Couplet

“smile” makes it extremely harder for someone to show their real colors. That line is quite contradicting in that it begins with someone being “torn” on the inside and ends with “smile” on the outside to dupe the world. Here it is seen again, the couplet rhyme with “guile” and…

Sir Philip Sydney uses imagery to make the reader feel the pain that one experiences while awake and the urge to sleep. Sydney describes a scenario of metaphorical “fierce darts” being thrown at Astrophel by Despair (6). This invokes a sense of pain in the reader, as well as visual, and kinetic imagery. Sydney appeals to multiple senses in this instance to make the feeling of darts exaggerated, and provides a tone of pain and sorrow. This tone is set for the reader because the reader experiences…

The poetic diction used in your poem appears to be well thought out. However, the phrasing of the lines are awkward. Thus giving the poem a staccato rhythm. I understand some of the phrasing is due to the limitations of the assignment, however, you should consider rephrasing certain lines or changing the rhyme scheme. For example lines three and four “I was perhaps misinformed that day, neglecting even the lizards…” The phrasing of the line seems off. Further on in the poem there is a line that…

Stopping By The Woods On A Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Frost’s “Stopping by Woods” is a classic worshipped for it’s perfect structure of iambic tetrameter and lead rhymes, telling a tale of a horseback traveler trotting through an awe-inspiring wood at night on his way to a destination far away. However, this simple interpretation can be only derived from a first glance of the poem; after constant read through in trying to discover a deeper meaning, complexity is discovered in the story as…

Maya Angelou’s poem, “Harlem Hopscotch,” portrays the feelings of oppression and injustice experienced by the African American population through a game of hopscotch, as they are forced to succumb to the white supremacist societal structure in America. She utilizes devices, such as imagery and sound, to portray the emotions of people of color after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The speaker, who articulates on behalf of African Americans as a whole, maintains the innocence of a child playing a…

1. Sonnet 18 Perhaps one of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, Sonnet 18 presents an idea of permanence, or rather, stability. The speaker begins by asking whether he should or will compare "thee" to a summer day. The speaker says that this “thee” is more lovely and more even-tempered, by listing the cons of summer: winds shake the buds that emerged in Spring, summer ends too quickly, and the sun can get too hot or be obscured by clouds. The speaker goes on to say that everything beautiful…

When a sonnet ends with a rhyming couplet, it is usually used to wrap up the tale as this one summarizes well. If evil has come in to darken the world, was this what god had planed, or is this the design of completely different creator? It 's not just any sort of design though, it is "design…

The poem depicts the speaker pointing out the many imperfections of his mistress. This is a far cry from the ideal women many poets depict. An English or Shakespearean sonnet consists of fourteen lines “composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg” (“Shakespearean sonnet”). In “Sonnet 130,” Shakespeare establishes a shifting tone through the quatrain structure, words that target the senses, and a repetition of words and poem…

When thinking of sonnets,the main themes that are considered are expressing love and unrequited love. Most sonnets compare the person of affection with nature, specifically flora and the sky. Shakespeare, however, chooses to honor his subjects with more abstract comparisons and goes as far as to mock the typical sonnet. Sonnets 18 and 130 are prime examples of Shakespeare’s perception of sonnets commonly written in his time. The mockery is expressed through the form of these sonnets using common…

Shakespeare’s sonnet 110 describes the importance of true love, from a perspective of a person who lost love. The poem is written with iambic pentameter with regretful, yet repentant tone. Along with the shift of the focus, Shakespeare uses melancholic diction, juxtaposition, and connotation to effectively emphasize the regret of letting go of the true love, although it is too late. In the first quatrain, Shakespeare carefully picks words with negative connotation to create the remorseful tone…