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In the quatrain of Sonnet 73 the image is of a fire being choked by ashes, which is a bit different from an upside down torch, however the quatrain contains in English the same idea that is expressed in Latin on the impressa in Pericles: "Consum'd with that which it was nourished by." "Consumed" may not be the obvious word choice for being ...
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The 60 poems there have the typical German sonnet form, but are written in the long-lined free rhythms developed by Ernst Stadler. [123] Patrick Bridgwater, writing in 1985, called the work "without question the best single collection produced by a German war poet in 1914–18," but adds that it "is to this day virtually unknown even in Germany."
Milton’s Sonnet 18 is written in iambic pentameter, with ten syllables per line, and consists of the customary 14 lines. Milton's sonnets do not follow the English (Shakespearean) sonnet form, however, but the original Italian (Petrarchan) form, as did other English poets before him (e.g. Wyatt) and after him (e.g. Elizabeth Browning). This ...
The very winds and waters are exhorted to protest against the intrusion of the line so close to his grounds at Rydal Mount, but the sonnet's real target is as much the values of middle class utilitarianism. [52] There is a similar technological and class ambivalence about the 1846 sonnet on "Illustrated Books and Newspapers".
"Sonnet X", also known by its opening words as "Death Be Not Proud", is a fourteen-line poem, or sonnet, by English poet John Donne (1572–1631), one of the leading figures in the metaphysical poets group of seventeenth-century English literature. Written between February and August 1609, it was first published posthumously in 1633.
The sonnet as a poetic form was first popular in English language during the Renaissance, but it had fallen out of use by the eighteenth century. [ 2 ] : 17 Samuel Taylor Coleridge , in his literary criticism, famously credited Smith and her contemporary William Lisle Bowles (whose Fourteen Sonnets came out five years later, in 1789) with ...