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The poem expresses the author's confusion over their racial identity as the child of a white father and black mother. Growing up in a racist society, the author questions where they will die, as they are neither fully white nor black. The different deaths and living conditions of the author's parents, with the father dying in a "fine big house" and the mother in a "shack," symbolize the impact of racism. The author reflects on having cursed both parents in the past but now wishes their mother well.
It is a beauteous evening
The poem describes a beautiful evening by the sea as the sun is setting. In the first eight lines (octave), the speaker notes the calm and quiet atmosphere, likening it to a nun in prayer. He hears the sounds of the sea which remind him of thunder. In the last six lines (sestet), the speaker addresses his daughter as they walk together. He says though she may seem carefree, her soul is still divine because she is constantly in God's presence, even if unaware, just as one is in God's presence when in nature.
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The poem "The Good-Morrow" by John Donne is a love lyric composed of 3 stanzas of 7 lines each with an ABBAACC rhyme scheme. It explores the awakening of love between two souls and their discovery of one another. The speaker questions what they were doing before falling in love, comparing their previous states to children unaware of love. Now united, they find a world in each other and need no other discoveries. In each other's eyes, they see their passions reflected as in a mirror, their love blending them into a unified whole.
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The document provides context for studying the poem "The Good Morrow" by John Donne. It discusses the meaning of canonicity and how some poets become part of the literary canon while others are forgotten. It asks what defines a poet and explores how Donne was viewed differently by Samuel Johnson and T.S. Eliot. The document instructs students to analyze "The Good Morrow" based on their reading and sign up for online submission systems for upcoming essays.
Not marble, nor guilded monuments
This document provides information about William Shakespeare's sonnet "Not Marble, Nor The Gilded Monuments", including its themes and structure. The sonnet discusses how Shakespeare's poetry will immortalize his beloved, lasting longer than marble monuments or statues of kings. A sonnet has 14 lines in a strict rhyme scheme and iambic pentameter. It is broken into three quatrains that develop the theme, and a concluding couplet. This sonnet emphasizes that while worldly things are fleeting, art in the form of poetry is everlasting.
Christina Rossetti
Christina Rossetti was an English poet born in 1830 in London. She came from a artistic family and began writing poetry in her teens. Many of her poems were aimed at children. Her work often explored themes of religious faith and examined gender relations and societal expectations of women in Victorian society. Her most famous work is the poem "Goblin Market" which uses fantastical imagery and themes of temptation to examine complex issues of female sexuality and agency. She remained unmarried and became an invalid later in life, rejecting the social world associated with her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
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This poem explores the position of women in Western society through the story of Aunt Jennifer. The aunt creates a tapestry depicting tigers to express her inner desires, as she is trapped in an abusive marriage. The vibrant, fearless tigers represent the freedom and adventures she longs for but cannot have due to the control of her husband. Even after death, her artwork will allow her legacy to live on and symbolize the strength and liberation she lacked in life.
Remember
The document provides analysis of the poem "Remember" by Christina Rossetti. It summarizes the themes of dying, love, and forgetfulness explored in the poem. The poem is written in Petrarchan sonnet form with an octave describing the speaker's request to be remembered after death, and a sestet where the speaker's tone changes and says it is better to forget and smile than remember and be sad. The document analyzes the tone, structure, and themes within the poem.
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the content of poem "Cross"
The poem expresses the author's confusion over their racial identity as the child of a white father and black mother. Growing up in a racist society, the author questions where they will die, as they are neither fully white nor black. The different deaths and living conditions of the author's parents, with the father dying in a "fine big house" and the mother in a "shack," symbolize the impact of racism. The author reflects on having cursed both parents in the past but now wishes their mother well.
It is a beauteous evening
The poem describes a beautiful evening by the sea as the sun is setting. In the first eight lines (octave), the speaker notes the calm and quiet atmosphere, likening it to a nun in prayer. He hears the sounds of the sea which remind him of thunder. In the last six lines (sestet), the speaker addresses his daughter as they walk together. He says though she may seem carefree, her soul is still divine because she is constantly in God's presence, even if unaware, just as one is in God's presence when in nature.
