Select a sonnet and show which form it is. Discuss how the content reflects the form.
Add the sonnet to the top of your entry.
Think of a “baptism scene” from a significant literary work. How was the character different after the experience? Discuss.
XX.
ReplyDeleteA woman's face with nature's own hand painted,
Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion;
A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted
With shifting change, as is false women's fashion:
An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
A man in hue all hues in his controlling,
Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
And for a woman wert thou first created;
Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting,
And by addition me of thee defeated,
By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.
But since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure,
Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure.
The sonnet I have chosen is a Shakespearean Sonnet, It is Shakespeare's sonnet XX (20). The form of it is square in a sense of literary balance of Content, Emotion, Action, and Detail, which is thought to be the essential four elements in a good book to read, this sonnet uses detail to show the emotional value of the content / subject and the action is the analyzation of the subject or otherwise the Content of the sonnet itself, which in turn causes none of these four elements to be greater than any other one so that the value of the piece is compromised at all in a negative way. Which makes this use of the balance square of literature increases the literary value if the piece.
Post By: Dalton Harmon
Sonnet found on:
http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/all.php
Posted by: James Lynn
ReplyDeleteLove is not all: It is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain,
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
and rise and sink and rise and sink again.
Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
pinned down by need and moaning for release
or nagged by want past resolution's power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It may well be. I do not think I would.
By: Edna St. Vincent Millay.
This sonnet is called "Love Is Not All," written by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The sonnet is a Shakespearean Sonnet, as it is divided in to 3 blocks of 4, and two lines over. The first two blocks are similar in what they are relating to. These blocks talk about what love isn't, and what it can't do. The next block and the two lines talk about giving up love. I believe that the first two blocks are grouped together because it allows people to grasp the concept of love as it is used in the sonnet. It shows how Millay feels about love. The final block and the two lines refer to how love can be tested. It fits with the overall idea of the sonnet that love is not all; love is not the most important thing in the world, and you may need to give up love in order to get what you need. Millay, however, doesn't plan on doing that, as stated by the last line.
You dissected this poem well as I cannot fully comprehend poems even after looking into them. Good job and I have no complaints.
DeletePost by: Tiffany Weresow
ReplyDeleteScience! True daughter of Old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,
Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering
To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?
And driven the Hamadryad from the wood
To seek a shelter in some happier star?
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?
Sonnet by: Edgar Allen Poe
The sonnet I have chosen is called "To Science" written by Edgar Allen Poe. This sonnet is written in the Shakespearean style, containing fourteen lines which are laid out in the form of three quatrains, concluded by a couplet. The content reflects the form by introducing the main theme of the poem within the first quatrain. This opening is followed by two anterior quatrains which encompass the same theme of the poem, but by expanding it in a series of different ways. In the end, the poem is followed by the couplet, which wraps back to the original idea displayed in the opening quatrain. The form of this sonnet, in my opinion, resembles that of a story. It contains the introduction: which explains Edgar's view on how science alters everyone's perception of the world, and claims it is his new profound enemy, the body: where he gives his reasoning and complaints about the subject, and the conclusion: where Edgar establishes that Science has ruined his memories of the past and proceeding future to come. This sonnet also can be perceived in the form of a letter, as if Edgar is writing this to Science, "Science" being an actual lifelike embodiment, and most likely was his intention when writing the sonnet.
I love Edgar Allen Poe and I think that sonnet is a good example of the form it talks about in the book.
DeleteI really like Edgar Allan Poe and I really enjoyed your poem.
DeleteLove this poem so much! Truly spoke to me, great analysis.
DeleteI adore Edgar Allan Poe's work.
DeleteIts really odd to think Edgar Allen Poe wrote about something other than scary murderers.
DeleteEdgar Allan Poe is the best
DeletePosted by: Hannah Cribby
ReplyDeleteRemember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more, day by day,
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
Sonnet by: Christina Rossetti
This sonnet is named 'Remember' by Christina Rossetti, which is the poet mentioned in the book. The form of this sonnet is two quatrains and it has a total of two sentences. It also has fourteen lines and the rhyme scheme is abbaabbacddece. The content reflects the form by changing the rhyme scheme and it changes what it is talking about. In the first quatrain it is talking about how they are going to be splitting up and in the second it is talking about how he should forget about her and be happy. That is why I believe that this sonnet's content reflects its form.
This poem is very interesting, and I like that it don't use all them confusing words in it.
DeleteThis poem is more modern and not that hard to comprehend. I like its simplistic form and it gets right to the point instead of using other, older type of writing that confuses the reader.
DeleteLove the poem, truly spoke to me! Great analysis
DeleteGreat job analyzing the poem!
DeleteI like the sonic it is very interesting!
