How to Serve a Floater in Volleyball

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Shakespeare Sonnet 97 draft 2 Grief. Like an eternal winter that never weans. An eternal longing to meet again. And a void in the soul that seems as if it cannot be filled. Shakespeare addresses separation and it's sorrows in sonnet 97. In this sonnet the author’s theme was "separation leaves you like an orphan in winter” This can be seen throughout his whole article. The speaker conveys her sad story through the different seasons. The sonnet takes us on a full, year round journey. It begins with winter and the cold of the winter. And how being separated from the lover is like a bare winter day. And goes on to talk about summer, autumn and spring while consistently connecting it back to the theme. From there, the author takes us back around to winter making it a full revolution of a year. The speaker also compares herself to an orphan and autumn birds to further convey feeling toward the separation on her and her husband. In the first quatrain, the speaker mainly speaks of separation between her and her lover which is compared to winter. This can be seen in the first line which says "How like a winter hath my absence been"(1) which conveys this message on the point that separation is like a winter. She then says "what freezings have I felt, what dark days seen"(3) to convey that every moment away from her lover was a dark day. She incorporates imagery the speaker portrays the “freezings” and “dark days” of winter. Afterward, she pipes in a line that doesn't quite make sense by stating "old December's bareness everywhere!".(4) This line sort of makes sense at first when read, but after further examination, one would ask themselves, why is there a “old” a word to describe a month? The phrase "old December"(4) probably hinted that December and winter had already passed here the word "old" and that in reality, the only winter is that of which is in, her soul. The

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