Holy Sonnets

Furthermore, “the blood of innocence” can be linked back to the “one blood made of two” mentioned in the first stanza. The blood in the first stanza is formed through a ritualistic bonding between the voice of the speaker and his subject and reflects holy imagery of perhaps Jesus Christ’s blood being represented in wine. The wine is offered to everyone at Jesus’ table has a piece of Jesus with them, and in the same way, the voice of the speaker is using the same type of tactic to “woo” and lady…

Guilt is the driving force of life for the husband of Dorcas Bourne. On the other end of the spectrum, love seeps out of everything act and notion said by Dorcas. As depicted in the short story, Roger Malvin’s Burial, Nathaniel Hawethorne utilizes the virtuous character of Dorcas in the last few pages to intensify the horrific, sacrificial death of her son. First, to start the scene, Hawethorne has Dorcas spreading out a “snow-white cloth” on a tree for dinner {73}. These specific words allude…

Sonnet 10 by Donne and “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” by Dylan Thomas has several contrasting characteristics; in addition, they also share some common traits. Beginning with the contrasting traits between the two poems, Donne wrote Sonnet 10, and it’s classified as a Petrarchan sonnet because it has an octet and a sestet. Moreover, this particular poem has a rhyme scheme of ABBAABBACDCDEE. Donne’s claim throughout the poem is his belief that Death should not sense a feeling of pride…

Robin Coste Lewis’ poem “From: To:” is English sonnet with 14 lines divided into quatrains and ending with two couplets. Lewis eschews the conventional rhyme scheme of the English sonnet and instead favors the use of enjambments to add nuance to the poem. The speaker of the poem is a narrator because they describe a marginalized group of people who are given temporary permission to have a voice. This is done through the use of poetic devices, imagery, and allusions to past outrages in order to…

‘parting’, ‘parted’ and ‘last’. Drayton’s, Byron’s and Landon’s poems are elegies about the loss of a loved one, this can be seen through the use of solace language in each which is going to be elucidated. Drayton uses the format of a Shakespearian Sonnet in iambic pentameter with an ‘AB’ structure throughout, apart from the closing heroic couplets at the end of the sestet. This synthesises the poem to flow, which is ironic due to the complexity of the poets feelings…

Sonnet XIX is written by John Milton. John loved to read and write. In his midlife John slowly began to lose his beloved sight. John’s sight was his open door to god and the world. Milton’s message is to let the reader know that you can cope with misfortunes by serving god. Milton has a very hard time accepting his new life as a blind man. He often goes back in time wishing he had used his sight to its full potential. He…

My first semester of senior year has been a very stressful ride full of learning and new experiences. I look forward to what second semester has in store for me and even more importantly, my first year at college. My skills have grown in areas of reading, writing, discussion, and mental processing. QUOTATION One of my favorite authors that I learned about in first semester was Queen Elizabeth I. History is my favorite subject so of course I knew about her beforehand; however, I did not know…

Have you ever experienced slam poetry and actually liked it? The Mayhem Poets are a small impact towards everyone around us. They perform using movements, staging, and sound effects with experienced of their performance around the world. Spoken words where a huge impact towards this kind of poetry talk. While, the mayhem poets used free verse most of the time, they had a mixture of rap, style, rhyme, and rhythm. The rhythm of the Mayhem Poets had a mixture with the combination of elements.…

As one of Emily Dickinson’s few poems that were published during her life, “I taste a liquor never brewed” explores the complexity of nature and its intoxicating power. Dickinson employs an extended metaphor of drunkenness to convey the captivation that the beauty of nature provides (“Overview”). Written in alternating verses of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, four quatrains comprise the entirety of this lyrical poem. All of the verses follow this pattern with the exception of verse 15:…

Poetry, like all forms of art, matters because the meaning portrayed in poems can affect the reader by fueling their actions and understanding of society. Whether it is a love poem or politically-charged poem, the audience has some sort of reaction. In the sense of love, poetry helps us as a society express emotions better. Other emotions expressed in poems that helps us sympathize with others includes depression, happiness, anger, etc. Having a mutual expression affects our development as…