DeleteThis sonnet is beautiful
DeletePost by: Sofia Ricra
ReplyDeleteLook in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
Now is the time that face should form another;
Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,
Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.
For where is she so fair whose uneared womb
Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
Or who is he so fond will be the tomb
Of his self-love, to stop posterity?
Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime;
So thou through windows of thine age shalt see,
Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time.
But if thou live, remembered not to be,
Die single and thine image dies with thee.
By: William Shakespeare
The sonnet of my choose is “Sonnet 3” written William Shakespeare. This sonnet was written in typical Shakespearean style. “There are fourteen lines in a Shakespearean sonnet. The first twelve lines are divided into three quatrains with four lines each. In the three quatrains the poet establishes a theme or problem and then resolves it in the final two lines, called the couplet. The rhyme scheme of the quatrains is abab cdcd efef”(Shakespeare-online.com). The content reflects the form by by following the rhyme scheme. In the beginning, it follows the abab rhyme with viewest and renewest rhyming. Just like another and mother. This trend continues throughout the entire sonnet.
I really like the sonnet you chose, Sofia. Nice explanation of the quatrains and rhyme scheme.
DeletePost by: Alanie O’Dell
ReplyDeleteInto My Own
by Robert Frost
One of my wishes is that those dark trees,
So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,
Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom,
But stretched away unto the edge of doom.
I should not be withheld but that some day
Into their vastness I should steal away,
Fearless of ever finding open land,
Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand.
I do not see why I should e'er turn back,
Or those should not set forth upon my track
To overtake me, who should miss me here
And long to know if still I held them dear.
They would not find me changed from him they knew--
Only more sure of all I thought was true.
This Shakespearean sonnet by Robert Frost is about the transformation from childhood into adulthood. This form of poetry helps explain and connect the ideals between childhood and adulthood into one unifying thought. With the couplet serving as the home for the main idea of the poem, the form of a sonnet truly helps readers understand the idea behind Frost’s intentions. The poem also reflects the form of a sonnet by following the rhyme scheme being, “aabb ccdd eeff gg.” The content of this poem reflects the form of a sonnet by combining the structure to a story-like style, allowing the three quatrains to introduce the theme and giving life to the poem while concluding with the couplet.
I can't believe I've never read this sonnet before, it's lovely! Great job on your reflection of it.
DeleteI don't like much poetry, but this one isn't that bad. Good explanation too.
DeleteAleigha
Robert Frost is one of my favorite poets and your explanation of this poem was really good.
Delete-Piper Colangelo
I love the meaning the sonnet has behind it. I also really liked your reflection, too!
DeleteLove Robert Frost! You did very well on explaining it, good job.
DeleteRobert Frost is my favorite poet and the flow and beauty of his poetry is one of the reasons why. Great explanation to a great poem.
DeleteThis is one of my favorite poems, good analysis as well.
DeleteI liked your analysis of this poem because it takes a very intriguing view on the poem
DeleteIf the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
ReplyDeleteInjurious distance should not stop my way;
For then despite of space I would be brought,
From limits far remote, where thou dost stay.
No matter then although my foot did stand
Upon the farthest earth removed from thee;
For nimble thought can jump both sea and land
As soon as think the place where he would be.
But ah! thought kills me that I am not thought,
To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,
But that, so much of earth and water wrought,
I must attend time's leisure with my moan,
Receiving nought by elements so slow
But heavy tears, badges of either's woe.
~William Shakespeare~
Shakespeare's forty-fourth sonnet is about the sorrow felt when waiting for someone to return. he is upset because he can't travel to the person the way his thought can travel. He's saying that things that could hurt him nomally, cannot hurt his thoughts. I he were his thoughts, he could be with thisw person who has gone away. Sadly though, it kills him to think of how he can't get to the person because he is what he is. He must wait. This sonnet follows a rhyme scheme of "abab cdcd aeae ff."
I really like the sonnet you chose, Kimberley. I enjoy your reflection of it.
DeleteI feel like I can relate to that sonnet. It's like you can think of someone you love, but you can't be with them because they're too far away. It makes me think of my own relationship, and my mother's relationship with her family in the Philippines.
DeleteThis sonnet is one that intrigues me because I see a piece of myself woven into it.
DeleteNightfall: the town’s chromatic nocturn wakes
ReplyDeleteDark brilliance on the river; colors drift
and tremble as enormous shadows lift
Orion to his place. The heart remakes
the peace torn in the blaze of day. Inside
Your room are music, warmth and wine, the board
With chessmen set to play. The harpsichord
Begins a fugue; delight is multiplied.
A game: the heart’s impossible ideal-
To choose among a host of paths, and know
That if the kingdom crumbles one can yield
And have the choice again. Abstract and real
Joined in their trance of thought, two players show
The calm of gods above a troubled field.
