First Kiss-FK

First Kiss is a poem written by Kim Addonizio. The poem is on long stanza consisting of twenty-one lines. Basically the Addonizio uses a long metaphor to compare a first kiss she shared with someone, to breast feeding her daughter. Addonizio begins by comparing the look on her babies face when she has to stop breast feeding the her, to the look on the person she is kissing face when they stop. She continues to compare her baby with the person she shared this kiss with. Now she says the person she kissed has the same look of dependability and helplessness that her baby has when she wants to breast feed again. I found it interesting that at the end of the poem that Addonizio says that although the person she is kissing is vulnerable he is impossible to hurt like her baby. To me this shows how much Addonizio loves the person she is kissing because she doesn't/can't hurt this person even though they are vulnerable. Also the fact that Addonizio compares her baby to the person she is kissing shows how much Addonizio loves that person. When reading this poem one word I had to look up was loll. Loll means hang loosely. Addonizio used this word when explaining how her baby's head hung when breast feeding it.

First Kiss - VB

The poem I chose was First Kiss by Kim Addonizio. It consisted of one stanza containing 21 lines and is a conceit, which is an extended metaphor. It is talking about the first kiss with a man that she seems to have a future relationship with after this occurance. She was comparing his face after the kiss to the face of her daughter after breast feeding. It was a face that showed helplessness and not minding that she knows. "knowing she could show me how helpless she was"

I chose this poem because of the picture it painted in my head of the first kiss in front of a church leaning against a chainlink fence. I pictured it at night time because it was talking about the drugged look her daughter used to get, which reminded me of my young siblings right before they go to bed how tired and relaxed they look. Also I feel like it was the end of a date and one of the dates that winds up in the strangest places but because of where you wound up and who you were with is what makes it so memorable. Also, the drugged look the man had reminds me of myself when I had an experience similar to this.

'First Kiss' R. Abbott

'First Kiss,' by Kim Addonizio, is essentially an extended metaphor (or conceit) is which she compares the first time she kisses a man to a moment when she breast fed her daughter. Addonizio begins by describing the look on the man's face and instantly referencing it to that of her baby daughter's. She goes into great, descriptive detail when explaining the breast feeding process but if given a closer look, it seems to be describing the actions of kissing as well; most notably in the line "made the seal tight between us, and sucked, drawing the liquid down and out of my body" - just like a passionate kiss. In the fourth line she uses a simile to compare her baby's eyes to old fashioned glass milk bottles - "turned vague and filmy." Towards the middle of the poem, Addonizio explained the great difference between being satisfied as a baby and wanting [to be fed] more. I believe this is a direct reference to the man she alludes to later in the poem. The climatic moment of the poem is when the writer realizes that the baby suckling on to her and the man kissing her are not only things they wanted to do - these moments symbolize their helplessness and vulnerability. In the last few lines of the poem, when describing the actions of the man, it seems as though Addonizio implements an oxymoron when saying he is vulnerable and easy but impossible to hurt at the same time - I didn't exactly know what to make of this.

loll - hang loosely, laxly
satiety - satisfied; unable to take on more

The River-Merchant's wife (M.A)

This poem is an interesting as it is translated from Chinese into Japanese and then into English.
Firstly, in terms of format, the poem has 4 stanzas, it has no rhyming pattern.

The first stanza talks about the girl meeting the boy when they were children and playing outside with their wooden toys and they did not have any conflicts within themselves. Then, at fourteen years old, they got married. This verse gives away that the poem was written decades ago when child marriage was still acceptable in Asia. Furthermore, she calls him "My Lord" which means she worshipped him, as usually Asian girls are taught to worship their husbands like God. The next verse though states that she never laughed and was shy, which could imply that she wasn't happy but accepted her marriage.

But in the second stanza she shortly mentions her change, how she wanted to love him, and did so, by "mingling my dust with yours". This could have a sexual connotation that she wanted to sleep with him, or it could be a figurative image that she wanted to connect their heart together, to love each other.
But in the third stanza, at 16 years, her husband left her to go to a river and he has been gone for five months now. I am not exactly sure what swirling eddies means in this context. The angry monkeys could maybe symbolize her angry emotions?

The last stanza describes how long it has been since he has left with descriptions of changes in nature and how the changes to winter (which could symbolize her growing emotions of sorrow and hurt), and how she is growing older (without him) and she is not liking it. The last two verses state that if he is coming back, he wants her to know beforehand so she can come greet him, which means he is eager upon his arrival. She does not want surprises.

