Yearly Archives: 2022

Background: Queen, Jocasta left the conversation with Oedipus and the messenger when Oedipus’s birth is being explored among them, Jocasta feared that the shepherd will reveal to Oedipus that he is the son of Laius. After that, an old man form Thebes came into the plot.  The messenger disclosed to […]

In Sonnet Number 130, “My Mistress’s Eyes Are Nothing like the Sun” by William Shakespeare, the speaker compares his mistress to conventionally beautiful phenomenons such as the sun, coral and snow. However, he does so in a non-complementary way. To me, it seems that the speaker is going out of […]

I chose chorus lines, 181-185.  The chorus speaks, “What is the sweet spoken word of God from the Shrine of Pytho rich in gold that has come to glorious Thebes? I am stretched on the rack of doubt, and terror and trembling hold my heart, O Delian Healer, and I […]

I chose the poem from Shakespeare “shall i compare thee to a summers day”.  In the first line “shall i compare thee to a summer day” sounds exactly like it sounds like . But in the second line “thou are more lovely and more temperate it seems to me that […]

In the story oedipus the king play by Sophocles I have used the lines 265-270 “Upon the murderer I invoke this curse whether he is one man and all unknown, or one of many may he wear out his life in misery to miserable doom!”. Oedipus called the people to […]

I chose the poem How Do I Love Thee? How Do I Love Thee? How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal […]

I chose to write about “How I Love Thee” by Elizabeth Barret Browning. In this love poem of “How I Love Thee”, Browning goes into every depth to show how much she loves thee. She starts off her poem by expressing that there are multiple ways in which she loves […]

I chose the chorus in lines 471-474 which says “We look at this man’s words and yours, my king, and we find both have spoken them in anger. we need no angry words but only thought how we may best hit the god’s meaning to us.” in this point of […]

“How Do I Love You Thee?” (Browning line 1) is what this poem is based on. Using literary techniques, the speaker releases the powerful emotions hidden behind the ink. Each word is written with dedication. “How I Love You thee” is undoubtedly a love sonnet written for Barrett Browning’s husband […]

I chose lines 1399-1408. The chorus says, “Time who sees all has found you out against your will; judges your marriage accursed, begetter and begot at one in it. O child of Laius, would I had never seen you. I weep for you and cry a dirge of lamentation. To […]