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Importance of Apostrophe in Poetry, Prose, and Song. The device is also used in the carol 'Oh Christmas Tree' as people sing not only about the cherished holiday topiary but to it. Stella shows that she is not grateful, despite his love for her, and that she believes this is her virtue-she has the moral high ground. In this case, the apostrophe speaks directly to an inanimate star 'up above the world so high,' personifying it and pondering how its doing. The final line is written in near despair, for these same lovers not only scorn but translate virtue into ungratefulness. The speaker is having a go at many (they) but is really focusing on his own would-be lover, Stella, who will not return his love. #SONNET EXAMPLES BY STUDENTS ABOUT AN INANIMATE OBJECT FREE#Then suddenly a bright light shines on me and I finally feel free from this. I’ve been here for so long and I feel so hopeless and useless. ![]() I feel suffocated and musty with all these boxes stocked next to me and on top of me. What makes line 13 so interesting is the caesura, break, just before the end.and yet.the enjambment running on into line fourteen as if the speaker cannot contain his frustration.įor, devastatingly, those same beauties who love to be loved also scorn those who are possessed by love, that is, those truly in love. The darkness is slowly scaring me making me feel overwhelmed. Note the creative use of the verb love and infinitive loved, yet again a sort of play on grammar, a play on love. The eleventh line speaks for itself, the speaker asking if good-looking women are as proud (aloof?) there, in the Moon's realm, as they are on earth, in the Queen's court. Devotion to a lady was all part of the tradition, as was fighting in battle and duty to Queen and country. Philip Sidney as an up-and-coming favourite of Queen Elizabeth would have been expected to make his mark. Life in the Elizabethan court for a young knight was highly competitive. Each sonnet represents an aspect of Astrophil's love for Stella.He wanted her as his wife, she shunned his approaches. The title Astrophil (Star lover) and Stella (Star) reflects the relationship between Philip Sidney and Penelope Devereux.Sonnet 31 is a 14-line poem made up of a Petrarchan octave ( after the Italian poet Petrarch who invented the form in the 14th century), these first eight lines describing the Moon whilst a Spenserian sestet (after the English poet Edmund Spenser), at the turn, consists of rhetorical questions posed by the yearning lover.Sidney's cycle is bettered by only one poet-yes, William Shakespeare. He wrote me back and I’ve kept this treasure as a personal memento.His Astrophil and Stella sparked an increase in sonneteering that would last the best part of twenty years. #SONNET EXAMPLES BY STUDENTS ABOUT AN INANIMATE OBJECT MANUAL#JNT was the producer of Doctor Who in 1985 when I, as a 16-year old fan, wrote a “Doctor Who” script on a manual typewriter and sent it to JNT in hopes of it being considered for production. On today, the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, I jot down a poetic expression while looking at a letter from John Nathan-Turner. It always shows up, as if to say “where shall we go now?” ![]() It embodies childhood pleasure and aspirationĪnd it travels across time to take me there.Īnd it leaves me too, to attend to the day’s obligations.īut on irregular and unexpected anniversaries, Perhaps it is I who is the companion to it. It traveled with me, this note, for a time and since then as a memory. Over the years I have regenerated: first as a student, then an adventurer, then a lover, then an employee, then a spouse, then a father, then a… That swift movement bringing moments to reflect My feather filled with ink through practiced printing, circling, and cursiveĭreams of conquering far away lands and triumph Lives otherwise lost to the world but for her care to record ![]() Then wrote the folly and triumphs of her small town, I was gifted to a lady who sat at a window, laughed at the life of the street People in the little towns looked up amidst their daily livesĭreamt of their grand dreams amid ordinaryĪs a plume - gentle on the tongue and writing what the tongue wanted to say The rustling dappled green, lavendar, yellow bushes of spring. The poems use the metaphor of decay, but in Sonnet 13, the decay is focused on inanimate objects: Metals do waste and fret with canker's rust. I was among the colored leaves of autumn. I sheltered through winter snows and winds. And the joyful laughter from midwife’s homes. ![]()
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