A Game of Chess
By: Gwen Harwood
The rhyme scheme of "abbacddc" "efgefg"" in “A Game of Chess” is reflective of the form because it provokes a change in rhythm between the first and second stanzas. Another of the content’s reflection of the form is the two stanzas’ differing approaches of addressing the topic: a game of chess. In the first stanza the general setting of the game is described and then embellished upon. Approaching the topical chess game with an analytical mindset, this sonnet’s second stanza both describes the game’s inner workings as well as compares the players.
-JWG
I loved your poem and you explained really well.
DeleteGood job analyzing your poem!
DeletePost by Jared
DeleteGreat job explaining it.
DeleteWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616)
ReplyDeleteFrom fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty’s rose might never die.
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content
And, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding.
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee.
This form is abab-cdcd-efef-gg and is a sonnet but Shakespeare's lines are grouped differently. There are three quadrants that house four lines each followed by two lines which creates a couplet. Shakespeare's sonnet is about how the human race is because no matter how good each human is, they always desire increase. It shows how the world works with people by pretty much saying more the people, more the famine. It says how the human should open their eyes and see what the world really is. It's final lines which create its form is how we can save the world or eat it alive by our greed.
Post By: Kayla Shannon
ReplyDeleteThere are no terrorists but only those
who hope their victims will be terrified.
The motives prompting those who struck the blows
are never known by those who quickly died.
When many lives are lost so jumbled close,
it seems that Death has come in triumph grand
but Death is pouring out its daily dose
both far and wide and near and narrow planned.
One here one there another down the way
the count is mounting but it stays unknown.
There is no place in charity's survey
for those who die unhomed, unloved, alone.
Remember thousands lost in easy view
but grieve as well those gone without a clue.
-Robert Stone.
This sonnet is about the horrible events that take place on September 9th, 2001. This form really captivates this event and puts into something that everyone can understand and realize how tragic it was. The couplet of this sonnet is really why we honor this day every year. For the people who were working that day in those buildings, and for the people, like firemen and police officers, who risked their lives to save others. The quatrains, I feel, set the reader up for the couplet. The quatrains have things like "but Death is pouring out its daily dose," as if Death is a person. The rhyme scheme of this poem is "abab abab abab aa."
I like how the poet chose to use the format of a sonnet; it captures that message with seriousness and fluidity.
DeleteI like how this poem is set up. It gives the reader a clearer view of what the poem is talking about.
DeleteI love the poem you chose because it's very easy to follow. You have a very nice explanation.
DeleteMy eyes are filled with pools of heavy tears
ReplyDeleteWhen I look at the horrid creature there.
His mere appearance stirs my gut and sears
My heart with burning flames too hot to bear.
O, that his too too evil flesh would melt,
Or better yet that mine would, for ’twas me
Who built the ugly thing, me who had felt
The monster’s first pulse when he came to be.
How could I have been so naive to think
That my creation would end up humane
Enough to not seek my loved ones and sink
A dagger through my heart, my soul to stain.
Alas, my one hope is to track him down,
Then only will I at last cease to frown.
Author- Mud Mosh
This a Shakespearean sonnet due to its basic rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, and gg and its tragic tone. Some of Shakespeare's greatest works were his tragedies; the most famous being Romeo and Juliet. We are told about the sadness that Victor Frankenstein faces. He seems to have good intentions, but was not ready for the consequence that followed his playing god. Contrary it breaks away from the Shakespearean idea of tragedy. Shakespeare knew how to make his audience laugh before the sadness struck, but this poem starts and ends in a gloomy. The author likely did not want to cause any positivity in this sonnet, but rather wanted to exemplify just how badly Victor messed up when he forsook his creation.
This is a nice sonnet. I really like your examination of it, Logan. Nice work.
DeleteI enjoyed the sonnet and reading the analysis.
DeletePosted by: Caleb Costner
ReplyDelete"Sonnet of the Nogitsune, by Ashley Rawlings:
"Never trust a fox" they say
"for He will hurt you dearly"
and Devil himself fears the day
that He will see it clearly
Little Fox is fear'd today,
the little fox is crying
"Little Fox is hear" they say
"the little fox is lying".
"Little Fox feeds off pain"
"He'll break you just for trying"
"Little Fox will stand to gain
so surely someone's dying"
Brother tried to save his friend
but Little Fox has won... Again. "
The form of this poem is abab, cdcd, efef, gg, and it is in a tragic tone.
This poem is an ironic poem, because the word 'Nogitsune' means a good fox, but the poem is meaning the fox is evil, or in other words the fox is death or the devil himself. The fox is doing evil tricks and everyone that knows about him is trying to warm others. The second paragraph means that he will take and destroy everything that you love and hold dear to you. So you need to watch out for the fox that watches you.
