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Petrarchan sonnet comparison to shakespeare
Petrarchan sonnet comparison to shakespeare
Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets
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In the poem "First fight. Then fiddle." Gwendolyn Brooks argues for the necessity of brutal war in order to create a space for the pursuit of beautiful art. She uses Petrarchan sonnet structure and a conflicting, controversial turn to keep reader's close attention, create lyrical quality and influence the reader through her message. It is a wonderful example of a sonnet that follows the traditional rules, while adding a bit of a modern twist to it. Her message is simple but it is conveyed in a very original way that it stands out and grabs your attention. Throughout the sonnet the author uses alliteration, assonance and consonance making a sonnet itself a metaphor for artistic creation.
In the poem, the author uses structure of the sonnet as well as patterns and rhyme to join the external form of the Petrarchan sonnet with the theme and tone. Brook's poem does not exactly follow the pattern we are used to which makes the reader follow every line closely for examination. Using a structured rhyme pattern to describe such a serious tone gives the sonnet a punchy feeling, simulating violence or pinch of strings in violin. Words like string, sing, hate, late, note, wrote, space, grace and many others all rhyme only using the last syllable, making them masculine. Also it draws attention to the ends of the lines which (the first four) she all ends with words related to music, furthering the theme of the poem. She also uses Petrarchan sonnet scheme to give the poem a lyrical quality emphasizing one of the themes of musical instruments in it. Finally, the poem is full of symbolism and imagery creating a strong connection between the way it is written and the message it carries.
In her poem, Brooks seems to paradoxically argue two differe...
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...t the poem to evoke feelings and sensation that a reader can relate to giving sonnet more depth. Overall she created a poetry that, like the violin playing, reminds us of those who may have been hurt in the name of the love for poetry as well as fulfilling a promise of poetry to teach us something we at first did not wish to see.
Gwendolyn Brooks creates a beautiful and complex piece of art in her poem "first fight. then fiddle" by using the structure of a Petrarchan sonnet yet adding her paradoxical, controversial twist to it and brilliantly using metaphor and alliteration for create a feeling of playing violin. The sonnet has great depth and describes the conflict of the war and peace, using playing the violin as a metaphor for the peace the author tries to keep through winning the war and leaving us with the hope to return to the violin after the worst is over.
Gwendolyn Brooks' "First fight. Then Fiddle." initially seems to argue for the necessity of brutal war in order to create a space for the pursuit of beautiful art. The poem is more complex, however, because it also implies both that war cannot protect art and that art should not justify war. Yet if Brooks seems, paradoxically, to argue against art within a work of art, she does so in order create an artwork that by its very recognition of art's costs would justify itself.
Wilfred Owen expresses his feelings about war in “Anthem for a Doomed Youth”, which revolves around the events that took place in World War I. Throughout the sonnet, the speaker talks bitterly about modern warfare, noting the harsh sounds of war and questioning the treatment of the soldiers that perish. In the octave, the speaker wonders what can be done to honor the soldiers that died, but realizes negatively that the soldiers only receive death instead of ceremonies. In the sestet, the speaker expands upon this idea of a proper ceremony for the deceased soldiers, saying that the families must be the ones to properly honor their dead. Owen’s use of the Petrarchan sonnet with a Shakespearean rhyme scheme, helps him express his frustration about war and its subsequent treatment of the dead.
Billy Collins, the writer of Sonnet uses a comical effect to make fun of old sonnets, how they were written and the older poets, through the use of literary terms.The fact that Billy Collins speaks with a mockery tone of Petrarch, causes readers to understand how he feels about the old sonnet writers and their work. Collins' tone expresses a negative look on old sonnets but also looks on the bright side of them. He is addressing the issue of how older sonnets were written by old poets in order to explain to readers why he wants to change the face of sonnets today. He is trying to get this main point across to readers so that they understand why he wants this change.
...e speaker admits she is worried and confused when she says, “The sonnet is the story of a woman’s struggle to make choices regarding love.” (14) Her mind is disturbed from the trials of love.
As we can see both these poems have a clear image of war, and the
All of Sun Tzu’s strategies in The Art of War have been adopted by American businesses in order for them to be successful. Chapter one of The Art of War is “Laying Plans” which has five fundamental factors: the moral law, heaven, earth, the commander, and method and discipline. In business the moral law means one’s mission or goal. Heaven compares to outside forces such as the market and dependencies. Earth would be the scene of action such as people, place, product, and process included in production. Commander is leadership like a sponsor or a bachelor of arts. Method and discipline are the guiding principles similar to business ethics, laws, and policies. Sun Tzu said, “These five heads should be familiar to every general; he who knows them will be victorious; he who knows them not will fail” (Tzu 2). Basically, what this means and how businesses relate to it is that before one does anything one evaluates all business options.
