Milton returned to England about 1641 when the political and religious affairs were very disturbing to many. He started to apply his work in practice for that one great work like Paradise Lost when penning the Sonnets. Not every sonnet is identical but they can be difficult in interpretation, styles, word use, and so forth. The purpose of this paper is to analyze Milton’s Sonnet 8 (ca 1642), “Captain or Colonel.” This will be done by explaining the type of theme and then separating the sonnet into three sections: lines 1-4, 5-8, and 9-14 for a better understanding of how Milton used the development of ongoing events to present problems with a mystical resolution. John Milton studied and traveled abroad, mainly in Italy, prior to returning home. In his earlier sonnets, with the exception of a few, he used a Petrarchan Theme which is primarily dominate in many Italian sonnets. It is very prevalent in Sonnet 8 where as it may not be in other poetic verses like Sonnet 7. Sonnet 8 seems to be somewhat melodic as if it were a musical type chant. It sticks strictly to the pattern of 14 lines where a problem exists on the first eight lines and the resolution is on the last 6 lines. It is not an iambic pentameter where there are at least five iambs per metrical line but iambs do exist in the poem like “Muses” or “requite.” He did, though, follow a standard pattern in verses 1 through 8. This was done by rhyming the first and last word of verse 1 and 4; he rhymed the words arms and harms. Verse 5 and 8 rhymed the words charms and warms. Verse 2 and 3 rhymed the words sease and please whereas these and seas rhymed in verses 6 and 7. This follows the pattern abba and abba. In verses 9 through 14 a different pattern was used a as resoluti... ... middle of paper ... ... http://www.bartleby.com/217/0519.html (accessed 2 10, 2014). Burns, Julia. "Notes MLA 6318". Church and State in Early Modern England. Fall 2013. Dr. D. David. Kerrigan, William, etal. The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton. Random House. New York: 2007. pp 144-145. Staff . Oxford English Dictionary. 2014. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/30763 (accessed 2 10, 2014). —. Oxford English Dictionary. 2014. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/23829#eid13072598 (accessed 2 10, 2014 ). —. Oxford English Dictionary . 2014. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/22223?rskey=PK9HMs&result=2&isAdvanced=false#eid; (accessed 2 10, 2014). Stevens, David H. "The Order of Milton's Sonnets." Modern Philology, May 1919: 25-33. Stonemen, Houlston and. "Studies In English Literature: The Sonnets of Milton." British Controversialist: A Literary Magazine , 1 1, 1867: 227-229.
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coheres to the subject of nonconformity in the rhyme scheme. Although it appears to be
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All Shakespearean sonnets have the same poetic structure. They consist of fourteen lines divided into three quatrains and a couplet. They also all contain the same rhyme scheme, which is: abab cdcd efef gg. Punctuation is also an
The sonnet itself is written in iambic pentameter. The first line is a reference to the speaker, "a traveler from an antique land." Imagery and figurative language used at the beginning of the sonnet,(words such as vast, trunkless, and desert) add to the desolate and barren image and tone of the sonnet. Shelley, through the form of the traveler, describes the statue?s face or ?visage? to have a wrinkled lip, and a ?sneer of cold command.? This describes a negative aspect towards the tyrannical figure. Shelley himself was against tyranny, as that is obvious in his poem here (...
Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare is widely read and studied. But what is Shakespeare trying to say? Though it seems there will not be a simple answer, for a better understanding of Shakespeare's Sonnet 73, this essay offers an explication of the sonnet from The Norton Anthology of English Literature:
Milton: Modern Essays in Criticism. Ed. Arthur E. Barker, b. 1875. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. 205-217.
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When examining the presence of time and certainty in Shakespeare’s Sonnets, the best place to begin is with Sonnet 18. This is by far one of Shakespeare’s most famous Sonnets, and probably his most misunderstood by the common reader. Though this Sonnet seems to be a simple love poem on the...
Canfield Reisman, Rosemary M. “Sonnet 43.” Masterplots II. Philip K. Jason. Vol. 7. Pasadena: Salem Press, 2002. 3526-3528. Print.
The fourteen line sonnet is constructed by three quatrains and one couplet. With the organization of the poem, Shakespeare accomplishes to work out a different idea in each of the three quatrains as he writes the sonnet to lend itself naturally. Each of the quatrain contains a pair of images that create one universal idea in the quatrain. The poem is written in a iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. Giving the poem a smooth rhyming transition from stanza to
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