This sonnet has a nice idea around. The meanings and irony make it fun to analyze.
DeleteI really like the way the sonnet is set up, it makes the words flow with ease.
Delete-Piper Colangelo
I like how the message flows throughout the sonnet. It is interesting to look at all of the ironic details of the sonnet. You had a good analysis, I liked how you went into detail with the irony in the sonnet.
DeleteI really love they way the sonnet is easy to read with the right tempo.
DeleteAcquainted With The Night
ReplyDeleteby Robert Frost
I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,
But not to call me back or say good-by;
And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
The sonnet Acquainted with the night is a Shakespearean styled sonnet. It describes a journey through the night as a metaphor for someone's depression. The sonnet consists of fourteen lines that are divided into three sets of four lines with a remaining couplet. They are divided to explain connected ideas or themes.
The first two sets of four lines create an octave. In the octave, both sets of four lines have connected meanings. In the first set of four lines, the speaker establishes his relationship with the night and describes the sadness of his journey walking alone. As seen in the second set of four lines, the speaker continues to describe his unsuccessful encounters with people. The two sets of lines are paired together to describe the speaker’s trouble with depression as he feels alone with nobody to speak to.
The third set of four lines and the remaining couplet both create a sestet. The third set of four lines explains how he is unwanted and describes a luminary clock that acts as a sense of hope to escape his depression. The couplet describes an uncertainty of escaping depression and again establishes his relationship with depression. These two sets are thematically linked to describe the failed attempt of escaping depression.
One of my favorites by Robert Frost! I enjoy how the message flows with the style of a sonnet.
DeleteSonnet 55 by Shakespeare
ReplyDeleteNot marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
'Gainst death and all oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room,
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
So, till the judgment that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.
This is a Shakespearean Sonnet, containing fourteen lines which are laid out in the form of three quatrains, concluded by a couplet, with Iambic Pentameter, making every other syllable louder.
The content mirrors the form by introducing the main idea (the poem will out live the statues of stone and thus the “you” he speaks of will as well) within the first quatrain, then following this up with two quatrains that give new, but related ideas. The second quatrain introduces the idea that the causes and effects of war may tear down everything, but nothing can remove that person's memory. Similarly, the third quatrain states that against death and being forgotten this person will still be remembered and celebrated, by future generations until the end of the world. The couplet wraps it all up with saying that until this person lives again for judgment day, he/she will still be alive in the memory of his/her lover.
By: Aaron N.
It is crazy how Shakespeare knew that his work would go down in history; his ideas of judgement really inspire thought.
DeletePosted By: Adison Costner
ReplyDelete“So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
Or as sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.
Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon
Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure,
Now counting best to be with you alone,
Then bettered that the world may see my pleasure,
Sometime all full with feasting on your sight,
And by and by clean starved for a look,
Possessing or pursuing no delight
Save what is had, or must from you be took.
Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day,
Or gluttoning on all, or all away.”
This sonnet is like the one in the book by having the same outline. This sonnet has fourteen lines, just like the one on the book. Nor does this sonnet have older words in it, so this helps the reader to comprehend the poem better. This sonnet is, from my understanding, telling the reader that you are need and wanted in everyday life. They can't go without you, you are to sweet and bring happiness to people. This is also sorta of what the poem in the book says to. The poem in the book is stay that the two people were in love with each other but were not together, but they wanted to be. They were in love, just like the author was in love with someone when he wrote this poem.
The sonnet you chose is a pretty interesting love one; I didn't really notice that until you explained that it was. After your explanation, it actually sounds pretty sweet.
DeletePost By: Karmen Scruggs
ReplyDeleteMusic I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread;
Now that I am without you, all is desolate;
All that was once so beautiful is dead.
Your hands once touched this table and this silver,
And I have seen your fingers hold this glass.
These things do not remember you, belovèd,
And yet your touch upon them will not pass.
For it was in my heart you moved among them,
And blessed them with your hands and with your eyes;
And in my heart they will remember always,—
They knew you once, O beautiful and wise.
This sonnet is called Bread and Music By: Conrad Aiken. It is composed of four sentences in total, broken up into three stanzas of four lines. It speaks about a person who has lost their significant other by death or by that person simply leaving. They speak mostly about missing them and the fact that everything reminds them of their significant other. It shows this throughout the poem and the rhyme scheme of abcb defe ghih really brings it all together.
That is a beautiful sonnet and I'm glad that I got the chance to read it. It is a good example of the form it talks about in the book.
DeleteThis is such a pretty sonnet! I've never heard of this poet before!
