In the article “How to Read a Poem” from the Poets.org website, the poet William Carlos Williams, in acknowledging the challenges of reading poetry, writes that a reader must “complete” what the poet has begun. With specific reference to one of this week’s poems, explain how you “completed” what the […]
Week 3 Discussion
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“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” by William Shakespear speaks of the poet’s true thoughts of his mistress. By using adjectives words like colors, smell, texture etc. to compare to a physical part of his mistress’ body such as her lips, skin and hair, etc. the poet gives […]
I chose to complete the poem, “How Do I Love Thee” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, by taking what the writer had started and using it to fashion what they intended the ending to be. This poem is a passionate love letter to her husband where she expresses her feelings fully […]
Hello everyone, I personally enjoyed reading “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” by Edna St. Vincent Millay just because during my teenage years I had a sudden urge to write poems and one such poem I recall writing had a similar emotional aura as this poem […]
” How I love you” This is a poem where the winter expresses his greatest emotions. ” How I love you three” is a writing where she expresses how great and deep love she feels for her beloved Barrett Browning. Her interest is that he knows when she is in […]
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get, The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair, The singers and workers that never handled the air. You will never neglect or beat Them, or silence or buy with a […]
I choose Sonnet Number 130, “My Mistress’s Eyes Are Nothing like the Sun” by William Shakespeare, because the speaker’s beloved is compared to a variety of other beauties in this sonnet, but never in the lover’s favor. Her eyes are “nothing like the sun,” her lips are less red than […]
I chose to look at “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” This sonnet is different from the typical sonnet. Instead of focusing on the positive traits of the woman. However, Shakespeare chooses to focus on the exact opposite of that. Shakespeare focuses on the woman’s flaws of the […]
The astonishment in the children’s faces when they tour the toy shop in the company of Miss Moore works to show that they are from a poorer background. When going through the store reciting the exorbitant toy prices, they wonder if people could spend that much on mere decorations. In […]
On Edna Millay’s “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why”, in a style of Italian sonnet: And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain For unremembered lads that not again Will turn to me at midnight with a cry. (Line 6-8) I only know that summer […]
“The lies I could tell, when I was growing up light-bright, near-white, high-yellow, red-boned in a black place, were just white lies”. This poem white lies uses a sarcastic tone when speaking on lies basically telling the readers that they lied a lot growing up and they clearly told different […]
