These influences show a desire to halt change and return to a less complicated past through a Romantic paradigm that promoted a belief that an individual could transcend time and change through their connections with nature. ... The shifting paradigm is illustrated through subversion of the sonnet convention of presenting a problem and then solving it, whereas his use of the sonnet is to offer no solution at all. ... The subversion of the sonnet form is clear through the hideous arrival of "the rough beast" that brings greater chaos rather than a peaceful conclusion to a tumultuous a...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Technical description of Gerard Manley Hopkins" poem: The poem in designed as an English and Italian sonnet. ... The poet is creating an effective metaphor in line 9 to line 12, between God's master piece- nature, to his unsuccessful work. ... Lust is very common positive topic in sonnets but here lust is an awful sin that is negative and is upsetting the speaker very much. ... The image of nature that is presented in the poem is hinting of God's creation, which no man will ever achieve. ... This sonnet is an untraditional one, this might mean that the poet, knowing he is asking unt...

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Breaking from the Shakespearean sonnet that had become commonplace, Carew's poem exhibits a few distinct structural differences that make it unique and memorable. Rather than writing a fourteen line poem with three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter like every sonnet of the time, Carew writes "A Song" in twenty lines of paired, short couplets in iambic tetrameter. ... By portraying the relationship between nature and the subject to and stating that the source of nature's beauty lies within the subject, Carew completely trumps the simile's power of describing ...

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This poem takes the form of a sonnet and it is a form used mostly for love poems. Why use a sonnet to write a poem in which you criticise people for being lustful, greedy and destructive? ... This "bare" image of nature, pertains not just to man's destruction of nature, but to his spiritual bareness. ... "And for all this, nature is never spent." ... God through his infinite mercy continues to sustain and rejuvenate nature, with nature representing the physical nature and the human spirit so that we may continue to live in hope. ...

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Gerard Manley Hopkins - To what extent do you agree with Robert Bridges view that his poetry is "some of the most musical ever written" Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the greatest 19th-century poets of religion, of nature, and of inner anguish. In his view of nature, the world is like a book written by God. ... For example in "Carrion Comfort" one of his "Sonnets of Desolation" whereby his music is less exuberant and more intense than in previous poems, he creates a sequence of repeated negatives that help reinforce a feeling of struggle, of a grim determination to hang on to his life -...

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Although his plays are excellent pieces of work, he wrote sonnets and poems as well. ... Over a period of several years, Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets all but one using iambic pentameter. The sonnets all contained the characteristic 14 lines concluding with a rhymed couplet. Following is my analysis of probably the most read Shakespearean sonnet, #18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often i...

• Word Count: 1939
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• Grade Level: High School

John Donnes' Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You the sonnet begins with the speaker asking God (along with Jesus and the Holy Ghost; together, they are the Trinity that makes up the Christian "three-personed God") to attack his heart. ... The explosive sound of the b's occur when he is referring to how he wants God to treat him, and adds to the violent and forceful nature of his preferred treatment. ... The speaker has a sense of entitlement in this section of the sonnet. ... " This line indicates a turn in the sonnet, where the first eight lines presented the problem ...

• Word Count: 1898
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• Grade Level: High School

The sonnets of Shakespeare abound in imagery of all kinds, and many dominant themes. ... Rajinder Paul in his explanation of this sonnet said "everything in this world no matter how strong, durable, and formidable it may seem to be, it subject to deterioration, decline, decay, and death"4 [pau98] it is obvious that death is so powerful, and beauty cannot plead for its continuance and must yield to the power of time. ... Shakespeare in his sonnets tried to immortalize himself and his thoughts that until now none can ignore his works, wherever you go, you will hear his name and his ideas. ... T...

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As the creator of all things natural, God is responsible for the "leaping greenly spirits of trees- and the "blue true dream of sky- that fascinate and enthrall the speaker.These phrases, found in the first stanza of the poem, show how Cummings uses diction, color symbolism, and imagery to relate to the idea of rebirth.The spirit of a group is the essential nature of that group, the basic feelings and ideas that it holds.Trees are one of the most basic symbols representing nature.Therefore, by thanking God for the "leaping greenly spirits of trees,"" the speaker is showing how much he appreci...

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This Shakespearean sonnet displays Frost's disconnection with the city and furthermore showcases his disillusionment and bewilderment towards it. ... Nature has the ability to connect us to each other –through a fellowship. ... I think that the unstructured nature of this poem is a reflection on its sentiment. ... Robert Frost often writes about nature and in "Design", he communicates the destructiveness of nature. It is a Petrarchan sonnet which presents us with the dark face of the natural world. ...

