Summary Of Groan By Marilyn Taylor

Shakespeare’s use of imagery makes this poem come to life. When the line “Beshrew that heart that makes my heart groan” is read, the audience can see and hear a heart struggling in pain (1). He does something special by personifying a heart because obviously, it can not actually groan. Instead, it gives the readers a chance to intensely feel the way the speaker is feeling. Rather than just saying this woman is horrible for torturing him with her love, Shakespeare paints the emotional picture in his reader’s minds that is impossible not to feel. He does it again with the line, “Prison my heart in thy steel bosom's ward” (9). Bosoms are not prisons and hearts can not be imprisoned, but the visual and emotional imagery that the line makes the

It follows the rhyming pattern: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG (Delahoyde). In an article by writer Marilyn Taylor explains what iambic pentameter brings to a poem. She claims, “ (1) it brings a little more music; (2) it adds a little more muscle; and (3) it's a lot more memorable--especially for meditative poems, poems that ask the reader to slow down, to mull things over a bit” (Taylor). “Sonnet 133” is definitely a poem to think about. At first read, many audience members may get caught up in the dramatics of Shakespeare's work. Once read a couple more times, it is clear that the theme is not just love. It is how love can trap someone and make them feel like they belong to the other person. The iambic pentameter really helps bring that out. It also helps the poem to flow. Many free verse poems can sound uncoordinated. The movement of this poem from line to line, really makes it more like an intriguing short story. Iambic pentameter also has a way of making a poem more powerful. It’s rhyming pattern makes the poem emphasises sounds that give it the movement of a beating heart (Delahoyde). An audience member is hooked after every line, waiting to see what the speaker is going to do about his