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The poem "The Good-Morrow" by John Donne is a love lyric composed of 3 stanzas of 7 lines each with an ABBAACC rhyme scheme. It explores the awakening of love between two souls and their discovery of one another. The speaker questions what they were doing before falling in love, comparing their previous states to children unaware of love. Now united, they find a world in each other and need no other discoveries. In each other's eyes, they see their passions reflected as in a mirror, their love blending them into a unified whole.
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The document provides context for studying the poem "The Good Morrow" by John Donne. It discusses the meaning of canonicity and how some poets become part of the literary canon while others are forgotten. It asks what defines a poet and explores how Donne was viewed differently by Samuel Johnson and T.S. Eliot. The document instructs students to analyze "The Good Morrow" based on their reading and sign up for online submission systems for upcoming essays.
Not marble, nor guilded monuments
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Remember
The document provides analysis of the poem "Remember" by Christina Rossetti. It summarizes the themes of dying, love, and forgetfulness explored in the poem. The poem is written in Petrarchan sonnet form with an octave describing the speaker's request to be remembered after death, and a sestet where the speaker's tone changes and says it is better to forget and smile than remember and be sad. The document analyzes the tone, structure, and themes within the poem.
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Sonnet 18
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William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet born in 1865 in Dublin. He was influenced by Irish folklore and the occult from a young age through his family. In "Sailing to Byzantium", Yeats reflects on aging and seeks immortality through his poetry. He contrasts the physical world with the eternal soul. In the poem, Yeats dreams of escaping his mortal body by becoming a golden bird that sings for emperors in Byzantium as a way to find immortality and meaning.
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets around 1598 during an enforced break from theatre. The sonnets can be categorized into three themes: Sonnets 1-17 focus on persuading a young man to procreate; Sonnets 1-126 are addressed to this young man; and Sonnets 127-154 concern a "dark lady". The sonnets explore themes of love enduring beyond physical changes, the inevitability of death, and present a more realistic view of love than other contemporary love poetry. The sonnets provide insight into Shakespeare's views on topics like religion, human nature, and his criticism of other literary works.
Analyzing poem: sonnet 18 & rejection
This poem compares the beauty of the persona to the summer. It states that the persona is more beautiful and constant than summer, which has imperfections like rough winds shaking flowers, being too short or hot, and sometimes providing too much shade. The poem asserts that the persona's beauty will never fade or fail like summer beauty does, and will be celebrated through the poem even after death.
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William Blake was an English artist and poet born in 1757 who received his education at the Royal Academy of Art's Schools of Design. He is considered an influential figure of the Romantic Age whose paintings and writings have inspired many. The document discusses two of Blake's poems, "A Poison Tree" and "To the Evening Star," providing analysis of their themes of anger/hatred and love respectively, as well as their poetic form. It also briefly profiles Blake and includes images of two of his artworks.
Samuel taylor coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was a leader of Romantic poetry. He divided imagination into primary and secondary forms. Primary imagination is a creative faculty possessed by all, while secondary imagination is the conscious, creative power of poets. Coleridge believed the purpose of poetry was to give pleasure, and defined a poem as having organic unity and seeking to produce immediate pleasure in readers through the willing suspension of disbelief. He saw imagination as the key distinguishing factor of a true poet.
Sonnet 18
The poem compares the subject's beauty to a summer's day, noting that while summer days can be hot or dimmed and seasons change, the subject's beauty will remain eternal and undiminished by time, living on as long as the poem continues to be read.
Keeping quiet
The poem describes asking everyone to stop and be still and quiet for a moment. The author wants this to happen so that people can gain a new understanding by being still without technology or war. He suggests that if the world was quieter, there would be less sadness, violence and misunderstanding between people. A moment of silence could interrupt this and allow a deeper connection to the earth and life.
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