The poem I have chosen is The Summer I Was Sixteen by Geraldine Connolly it is the third poem on Poetry 180 website. I recommend this poem to the readers that likes summer and those who likes to read poems about friendships, fun and happiness. I think the reason why I chose this poem to write about is because I really like the season summer, the word summer just makes me feel happy, fun and brightness and as I continue to read this poem it was about friendship too. I think friendship is very important for each and every one of us, life without friends for me, it would be a life I would not want to live. I think that because of friends and family we live happily everyday.
Despite her advantages, it is astounding that she earned the title of America’s first published author. Bradstreet was known for her belief of the close relationship between nature and God. In her poem “Contemplations,” she is captivated by nature and the beauty it displays. In stanza four she makes a reference concerning the sun, “The higher on the glistering Sun I gazed.” Then at the end of the stanza she makes the comparison between nature and God, “No wonder some made thee a deity; /Had I not better known, alas, the same had I.” Thus meaning that she understands why some cultures have believed in a “Sun God.” If she did not already believe in Christianity, than she too would believe in a Sun God. She continues on with the same theme, by crediting God for creating the sun, “How full of glory then must thy creator be, /Who gave this bright light lust unto thee?” Next, she is looking at the beauty that nature possesses, and cannot help but wonder how beautiful heaven must be.
For instance beauty fading with time and also trust fading. A large variety of images fill the mind in each and every one of Shakespeares sonnets, but images cannot appear without the words that make them out to be. The vocabulary and diction that Shakespeare uses in both sonnets are especially effective in describing love, from star to every wandering bark to age in love, loves not to have years told, the words tell a different story about a common topic of love. Sonnet 116 does a softer, more delicate take on love whereas in Sonnet 138, the poem uses euphemisms, namely false- speaking tongue and And in our faults by lies we flattered be. Certainly not portraying love in its finest moment, neither is it a flagrant insult on the emotion.
The heady sensation stirred images of zealous summertime fun. If any person would close his eyes under the bright sunny rays and inhale the potent aroma, a smile would undeniably follow. This mesmerizing saltwater perfume could immediately put the disheartened mind into a delightful mood. While amiably strolling along, the ambience was overwhelmingly relaxing as the deep cobalt waters reflected the azure sky. The surrounding was merely breached by the breath taking horizon.
In her 17’th century poem, “To my Dear and loving Husband” the female Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet showers her husband with accolades of their wonderful Earthly love that they share for each other. In the 12 line lyric she expresses the importance and duality of both an Earthly love between a husband and wife also being a service mankind's love for god. The overall organization of the poem is 3 quatrains of two rhyming couplets each. The six couplets help to convey the sense of a harmonious loving couple. The rhyming pattern they use is AABBCCDDEE almost exactly and the iambic pentameter (5 feet of one unstressed followed by a stressed syllable) give the poem a very comfortable and perfectly designed feeling.
Realize what words Poe wants to emphasize; “Sea” for example is repeated throughout the poem hinting the importance of the sea. “Lee” in the other hand stands out well for the obvious reason that Poe is madly in love with her. While, “me” is emphasized in a peculiar way because it’s not until the end that we see why “me” is so important (correlating to the depression he faces due to the parting of his beloved). Towards the end, reaching the sixth stanza, rhyme scheme takes an important turn point or climax. The final stanza changes to A, B, C, B, C, C, B, B (Eliopulos Pg 74).
Use the poems we read in class as your models to follow when you write your own. Remember, this is a "write-like" poem, so you should try to write like the authors of the poems below. Your poem should pose a question/situation/problem, a turning point, and a resolution - just like the sonnets did that we read in class. Sonnet 18 Shakespeare 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
Barter Explication This poem is about admiring all that life has to give you. Teasdale uses formal language in this poem. I feel that there is a clear speaker and it is Teasdale sending us a message in her poem telling us to enjoy life for the loveliness. Teasdale used imagery and personification in the first stanza to give nature human like qualities, “Soaring fire that sways and sings.” The first two stanzas have a calm and peaceful mood but in the third stanza the mood shifts to persuasive or assertive where the speaker tells us to “spend all you have for loveliness”. In the first stanza the speaker gives examples of “beautiful and splendid things” and goes on to refer to them in the last line of the first stanza “Children’s faces looking up holding wonder in a cup”.
It’s seems like the poem just talk about the beautiful scenes, in fact, behind the beautiful scenes, what William wants to express is the transition of his mood while the second time he visits the same place. From a specific aspect, he writes this poem to commemorate his childhood since he is not innocent anymore. At the end of the poem, he doesn’t forget about her beloved sister Dorothy. This poem also shows his love to his younger sister and who is also his best friend. “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” is not only a pastoral poem; it’s also a meaningful poem.
Love has a very timeless theme, and no matter the time or place, love may be present. Poets seem to be best at capturing the meaning of love though their perceptions of it can vary greatly. A poem published in 1796, “Oh, My Love is Like A Red, Red Rose”, gives a very dramatic and vivid account of one’s love for another, and “How Do I Love Thee” a poem published in 1850, over fifty years later gives a very brief account of all the ways one loves. These two poems in themselves show just how timeless love is. Poets, through the use of many different literary elements create beautiful, heart-felt pieces that anyone who has ever been in love can relate to.