Sonnet 18

Emily Dickinson was an amazing writer of the 1800’s and her work is still read today. Emily Dickinson wrote short poems that expressed the speakers emotions and gave you a sense of imagery. In her poems, “If you were coming in the fall” and “You left me” Emily Dickinson expresses love through her writing and uses time and figures of speech to create a new outlook for the reader. These poems have more similarities than differences. Emily Dickinson expresses love differently, buy they both have…

In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poems “A Psalm of life,” and “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls,” they both share a common theme: death. However, they also share a major difference. In “A Psalm of Life,” Longfellow argues that life should not end abruptly at death, whereas in “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls,” he learns to accept death as an inescapable ending to someone’s life. As a young man, Longfellow argues that life is too good to just end in death. In the first two lines of “A Psalm of Life…

A simple reflex, when I saw Dadaist poetry for the first time, was “This is going to be so easy.” There was that voice, which most often haunts those visiting museums for modern art, whispering into my mind’s ear: “Psh, You could’ve done that, where’s the art in that.” Now, I technically know that that is not true, as we have been taught time and again in various institutions that art is a many-splendoured thing, but occasionally that derisive voice still pops into my brain. When Damian Hirst…

In the poem she writes about the issue that time, in the narrator 's view, does not heal the pain felt from the death of a loved one. The narrator in the sonnet feels that people have lied in saying that time heals all. The narrator in the poem communicates that she misses her husband tremendously and that she misses him in "the weeping of the rain; " (3). She misses him as she continues to experience many…

What does love got to do with it? Tina Turner’s iconic lyrics has continued to phrase this question to various generations, leading one to wonder how Petrarch would have answered them. For him, it appears love was the basis of everything, including life and work. Petrarch immortalized the convention of love in poetry through his vivid imagery and stunning depictions of beauty. Through his poems, he takes the reader on a journey in which they truly feel his passion for the elusive Laura and…

of Love: “Sonnet 130” Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130” is a powerful poem that describes love as something based off of more than mere beauty. The poem depicts the speaker pointing out the many imperfections of his mistress. This is a far cry from the ideal women many poets depict. An English or Shakespearean sonnet consists of fourteen lines “composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg” (“Shakespearean sonnet”). In “Sonnet 130,”…

Daniel Bailey is most notably known for his first published collection of poems, “The Drunk Sonnets”, which was composed of 53 sonnets that Bailey wrote while completely intoxicated. In truth, it can’t be proven that he was actually plastered, but he was at least using his best “drunkface”. The Drunk Sonnets were a part of a small genre of poetry affectionately called Drunk Poetry, and all of the authors in this particular genre happened to be restricted to Daniel Bailey’s immediate friend…

Sixteenth century poet John Donne author of the Holy Sonnet Fourteen; ‘Batter my Heart’ is known as the founder of the Metaphysical Poets a term used to refer to 17th-century English writers whose work was characterized by the inventive use of conceits, and by a greater emphasis on the spoken rather than lyrical quality of their verse. Donne adopts Petrarchan sonnet form for the majority of this poem which aids the seamless fluidity of this sonnet. Donne’s Religious poetry demonstrates turning…

“It’s not you, it’s me”: Literary devices and imagery in Millay’s “Love is Not all” Poems are able to express a tremendous amount of meaning within a minimal amount of words. In the poem “Love is Not all” there is a plethora of different literary devices that model specific interpretations. The structural setup, metaphors, personification, diction, and imagery create the theme and tone of the poem. The theme and tone are concerning the consequences of love leaving a bitter, longing tone. The…

The sonnet, Whoso List to Hunt, by Sir Thomas Wyatt, describes the act of chasing after unrequited love. This poem illustrates this chase through the narrator’s experience of chasing after a female deer. Specifically, the poet describes the narrator’s perspective in the first line “Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind.” This line creates the image of a man asking which people in the audience enjoys the chase for love. In addition to this question, the man reveals information to the select…