"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal [but] which the reader recognizes as his own." (Salvatore Quasimodo). There is something about the human spirit that causes us to rejoice in shared experience. We can connect on a deep level with our fellow man when we believe that somehow someone else understands us as they relate their own joys and hardships; and perhaps nowhere better is this relationship expressed than in that of the poet and his reader. For the current assignment I had the privilege (and challenge) of writing an imitation of William Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 87". This poem touched a place in my heart because I have actually given this sonnet to someone before as it then communicated my thoughts and feelings far better than I could. For this reason, Sonnet 87 was an easy choice for this project, although not quite so easy an undertaking as I endeavored to match Shakespeare’s structure and bring out his themes through similar word choice.
A sonnet is a fixed patterned poem that expresses a single, complete thought or idea. Sonnet comes from the Italian word “sonetto”, which means “little song”. Poem, on the other hand, is English writing that has figurative language, and written in separate lines that usually have a repeated rhyme, but don’t all the time. The main and interesting thing is that these two poems or sonnets admire and compare the beauty of a specific woman, with tone, repetition, imagery, and sense of sound.
The sonnet delves into the idea of being at one with the earth and through his use of imagery as well as metaphor, Momoday creates a scene that demonstrates the power of nature. The poem starts off with an image set of a morning containing the beauty of the natural world, like “the wind bending the reeds” and “the patchwork of morning on gray moraine”. At the beginning, Momoday sets a tone of awe for the beauty of the world and the power it contains with his use of imagery. The narrator is assumed to be Momoday and through his own use of words, the audience is taken along with him on his journey. In the next stanza, Momoday incorporates more sensory details and imagery into his writing.
Two hundred years had passed between the sonnets of Petrarch and the reign of Queen Elizabeth. As a form and structure for poetic life, the sonnet had grown hard. Fourteen lines of rhymed iambic pentameter remained pregnant with possibilities and vitality, but must the sense turn after the octave and resolve in the sestet? Love remained in some ways inexpressible without this basic verse form, but something wasn’t right. Too many rose red lips and too much snow white skin belonging to unattainable lovers did not communicate the prevailing amorous imagination. The conventions were a little too conventional. The metaphors were gone somewhat stale.
When Something so innocent is associated with something as disturbing as a war. It gets the readers attention. After reading these two poems, I had a very different opinion of war. The references to “cattle” in the second sonnet and the patriotism in the third. the first particularly helped me to understand war more intelligently.
The two poems ‘Anzac’ by John Brereton and ‘Who's for the Game?’ by Jessie Pope are both written around the time of World War I. The two poems contain both differences and similarities in how they convey attitudes to war some ways that this is achieved are language, structure and the themes of the poems.
War is a controversial topic where people’s views differ at what war is, some people see it as pure evil and wicked while others think that it is brave and noble of what soldiers do. They look at poems which have been written by people affected by wars to show the contrast and the messages which are portrayed. Two poems which show different views of war are ‘the charge of the light brigade’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson and ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen. Both these poets use linguistic devices to convince the reader of their view of what the war is.
The sincerity that is shown to the reader can be seen in the use of the classic Petrarchan tropes found in Wyatt’s poem. For example, his use of opposites to convey the strength of his love such as the idea that she taught his to both ‘love and suffer’, or the idea that he shall both ‘live and die’ due to his love for the mysterious ‘she’. The use of these well-known sonnet tropes allows for the readers at the time of the poems creation to immediately understand that the poem is in fact a sincere display of the writer’s affection for his muse. This is because this was the norm in sonnet writing forms and were used to display the agonising sensation of the speaker’s feelings of loving a woman who is too distant for him to reach out right. However, from the perspective of a contemporary reader we may view this poem in another way. In the poem we can see that the ‘she’ in the poem is much more distant that other renderings of the poem, such as in Surrey’s translation of the poem as well as the original by Petrarch, which allows for the poem to focus much more on the speaker than the object of his affections. For example throughout the poem we can clearly see Wyatt’s use of words such as ‘me’, ‘mine’ and ‘my’ allows the reader to focus purely on the speaker and the way in which they