He patronizes the sun, saying, "Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties bee/To warm the world, that's done in warming us" (27-28). ... This is a very bold statement in and of itself, but putting it on its own line emphasizes the speaker's delusions of grandeur. ...
He would rather that the sun is making others feel guilty for their tardiness, their inferior skill at hunting, or their procrastination at working on their farm, than arousing his own sensitivities. ... The sun is also assumed to be elderly: "Thine age asks ease" (27) which relates this situation to teenagers and parents. ...
In both poems they seem to be fixated on their own woe and despair. ... This word is also repeated in "Ode to a Nightingale" when the speaker says to the bird, " not through the envy of thy happy lot, / But being too happy in thine happiness" (5-6). ... One can only realize and truly enjoy this perfection and beauty if they first have experienced the sorrow and pain of their own struggle or that of others....
He says that "her long preserved virginity, and her quaint honor will turn to dust" and his own lust will turn to ashes. ... From line 13 to 18, "An hundred years should go to praise" "Thine eyes and on thy forehead gaze;" "Two hundred to adore each breast," "But thirty thousand to the rest;" "An age at least to every part, "And the last age should show your heart" Two hundred to adore each breast.... From line 25 to 30, he tells her that she shall lose her beauty someday, she will no longer hear his echoing voice in her grave, w...
TASK 3 Choose three poems you find outstanding in their capacity to uplift and inspire through evoking positive emotional responses. By using a minimum of two hundred words for each describe how they achieve this effect. Introduction - Choice I am unable to continue this assignment w...