DeleteDo Not Stand By My Grave And Weep
ReplyDeleteBy Mary Elizabeth Frye
Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sun on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there; I did not die.
The poem is from the perspective a person who died speaking to a loved one. They’re telling their loved one not to visit their grave and cry over them, but to see them in everything beautiful in nature; they’re all around them. The sonnet has a total of four sentences and isn’t broken up. This lets the message be read in one coherent statement. The sonnet follows the rhyme scheme of “aabbccddeeff”, a simple scheme that lets the poem be read easily and smoothly.
When I read this poem, it made me think of my late Aunt Shelia, and by reading this it has helped me to see her in every beautiful thing in nature. ~ Caleb C.
DeleteI like how you choose this poem and the message in it. You did a great job analyzing it.
DeletePosted by: Aleigha Letterman
ReplyDeleteSonnet: Mowing by Robert Frost
There was never a sound beside the wood but one,
And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.
What was it it whispered? I knew not well myself;
Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun,
Something, perhaps, about the lack of sound—
And that was why it whispered and did not speak.
It was no dream of the gift of idle hours,
Or easy gold at the hand of fay or elf:
Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak
To the earnest love that laid the swale in rows,
Not without feeble-pointed spikes of flowers
(Pale orchises), and scared a bright green snake.
The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.
My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make.
This is a sonnet because of it's fourteen line structure, and it's balance. The sonnet divides into two parts, the first eight lines, and the last six. The first suggests that the sound is something supernatural, but the last six say it is nothing more than a sound. The last two lines are like Shakespeare sonnets because they contain five stressed syllables accompanied by many unstressed syllables. The rhyme scheme of the sonnet is abc abd ecd geh. The form works with this sonnet because the main idea, and the first idea is introduced in the first part, and the second introduces related, but different ideas.
I like how Robert Frost arrange the words to make it seem more intense and how you compare it to Shakespeare's sonnet.
DeletePosted by: Anna K-S
ReplyDeleteBy: Shakespeare Sonnets 12
When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night,
When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls all silvered o'er with white:
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd
And summer's green all girded up in sheaves
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard:
Then of thy beauty do I question make
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake,
And die as fast as they see others grow,
And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence
Save breed to brave him, when he takes thee hence.
“Shakespeare Sonnets Twelve” is a sonnet because it contains fourteen lines most of which have ten syllables or close to ten syllables. This sonnet has the four, four, four, and two structure. This sonnet is composed of one sentence. I feel Shakespeare chose a four, four, four, two sonnet because I feel he is talking about the seasons and day turning to night, the four represents the four season while the two represents day and night. Another theory is four plus four plus four is twelve which represents the twelve hours on a clock and again the two is day and night. Shakespeare wrote about time, the color of leaves, beauty, and death.
http://poetry.eserver.org/sonnets/012.html
DeletePosted by Maria McDonald:
ReplyDeleteSonnet 18 by Shakespeare:
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 is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnets are fourteen lines long and are usually written in iambic pentameter. "Sonnet 18" is a Shakespearean sonnet because of the form it takes. The first twelve lines are split up into three sections of four lines and the fourth section has two lines. It was written in iambic pentameter because each line has ten syllables. It follows the basic ABABCDCDEFEFGG rhyme scheme that is seen in a lot of sonnets. The content reflects the form because it splits it up like paragraphs when it introduces a new idea. Shakespeare is comparing the woman he loves to something so beautiful like a summer's day in the first quatrain, says all beautiful things lose their beauty in the second, and in the third he says that she will live on forever. Finally, the couplet at the end wraps it up by saying that her undying beauty, which he talked about in the first and second quatrains, will live on forever because it will forever remain in the poem he wrote.
I love William Shakespeare's 18th sonnet! I love the way he talks about his lover.
DeleteLove it! I hope someone writes me a poem like that one day.
Delete-Kalynne H.
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DeleteThis is a really nice sonnet, and you had good explanations for why it was a sonnet, other that it states that it is in the title. :)
DeleteAleigha
With your analysis, I noticed how the couplet in the end wraps up the whole sonnet. It acts as a final statement that sums up the whole meaning.
DeleteElizabeth Suarez
ReplyDeleteShakespeare Sonnet 122
Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Full charactered with lasting memory,
Which shall above that idle rank remain
Beyond all date even to eternity.
Or at the least, so long as brain and heart
Have faculty by nature to subsist,
Till each to razed oblivion yield his part
Of thee, thy record never can be missed:
That poor retention could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score,
Therefore to give them from me was I bold,
To trust those tables that receive thee more:
To keep an adjunct to remember thee
Were to import forgetfulness in me.
This sonnet contains ababcdcdefefgg rhyming in its fourteen lines. These lines contain eight to ten syllables each.