Although I do like the poem, I feel that in all those translations, the feeling and emotions have been lost. From personal experience, whenever I have read a translated poem, I do not find them as interesting or reader friendly as poems that have been written in their original language. Yet, this is my personal opinion.

TRMW

In this poem, it seems as though the poet is talking about her husband who she married at 14 out of arrangement "without dislike or suspicion".

She "[lowered] her head, looked at the wall" showing that she was not equal with her husband or possibly was not happy about being married to him.

But then when she was 15 she began to love him, and never wanted to turn back. He left at 16 and she now misses him. Wants him back.

My only question with this poem is how much was lost in translation? word play, rhyme, rhythm

There isn't much figurative imagery. The last stanza paints a beautiful picture of how summer is ending, and fall is beginning. "leaves fall early this autumn", "paired butterfules are already yellow with August"

The River Merchant's Wife - Jeet

I thought this was a very lucid poem that made use of literal images more than figurative ones. The first stanza talks about how the two children met. While they got married at an early age as was customary in that day and age, the girl was still shy and their relationship still nascent.

In the next stanza, she "stops scowling", getting more comfortable in the relationship and growing fonder of him. She uses the metaphor of mingling dust to say that she wishes to be with him till death part them.

In the next stanza, she says he had to go away as per his calling as a river merchant and had to spend extended times away from home. I think "the monkeys make sorrowful noise..." is an apt use of symbolism to express her sadness.

"By the gate now, the moss is grown, the differnent mosses/ To deep to clear them away!" Although she provides a literal image of the deep mosses of different kind, I think she is in fact alluding to how seasoned their love is now and how much she misses him. This allusion is reinforces by the mention of the gate, perhaps the same one by which they first met. The mention of paired butterflies emphasizes her lonely state. The poem ends with another vivid literal image in which she says how far she is willing to travel to reunite with him.

To the Muse-WOORAM

I think this poem is for Jenny. She may suffer from some illness and surgery. The author wants to lie to her that the pain from the surgery is not going to be forever, but he knows it still painful. So he chose not to lie anything. At the last stanza, it seems Jenny passed out. The author really misses her, but he does not seem to believe heaven. He wrote, “I will come down to you”. If he believes heaven he might write he will come up to see her, because heaven is not under the ground.
The image from the poem is really painful and sad. I can feel that the fear from losing someone who really cares. Also I can feel the fear from loneliness to be left. The author may not have alternative method to expose his sorrow except write a poem to Jenny.

The River-Merchant's wife Adam Sprung

While i was reading this poem i felt the woman talking, feeling, and i had this image of her standing on the edge of the river looking out, and longing for her husband to come back to her. Right from the beinging, with the line "while my hair was still cut straight across my forehead", it brings me to the image of a little girl who just wants to play around. But it seems like they are comparing her life to the path of the river almost. I get this from the idea that a river winds and bends, and you can't really see whats comming around the corner. This woman lowers her head, she can't really talk back, or look back in her life, and she can't really see forward either. She seems to be stuck. I get this from the fact that she say's shes growing older, and yet shes still reminiscing about her past.

I am a little confused about one line. It may be the context of the poem, but I am not sure what the line "why should i climb the look out?" refers to. Maybe it could be a metaphor for her looking for her husband, or someone in general. Or, it could be referring to looking into the future, how she doesn't really seem to even care about that; she is content where she is now.

Another line that is intersting to me is when she refers to the butterflies in the garden. Afterward, after a colon, the poet says that "They hurt me". I thought this was interesting. I believe its not a physical pain, but an emotional pain. The butterflies remind her of a better time, or a time when her husband was around, and by seeing them, it brings back those memories.

The River-Merchants Wife MQ

This love poem begins with a stanza that really brings the reader back to the days of childhood. the author uses lines like "while the hair was still cut straight across my forehead" to give the reader the image of a young child with a childrens haircut. he also uses words like "playing " and "small people" in this stanza to further push the message that they are young. the author end the stanza by saying he married her and "called to, a thousand times, I never looked back" which I took as meaning he never thought of being with any other women.

The next stanza describe how he was deeply in love with this women wishing that thier dust would mingle together forever and how he sees no reason to climb the look out. To me this means that he is so content with where he is that he doesnt even desire to look out at the rest of the world and that they may remain still for eternity untill all theyre dust settles together.

