Let me count the ways.” (Line 1 Sonnet 43) The use of first person, authenticates that both poems are written for a personal response, this however cannot be seen in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ apart from when the characters speak. The use of alliteration in ‘Sonnet 43’, confirms that the poem was written for Browning’s lover. The repetition of “I love thee...” Shows it’s a personal poem for her true love. However, ‘Valentine’ could be interpreted as an open poem to allow the readers to understand the experiences Duffy has faced. The use of “...we are, for as long as we are.” (Line 16 and 17) Shows that Duffy is inviting her readers into the poem to help reflect upon how she feels.
The central meaning of both poems is death should not be feared for there is eternal life after this life. Dickinson chooses to personify death and compare it to how great eternity is to reveal the theme. Donne personifies death to lower it down and show that death has no power. Analyzing the two poems by each stanza or line enables readers to more clearly understand the message the poet is giving. In Dickinson’s poem the first stanza compares dying to taking a carriage ride with a suitor.
One of the documents found is Shakespeare’s will, but there are other documents from later and earlier years that provide further information and evidence that he did exist. The narrative poem “Venus and Adonis” was published by Stratford native Richard Field, with a dedication to the Earl of Southampton signed "William Shakespeare. Another dedication to Shakespeare was the volume “Loves Martyr” by Robert Chester contained short poems written by several well-known poets. One of the poems known as "The Phoenix and the Turtle" is signed "William Shakespeare." The volume was printed by Richard Field, who had printed Shakespeare's two narrative poems.
Rimbaud has had a profound effect on many celebrated poets since his death in late 1891 after being diagnosed with cancer. While The Drunken Boat was written in four-line rhyming stanzas, his writing in his later poetry, Illuminations and A Season in Hell, can be described as “stream of consciousness”—a way of writing poetry that creates long passages of unbroken prose; many of the “beat generation” poets followed his example. The most well known was Jack Kerouak who wrote On the Road, an entire book written without punctuation or pages—all on a single scroll of paper inserted into a typewriter. Other beat poets, such as Allen Ginsberg, were also heavily influenced by Rimbaud. In the last stanza of The Drunken Boat Rimbaud writes, “Nor swim past prison hulks' hateful eyes!” Ginsberg expands on Rimbaud's description of prison when he writes, in the second part of his poem, Howl: “Moloch the incomprehensible prison!
Unknown Darkness To write about things nobody likes to talk about or even mention in real life makes Nathaniel Hawthorne a great poet and a famous one at that. Hawthorne wrote so much about the American Colonies and how they lived their lives, he captured the smallest details of that time. Imagine being a writer in those times trying to find things to write about, in some of his poems you can see what a morbid mind he had, and it’s possibly due to his environment. Some of his Ancestors were direct descendants of Puritan judges. Which might have influenced his all famous “Scarlet Letter” and “The Minister’s Black Veil”, both these poems evoke each readers own personal judgments on human nature.
Poe was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston Massachusetts, but his legacy was cut short, passing at age 40. He was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, best known for his tales of mystery. “He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing
Poe then tried to live off of writing alone, which was extremely difficult to do at that point in time. Over time he married his 13 year old cousin, Virginia Clemm, and went through a variety of jobs such as writing and editing for newspapers of the time, while still doing his own poetry. He released his third and fourth books during this time, The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, which received varied reviews and small success. Over time, Virginia died of tuberculosis, and Poes poetry took a much darker turn. It was during this point in time that Poe wrote poetry such as The Raven, which made Poe extremely popular and was reprinted in several newspapers.
Sonnet 43 • Direct address makes the poem personal • Assonance “depth and breadth • Enjambment “every day’s / most” • Anaphoric “I love thee” • In sonnet 43 the language used is quite religious and there are no puns however there are connotations, the sonnet it implying that love will last forever and love is better after death. There are no double meanings in sonnet 43 • The poem would be spoken in the tone of love and compassion, the tone and the mood would be happy and joyful • A love poem in the form of a sonnet. • It expresses the poet’s intense love for her husband-to-be. So intense is her love for him, she says, that it rises to the spiritual level (lines 3 and 4). She loves him freely, without coercion; she loves him purely, without expectation of personal gain.
Both believe in one ruler over all, both believe in a good place (heaven) and bad place (hell) after death, and both believe in guidance through spiritual leaders(prophets), to name a few. Another reason I believe Natives practices have not been abandon is because their culture is inextricably linked and connected with Mother Earth. The land, the plants, the animals, and all around contain their culture, spirit, and identity; all working together to create a balance of harmony (Page 68). How can a culture’s spiritual identity gets lost when it is rooted into everything living and non-living? Lastly, spirituality was designed without written rules to be edited and manipulated, without limits and boundaries, without segregation and prejudice.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), `The Bard of Avon', English poet and playwright wrote the famous 154 Sonnets and numerous highly successful oft quoted dramatic works including the tragedy of the Prince of Denmark, Hamlet; "Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all: to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!" --Lord Polonius, Hamlet Act I, Scene 3 While Shakespeare caused much controversy, he also earned lavish praise and has profoundly impacted the world over in areas of literature, culture, art, theatre, and film and is considered