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“It’s not you, it’s me”: Literary devices and imagery in Millay’s “Love is Not all” Poems are able to express a tremendous amount of meaning within a minimal amount of words. In the poem “Love is Not all” there is a plethora of different literary devices that model specific interpretations. The structural setup, metaphors, personification, diction, and imagery create the theme and tone of the poem. The theme and tone are concerning the consequences of love leaving a bitter, longing tone. The…

poems again to create a new form of poem which were presented in plays. A famous poet, whose name is in this period is William Shakespeare and a famous poem of his was “All the World’s a Stage.” In this poem rhyming couplets can be seen and it is in this period where rhyming couplets are formed. Also, the poem tells a story about life in the form of a metaphor which is why the Elizabethan and Shakespearean period is the start of poetic devices being more visible in the…

Death and its Significance in the Works of Shakespeare and A. E. Housman “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A. E. Housman, and “Fear no More the Heat o’ the Sun” by Shakespeare are elegies for youth who died prematurely. Through different versification, these two poems carry unique tones and attitudes. Both Shakespeare and Housman create elegies that soothe the pain of death, but they use different logic to justify their reasoning. Shakespeare juxtaposes extremes to argue that death is apathetic to…

Authors have utilized literary devices in their works from the beginning of time. However, with the advent of the Neoclassical age in 1600’s Britain, the societal virtues of balance, harmony, order, and reason began to receive much more emphasis. The sentiment permeated every area of life, especially concerning literature. Mary Leapor, an English poet and maid working in the 1700’s, exemplifies this new focus and threads many of these elements in her poetry to elevate it to the levels of the…

“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,/A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.” (Romeo and Juliet 1.1.5-6). From the beginning of Romeo and Juliet, we know exactly how the story is going to end: with a double suicide. Nobody is surprised that the theme of this play is death and conflict, and we go about the play having this thought in the back of our minds. However, Act 2, scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet opens with a lengthy monologue by Friar Laurence representing a rhetorical shift…

The three poems I chose to analyze are “To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet, “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes, and “When I Have Fears” by John Keats. In all honesty, I flipped thru the book and read different poems until I found ones I liked and were able to understand the basic concept of the poem. In fact, doing research on the authors gave me a better understanding of their poems, for example Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan and her poems were emotions she could not express…

watch a loved one depart for war with the speaker drinking in every last detail of their final meeting in case it would be their last. The sorrowful love sonnet is written in the Shakespearian style by dividing the sestet into a quatrain and final couplet. The first stanza reflects her love who “must shortly go” (1) bringing the focus to English society during the “bloodshot years” (2) of where an entire generation of young men was lost to the war effort. In the last line of the first stanza…

In Sonnet 11, the poet utilizes several images pertaining to autumn to convey ideas of love. Written in the English, or Shakespearean form, this sonnet contains three quatrains with a couplet at the end. However, unlike traditional English poems, Sonnet 11 does not contain a turn. In essence, Sonnet 11’s expressive purpose is to portray the conditions love must endure to last through the use of parallel thought structures and other various devices. Within the first line of the poem, the poet…

Sasha Maharaj has used a personal tone to convey emotions underlying her feelings about relationships in the poem, “Worthless’’. In this essay, I disclose how poetic devices, diction, syntax and other language functions have been utilized to reveal feelings/emotions of the writer in regard to relationships. Taking into account the title of the poem, one cannot put a figure on what or who is worthless. Nevertheless, it is known that worthless is an adjective; meaning something that has no use or…

In this extract from Shakespeare’s “As you like it”, act 4, scene 3, Rosalind, posing as Ganymede, receives a letter from a love-struck yet scolding Phoebe, delivered by her Petrarchan lover, Silvius. This pivotal scene it is the pinnacle of the disordered society in “As you like it”, due to the topsy-turvy gender dynamics. At the end of this passage, Rosalind instructs Phoebe to marry Silvius, to whom she is better suited, for Silvius loves her, despite her lack of beauty (QUOTE) and he is of…