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Rhyme Scheme: abab rhyme scheme Simile: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" Metaphor: "And often is his gold complexion dimmed;" Personification: "Rough winds do shake the darling buds...", "Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade," Imagery: //Sight//: "And often is his gold complexion dimmed;", "But thy eternal summer does not fade," //Smell//: No sense of smell //Taste//: No sense of taste //Sound//: "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May," //Touch//: "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines," Pg. 234 1. A woman is being compared to a clear, sunny, summer day 2. The speaker feels that the woman he loves is different from any other woman because to him her beauty is timeless and nothing can diminish her radiance as shown with the line "But thy eternal summer does not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest" Rhyme Scheme: abab rhyme scheme Simile: no similes Metaphor: "Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;", "Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink" Personification: "Yet many a man is making friends with death," "Pinned down by pain..." Imagery: //Sight//: "Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink," //Smell//: No sense of smell //Taste//: No sense of taste //Sound//: "Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;" "Or nagged down by want past resolution's power," //Touch//: "Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,", "Nor clean the blood, set the fractured bone;" Pg. 236 1. "Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink," are the lines that I find most memorable because I believe the describe Millay's message the best when he says that love is not a lifeline needed to live, but you may not be able to live with yourself without it. 2. All of the details he describes are things that can help you live physically, but not emotionally. The imagery describes things that can help a person live out their life, but not necessarily be able to live with themselves. 4. The speaker's opinion of love is that love may not be a factor that keeps you alive, but it may be the only thing that makes life worth living. 5. Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 30 do follow the same structure because they both have three quatrains and one couplet, which is the requirement for a sonnet. Not only that, but they both share an iambic pentameter, the most common sound pattern. Also, they both have love as their main theme, which is the norm for most sonnets. 6. I believe that these poems still convey the attitude of love that is held even today. We may express the idea of love in different ways now, through music, lyrics of a song, art, and even theater, and in a more modern and contemporary syntax, but the feelings and emotions of love are universal and will never change over time. The only thing that changes is how people describe love.
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Sonnet of Comrades I have too long been wandering alone, Traveling far and wide, always solo; Through a strange land not previously known, No one to lead and no one to follow. Suddenly a stranger came before me, Without any reason, explantation; A few moments passed, and silently we Continued on to our destination. I had never met this man in my life, No clue where he came from or who he was, Even so, we had no conflict or strife As we traveled across the land, just us. Days crept along, almost neverending, We began to discover who we were; We had a mutual understanding, Such as a comrade has with another; Strange what each stanger found as time progressed, Each a friendship never before possessed.