Octave

William Wordsworth’s sonnet, “The World Is Too Much with Us” appears in chapter seven of Digging Into Literature in the middle of the discussion about context. On the surface level, the poem might be difficult to interpret because of its direct references and allusions. But a little research on Wordsworth’s background gives clarity to the deeper argument made in the poem. He was an English poet who is credited with being one of the fathers of Romanticism in English Literature during the late…

Amanda Bruner Mr. Kuhn Honors English 12 - E Period 22 September 2014 Awe for Calm In his Petrarchan sonnet “Composed upon Westminister Bridge, September 3, 1802,” William Wordsworth expresses his enthusiasm for the scene of London by explaining its vast beauty brought upon through the stillness of nature in the early morning. Differing from the majority of Wordsworth’s writings, this sonnet initially focuses on the unnatural world consisting of buildings and man-made objects present in an…

A poem exhibiting an extended metaphor clarifies the two objects that are being compared by using figurative language and other writing techniques. “Nature,” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is an example of this type of poem as it compares mother nature and a human mother as caretakers of humanity. Through explicating this poem, it is easy to see the theme that death is inevitable and that nature brings people to rest just as a mother leads her child to bed after a long day; Longfellow uses…

an example of an Italian Sonnet, also known as the Petrarchan sonnet. An Italian Sonnet is a sonnet that includes an octave, eight lines, usually following the rhyming scheme abbaabba. Next, the Italian sonnet transitions into a sextet, six lines, which usually follows the rhyming scheme cdcdcd. The Italian Sonnet has 14 lines, additionally, when the sonnet switches from an octave to a sextet the audience usually experience a change of mood or tone in the poem. Sometimes, the tone…

has an anti-war approach and explains it with shocking imagery. The poem follows a theme of war, patriotism, and propaganda. The poem follows an iambic pentameter with 28 lines and starts out as a double sonnet. The poems have a rhyme scheme of an octave (AB, AB, CD, CD) during the first stanza, but drops this structure and goes solo. The opening stanza jumps right into the action. The description used in the opening stanza has a different approach than The Soldier with the first 2 lines…

about "steps" and "half steps", so let 's define these terms first. You 'll see why later on. There are seven notes in any musical scale. For C Major, this would be A, B, C, D, E, F, G. After the G, the pattern repeats. The 8th note is called an octave. Each individual note along the way is called a tone. Envision the fret board of a guitar. Each fret is a half step, regardless of direction. For this writing, we will abbreviate as follows: 1) When you see "5 / 3", this means 5th string, 3rd…

Rules of the Game by Jean Renoir is a film that depicts members of upper-class French society and their servants prior to the beginning of World War II, showing their moral cruelty on the eve of impending destruction. Rules of the Game gives an insight into the history of France and how the difference in social classes made a vast difference in how one was treated and how one was judged or looked upon. Whether the upper classes did something good or bad most of the time they were looked at with…

format, which consists of an octave and a sestet. The rhyme scheme does lead away from the traditional sonnet form, whereas Millay uses the Shakespearian rhyming scheme instead of the Petrarchan. The speaker of the poem speaks of their feelings of love, however shows an ambivalent attitude towards the topic. The first 6 lines are spent dismissing the idea of love and showing all the ways that it lacks importance. The Volta comes during the last two lines in the octave and it changes the tone of…

up and recognized. In Monteverdi’s “Oime, il bel viso”, he divides the madrigal up into two main sections. These sections are split in the way the sonnet is split. The first part of the section is for the first eight lines, which is called the octave, and the second is the last six lines, which is called sistet. The split is this way because it follows the…

Pythagoras Pythagoras was born in 570 BCE on the island of Samos in Greece. He was the son of Mnesarchos and Pythais. Pythagoras was a Greek mathematician, philosopher, and the founder of the Pythagorean brotherhood. He spent his early years traveling throughout Egypt, learning about mathematics. After his travels, Pythagoras settled in a Greek colony in southern Italy named Croton. Pythagoras founded the Brotherhood of Pythagoreans which was a group dedicated to mathematics. Pythagoras is most…