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
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 2104
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 2207
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School