Line 5: The speaker compares himself to dust that "England bore." ... Line 5: The speaker is a "dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware." England can't really do these things, so this is a case of personification (the attribution of human qualities to non-human things). ... ANALYSIS FORM AND METER A Sonnet In Your Bonnet What we've got here, gang, is a sonnet. ... We do? ...
Then, when humans were first able to string sounds together to form words and to compose complex words with multiple syllables they were in fact composing the first poems. ... "Which is easier to memorize, a poem or a chapter in your biology text book?"... I'll be a genius of some kind or other, probably in literature. ... (Ginsberg, Allen, Early Journal Entries, May 1941) Both would prove to be the premise for scholarly debate but Ginsberg did comment, " I am no longer bored by life in general (as mentioned in a previous year) because of my extra-curricular activities. I haven't th...
Rossetti challenged the accepted notion of female creativity and in some extent can be considered a feminist poet. ... He suggested, in a letter to her brother, Dante Gabriel, that: "Irregular measure is the chief calamity of modern poetry your sister should exercise herself in the severest commonplace of meter until she can write as the public likes; then if she puts in her observation and passion all will become precious. ... To label Goblin Market as a children's poem opens the door for Rossetti to explore "themes of the evil of self-indulgence, the fraudulence of sensuous beauty ...