In the third stanza the author describes how his love leaves him. he uses the monkeys sad noise as personification to set the tone of sadness and despair. this message carries over into the final stanza where he starts by saying "you dragged your feet when you went out" showing again despair and that she didnt wish to leave. he described how the seasons are coming earlier without her and that he feels he is getting Old waiting for her to return. And he ends the poem by saying if your coming back let me know and I will meet you since every moment without her is so dreadful. i feel that his wife either has died and is never coming back or she may have gone off with someone else since he seems to have been waiting for a very long time and in the days this poem was written I feel that is was very uncommon for man and wife to be seperated.

The River Merchant's Wife-FK

This poem is a love poem that is written in the perspective of a female author. This interested me because I looked up the original author of this poem and he was a male. Another important thing to know about this poem is that it was translated from Japanese, so this may mean that some meaning is lost in translation.

The first stanza of this poem starts out during the author’s childhood. This stanza talks about how the author and her love interest were friends when they were younger. The stanza really illustrates how fun and happy childhood is by using words like "playing." At the end of the stanza the author talks about how she married her love interest at the age of fourteen. She specifically uses the word "Lord" when referring her love interest. This makes me think that the authors love interest may belong to an important family.

The second stanza starts to show the coming of age of the two lovers and talks about their life when the author was fifteen. The author really illustrates how she wants to be with her husband by using the word "forever" three times to show how long she wants the relationship to last.

In the third stanza the author is now sixteen and she talks about how her husband had to leave. Her husband had to leave down the river, going by the name of the title I assume that it was to do his job as a river merchant. I looked up the word eddies which mean currents. The author shows how important her husband is by saying that the monkeys started to make sorrowful noises after five months of hi absence.

The last stanza continues to illustrate how sad the author is without her husband. The first line of this stanza shows how sad the author’s husband was sad when he left because he was "dragging his feet." The author talks about how she "grows old" and how it is now August. She ends by saying when her husband comes back she would like to know beforehand so she could greet him.

Overall this poem starts of happy and eventually leads to sorrow. It also illustrates a coming of age of the author and her love interest.

‘The River-Merchant’s Wife’ - R. Abbott

The poem 'The River-Merchant's Wife,' translated by Ezra Pound, has a coming of age love story feel to it. The first stanza explains how the two people have known each other since childhood. Pound writes about 'playing' and haircuts from youth 'cut straight across my forehead.' The bamboo stilts and blue plums also seem to be relics or symbols of childhood in this culture. Pound then goes on to explain that the two were married (perhaps arranged) but the wife remained extremely shy of maybe even overly obedient. In the second stanza, Pound uses metonymy when she says 'I desired my dust to be mingled with yours,' substituting dust for each person, but also expressing a change in the woman's feelings for her husband. The line reading 'why should I climb the look out' seems to be a segue into the next stanza, showing the woman's shock in her husband's departure.

By the fourth, the mood of the poem drastically changes. Pound uses personification to describe the noises made by the monkeys as sorrowful now since her partner has been gone five whole months. It is obvious that her husband did not want to leave her either since he dragged his feet along the path while leaving, and now his spouse seems to revisit the last place they saw one another noting all the different overgrown mosses. Pound uses great imagery to describe the changing o each season, first with the leaves blowing off the trees then illustrating the butterflies in summer. Pound concludes the poem by showing the woman's unconditional and everlasting love for her husband; despite the fact that he has been gone so long, she is still waiting for him and willing to travel to Cho-fu-Sa to meet him - which I'm guessing is pretty far away.

-Ryan Abbott

Good Morrow VIC H

 This poem is written from the perspective of a man who is in love. 

 The poem has three stanzas each that have seven lines.  

Included in the poem are a quatrain and a Triplett per stanza.  

It rhymed not in a consistent pattern but enough to flow smoothly.  

When Donne talks about being weaned and then continuing to say, sucked and childishly, his words and descriptions paint an implied image making your mind think of something that is not said. 

 You think of breast feeding but knowing the kind of poet he is and understanding this is an intimate poem then focusing on words like pleasure I get that it has a perverted meaning somehow.   

  “And true plain hearts do in the faces rest” In the second line of the third stanza there is figurative language used to explain the hearts action of resting.  

It stands out when read and leads you to envision the heart resting in a face.  

Also the author says “My face in thine eye and thine in mine appears. 