"London, 1802"
ReplyDeleteBy: William Wordsworth
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee: she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,
Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,
Have forfeited their ancient English dower
Of inward happiness. We are selfish men;
Oh! raise us up, return to us again;
And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart;
Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea:
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,
So didst thou travel on life's common way,
In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart
The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Form: Petrarchan ABBAABBA|CDECDE
The content reflects the form due to the fact that this poem contains an octave ( the first 8 lines with the rhyme scheme of ABBA). The octave is what introduces our theme or problem. For example, the octave in this poem William speaks of how he wishes Milton would return. The second part of a Petrarchan sonnet is known as the setset. During the setset, the problem is solved. In this poem, William provides his reasons for why he believes that Milton’s character would help correct England’s current waywardness.
-Alex Salce
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ReplyDeleteThose Winter Sundays
ReplyDeleteby Robert Hayden
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he'd call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,
Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden was a free verse sonnet. It has the required 14 verses, but at first glance that is about all that makes it a sonnet. When you look at syllables the first two lines complied with the guidelines of each having ten syllables. However, the third line has less than ten syllables. The rest of the lines don’t have exactly ten syllables either. But, as mentioned it has 14 lines and it looks like a square, so a sonnet it is! The sonnet is about love, not romantic love, instead a love between father and son. However, it seems the son did not realize his father loved him, until later when the son reflects on this in the sonnet. The sonnet is written in the perspective of the son (if you did not gather this from my previous sentence).
Sonnet 60
ReplyDeleteWilliam Shakespeare
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Nativity, once in the main of light,
Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown’d,
Crooked elipses ’gainst his glory fight,
And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty’s brow,
Feeds on the rarities of nature’s truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:
And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand,
Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.
This is William Shakespeare’s sonnet 60. The rhyme scheme is “abab cdcd efef gg”. In my interpretation the meaning of the sonnet is comparing humans to the Universe. One example of this is Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; which to me the words are speaking that earth is like humans, waves are for earth or the old tattered land and for humans every minute brings us closer to our crumbling end or our demise.
~Christopher Johnson
I now understand the rhyme scheme after I applied the lettering to it.
DeleteThere is a singer everyone has heard,
ReplyDeleteLoud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,
Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again.
He says that leaves are old and that for flowers
Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten.
He says the early petal-fall is past
When pear and cherry bloom went down in the showers
On sunny days a moment overcast;
And comes that other fall we name the fall.
He says the highway dust is over all.
The bird would cease and be as other birds
But that he knows in singing not to sing.
The question that he frames in all but words
Is what to make of a diminished thing.
This is a sonnet by Robert Frost called the "The oven bird". The form of this is sonnet is AABCBDCDEEFGFG. The sonnet has fourteen lines and ten syllables in each line. At first glance, this poem is about a bird singing. But actually the poem is about life and how short life is.
I like the sonnet, I wouldn't have gotten that it was really about how short life is. Good example.
DeleteBy: Hannah Berckman
ReplyDeleteSonnet 116 - William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.
William Shakespeare's 116th sonnet is a Shakespearean sonnet with fourteen lines and three groups of four lines with two lines at the end. The poem is about eternal love and that love never dies. At one point, Shakespeare compares his love to the North Star which is used to guide people back home. I think that this is a sweet sonnet and I like it's theme.
Shakespeare's works confuse me so bad, but I like the example that you have and I like what it's really about.
DeleteYour explanation was great and it gave a lot of insight to this Shakespeare poetry.
DeleteLove Sonnet
ReplyDeleteBy:Alexandra S.
Since the day we met, I knew my life changed.
You made me happy everyday we spent,
My emotions rerranged and highly ranked.
It made me realize what life meant
I spent most of mt days thinking of you
and the love and joy you have brought to me
When I am in your presence I feel free
The day I saw you it felt so right
When I was around you I turned red
My heart would skip a beat with you in sight
You said to me you would leave me never
Now lets live life together forever
My sonnet is not a traditional sonnet. This sonnet is about how the author is in love with her boyfriend, and she was telling how he effects in the positive ways.
I love the poem. I like how you didn´t choose a traditional one.
Delete-Kalynne H.
Post by: Grace Deaton
DeleteBy:Kalynne Helms
ReplyDeleteSonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
I chose William Shakespeareś, Sonnet 116. It is a Shakespearean sonnet and shakespearean sonnets were made in the sixteenth century. Sonnet 116 tries to tell you what love is and what it is not. This sonnet also uses a lot of metaphors like ¨It is the star to every wandering bark,¨ which roughly means, love is a guide to all lost souls or love is a guide to all lost ships. Shakespearean sonnets have fourteen lines in them. The first three quatrains have four lines in them while the last one has two. The last one has two because those lines are the couplet. They resolve the problem in the beginning of the poem which are the first three quatrains.
