1. The five characteristics of the quest are a quester, a destination, a reason that has been stated to go there, the challenges along the way, and the real reason for the destination. 2. An example of a quest is in the movie, Shrek. 1. Quester: a male ogre who lives alone in a swamp, but is disturbed by the fairy tale characters who were sent away by Lord Farquaad. He is a hostile introvert. 2. A place to go: In order to find peace at home, he agrees to rescue Princess Fiona for Lord Farquaad to marry so that the Lord can take the fairy tale characters back. He then goes to the castle to save Princess Fiona. 3. Stated reason to go there: Rescuing and return Princess Fiona for Lord Farquaad will lead to ridding Shrek’s …show more content…
An example of a negative communion was in Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth invited guests over for dinner to celebrate him being crowned as king. Macbeth hired three guys to murder Banquo and and Fleance. During dinner he begins to get paranoid and hallucinates Banquo’s ghost. He freaks out and starts screaming, causing the dinner party to go downhill. This scene represents fear. 8. The essentials of a vampire story are an older figure seeking a young female, taking away her innocence, sexuality, and the death of the victim. 9. Vampires and ghosts can represent a parasite that leeches on to its victim and sucks the life out of them and using them to get what they want until the victim cannot give anymore and is rendered useless. They grow stronger while their victim grows weaker. 10. When Foster says “if it’s squared, it’s a sonnet,” it means that sonnets are in the shape of a square because the length is 14 lines long and each line has 10 syllables, which is about the same length. 11. A poet can work its magic on the reader by “choice of images, music of the language, idea content, and cleverness of wordplay” (Foster 17). 12. A Petrarchan Sonnet has two parts, one stanza that contains 8 lines and another containing 6. It “uses a rhyme scheme that ties the first eight lines (the octave) together, followed by a rhyme scheme that unifies the last six (the sestet)” (Foster …show more content…
Questions reader should ask when trying to determine symbolic meaning: “what’s the writer doing with this image, this object, this act; what possibilities are suggested by the movement of the narrative or the lyric; and most important, what does it feel like it’s doing?” (Foster 59). 45. “Nearly all writing is political.” 46. Foster says most literature can be called political because most of these works has a time period setting and writers write about issues about social classes or rights or races of that time period. Political means 47. “...to get the most out of your reading of European and American literatures, knowing something about the Old and New Testaments is essential. Similarly, if you undertake to read literature from an Islamic or a Buddhist or a Hindu culture, you’re going to need knowledge of other religious traditions.” This is because religion shapes different culture and to better understand allusions in literature, one must understand biblical references. Or being aware of religious traditions and culture of a country outside yours can help you better understand the
The generalization for vampires has been displayed in films and literature for hundreds of years. The stereotypical versions of vampires are that they have long fangs, sleep in coffins during the day, and suck the blood out of humans. Both novels contradict those stereotypes in different ways. To understand the diversity of the vampires described in both novels, one must examine the characteristics that the vampires display and the meaning and purpose behind them. David D. Gilmore’s book “Monsters” analyzes monsters and other mythical creatures. Gilmore describes why humanity invented the idea of
For years, the vampire has been a mysterious creature. We have all been infatuated with the appeal of immortality and distinctiveness that vampires possess. Many writers have visualized what vampires are supposed to look like and how they act. The common description of a vampire is terror, violence, viciousness, and fear. Nina Auerbach, writes that “There is no such creature as ‘The Vampire’; there are only vampires” (Saler 218). This statement recognizes that vampires differ tremendously in behavior, motivation, and culture. Because vampires are a fictional character, depending on the writer, the vampire will be different, even if they are all influenced by one image.
In this sonnet, Shakespeare employs the use of the Elizabethan sonnet style to juxtapose social and emotional wealth. The structure of the sonnet is comprised of fourteen lines which make up three quatrains and a couplet. The first quatrain has the rhyme scheme “abab”, while the second and third quatrains have the rhyme scheme “cdcd” and “ebeb”. The final couplet has the rhyming scheme “ff”. It is
As we can see in sonnet 18, there are ten syllables in each line and five ‘feet’. The ‘feet’ form the patterns of (X /).
A sonnet contains fourteen lines; each line with five iambic feet or ten syllables. The rhyme scheme follows one of two different
The sonnet, being one of the most traditional and recognized forms of poetry, has been used and altered in many time periods by writers to convey different messages to the audience. The strict constraints of the form have often been used to parallel the subject in the poem. Many times, the first three quatrains introduce the subject and build on one another, showing progression in the poem. The final couplet brings closure to the poem by bringing the main ideas together. On other occasions, the couplet makes a statement of irony or refutes the main idea with a counter statement. It leaves the reader with a last impression of what the author is trying to say.