 It is hard to believe the poet is literally talking about a face being in an eye so you know that it is Metonymy.  

The Good-Morrow Brett K

Hope class is going well, sorry that I am not there.

The poem is interestingly structured. It is 3 stanzas of seven lines. The seven lines are actually broken into a quatrain with an ABAB rhyme scheme written in Iambic Pentameter and then there is a triplet rhymed CCC.

The first thing I noticed while reading this poem out line is Donne's use of assonance in the first stanza, constantly repeating the long E sound. I'm not sure what effect he wanted to have, but it does make it sound great.

The poem is somewhat chronological. I think that the first stanza represents a sort of birth, using words like suck'd and wean'd, discussing his life before love. The second stanza is his current life in love, describing that one little room becomes an everywhere because love can take you to amazing places, and make you feel amazing things. The third stanza discusses his immortality through love, explaining that if both people feel a sort of connection to each other that is equally powerful, it will live on forever.

I think "beauty" in the first stanza is standing in for a woman, so would that be synecdoche?

Also in the final stanza "My face in the thine eye, thine in mine appears" I believe is metonymy? I couldn't find any other examples of figurative language we discussed, but I'm sure there is more.

The Good Morrow

I like this poem for a variety of reasons. First, I like the sounds and images he uses. The idea of a waking soul is an interesting idea. When he says these words, i get the idea of not just a person waking up, but more than that. I get this image of a person moving through life, not really looking at the whole picture. And then, all of a sudden, this person is alive. They have the whole world in front of them. He keeps this idea of the whole world being open to the individual with the idea of the two hemispheres, or the whole world, coming together, and creating something whole. It continues with two loves becoming one. I believe the general theme of two becoming one is a powerful one. The poem is set up into three stanzas, which each have seven lines.

The Anniversary

The Anniversary of John Donne is a poem where he confesses his love for a girl on their one year anniversary, who he met one year ago and they have been in love ever since. The poem is made of 3 stanzas and follows the rhyming pattern aabbccdd etc.
In the first stanza, he talks about how everything has become older in one year, such as the kings and all the glory, and how it was one year ago he met this girl, yet their love has not decayed and never will. Furthermore, figurative images, such as "the sun in itself...is elder by a year now" and "only our love hath no decay" are included that provide emphasis on how long one year is, and how strong their love has remained in the one year.
In the second stanza, he states that although death will come upon them one day, it does not mean that their love will be finished, but it will remain strong in their souls, that will never die. "All other thoughts be inmates" is a figurative image that he uses to prove that their love will not decay whatsoever.
In the third stanza he mentions that although death will come one day, the two of them are the kings of love on the earth and should not separate, love forever and live happily together for years. He compares his love to the most royal creatures on earth-the kings and says that no king can have a such a strong love like the two of them. His emphasis on infinite time "years and years" shows that their love will stay strong infinitely long. 

The Good-Morrow

this poem contains 3 stanzas and that each have 7 lines. the rhyme scheme varies through the three ctanzas but keeps a nice rythm throught the whole poem. i really enjoy how he uses language to describe how their relationship is one perfect entity and all things that dont balance out die away. he compares in my opinion thier love to earth its self and all of its different characteristics from seas to montains. only their world has no two hemispheres, no east west north south, they are truly one, an very absrtac image where the are both themsleves and one another at the same time. he descibes early in the poem how he doesnt even understand how the lived without eachother and that even if he saw other beautys they only looked so because he was dreaming of her. and the way he ends it, with the line that none can slacken, none can die, shows unrelenting faith in their relationship and that even after death thier lust will still burn within one another, thus keeping them alive.

The Flea

The John Donne poem I chose was the flea. It consists of 3 stanzas each containing 9 lines. I enjoyed the poem because of the imagery it provides the reader. It is about a flea inside the house of a married couple that seems to have sexual tension so when the flea takes blood from each of them and combines the blood inside it the narrator notes how that is more than the couple has done. The wife goes to kill the flea but the narrator asks her to spare the life of the flea because they are now part of it with their blood inside it. She does not listen and kills the flea on her fingernail and when asked why she responds that neither of them is less because she killed the flea which figuratively shows that she would not lose anything if she would "yield to him" meaning that sleeping with him would be no different than killing the innocent flea.

