Would you like to read, comment on, and critique my 'Sonnet'?
And will you miss me when I'm gone, no longer here to hold your hand? And who then will you lean upon when I walk in a fairer land? Will you remember when we kissed, or will you have a newer love? I'd like to think that I'll be missed when I am called by God above. Perhaps I worry needlessly and should put far more faith in you, but darling, I am sixty-three and you are only thirty-two. And as I face eternity, it chafes, this age discrepancy. Written as I typed, completely off the top of my bonce. (With my tongue in my cheek.)
Thesis statement for sonnet critique?
I have to write a sonnet critique on Sonnet 138. When my love swears that she is made of truth I do believe her, though I know she lies, That she might think me some untutor'd youth, Unlearned in the world's false subtleties. Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young. Although she knows my days are past the best, Simply I credit her false speaking tongue: On both side thus is simple truth suppress'd: But wherefore says she not she is unjust? And wherefore say not I that I am old? Oh! love's best habit is in seeming trust, And age in love loves not to have years told: Therefore I lie with her and she with me, And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be. I need help with the thesis statement thanks.
Can anyone critique my sonnet?
I call it "Etch me a Wasteland." I'd just like some honest feedback on it, considering my friends refuse to read my sonnets and I hate it when my parents read them. The sonnet concerns power and how it can get confusing and out-of-control. So here goes. Etch me a dream built of memorial stone; Carve thy name upon the discordant cries Of queens and princes tossed down from the throne, Of all the jokers waiting for the rigg’d prize. Don’t claim to be leader or messiah Unless you promise fields of gold and heav’n. Lambs don’t tread after sharks that come cryin’ Any more than a headstrong boy of seven. Let a drop of weakness slip down your throat And be ready when hassles begin to gnaw. Slide the drawbridge over the hazy moat; Deny the ghosts of claws from a clean paw. Done, final, spin the curses of a flock; The last thing we want is blood on our smocks.
Father's Sonnet...poem....critique please!!?
I hope you keep all your writings in a neat notebook. Do you have a link where your songs can be heard? When you do get one up, please share. Cool poem.
How do you analyze/critique a poem?
To fully understand poetry, we must first be fluent with its meter, rhyme and figures of speech, then ask two questions: 1) How artfully has the objective of the poem been rendered and 2) How important is that objective? Question 1 rates the poem's perfection; question 2 rates its importance. And once these questions have been answered, determining the poem's greatness becomes a relatively simple matter.If the poem's score for perfection is plotted on the horizontal of a graph and its importance is plotted on the vertical, then calculating the total area of the poem yields the measure of its greatness.A sonnet by Byron might score high on the vertical but only average on the horizontal. A Shakespearean sonnet, on the other hand, would score high both horizontally and vertically, yielding a massive total area, thereby revealing the poem to be truly great. As you proceed through the poetry in this book, practice this rating method. As your ability to evaluate poems in this matter grows, so will, so will your enjoyment and understanding of poetry.The above is something any fan of the film The Dead Poets Society will recognize. It���s pretty awful stuff, as it degrades “appreciating” poetry into embalming it. Nevertheless, some familiarity with the techniques a poet uses is helpful in analyzing and critiquing poetry.It’s similar to the way one experiences music. It’s possible to appreciate music for the emotional response it evokes. One needn’t know how to read music, let alone have an in depth understanding of things like key signature or time signature. Understanding more allows for an analytical appreciation, as well as an emotional response.
Need help analyzing Sonnet: I Thank you by Henry Timrod?
For English I need to analyze the poem Sonnet: I Thank you by Henry Timrod I thank you, kind and best beloved friend, With the same thanks one murmurs to a sister, When, for some gentle favor, he hath kissed her, Less for the gifts than for the love you send, Less for the flowers, than what the flowers convey; If I, indeed, divine their meaning truly, And not unto myself ascribe, unduly, Things which you neither meant nor wished to say, Oh! tell me, is the hope then all misplaced? And am I flattered by my own affection? But in your beauteous gift, methought I traced Something above a short-lived predilection, And which, for that I know no dearer name, I designate as love, without love’s flame. I need to analyze theme, symbolism, tone, mood etc Thanks in advance!
What is your favorite Shakespeare play or sonnet and why?
I actually have two favorite plays, which I love equally but for different reasons. The shared reasons are that they are full of great poetry and that, like his other mature plays, are written so that the language itself in its rhythms and sounds provides “stage directions” to the actor—a unique feat that no other playwright has achieved.I love King Lear because it is a profound exploration of evil—of how evil originates and then evolves and deepens when the force of good is weak, and how love and compassion may not be able to triumph against it. At the same time, it is a criticism of a hierarchical social order that allows one man to make decisions that can lead to the ruin of many and that allows a few to live in luxury while the majority live in poverty,I love The Tempest because it is Shakespeare’s late meditation on his own art as a dramatic poet, on how the wisdom of experience can guide and shelter innocence, and on how poetry and art can renew us—yet it is also a prophecy of colonialism and an implied critique of class society that insists on the human imaginative qualities of the “native” and the poor and oppressed.
Sonnet 18...MultipleChoice!! Plz help me OUT, Thank you!?
SONNET 18 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 owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee. 1 - The subject of "Sonnet 18" has been immortalized by: a - the speaker's love. b - the children they have had. c - the sonnet. d - his memories. 2 - The purpose of a couplet in a Shakespearean sonnet is to: a - set the tone. b - conclude and highlight meaning. c - Both. Thx!