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In Act I Scene V, Shakespeare uses a sonnet for the first dialogue that Romeo and Juliet share; a sonnet has fourteen lies and ten syllables in each line. ... This is traditionally a love poem about unrequited love, but it is obvious at this early point in the play in the way that the sonnet is shared between both Romeo and Juliet, that the spell that has been cast over Romeo has been cast over Juliet as well. ... The powerful nature of the love in this play is shown in the language Shakespeare uses to describe it, or to be more precise the way his descriptiveness fails to capture its ent...

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He modeled his treatise on that of Aristotle's Politics, and his premise of how princes should conduct themselves morally was based on an understanding of human nature itself. ... The most humanistic ideal of this philosophy was the envisioning of the individual as "an empowered intellectual soul yearning to contemplate, to be united to nature, ideas, and God" (Plato" 5). ...

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A poem with three quatrains of alternating rhythm followed by a couplet is categorically deemed an English sonnet. ... But the persona is as calm as the lulling nature of the unchanged metrical structure. ... Unlike the past tense nature of Emily Dickinson's poem, in the poem "Snake" by D.H. ... The rising nature at the beginning of lines 2-6 is the only rhythmic similarity they share. ... This passive poetic form in the first 20 lines leaves the reader irritable in a similar nature as the persona, frustrated by a lack of control. ...

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Such ideas that help to convey to us the nature of change are shown through Gwen Harwood's poems, In the Park' and The Glass Jar', through the stimulus piece The Door' and through additional material such as the visual Thelma and Louise' and Shrek'. ... Because the poem is a sonnet it helps in adding to the idea that the poem is supporting the idea that change can be for the worst. ... A way that the director has used to help in our understanding of the nature or change and its effects is to convey Thelma's character going from one extreme to another. Th...

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Maria and Juliet represent a slightly practical counterpart to both Tony's and Romeo's idealistic nature. ... Finally, the character of Doc appears to fulfill the role of Friar Laurence because both possess somewhat of a peacekeeping nature. ... At the Capulet ball in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, all of the characters speak in blank verse, but when Romeo and Juliet converse, they speak in sonnet form. ... Just as Romeo defends his pacific nature by explaining, "O sweet Juliet, / Thy beauty hath made me effeminate / And my temper softened valour's steel" (3.1.109-111). ...

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Percy suggests that a man in Huxley's Brave New World, a man might stumble across a volume of Shakespeare and start reading his sonnets, not knowing what they are. ... As both nature and Shakespeare's works are considered works of art, Percy hints that, in his quest for knowledge for the sake of knowledge, as opposed of knowledge for the sake of enlightenment, he in the same way as losing the canyon again loses the meaning of what he is seeing. ... Percy suggests that, while the students studying their respective assignments are good, even necessary things, it would be equally impo...

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In contrast to her older sister, Bianca appears to be of a more complacent nature. ... Because of her beauty and good nature, along with her large dowry, Bianca has many potential suitors. ... At the end of the film, Kat does make a speech in the form of a sonnet read aloud in front of classmates, in which she surrenders herself to Patrick, much as Katherine surrenders herself to Petruchio. ...

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He was not afraid to show nature with naked bodies even in front of the Pope. ... Obviously inspired by his many works and walks of life, Michelangelo often somehow found time to write sonnets and poems. ...

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During his career, he wrote 37 plays, 154 Sonnets, and two poems. ... "His work communicates a profound knowledge of human nature, revealed through portrayals of a wide variety of characters. ... There are kings, pickpockets, drunkards, generals, hired killers, shepherds, and philosophers" .Shakespeare's poetry expresses the deepest levels of human nature in universal situations and is considered one of the greatest accomplishments in literary history. ...

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l. Definitions Transcendentalism- a system of philosophy, especially that associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other New England writers, that emphasizes intuition or the divine Romanticism- in the arts, the style and theories of the romantic movement, or the movement itself Aphorism- a ...

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His most famous contribution to the world of literature are his string of sonnets addressed to "Laura", who appears to be a real person rather than a religious symbol, as in most European writings. ... Giotto is considered the first artist to portray nature realistically (sorry Monet). ... With the focus on the Italian Renaissance being individual achievement, self gratification, and the quest for public appraisal and political power, changes occured in the nature of politics. ...

• Word Count: 1908
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In what ways can a modern audience respond to Shakespearean presentation of the two couples in Much Ado About Nothing? Much ado about nothing is centered on the love and friendships of two pairs of young lovers in Messina. It was probably first performed in late 1598 or early 1599. It is a...

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This flippant, somewhat nave remark, amuses the viewer, but also flares a spark of annoyance at the shallowness of her nature. ... Kat, in contrast, has lost a little of her fierce individuality, signified by a close-up camera shot showing the raw emotion on her face as she recites her sonnet to the class and also through the non-diagetic music heard behind this scene, Even Angels Fall. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate