This document provides an analysis of two sonnets - Sonnet 90 by Petrarch and Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare. Sonnet 90 depicts idealized love while Sonnet 130 mocks the conventions of courtly sonnets by providing a realistic portrayal of his mistress, focusing on her physical imperfections. The analysis compares how the two sonnets deal with the theme of love in different ways - one in a conventional, cliched manner and the other in a unique, unconventional manner that brings to light superficial conventions.

1. Sonnet Analysis Essay
What's the first thought that pops in to your mind when you think of love, is it flowers, chocolates and teddy bears or maybe a romantic sonnet?
The clichГ© of these superficial representations have been around for years and continue to plague our society today. But are the traditional roses on
Valentine's Day and anniversaries really a good signification of truelove or would you prefer a unique and realistic approach? Good morning/ good
afternoon Mr. Day and classmates, today I will be comparing two sonnets. These sonnets deal with the issue of ideal and unconventional love
, however they do so in exceedingly different ways.
Sonnet 90 by Francesco Petrarca is a representation of a...show more content...
For example
, 'her way of moving was no mortal thing, but of angelic form'.
Petrarch's
Sonnet is an expression of his love for his mistress; he describes her as attractive and sublime. This love may be seen as superficial.
Another renowned poet and playwright of Elizabethan times was William Shakespeare. Shakespeare's one hundred thirtieth sonnet introduced a new
era of sonnets. Far more different from traditional sonnets of the 1600's, Sonnet 130 has also been recognized as 'Anti–Petrachian'. In comparison
Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare has the same discourse but instead of being clichГ©, mocks the courtly sonnets in his realistic portrayal of his
mistress. He deals with the discourse of love and he does so in a way to bring to light the superficial clichГ©s that had been held so highly. (show poem)
Shakespeare concentrates on his mistress's physical imperfections by portraying to the reader that his woman in not attractive. The reader can draw
powerful images with Shakespeare's language and dialogue signifying a range of human emotions and conditions
Instead of exaggerating the beauty of his lady's eyes by claiming that they outshine the sun, the speaker starts off with a simile proclaiming 'my
mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun' , he doesn't describe the eyes at all,

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3. Outline For Poetry Essay
Poem Essay I. Theme and mood A. Frost uses the two paths symbolically as a choice to be made between decisions having to be made. B. The sigh
in the end of the poem, portrays a sign of regret, or realization of making the wrong choice. II. Figurative language and poetic device A. The two
paths are the journey that lead you to your destiny. B. "Two roads diverged in yellow wood" suggest that its fall season, making the theme seem like
"he was falling apart" C. Frost uses rhythm in the poem to keep the readers intrigued in what with happen next. D. The reader can relate to frost
because everyone has to make choices. E. The fork, symbolizes free will and fate. III. Interpretation of the Poem B. "making all the difference" is used
sarcastically,
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4. Engl. 102 Poetry Essay
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" a Review
English 102
Liberty University
4/21/2014
Poetry Thesis and Outline
While reviewing "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", it should be noted that the key is the rhythm of the language. The first, second, and fourth
sentence rime while the third sentence of each rimes with the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd sentence of the next stanza. In relation with the cryptic language draws
the question, there is a more sinister back drop of loneliness and depression in this poem much deeper than the level of nature orated by the Narator. I.
First Stanza
A. Frost opens with describing who's woods we are viewing
1. Does it matter who's woods
B. No one is...show more content...
Frost further points out that the stretch of woods being viewed is very rural. This is made possible by the reference to the location between the woods
and frozen lake. In closing the final sentence of the second stanza Frost reiterates the fact that this occurs on "the darkest evening of the year" stating
the darkness of the mood.
In the following stanza Frost returns to the horse, which "gives his harness bells a shake". This is the first of only two sounds listed in the entire
poem. Sounds might normally be associated with a person in a lighter more jovial mood. Frost uses the lack of sound to put the narrator into what
appears to be a deep process of thought. As the poem moves further allon it is clear that Frost is not thinking of other sounds or even the feelings which
would be associated with this type of event. There is no mention of the temperature only the implication of the snow falling, and the frozen lake. Yet the
sounds are slightly present, similar to an athlete who is preparing for the event. Frost is quiet, internalizing his thoughts, focusing on the task at hand,
and not sensing the other areas of life in the world around him.

5. In the fourth and final stanza Frost uses the riming of all four sentences to draw the reader into the climax of the poem, "the woods are lovely dark and
deep/ But I have promises to keep/ and miles to go before I sleep/ and miles to go before I sleep". This grouping leads the reader to feel that
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6. Analysis Of Langston Hughes
Hughes would remind the audience of this difference between pay no attention to dreams and getting rid of them altogether and we are reminded that
a deferred dream is not a canceled dream. Then Hughes would change your perception of a deferred dream when he makes you think of sweet–tasting
things that would crust or sugar over like honey and candy stirring up the taste buds and drawing a gap between the bitterness of a lost
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7. Essay on Poetry Analysis
In the poem "An Echo Sonnet", author Robert Pack writes of a conversation between a person's voice and its echo. With the use of numerous literary
techniques, Pack is able to enhance the meaning of the poem: that we must depend on ourselves for answers because other opinions are just echoes of
our own ideas.
At first glance, the reader notices that the poem is divided into two parts in order to resemble a conversation. When reading the sonnet for the first time
the reader may make the mistake in thinking that what the "echo" replies is an answer to the questions the "voice" asks. But in reality the "echo" isn't
replying to the "voice" but is actually performing its normal job. The "echo" only repeats back the last prominent sounds...show more content...
This occurs on line 5, where the author depends on imagery to enlighten us. The line reads "leaf blooms, burns red before delighted eyes", the
blooming or opening of leaves is a direct parallel to humans opening up their minds in order to learn something new. But at the end of the line we
notice that the "leaf" itself dies, the poet uses the dying leaf as a parallel to our former ideas dying. Because our minds were opened up to
something new, whatever former opinion we had died off when new information on a subject is presented. This is just one part of the learning
process so Pack separates it from the other parts with the use of a comma. After the comma, comes the action of understanding the information
presented to us. Whatever the reader sees is burning "red" and their eyes are left "delighted" which means the onlooker took interest to what they
saw developing before them. Pack uses this line filled with imagery in order to set a precedent to his readers. He wants us to open our minds to the
meaning of the poem and that fact we can find all answers in our own questions if we only depend on ourselves.
While reading the poem a second time over the audience notices a very controlled rhyme scheme. The poem consists of a rhyme scheme of
A,B,A,B,C,D,C,D ... until we reach the last two lines of the poem where Line 13 rhymes directly with Line 14. It is worth to note that the author
doesn't follow through to the end with
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8. Poetry Analysis
Some of the poems and essays I have read during this class were relatable to me. Being away from college, I have struggled with not being at home.
I have become a different person when I am at school, but when I am home, I feel like I am my normal self again. Some of these authors of the
poems and essays that I have read throughout this class has struggled with being somewhere where they don't belong and that they are someone else
when they are not home. Unlike the other poems and essays we have read throughout the course. I enjoyed reading the ones about "home" because I
actually understood what they are going through and that I can relate. Some of these poems and essays include "Going Home" by Maurice Kenny,
Postcard from Kashmir", by Agha Shahid Ali, "Returning" by Elias Miguel Munoz and "Hometown" by Luis Cabalquinto. All of these poems deal with
duality.
In Luis Cablaquinto's poem, "Hometown," the speaker talks about how he is not himself when he is not at home. He wishes that he can would remain
where he grew up, "I have no wish but this place / To remain here at a stopped time / With stars moving on the water" (9–11). The speaker mentioned
that he can see the stars in his home because he cannot see it when he is in the city. That's how I feel when I am at Athens. When I get to go home for
a holiday, I just wish time would stand still and that I could stay there forever.
"Alone, myself, again away / From that other self in the city / On this piece of ancestor land /
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9. Poetry Analysis
Whatever my life takes me, poetry will always be in my heart. It proceeds yourself to a completely different world and supply you an opportunity to
understand about yourself. I had the opportunity to be introduced to poetry in my literary themes class and I did not understand what it was talking
about. As I consistently read my assigned poetry book The Gift of Tongues, I could resemble my life in these poetries. Out of all the poetries that I
read, ten of these poems stood out to me about life. Although all of these poems resembles about life, you can look at these poems as different
aspects about life. The reason why I chose these poems is that they each resembles about life being a circle of obstacles that you will face. When these
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The Accuser written by Shirley Kaufman resembles a scene from an attack. Shirley talks about her being the victim and how it affected her after the
attack. Overall, this poetry took me back to the incidents of being the injured victim to the Paris attack that occurred. From the beginning, According
to the news and videos about the attack, reporters were explaining that they were victims that were injured critically were attempting to achieve
support and the paramedics could not save them due to the fact they were other people that were brutally injured. At the same time I feel empathy for
me and the people that were victimized by being severely injured or deceased from that attack as life goes on they will be experiencing life in a
different way than other people. On the other hand, this also teaches people that as much as you can attempt to stop these instances, these situations
will still journey on due to the fact you cannot stop the entire world to do
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10. Shakespeare's Sonnet #73 Essay
Shakespeare's Sonnet #73, published in 1609, is written in the Shakespearean or English sonnet style. It consists of three quatrains and one couplet at
the end, written in iambic pentameters. Each quatrain has its own rhyme scheme, rhyming in alternating lines. The couplet summarizes the preceding
twelve lines. Sonnet 73 appears to contain multiple parallels to death and the person speaking in the poem gives the impression that he is near death
and reflecting back upon life.
The first quatrain, "That time of the year thou mayst behold me/ When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang/ Upon those boughs which shake against
the cold/ Bare ruin choirs where late the sweet bird sang." He seems to be comparing his life the unspecified season,...show more content...
Meaning, death will come, without question. He plays upon the sun setting, which in some cultures was a god dying every evening (and he would be
reborn every morning). The sun setting could also be regarded as the sun going to sleep, which plays on the last line of the quatrain, "Death's
second self, which seals upon rest." This line talks of the eternal sleep, or death. This quatrain suggests a night without the possibility of day,
"seals upon rest."
In the third quatrain, "In me the glowing of such fire/ That on the ashes of his youth doth lie/ As the deathbed whereon it must expire/ Consuming with
that which it was nourished by." He seems to compare his life to fire, burning bright in youth, when energy and ideas bound forth, but eventually it all
turns to ashes, fragments of the passing youth, essentially death. He also makes implications of lying upon the ashes, his deathbed, of days gone by,
days when he was young and full of energy. The fire proposes finality, the non–cyclical process that night and the seasons are part of, which
Shakespeare has worked towards in the poem.
The final couplet, "This thou percev'st which makes thy love more strong/ To love that well which thou must leave ere
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11. Analyzing The Broadcaster's Poem By Alden Nowlan
Broadcasting the Poem Have you ever felt like you were born to do something? Since I was born I felt like I was born to play baseball, but after that I
would love to be a broadcaster. That is why I have chosen to analyze "The Broadcaster's Poem" by Alden Nowlan. Analyzing a poem is not an easy
thing to accomplish for me. As I very rarely analyze anything I read, but you should try everything once. As my eyes read this poem and mymind
processes it, I ponder a question. What the heck is Nowlan talking about? Saying things like, "will I take off my glasses and throw them into the water,
although I'm half blind without them?" I have not the slightest idea what that means. If you are blind without glasses, then why would you want to take
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People say that they cannot believe things, because it is hard to imagine that what is happening is actually happening to them. Everyone has a
dream, a goal, an aspiration, maybe being a broadcaster was a dream Alden Nowlan. Nowlan writes of a crash he once covered as a reporter, where a
train crashed into a car killing three people. As if this is not bad enough to think about, he goes into a more vivid description. "One of
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12. Out, Out by Robert Frost Essay
Out, Out
"Out, Out," by Robert Frost is a gruesomely graphic and emotional poem about the tragic end of a young boy's life. It is a powerful expression
about the fragility of life and the fact that death can come at any time. Death is always devastating, but it is even more so when the victim is just a
young boy. The fact that the boy's death came right before he could " Call it a day" (750) leads one to think the tragedy might have been avoided and
there by forces the reader to think, "What if." This poem brings the question of mortality to the reader's attention and shows that death has no age limit.
It was powerful poems such as "Out, Out" that gave Robert Frost the reputation as one of America's leading 20th century poets. The...show more
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This was the start of Frost's reputation as one of the great American writers of the 20th century.
"Out, Out" is a great example of a typical Robert Frost poem. This narrative poem tells a story of human tragedy through the death of a young boy.
The poem shows how fragile life can be and how it can be taken from people in an instant. The boy's tragic death is illuminated for the reader by a
commentator watching the incident from the outside looking in. There is a lot of detail given to the reader early on describing the saw and the
way it "snarled and rattled." These details and the emphases on the boy's age and his wanting to leave work early made the situation destined for
tragedy. It was as if Frost was preparing us for the tragedy to come, "And nothing happened: day was all but done"(9). This suggests that something
is definitely going to happen. Another clue that something awful is about to happen is the way the saw is personified it: " leaped out of the boy's
hand" (16). As it is described, the saw jumped out of the boy's hand when he is called for supper, "As if to prove that saw knew what supper meant"
(15). Through the use of onomatopoeia, the saw is also made to sound vicious like an attack dog when it is heard to snarl and rattle. The
personification and description of the noises of the saw makes defiantly it seem like a major character in the poem.
The theme of this poem is the boy's
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