly caused by an argument or a sort of infidelity. The purpose of the metaphor used, is to describe, in a literal action of picking flowers as a symbol of love, to a figuratively proposed way of ‘picking the love’ from deep inside her heart. The speaker communicates with their lover, trying to remind them of their warm