William Shakespeare Summary and Analysis Sonnet 12 Summary and Analysis Summary Sonnet 12 again speaks of the sterility of bachelorhood and recommends marriage and children as a means of immortality. Additionally, the sonnet gathers the themes of Sonnets 5, 6, and 7 in a restatement of the idea of using procreation to defeat time. Sonnet 12 establishes a parallel way of measuring the passage of time, the passage of nature, and the passage of youth through life — decay. Lines 1 and 2 focus on day becoming night (the passage of time); lines 3 and 4 link nature to humankind, for the poet first evokes a flower's wilting stage (the passage of nature). Then, in line 4, the poet juxtaposes this image with black hair naturally aging and turning gray (the passage of youth) — an allusion perhaps meant to frighten the young man about turning old without having created a child.
Demonstrate Through Close Analysis How Parallels and Oppositions Contribute to the Impact of a Lyric Poem of Your Choice. In 1586 on the eve of execution Chidiock Tichborne wrote a poem dealing with both the event of his death and how he felt about it contrasting with his youthful age. Like many lyrical poems it use’s techniques not only to convey emotions but to create a high impact on the reader. The main technique used to create the impact in this poem is the use of parallels and oppositions. The poem by Chidiock Tichborne is structured into three stanzas.
The siblance slows things down in this stanza as he realises that she isn't there anymore. Also, the siblance brings a haunting effect to the poem as now Emma will always be in his memory and the fact that Hughes did not take care of her before her death when she was ill will remain with him forever. His use of the question mark (?) show that he is confused and he doubts his sanity due to the guilt of neglecting her. In the last stanza, he says that he is struggling to move forward and he feels like the world has come to an end but the leaves are falling off trees, proving him wrong.
He does not show any outward sign that he is grieving too much over the death of his brother, but traces of his sadness could be seen in the times when he recalls memories of his brother, “the baby cooed and rocked the pram” and “lay in the four foot box as in his cot”. Heaney delivered the poem shrouded in mystery. His introduction in the first stanza does not give the audience a clue about what would happen next. It had a relaxed, happy tone, and gives us the impression that he had all the time in the world to spare. This was shown by the act of “Counting bells knelling classes to a close”, making the first stanza seem to last a long time.
The speaker characterize the nature of what he perceives to be his old age. He tells the beloved that his age is like a “time of year,” almost late autumn, when the leaves have almost completely fallen from the trees, and the weather has grown cold, and the birds have left their branches where they used to sang. He then says that his age is like late twilight, “As after sunset fadeth in the west,” and as the sun goes down and the night approaches, he goes to sleep, which the speaker likens to “Death’s second self.". The speaker compares himself to the glowing remnants of a fire, which lies “on the ashes of his youth” that is, like a candle once enabled it to burn thus which will soon be consumed “by
Shakespeare's reference to "yellow leaves" shows that the person is in the fall of their life, approaching winter, considering leaves don't change until the end of fall and the boughs "shake against the cold." He then references an absence when he speaks of the "late" birds. His choice to use the word "late" and the past tense "sang," show that something isn't there anymore, or missing creating a feeling of emptiness. This feeling of emptiness combined with the metaphors implying a fast approaching winter, seem to relay a harshness and maybe that the person has missed something in life. The person's death is constantly coming near, as is alluded to by his metaphors with twilight and a sunset.
So already from the poems start the reader gets sympathy for the knight. In the two first stanzas, the scene of autumn is described: The grass stopped, no birds sing, squirrels and other animals have hoarded food to sustain them throughout winter, and the harvest is done. The writer makes the knight look so exhausted and miserable, by saying: So haggard and woebegone. By saying this, it makes the knight seem to be in a terrible condition: “And on the thy cheek a fading rose – the poet is comparing the color on his cheeks with a fast fading rose. The poet also says: I see a lily on thy brow – which means that the knight-at-arms forehead glistens with sweet like a lily (white).
In creating this character, Tennyson uses character traits from Odysseus of “The Odyssey” and traits from Ulysses in “The Divine Comedy”. Closely examining each of the characters will give the reader a better understanding on how Tennyson uses both “The Divine Comedy” and “The Odyssey” as inspiration for his own “Ulysses”. Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” takes place sometime after the events of “The Odyssey” and before Dante meets Ulysses in “The Divine Comedy”. Tennyson’s Ulysses seems to be an older Odysseus, who has grown weary and has decided that being a king “little profits” (Tennyson, 1) him anymore. Ulysses seems to have realized that community is not what he desires by stating “…I mete and dole/ Unequal laws unto a savage race/ That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me” (Tennyson, 3-5).
The words “drizzle…bedrenches” are negative onomatopoeias which present use of pathetic fallacy to suggest a sombre and melancholic mood to the poem. Although Emma is now dead, Hardy see’s her “phantom figure” remaining on forever on that hillside. Hardy compares the event they shared with his estranged to his present life without her. Repetition is used to
Explore how Yeats reveals the complex nature of love in his lyrical poem When You Are Old. Yeats' Douzain sonnet "When You Are Old" explores the intricate tension between a profound and abiding love, and its unrequited nature. Written in 1893, Yeats captures his personal frustration with the unreciprocated nature of his love for Maud Gonne, and crafts it into an intimate and nostalgic poetic statement that resonates universally with individuals despite its personal tone. The poem’s lyrical sonnetic structure - in which the absence of a traditional concluding rhyming couplet reinforces Yeats' own bereft of requited love with Gonne - adds to the gentle sadness and despondence consistently imbuing the poem that is ultimately part of Yeats relentless persuasion of Gonne to accept his (tragically multiple) proposals. Within the first stanza, Yeats utilizes monosyllabic imagery when describing the subject who is commonly believed to be a future Gonne – such as “old grey and full of sleep”, emulating the disposition of an elderly person, whose gentle temperament is enhanced through the soft sibilance of phrases such as “slowly read, and dream of soft look, dream of shadows deep” – which also enriches the romantic tone of the poem.