... Definition: an idea or concept expressed in a clever way. Often took form in ingenious and consciously far-fetched metaphor. Conceits attempt to capture elusive insights into the nature of human experience, which are partly feelings and partly intellectual perceptions. They play between literal and figurative meaning. Wit Definition: the apt association of thought and expression, ... entendre 9. Ironies, satire 10. Borders on the ridiculous - Metre: 1. Colloquial and aggressive 2. First person 3. Conversational 4. Dramatic 5. Questioning 6. Follows natural speech 7. Transforms confines...

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... . That is what is so ironical about this sonnet. The fact that he is describing the whole time how unattractive her features are. How matched up to the colors of nature she has no compare, and at the very end describes this love that he has for her. That this love is unusual yet so strong that it is unsurpassed. Very ... all the way through the sonnet is consistent. It starts as a passionate sonnet and continues to be to the end. The figures of speech in both of these sonnets are what make the sonnets interesting. Sonnet 130 is full of similes and metaphors. When in the sonnet it reads, ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... to the record from the Holy Trinity. Although only living until 1616 Shakespear wrote many things. Among some of those things written were his ever famous sonnets. A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem usually in iambic pentameter with a specific rhyme scheme. The Shakespearean sonnet has three four-line stanzas and a two ... content comapring his lovers external beauty to that of the beauty which he sees in nature. In the very first stanza "Shall i compare thee to a summer's day?" Shakespear is saying shall i compare you to the beauty of nature which i see around me. The summers day in line...

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... love and warmth with his sweet sequence, such as, "Thou art more lovely and more temperate"(line 2). Shakespeare depicts this tone with images of sunny summer days, heaven, gold, and nature as a whole. In comparison, "Acquainted with the Night" has a somber tone with which Frost describes the "night." He does not describe the night with bright city lights and a sky full ... the narrator's intense contemplation (line 7). Frost portrays a smooth sound of the narrator's journey through the city in order to express the theme of the poem. The eminent theme in Shakespearean sonnets is love an...

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... his poems. The things symbolized in Frost's poems evolve from his life and what he cares about. Frost" themes consist of life, human emotion, nature, and choices usually. Frost's themes vary through his poem, "Road Not Taken." The poem implies that to approach the dilemma, is to study all ... poem in that vague, open-ended world of hearsay or speculation. Frost believed "fire and ice," represented the raw power of nature. It is a statement of the raw power of human nature. In " The Oven Bird," the " teacher bird" symbolizes his teacher, and the leaves falling represents the fall season. ...

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... could not see God at all; therefore, he was symbolically dead.Now that he has been given a new opportunity on life, however, he sees the presence of God everywhere in nature.The speaker is filled with such a sense of wonderment about how amazing the natural world is, and, as a result all he can do is thank God. As the creator of ... , by thanking God for the "leaping greenly spirits of trees,"" the speaker is showing how much he appreciates the basic ideas and thoughts that nature represents.In literature the color green represents birth, life, and freshness.Therefore the speaker is usin...

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• Grade Level: High School