He enlarged the function of the sonnet to political and moral criticism and this has been followed by later poets. Finally the sonnet came to be used for any subject which a short, concentrated lyric would afford to evolve. Hence, we have Wordsworth’s ‘Composed Upon Westminister Bridge’, Keat’s ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’, Shelley’s ‘England in 1819’, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ and so many memorable sonnets by so many famous poets. Longfellow, Jones Very, G. H. Boker, and E. A. Robinson are generally appreciated for writing some of the best sonnets in America. William Ellery Leonard, Elinor Wylie, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and W. H. Auden have done distinguished work in the sonnet and the sonnet sequence in this century.Already, the sonnet form has taken a unique position in the literary field. But the question inevitably comes is that why has it proved so popular? Perhaps ,though minute in extent, it has immense elasticity: it can have room for story elements; it can stage a brief dramatic scene; it can present a series of philosophical reflections; it can survey a vast variety of reflections, understandings and moods within a tightly organized
A sonnet refers to a poetic form which originated in Italy. There are two kinds: the Petrarchan (Italian) and the Shakespearean (English). Both kinds still consist of fourteen lines written in iambic pentameters – unstressed, then stressed syllables. The Italian form began with Francesco Petrarca. The Shakespearean form began with Thomas Wyatt and Earl of Surrey (Shelley, 2015).
A Shakespearean sonnet contains fourteen lines, structured with three quatrains, each containing four lines, and ending with a rhyming couplet written usually dominated by an iambic pentameter, which consists of ten syllables divided into five pairs, the iambs, with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one. Anthem for doomed youth corresponds to the structure of the Shakespearean sonnet. Another structural element usually included in a Shakespearean sonnet is the rhyming scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, with Anthem for doomed youth’s only deviation being the EFFE. As Wilfred Owen’s poem contains the required elements of the Shakespearean sonnet, it can evidently be said it should be placed in the genre.
Over a hundred sonnets written by William Shakespeare consistently contain crisp creative words in a fourteen line pattern. The patterns of lines are broken down into three quatrains of four lines a piece followed by a rhymed couplet. These sonnets all have the same meter, first eight lines describing a problem followed by the four lines of response.
First we will start with a sonnet. Let’s start by talking about just what a sonnet is. “Before Shakespeare’s day, the word “sonnet” meant simply “little song,” i.e., a short lyric poem” (poetry.about.com, 2010). By the 1200’s, the sonnet had come to be known as a form of poetry that is comprised of 14 lines.
In a sense, the speaker’s intention to immortalize his lover through his poetry validates his lover’s accusation that he is vain.His boasts about his ability to create such lasting fame for her reveals his grand opinion of his skill as a poet. Despite this vanity, however, the final lines of the poem make clear the depth of his love and his belief that the feelings they share will live on after death. Spenserian Sonnet : Spenser, through the poems in Amoretti and Epithalamion, developed a style of sonnet that incorporated the use of an interlocking rhyme scheme; this became known as the Spenserian sonnet. In such a rhyme scheme, the rhyming words at the end of each line (or end rhymes) form a pattern in which each section of the poem is linked with the following section through the repetition of the rhyming words. When discussing rhyme schemes, lines are assigned a letter in order to show the repetition of the rhyme. The Spenserian sonnet rhyme scheme is: abab bcbc cdcd ee. (All lines with an ‘‘a’’ designation rhyme with one another, all lines with a ‘‘b’’designation rhyme with one another and feature an end rhyme different from the ‘‘a’’ lines, and so on.) مهم The effect of this rhyme scheme is a structuring of the poem into three quatrains (a section of a poem consisting of four lines of verse) and a couplet (a section consisting of two lines of verse). This physical Structure relates to the poem’s meaning. The first quatrain describes the speaker’s actions on the
Shakespeare’s sonnets are intensely personal and are records of his hopes and fears, love and friendships, infatuations and disillusions that in turn acquire a universal quality through their intensity.
The two main group of sonnets (1-126 and 127-154) discover a number of parallels, some of which are merely conventional and commonplace. In two of the sonnets (46 &
On the next chapter, it talks about the renaissance and about sonnets and about how they are 14 lines long and and ten syllables per line too. The Petrarchan sonnets are the most popular type and its divided into 2 parts and one part is 8 and the other part is 6 lines. And it says how the poem turns itself into a shape of a square which is why the title of this chapter is called “if its square, It’s a sonnet”.