Sonnet Response Essay

I choose to follow the English or Shakespearean sonnet form because this experience had a twist in the end and English sonnets typically have their twist or Volta located in the third quatrain or the couplet. The experience I choose to write about was when my father and I went to our family farm to hand toss fertilizer throughout the orchard on New Year’s morning.
The first verse sets the time and day of the sonnet. We know that it is very early in the morning, before the sun has risen, on New Year’s Day. The verse also gives a sense of it being cold and dark.
Personification of the alarm clock tells us that the alarm clock ringing is unwanted. Knowing that that New Years is a big holiday that is usually celebrated late into the night so an

This verse reinforces the positive mood.
Here the setting is described again giving the reader an orchard like setting. Freeze is placed separately from the rest of the verse to give the effect of a pause. Kind of telling the reader to stand back and take a moment to take in what is being seen.
The couplet is very contradictory of how they felt earlier on in the day. Before the workers had wanted to leave and stay in the warmth of their homes but seeing how beautiful their hard work and labors turned out was well worth the time.
The message being conveyed in this sonnet is endurance through tough and dark time will be rewarded with warm feelings. In addition, there is tranquility within labor. When performing a task it may be hard at first but seeing the final results the hard work put in is extremely rewarding.
The structure of the sonnet tell us that these events and ideas took place chronologically. So the further one has read into the sonnet they will have a greater grasp as what is happening and what has happened. In addition, the English sonnet fit this chronological scheme perfectly, in my opinion, because at the end of our job I remembered how rewarding it is to be in the orchard early in the