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How do Browning and Villay use language to express strong emotion about Love? Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnet 43” and Edna St Vincent Millay’s “Sonnet 29” show that love is a life-changing force in a person’s life, and how they are affected differently by Cupid’s arrow. Browning has a sensuous experience of love whereas it has impacted Millay adversely. This essay explores how the twopoets use the sonnet form, imagery and tone to express their contrasting feelings of love. The sonnet…

and man-made objects present in an urban setting rather than on a peaceful unaltered state of nature. Written in iambic pentameter, Wordsworth separates the poem into an octet through which he introduces the view from the Westminister Bridge and a sestet in which he compares the city…

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…

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. The poem divides into three stanzas, each six lines, with an ababcc rhyme scheme. Though a few of the lines in each stanza are enjambed,…

deals with the torment of having to watch a loved one depart for war with the speaker drinking in every last detail of their final meeting in case it would be their last. The sorrowful love sonnet is written in the Shakespearian style by dividing the sestet into a quatrain and final couplet. The first stanza reflects her love who “must shortly go” (1) bringing the focus to English society during the “bloodshot years” (2) of where an entire generation of young men was lost to the war effort.…

art more lovely and more temperate:”(1-2). In contrast to his beloved in being mild/constant and beautiful, he continues in his octave to describe summer as season with that brings unpleasant extremes of windiness and heat. But near the end in his sestets, Sonnet 18 takes a…

“To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.” All sonnets follow one form and style but it is the result of emotional pain, personal values, state of mind and rational actions that separate and differ one sonnet poem from another. Sonnets were first introduced to the world in Italy traditionally written as love poems. This particular style of poetry was invented in the early 12th century, by the…

lovers. The line “will turn to me at midnight with a cry,” encompasses powerful imagery as it attempts to bring back the speaker’s sensation among taking the reader to that moment as well. The shift in the sonnet from the opening octave to the closing sestet is indicated by the choice of the word “thus” as a transition word. This is where the poet proceeds to the extended metaphor of comparing herself to a “lonely tree” (9) in winter that can no longer recall “the birds” (10) that have laid on…

In the poem, “For You” by Kim Addonizio, she uses situational irony and personification. Addonizio blends the two elements together to show how much she is in love with him. Adding her syntax and diction, Addonizio draws emphasis to what she is doing for love. To start, Addonizio gives a great descriptive of what she is doing for him. She says, “For you I undress down to the sheaths of my nerves.” Addonizio is telling her lover that, for only him, she will remove her outer layers of…

about the ‘passing bells’ and the rest of the octave describes the various sounds of war, which are substituted for the funeral bells. This includes the ‘monstrous anger of guns’, the rattling of the riffles and the wailing of the shells. The sestet begins by asking where are the candles for the funeral service but goes on to tell us that ‘holy glimmers of goodbyes’ in the eyes of the boy soldiers will have to instead. The funeral cloth placed over the coffin is replaced by…