I read Shakespeare's sonnet 116, in 7th grade, and I never thought of
ReplyDelete¨It is the star to every wandering bark," means that love is a guide. ~ Caleb C.
By Noah Wollin
ReplyDeleteWhen I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
Before high piled books, in charact'ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain;
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love!—then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
"When I have fears that I may cease" is a Shakespearean Sonnet by John Keats. The sonnet starts out with the author afraid that he will not express everything he wants to before he passes. He talks of all the things in the world he will never get to write of. Next he writes of the love he will no longer have. He then proceeds to finish by accepting these things and stops fearing death.
Great job interpreting the poem. I liked your understanding of it.
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ReplyDeleteBy: Parth
ReplyDeleteFrom fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content,
And tender churl mak'st waste in niggarding:
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.
Shakespeare Sonnet #1
When he wrote " From fairest creatures we desire increase" I think it meant that we desire beautiful creatures to multiply, in order to preserve their “beauty’s rose” for the world. While reading through the sonnet I made some connections with the story of Romeo and Juliet. To me I saw the connections between the sonnet and Romeo and Juliet and it was very interesting.
I definitely agree when you say that he's saying we want the beauty to increase so we can preserve it. And the connection between Romeo and Juliet in this sonnet wasn't something I thought of at first, but now I see it.
DeleteJuan’s Song
ReplyDeleteby Louise Bogan
When beauty breaks and falls asunder
I feel no grief for it, but wonder.
When love, like a frail shell, lies broken,
I keep no chip of it for token.
I never had a man for friend
Who did not know that love must end.
I never had a girl for lover
Who could discern when love was over.
What the wise doubt, the fool believes
Who is it, then, that love deceives?
This beautiful sonnet by Louise Bogan is about a boy, Juan, who is talking about love from his view. He states that a man's love is a temporary feeling, while a woman's love is everlasting. The 5 sentences within this sonnet reflect his dispassionate take on love and it ends with a question on who love deceives, the wise or the foolish. The sequence of the sonnet is AABBCCDDEE.
- Olyvia Knight
SHAKESPEARE'S 130TH SONNET
ReplyDeleteMy mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
This is a Shakespearean sonnet and it is divided into 3 sentences. The rhyme structure is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. The first 12 lines of this sonnet is essentially Shakespeare insulting his mistress’ looks, breath, and voice. It seems like an odd thing to write a sonnet about, especially about his mistress. The previous 12 lines become clear with the ending couplet when Shakespeare explains that even though his mistress doesn't have eyes like the sun or lips as red as coral, he thinks his love is rare and his mistress does not need to be disguised with false comparisons.
Post by: Kayla Williamson
ReplyDeleteWhen I Heard The Learn'd Astronomer
by Walt Whitman
When I heard the learn'd astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.
This poem is written in free verse, without a specific pattern or rhyme. The form is representative of Walt Whitman’s poetry because he typically wrote in his own brand of free verse. Lines 1 to 4 establish the situation in which the speaker finds himself. Lines 4 to 8 depict the speaker’s reaction to the situation happening in the previous lines. Walt Whitman used a repetition of sounds in this poem like heard and learn’d. He also used alliterations in the last two lines. The main idea is that numbers and charts can not sum up how brilliant the universe is.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
ReplyDeleteI have walked out in rain—and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,
But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
-Robert Frost
This sonnet is called Acquainted With the Night and I chose this sonnet because when I first read it, there was this deeper meaning to it that just him walking at night in a town that he's obviously been walking in many times before. This sonnet sounds like he might be struggling with depression because in the third section of the sonnet, Frost says, "but not to call me back or say goodbye" and it feels like he might be walking away and people didn't even notice/care enough to notice. Throughout the sonnet, it sounds as if he is lonely or alone, but he doesn't seem to mind too much. This sonnet is 14 lines and it does have iambic pentameter and it has the "terza rema" rhyme pattern.
-Laurie Ricardo
Great choice, and great job explaining it.
DeleteWhat does a real, true best friend mean to you?
ReplyDeleteSomeone that you share all your secrets with?
Or someone that you are always close to?
Are they like your twin, or is that a myth?
True friends relate to you like no other.
They’re the ones that I can tell my soul to.
True friends are there to help one another.
Through thick and thin, they’re always there for you.
A true friend is like a precious flower,
or an angel who lifts us to our feet.
A bond, that keeps growing every hour,
a friendship that never ends bittersweet.
To me, true best friends are never apart.
Maybe in distance, but never at heart.
