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In this particular sonnet, the couplet acts as a summary of the basic sentiment of silent and stifled desire that fill the lines of the poem. "So true a fool is love that in your will, though you do anything, he thinks no ill," not only reiterates the dark romanticism that characterizes the entire sonnet, but Shakespeare also subtly establishes ...
This idea claims that the poem is actually much more like English Romantic poetry than it is like puritan religious poetry. This is supported by literary scholars such as Piercy. Because there is debate over whether the poem is romantic or religious, there could be a variety of meanings which the poem holds. [3]
In addition to the preparation poetry seen by Edward Taylor, the Puritan woman Anne Bradstreet wrote dense poetry of her own. She spoke in a deeply personal manner distant from the general understanding of the role of Puritan women. She used poetry as a mode of demonstrating her love for family, husband, and God.
× / × / × / × / × / O cunning Love! with tears thou keep'st me blind, (148.13) / = ictus , a metrically strong syllabic position. × = nonictus . Line 2 exhibits a rightward movement of the fourth ictus (resulting in a four-position figure, × × / / , sometimes referred to as a minor ionic ), and line 3 has a mid-line reversal and ...
John Milton (1608–1674), most famous for his epic poem "Paradise Lost" (1667), was an English poet with religious beliefs emphasizing central Puritanical views.While the work acted as an expression of his despair over the failure of the Puritan Revolution against the English Catholic Church, it also indicated his optimism in human potential.
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Sonnet 66 is a world-weary, desperate list of grievances of the state of the poet's society. The speaker criticizes three things: general unfairness of life, societal immorality, and oppressive government.