Analysis Of Sonnet 18

In James Whitcomb Riley’s poem “When the Frost is on the Punkin”, he explains in detail what his speaker loves about fall mornings. From this poem, we can tell that the speaker likes the crispness of the air, the sun, and the colors of a beautiful fall morning. The speaker likes the cool air of autumn. The poem states, “When the heat of summer’s over and the coolin’ fall is here.” By expressing this line, he shows us that he is ready for the cool air of autumn after a hot summer.

Donald Justice- "Sonnet: The Poet at Seven" And on the porch, across the upturned chair, The boy would spread a dingy counterpane Against the length and majesty of the rain, And on all fours crawl under it like a bear To lick his wounds in secret, in his lair; And afterwards, in the windy yard again, One hand cocked back, release his paper plane Frail as a mayfly to the faithless air.

In the beginning of the seventh chapter, it states that “The next day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer.” Also, on the train, the conductor states “Some weather! Hot!... Hot!... Hot!

Knowles contrasts the Summer session with the bleak Winter session that represents adulthood. The symbolism shows in this quote: “Today’s hymn was Dear Lord and Father of Mankind Forgive Our Foolish Ways; we had never heard that during the summer either”(Knowles 65). The boys must now forget the fun that occurred in the summer and get busy as the war inches closer. As they shovel snow, pick apples, and start to get on each other’s nerves, Knowles shows that adulthood is rough, especially after the easygoing life before them. The Winter session always comes after the Summer session as age goes upwards.

The speaker announces the weather condition of September speaking of how it’s lovely in New York, the sky returned to baby blue, the breeze now mild as breath” (lines 1-3), and he uses comparisons and imagery to picture an everyday occurrence an ordinary day could have. The simile, “the breeze now mild as breath” (lines 2-3) is comparing just how typical and

(Line 7), a rhetorical question because in reality, nobody would cry out because most people know it is necessary cycle. This contrast with the poem “Nothing Gold Can’t Stay” by Robert Frost, analyzed earlier, because that lyric illustrates that people will become upset when nature cycles its seasons. In addition, the speaker sates, “sun be swinging east” (line 20) which describes the suns movement eastward gradually becoming lower and lower making the days become shorter and colder. However, it’s important to note that the word “swinging” comes from a pendulum which is cycle. This subtlety tells the reader that the sun way be swinging east now but it will come back around and rise in the west, not all is

Some people at the party where gotangry, drunk and fought each other for no reason. “ The seasons are always thesame in literature books but yet are different ‘’. What I think there trying to say isyeah summer is

At the beginning of the excerpt, it is, “[s]uch a lovely day. Late summer. Warm." (Robinson 2) and the clock says it is around seven-thirty in the morning. (Robinson 2)

The sun was “a pale-yellow sun as if the sun had grown weak from trying too hard to shine”. The author uses a simile to highlight the narrator's environment being different and depressing to the narrator. She finds the sun to be less sunny than the sun she is used to back home. The weather can be a drastic change the narrator will have to face. The narrator is not used to “the sun … shining but the air remains[ing] cold” as it has always been “the sun is shining, the air is warm ''.

Charles Simic’s ‘Summertime’ at first glance seems like a complex, difficult to comprehend article with no distinct point or outlying message. Some would most likely claim that it is too eccentric, descriptive, and wordy, which is agreeable. Although, this article also speaks of simplicity, beauty, and wonder. This article is intimidating. Large and uncommonly descriptive words, a strange and difficult thought process, and an aspect that makes one think that Simic is working hard at sewing a complex web through his phrasing, but it is also very appealing.

Death was personified in, “Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade” (line 11), to show how even death’s grip, that eventually takes everyone, cannot take away this girl. Death was also personified to show how the girl was so extraordinary and beautiful, even death, arguably the most powerful force on Earth, could not touch her beauty. The imagery in “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May” (line 3), is used to show how the girl is calm and simple, unlike the winds of summer which cause chaos and drive people to not enjoy them. By comparing the girl to summer winds, the poet is expressing his love for the girl by showing how much better she is than summer, which many people tend to be fond of.

“Sonnet” by Billy Collins In the poem “Sonnet” by Billy Collins, Collins criticizes the over-analyzation of poems. Poems are supposed to be read for the enjoyment of the individual, however some do their best to nitpick poems to their very backbone of meanings. Collins shows his feelings regarding the actuality of poem dissection through satire to bash on rules for formal poetry and context behind each word. Collins craftly structures his poems for the poem to not have any deeper meanings behind the lines in it.

'Shall I compare thee ' deals with the idea of a perfect lover and the fading beauty of both women and the seasons. 'Let me not ' is about ideal love in its most perfect and purest form. In 'Shall I compare thee ' Shakespeare describes a lover 'more temperate ' than a summer 's day. Shakespeare asserts the opinion that the beauty of summer is nothing compared to this perfect human being.

The repetition of “far off” places extra emphasis on the fact that although spring is coming, it won’t be any time soon, specifically not until the force of warfare relents. The narrator adds imagery of the “faint, far scent of bud and leaf-“ (2). By adding imagery, Teasdale presents the idea that the soldiers had to cling to the oft-overlooked aspects left from before the war, such as scents and change in season, in order to remain sane. In the second stanza, the narrator says, “The sun turns north, the days grow long, / Later the evening star grows bright-“ (6-7).

In the third line he states “spring summer autumn winter” and in line 11 “autumn winter spring summer”. Cummings switches the order of the months a third time in the last stanza creating the idea that time runs on an endless cycle. Cummings implements this change in the seasons order at random times in the poem to remind readers of the infinite quality of