-Ana Carla
This sonnet is called A True Friend and I chose this sonnet because this sonnet really spoke to me. This sonnet seems as if the author is trying to show her love to her friend or what she believes she wants in a friend. Throughout this sonnet the author seems happy or joyful. This sonnet is 14 lines and it has iambic pentameter but no rhyming pattern.
By: Haylee Franckewitz
DeleteShakespeare Sonnet 2
ReplyDeleteWhen forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,
Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now,
Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held:
Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies,
Where all the treasure of thy lusty days,
To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes,
Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.
How much more praise deserved thy beauty's use,
If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine
Shall sum my count and make my old excuse,'
Proving his beauty by succession thine!
This were to be new made when thou art old,
And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.
This 14 line 10 syllable sonnet reflects all deep emotion on beauty. The poet himself feels as though he is handsome but it will all fade. To me this is like the poet is talking about how gorgeous he is but as he gets older his beauty will wear off, there is some love involved and I bet it’s his lover and he's probably worried or explaining this to her.
-stephanie martinez
The Poet at Seven - Donald Justice (1960)
ReplyDeleteAnd on the porch, across the upturned chair,
The boy would spread a dingy counterpane
Against the length and majesty of the rain
And on all fours crawl in it like a bear,
To lick his wounds in secret, in his lair;
And afterward, in the windy yard again,
One hand cocked back, release his paper plane,
Frail as a mayfly to the faithless air.
And summer evenings he would spin around
Faster and faster till the drunken ground
Rose up to meet him; sometimes he would squat
Among the foul weeds of the vacant lot,
Waiting for dusk and someone dear to come
And whip him down the street, but gently, home.
“The poet at seven” is a petrarchan sonnet because it has fourteen lines and uses two different rhyme schemes. The octave has an abbaabba rhyme scheme. The sextet has a ccddee rhyme scheme. As for the meaning of the sonnet, I think it represents how he coped with struggles throughout his life. For example, in lines 1-4 Justice describes to the reader his common and carefree activities of his childhood. In contrast, lines 5-7 show that he also faced some difficult times by using words such as “wounds” “secret” and “windy”. In lines 7-14, the reader can infer that Justice did not find another way to cope with pain besides getting drunk but also that he wanted to die. “Someone dear to come” is a representation of a god coming to spare his life.
Post By: Cynthia Garcia
No longer mourn for me when I am dead
ReplyDeleteThen you shall hear the surly sullen bell
Give warning to the world that I am fled
From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell:
Nay, if you read this line, remember not
The hand that writ it; for I love you so
That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot
If thinking on me then should make you woe.
O, if, I say, you look upon this verse
When I perhaps compounded am with clay,
Do not so much as my poor name rehearse.
But let your love even with my life decay,
Lest the wise world should look into your moan
And mock you with me after I am gone.
I have chosen a William Shakespeare sonnet which is number 71. This sonnet is in a Petrarchan form and the poet is saying that a person shouldn't grieve for him when he is dead.
ReplyDeleteAlana Williams
I saw thee in a vision of the night
Transfigured; for it seemed that on thy brows
The heavens did rest with all their stars, like boughs
Laden with blossoms; round thy feet the bright
Green waves, like grass, ran rippling, strewn with white
Star-fragments of rent petals: wasted vows,
And ruined prayers I thought them, such as house
In hearts that love and are not loved aright.
Then all whom unrequited love had slain
Like fallen coins gathered the shining stars,
Scraping them from between thy callous feet,
And held them up to thee with moans of pain,
Their bosoms famine-ribbed as with deep scars,
Crying, "We starve: give us to drink and eat."
The sonnet is a petrarchan sonnet 14 lines and ab rhyme scheme.
Jennifer Calderon Villegas
ReplyDeleteA sleepless night is snoring outside like
A tiger-hungry,angry,tired and hot...
The moon does watch the night and keeps its mike
To record the dreary voice of sleepless lot...
The moon does shine,does smile upon the leaves
That dangle and dance-the eyes of mad dogs bark,
Cicadas cry,a chirping bird heaves
A sigh to tell me stories sad and dark...
The moonlight whispers something-owls do fly...
They shatter,batter snares the spiders made
A black beetle's wings are broken...why?
The storm doesn't say -its wing is sharp like a blade...
The rain does drizzle upon the stars and earth
But I still cannot sleep upon my berth....
-A sleepless Night by Binoy Varakil
The form in this particular sonnet is fourteen iambic pentameters and falls into three quatrains which includes couplet-rhymes. The first quatrain talks about how a sleepless night is. It’s sad and relaxing but very lonely. The second speaks about descriptions of things outside. It involves happy animals in a sad way which means something is wrong. The last talks about weather and how it is seen to someone going through a rough night. All these characteristics speaks about a sleepless night and how things are seen and taken in as.