A sonnet of fourteen lines divided between three quatrains and an ending couplet, "To India My Native Land" is a song of love and deep emotion from Henry Louis Vivian Derozio to his "fallen country," India. The poem was published before Derozio's untimely death at the age of twenty-two from cholera in 1831. The abab abcc dede ff rhyme scheme employed by Derozio is most clearly identifiable as a variation of Edmund Spenser's Amoretti rhyme scheme. In Derozio's, there is Spenserian concatenation
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Poetic Forms Writing about Form Focusing on effects and purpose of structure / progression, rhyme and rhythm ! CONTEXT OF ‘BRIGHT STAR’ Addressed to a star, the sonnet asks its constancy and timelessness (‘stedfast’, ‘sleepless’). It is not isolation that the speaker yearns for, where the star passively watches the ‘moving waters’ or gaze upon the ‘snow upon the mountains and the moors’ like a priest or hermit. Instead, the speaker longs for an eternity with his lover, to ‘feel’ her ‘ripening
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terms of form, structure and language Both writers use the sonnet form to explore the feeling of unrequited love. They both use powerful imagery in order to express the complexity of love and other complex emotions. They both reach similar conclusions in regards to realising that their love isn’t returned by the object of their affection. However, Spenser seems to be more assured and accepting of this fact because he ends his sonnet with a perfect rhyme. On the contrary, Howard ends his poem with
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The relationship of love and erotic in Man'yōshū were represented by poems which described many different feelings and various fates of many people. Those authors of poems described their own experience and their own moods. Poems drew a mixed picture of love. Man'yōshū is the oldest Japanese collection of poetry. In this collection, poems are written by various authors which also made this collection of poems has a wide range of works. Love as a theme of the poems actually took a very important place
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One’s view of poetry is extremely personal. With over fifty-five different formal styles of poetry to choose from (Kennedy & Gioia 681-717) no two individual’s tastes will coincide, the same can be said for poets. No one will argue that Walt Whitman and Herman Melville have vastly different techniques for chronicling the events they experienced. This is especially true for the author’s interpretations of events leading up to, throughout, and after the American Civil War. Although they approached
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A love sonnet to Jesus crucified is a dear expression of true and pure love for our savior,Jesus Christ.This sonnet portrays the author's intimate love and relationship with Jesus.The poem was originally written in Spanish and has been translated the best possible into English.Although it is believed that the entire beauty of the poem was unable to be interpreted into a language other than its original dialect,The poem is an ideal masterpiece that can be associated and reflected on during the time
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the narrator’s heartbreak through his complex attitude of being distressed throughout this Shakespearean sonnet by using diction and imagery. Although, heartbreak is such a universal topic, Gascoigne is able to capture the feeling of still loving a woman, but refusing to even look at her due not wanting to become hurt by her a second time. This poem would be considered a Shakespearean sonnet because it is made up of 14 lines which contain quatrains and a couplet. The quatrains illustrate the problem
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The two poems, “ To Sir John Lade, on His Coming of Age” and “ When I Was One-and-Twenty” both explore the blissfulness of turning twenty one as well as the dangers that come with making your own mistakes. The two poems compare in that they both head warning signs about being an adult and about how being twenty one allows a person to be foolish. The two poems contrast in the sense that they both have different points of view and differ in tone towards coming of age and of being twenty one. The two
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Coming of Age “Back When All Was Continuous Chuckles” is a seven four-line stanza poem by Colette Inez who describes a speaker reminiscing about her childhood days when life was ideal. Although, now old enough to understand life’s somber situations she now looks back in time realizing her actions toward everything were not so funny after all. Similar to Gwendolyn Brooks poem, “We Real Cool”, a short couplet poem of five two-line stanzas, spoken from the narrator’s point of view, is about youngsters
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The poem compares two terms used vastly in the art and common world. The terms naked and nude have polar opposite meanings in society, but it is debatable if they actually should. The speaker writes this poem on his behalf and expresses his opinions over this delicate controversy. After disclosing each term meticulously, the speaker comes to the conclusion that death will come to both naked and nude, so it is not compelling to declare a correct term. First of all, the speaker utilizes diction that
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