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In the same way a negative word “absence” is given presence and magnitude by comparison to “savage force” and “gentleness”, by opposition, enforces the effect of “earthquake tremor”. Jennings’ control by five-lined stanza, an almost exact rhyme scheme one feminine rhyme in the first stanza and one half rhyme: “force” and “grass” in the last breaks the totality, lines of ten syllables the feminine rhymes toppling into eleven, makes the “earthquake tremor” the more forceful, the pressure of…

Every day, we hear the term ‘love’ in several different situations. So, what is love? According to Shakespeare, in sonnet 116 - The first quatrain describes love as an unchangeable force in the lines “Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration find, / Or bends with the remover to remove: / O no! it is an ever-fixed mark.” Shakespeare enforces how true love always perseveres, no matter what it’s up against by using the metaphor, “That looks on tempests and is never shaken” in the second…

Everything Fades, Especially Love William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116, Let me not to the marriage of true minds, conveys the idea that love is unending and only flourishes as time passes. Andrew Marvell’s poem, To His Coy Mistress, expresses the idea that there is not enough time to love emotionally and that you cannot waste time waiting for an emotional love. The love that Shakespeare desires is emotional love while the love that Marvell longs for is not true love, it is physical love. Both, in…

A poem has many different ingredients, and like Chef Remy in Ratatouille, a poet has to gracefully blend these different elements of poetry together. Together, these create the different dimensions and aspects that a poem consists of. Each individual element of poetry plays a significant role and brings something unique to the poem, impacting the reader in a certain way. Some elements serve the purpose of conveying a more vivid picture to the reader while others create a different effect, such…

easy to understand and it helps us to see the images clearly, unconfident, he does not be courageous to confess that he loves her, and daydreaming, it was his subconscious told him that he was falling in love with her at first sight. Next, the rhyme scheme of this poem is ABABCDCD from the first stanza, EFEFGHGH from the second stanza, and IJIJKLKL from the last stanza. Then, the setting of this poem is under the tree or inside his farm. Therefore, the theme of this poem is love at first sight.…

Figurative language is the words or phrases that are different from the literal interpretation of the words. Cleanth Brooks argues that the paradox is the foundation of figurative language within poetry. A paradox is often contradictory language that requires further discovery to understand the meaning. Brooks examines multiple poems from his book “The Well Wrought Urn”. He examines Donne’s “The Canonization” which is a paradoxical poem that makes the act of death in love as true life. I aim to…

‘Sailing to Byzantium’ is first published in 1928 as part of Yeast’s collection and it contains four stanzas. The poem ‘sailing to Byzantium’ is mainly about different between art and ordinary life. In the poem poet transform himself into work of art and he explores his thought and musing on how immortality art and the human spirit may converge. The poem ‘Sailing to Byzantium’in particular is its rich symbolism. Symbols are essentially words which are not merely connotative but also suggestive,…

Dark Beauty in Shakespeare’s Sonnets Sonnet is a poetry form that has lived its golden years in England during the Elizabethan times. Among them, Shakespeare’s 154 have been poetry lovers’ favourite for centuries. What is essentially done in those sonnets is, of course nothing other than praising love, particular lovers to be exact, and their beauty. However, in some particular sonnets, Shakespeare challenges the conventional beauty standards of his time, which was “fair (white) skin, rosy…

Rumi and Love Rumi illustrates the different ways that we should love in each of his poetry. In "A King Dressed as a Servant", Rumi says that we need to wait for love to come to us, and that there is more than meets the eye when it comes to love. In "Any Sprig of an Herb", he tells us to be appreciative, to tame our ego, and that we should not be afraid to blunder in love. In "Split the Shack", Rumi says to surmount the sense of self-preservation, to give our entirety and not fragments, and…

While Anne Sexton and Robert Fagles were both inspired by the Van Gogh painting The Starry Night, they execute their ideas into two similar yet very different poems. Primarily, despite the fact that both poems are named after the same painting, the subject, their experiences, and the speaker of each poem are different. Additionally, both poets stimulate the reader’s senses through different images to evoke a similar gloomy atmosphere and convey the theme of death and madness. Thus, Sexton and…