Thinking About Death: Literally Analysis of Unholy Sonnet “Eight” Mark Jarman, in the poem eight of “unholy sonnets,” tries to provide a metaphysical and philosophical explanation to death. In this poem, the rhyme of the form ABAB CDCD EFEF GG (divided in three quatrains and a couple) makes it Shakespearean sonnet. As a Shakespearean sonnet, one would think that it is focused on love, but instead, it is focused on how human curiosity tries to explain death. In the first quatrain, Jarman looks for a metaphysical explanation of the death. Also, this stanza reveals that the nature of the poem is not scientific, but metaphysical, because light is not a force as it says. The next two quatrains talk about how the author has a great curiosity about
