Literature
- John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 ? 8 November 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. Best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, Milton is also known for his treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica....
- Ode To The Nightingale By John Keats
Throughout the poem we are represented to the suffering of the speaker. He wonders why man is so inhuman with other man, where other elements of nature work with each other in harmony. The First Stanza: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My...
- Basic Sonnet Forms
SONNET: A 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes. the four types are: English/ Shakespearean sonnet The English sonnet (also called the Shakespearean sonnet after its foremost practitioner) comprises three quatrains...
- The Daffodils
"Daffodils" (1804) by William Wordsworth I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze....
- Astrophil And Stella: The Paradoxical Muse - Sonnet #64 And Sonnet #90
Sonnet #64: No more, my dear, no more these counsels try; Oh, give my passions leave to run their race; Let Fortune lay on me her worst disgrace; Let folk o'ercharg'd with brain against me cry; Let clouds bedim my face, break in mine eye; Let...
Literature
To His Love (Edmund Spenser)
One day I wrote her name upon the stand
But came the waves and washed it away
Again I wrote it with a second hand
But came the tide , and made my pains his prey
Vain man , said she , that does in vain assay
A mortal thing so to immortalize
For I myself shall like to this decay
And eek my name be wiped out likewise
Not so (quoth I ), let baser things device
To die in dust , but you shall live by fame
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize
And in the heavens write your glorious name
Where whenas Death shall all the world subdue
Our love shall live , and later life renew
(from Amoretti . sonnet LXXV)
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But came the waves and washed it away
Again I wrote it with a second hand
But came the tide , and made my pains his prey
Vain man , said she , that does in vain assay
A mortal thing so to immortalize
For I myself shall like to this decay
And eek my name be wiped out likewise
Not so (quoth I ), let baser things device
To die in dust , but you shall live by fame
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize
And in the heavens write your glorious name
Where whenas Death shall all the world subdue
Our love shall live , and later life renew
(from Amoretti . sonnet LXXV)
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THE WRITER*
Edmund Spenser(1552 - 1599) is a great English poet who bridged the medieval and Elizabethan periods , and who is most famous for his long allegorical romance " the faerie queene " . He is an example of an Elizabethan poet concerned with the the theme of immortality
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The poem*
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In this sonnet : the poet is trying to immortalize his beloved's name . One day, he wrote her name on the sand of abeach . Then , the waves came and made her name disappear . He wrote it for the second time , but came the tide and made the poet's efforts his prey . So , all his efforts are useless , in vain .
In the second quatrain : His beloved told him that he was trying to immortalize a mortal thing and this is impossible as she would die one day . Her body would decay
In the third quatrain : he answered her that he refused the idea that she would not be immortal . Bases things only die in dust , but she will be immortal forever through the lines of his poetry . His poetry will immortalize her virtues and will write her name in heaven
In the final couplet he says to his beloved when death defeats all the world , their love shall live and shall renew through his song . Their love will conquer death . So , through his poem their love will survive
Edmund Spenser(1552 - 1599) is a great English poet who bridged the medieval and Elizabethan periods , and who is most famous for his long allegorical romance " the faerie queene " . He is an example of an Elizabethan poet concerned with the the theme of immortality
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The poem*
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In this sonnet : the poet is trying to immortalize his beloved's name . One day, he wrote her name on the sand of abeach . Then , the waves came and made her name disappear . He wrote it for the second time , but came the tide and made the poet's efforts his prey . So , all his efforts are useless , in vain .
In the second quatrain : His beloved told him that he was trying to immortalize a mortal thing and this is impossible as she would die one day . Her body would decay
In the third quatrain : he answered her that he refused the idea that she would not be immortal . Bases things only die in dust , but she will be immortal forever through the lines of his poetry . His poetry will immortalize her virtues and will write her name in heaven
In the final couplet he says to his beloved when death defeats all the world , their love shall live and shall renew through his song . Their love will conquer death . So , through his poem their love will survive
- John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 ? 8 November 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. Best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, Milton is also known for his treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica....
- Ode To The Nightingale By John Keats
Throughout the poem we are represented to the suffering of the speaker. He wonders why man is so inhuman with other man, where other elements of nature work with each other in harmony. The First Stanza: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My...
- Basic Sonnet Forms
SONNET: A 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes. the four types are: English/ Shakespearean sonnet The English sonnet (also called the Shakespearean sonnet after its foremost practitioner) comprises three quatrains...
- The Daffodils
"Daffodils" (1804) by William Wordsworth I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze....
- Astrophil And Stella: The Paradoxical Muse - Sonnet #64 And Sonnet #90
Sonnet #64: No more, my dear, no more these counsels try; Oh, give my passions leave to run their race; Let Fortune lay on me her worst disgrace; Let folk o'ercharg'd with brain against me cry; Let clouds bedim my face, break in mine eye; Let...