Sonnet 130

During the point of time when stories were at the beginning of their creation the only means of communicating and transmitting knowledge amongst a world without writing was with human speech. Without the knowledge of writing, the most effective way to preserve the needed details of a story was to create them by using poetry. Taking long narrative poems such as “Beowulf”, “The Odyssey”, and “The Iliad” as examples, one can usually find a hero who has absorbed himself in some sort of action. The…

What is the song about? Two people are having a discussion in the beginning, but leads to the first person to tell the second one where they can find them. That this goodbye isn’t forever but temporary and the place can be reached one way or another. What does the title have to do with the song? The title has more meaning, because it is a re-occurring lyric throughout the song. “Walking in the Wind” is a symbol. The definition of a symbol is “A sign, word, phrase, image, or other object that…

In her poem about the spread of autumn entitled “Field of Autumn” Laurie Lee uses symbolic diction along with the personification of autumn (and those affected) and repetition of the phrase “Slow moves…” in order to create an image of fall slowly arriving which parallels with death. The poem is written as if one had slowed down the moment and wandered around, noticing the effects of the season. In this poem, the diction is symbolic in that autumn is a representation of death. Within the phrase…

Hope is seen through many eyes in different ways. Emily Dickinson sees hope as a thing with feathers. In Dickinson’s poem Hope is the Thing with Feathers hope is a bird. In the first stanza, it feels as if hope is something a person could reach out and touch. The way Dickinson words the stanza makes images and sounds appear. She chooses words that make the poem flow elegantly. The first stanza sets the tone for the whole poem itself. Dickinson chooses a path when writing this poem that projects…

Emily Dickinson’s poems are rich with metaphors, specifically “Where ships of purple gently toss.” She conveys vivid imagery and uses detailed expression throughout. Through description, “Where ships of purple gently toss”, illustrates a beautiful sunset. Metaphors in the poem “Where ships of purple gently toss”, help to establish the meaning of a sunset. The author uses a metaphors containing key words that give indications to this poems allegorical meaning. The words “ships”, “sailors”,…

El día que me quieras (The day that you will love me) is a poem that was later turned into a song as well as the title for a 1935 musical film which starred the legendary tango singer Carlos Gardel, Spanish actress Rosita Moreno and another tango singer named Tito Lusiardo. The film was directed by John Reinhardt, produced by Robert R. Snody and written by the tango lyricist Alfredo Le Pera. The film tells the story of Julio Arguelles, the son of a wealthy Buenos Aires businessman, who wants to…

Poems pertaining to the future commonly relate to the fear, anticipation, or joy that comes from thinking of the future. In “After Us” (2011) by Nikola Madzirov the author is content with the future and accepts that as time changes so will people’s ways of life and understanding of the past. However, in the poem, “Oh could I raise the darken’d veil” (1820) by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the future is perceived to be frightening and unwanted. Madzirov and Hawthorne convey their different views of the…

John Skelton pours out his heart for his love in his poem “To Mistress Isabell Pennell.” He uses abstruse botanical diction to compare the woman to multiple flowers, including “rosabell[s]” (5), “camamell[s]” (6), “rosar[ies]” (7), rosemar[ies]” (8), “violet[s]” (12), and “dais[ies]” (14), to reveal her beauty and character. In addition to the abstruse botanical diction, abstruse theological diction is prevalent as well. He utilizes the theological diction with the words “Saint Mary” (1), “God”…

Response Paper: Sonnets & Shakespeare The word sonnet came from in the Italian word “sonnetto” (Meyer 778) which means “little song”. Sonnets have fourteen lines and are written in iambic pentameter. There are two types of sonnets: Italian, and English sonnet. The Italian version is also known as the Petrarchan. It breaks into two parts and the first part is the octave which is the first eight lines and they rhyme “abbaabba” (Meyer 778). Then the second half and final six lines is the sestet…

Poetry Analysis Essay As far as romanticism and realism go, they are both good to be used throughout a poem and oth can also be used by “Brilliant Mavericks” known as Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Walt Whitman has both romantic and realism to transition between his poems as its shown to be one of his best and helped suit him as a transitional figure. In his poem I Hear America Singing he tells how he loves and shows his compassion but also show how real America can get, as he explains the…