Poems:
Poetry basics
The discussion with your team of writers was very effective and you have realized that your writers need to be given some instruction on the basics behind poetry. Beforehand, you put together a research paper encompassing a discussion of poetry.
To best exemplify your skills with the topic, you have decided to break it down into two portions:
Choose a sonnet from the Bedford text (file attached) and discuss the theme, language usage, and metaphorical references within.
Choose a poem from the Bedford text and discuss the impact of word choice and why effective word choice was essential to develop this poem's theme.
include in-text citations and a reference listSonnet:
How do I love three?
Let me count the ways
How do I love three? Let me count the ways.
I love three to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of the Being and ideal Grace.
I love three to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love three freely, as men strive for Right;
I love three purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love three with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love three with a love seemed to lose
With my lost saints - I love three with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose,
I shall but love three better after death.
Poem:
Wild Swans
I looked in my heart while the wild swans went over.
And what did I see I had not seen before?
Only a question less or a question more;
Nothing to match the flight of wild birds flying.
Tiresome heart, forever living and dying,
House without air, I leave you and lock your door.
Wild swans, come over the town, come over
The town again, trailing your legs and crying!