Couplet

Poems pertaining to the future commonly relate to the fear, anticipation, or joy that comes from thinking of the future. In “After Us” (2011) by Nikola Madzirov the author is content with the future and accepts that as time changes so will people’s ways of life and understanding of the past. However, in the poem, “Oh could I raise the darken’d veil” (1820) by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the future is perceived to be frightening and unwanted. Madzirov and Hawthorne convey their different views of the…

sequence that Pamphilia explores, “the issues of self-knowledge” (Moore 109). This is what Pamphilia is doing in the volta. The final couplet, “If trees and leaves, for absence, mourners be/ No marvel that I grieve, who like want see” (Wroth 14-15) explains that after all her grieving in the earlier quatrains she is led to finally accept her situation. The couplet is very reflective in that it explains the idea that if nature can grieve the absence of its leaves, then the speaker may also grieve…

The couplet is answering to death, and the answer is short and curt. This does not give much to death and shows yet again how Donne in this sonnet does not let death’s ego be inflated. Death is only given the short answer which is like the time it takes death…

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…

“Echo,” a poem by Christina Rossetti, reveals the universal longing for a loved one departed and the nature of one’s thoughts as they echo without a person on the other end to respond. The speaker in the poem, perhaps a woman, appears to have lost her lover to some kind of death. She wishes to be reunited with her lover, either in dreams, or in her own death. The speaker utilizes sestet stanza units, specific meter with metrical variations, and repetition to enact the experience of longing.…

There are many ways in which Shakespeare presents associations in “The Sonnets” and the scenes from “Romeo and Juliet”. A sonnet consists of 14 lines and is usually wrote in the form of an iambic pentameter. Furthermore, it has 3 quatrains and 1 couplet in the end which is very pithy and full of meaning. However, sometimes it has volta which is change in the theme or ideas. It has a rhyme scheme of a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g. As you are reading a sonnet, it sounds as if you are speaking…

identified as an expression of love and although “Those Winter Sundays” describes a love a father shows his children, it shares this commonality. In contrast, “We Real Cool” is broken in four stanzas, each containing a two line couplet. The rhyme is in the middle of the couplet not the end like many traditional poems giving readers a sense of continuity as the poem flows from line to line. As a result, the line never seems to end and the poem maintains a fast pace. Secondly, Hayden utilizes…

Marie J. Howe arranged her arguments in couplets so that if readers don’t agree or like one of her arguments they might agree with the other. She does this to include all of the arguments made by anti-suffragists and to show both sides of every argument that the anti-suffragists make and to poke fun at their silly arguments. My favorite couplet is the couplet in which she states that women are angels but if you don’t like that argument then take the…

last two lines of the poem, priam admits for the first time that, Hector was killed deliberately by the hand of Achilles, which he kisses in the second line to show forgiveness. Longley re-ordered the events of the episode, the event of the final couplet – in fact, was the first in the Iliad. The hut of Achilles was replaced by building in…

John Keats was an English Romantic poet born in 1795 in London. Much of Keats’ work was not well received by critics during his short life. His reputation grew after his death at the age of 25 from tuberculosis. He had a difficult childhood and experienced the loss of most of his family, which probably contributed to his concerns about his own life and mortality. In “When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be,” Keats expresses his fear that he is alone in the world and his young life may be cut…