Elegiac couplet

The pattern of rhyming couplets continues throughout the lay maintaining the sing-song feel and allowing the reader to follow the lines easily. Furthermore, the lyrical rhyme provides a counterpoint to the horrific imagery presented in the excerpt. The author shows this in the rhyming couplet, “Sum stode withouten hade, / And sum non armes nade” (391-392). While describing people with missing heads and other…

in his time, and should be adjusted accordingly. In The Rape of the Lock, Pope transforms heroism to fit his society by using the form of a heroic couplet to juxtapose the serious with the trivial. Pope’s competitive emulation with his muse John Milton kick started his alteration of the heroic epic; comparing The Rape…

Agaha Shahid Ali’s The Country Without a Post Office stems from the 1990s Kashmir uprising against India, which led to violence and political turmoil in the region for a long time, and closed its post offices for seven months. Ali creates a loose narrative harmonizing with the central themes through repeating images and phrases, and constantly revisiting the flora and fauna of Kashmir. Divided into five sections, each with a small number of poems followed by a few notes, the poems present a…

know what do with his feelings. He uses the oxymoron ‘pulse failing’ to symbolize life and death (Drayton, 1593). Indirectly that could symbolize hope, as he is hoping that his long-lost love is still alive. The last two stanzas are a heroic couplet, a couplet or rhyming iambic pentameters forming a rhythmical unit. The significance of the two extra words, ‘over’ and ‘recover’, emphasize that the relationship is over, but he still has hope that his love will recover from death. The words ‘over’…

Throughout Smith’s elegiac sonnet, the speaker employs a wide variety of rhymes in order to demonstrate her growing anger and sadness towards her poetic abilities. Because Smith’s work follows the structure of a traditional English sonnet, end rhymes are employed at the close of each line. Thus, the last word of the first line rhymes with the last word of the third line, the last word of the second line rhymes with the last word of the fourth line, so on and so forth. In the opening quatrain,…

1,4 and 29,32 are elegiac couplets. He alouds to Christianity in 31,32. He uses his pastoral tone in…

mortal weaknesses, and its transcendental aspirations.” (Romanticism, 75). Charlotte Smith, on the other hand, emphasises the beauty of nature, pointing out though that that beauty will rebirth with each coming spring. “The entire collection of Elegiac Sonnets reflects her sadness: the beauty of the flowers closely observed gives way to her loss of happiness and the certainty of no second spring.” (Selected Poems, 67). Because of this, Smith's poem Sonnet Written at the Close of Spring, has…

The writings of Abigail Adams and Phillis Wheatley touched the lives and hearts of many Americans in the Puritan era. Both these authors experienced influences which shaped their writing styles. They were able to create wonderfully crafted works which resonated with society. Many people felt connected to these women because of their truth and vigor. Through their differing influences, Phillis Wheatley and Abigail Adams created writings that are similar and different from one another based on…

From Spoken Words to Written Works Since the dawns of civilizations, people have used literature not only to express their feelings and their imagination but also to narrate what happened on their surroundings. During the medieval period there was a sudden rebirth of literature. Spoken legends orally composed were transformed into written poems and hymns. New writing styles were introduced by those poets and scholars who traveled with the Crusaders – people who went on expeditions for the…

As one of the most prominent literary figures of the early seventeenth century, John Donne has engendered widely differing views regarding the merits of his work. His reputation stands on two distinct accomplishments: the witty, sensual love poetry of his early career and the serious, devout religious writing of his later career as the Dean of St. Paul 's. Donne 's poetry was influential enough to be considered the basis of the metaphysical school of poetry, as characterized by later writers…