The Good Morrow

The poem I am going to post is "The Good Morrow". The poem has 3 stanzas and each stanzas composed of 7 lines. And rhyme scheme is ababccc. This is a love poem that contrast past love and true love. Using words such as county pleasure, childishly, fancies and dream, the author gives negative literal images of past love. By comparing two loves, the author accentuate the true love. And I can see that he is regretting about what he experienced in the past love. Also it is interesting that the author mention seven dwarfs from beauty white.
Furthermore I have figurative images of his desire to equality. In a fourth line of 3rd stanza, the author shows an ideal world that he dream of. Also in a last line, the author believes once people achieves a ultimate fairness, it will remain forever.
-Wooram Park-

The Baite

The poem I chose was "The Baite" by John Donne. This poem is structured as seven quatrain es with the rhyme scheme aabb,ccdd,eeff,gghh,iijj,kkll, and mmnn. In this poem Donne makes analogy between fish and bait with love between women and men. Donne represents women as bait and men as fish. When a fish is caught by the bait it is implying that the man is caught by the love of the women. Another thing I found interesting about this poem was Donne's choice of words in the first and last quatrains. After I read the first quatrain I assumed that Donne wanted to be in love, but after I read the last quatrain it seemed that Donne didn't want to be in love by saying that the fish that remains uncaught is wiser than him. Throughout this poem Donne also uses such things as personification to paint in image for the reader. One example of this is Donne saying the river was whispering in the second quatrain. The main reason i chose this poem was because of the analogy that was used throughout the poem that helped paint a picture in my head.

-Frank Koelbel-

The Sun Rising

In this poem, John Donne tells the Sun that the intimate world of lovers transcends the world around them. Since the poet is speaking directly to the sun throughout the poem, this is an effective use of personification to convey how everything in the world pales in comparison to one's beloved.

While in the first stanza, the poet tells the Sun that love is not affected by seasons nor climate nor time, in the second stanza he tells him the lovers' world has all the treasures in the world. He uses the spices and mines of India and the West Indies as symbols for treasure and delight. He then says that even kings would much rather be a part of the lovers' intimate scene.

In the last stanza, the poet uses a metaphor to compare his beloved to the states and himself to princes. He sugests that the princes of the world can only pretend to have a harmony like theirs. He uses another metaphor to say that only their honor and wealth are real; others' are but mimicry and alchemy.

He concludes by saying that the sun, being alone can only be half as happy as they are. He says that the sun, advanced in age must desire rest and since his job is to warm the world, all he needs to do is shine upon the two lovers. He displaces the entire world with that of his and his beloved. In the poet's mind, there is no world but the moment he shares with his loved one. He uses a metaphor to label their bed the center, and the walls of their room, the sphere of the world.

'The Baite' R. Abbott

First and foremost, the rhyme scheem for this poem is AABBCC and so on. Another interesting point that the reader will notice immediately is Donne's alterations in spelling of many words (this may in fact just be the olde English spelling perhaps). Furthermore, the poem is broken down into 7 quatraines. Donne essentially paints a picture of a fishing trip with the woman he is in love with. In the first line of the second quatraine, he uses personification when describing the river - "there will the river whispering runne." And on the next line uses synecdoche when he says "thy eyes." In the fourth quatraine, Donne uses a metaphor to compare his lover to the light he needs to see where he is going. In the fifth quatraine, I believe he uses the "angling reeds" as a symbol for all other bad lovers in the world when compared to his girl. In the sixth stanza, Donne writes "let coarse bold hands, from slimy nest..." first appealing to the reads sight, then sense of touch - synesthesia. In the last quatraine, Donne brings the whole poem together when he informs the reader that this woman is his bait, saying the fish is much smarter than him for not chasing after her when she jumps into the water for a swim.

Sonnet 130 BK

In sonnet 130, Shakespeare pokes fun at all the poets (including himself) who exaggerate the beauty of their love interests in their poems. He says that although his lover's eyes are nothing like the sun, coral is more red than her lips, her breasts are dun as opposed to white like snow, she has black wires for hair, and her cheeks are not red like roses, and she has bad breath, he still loves her.

The final couplet says it all "And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare / As any she belied with false compare."

He is saying that he thinks his love is as special as any other woman that is falsely compared in poems. I think that he isn't bashing the actual woman he is referring to, rather the poets who compare their love interests to outrageous things like Goddesses. I believe that the first 12 lines make the last 2 so important and so nice.

Love Sonnet 18

The love sonnet is comparing a girl or woman to a summer's day.
The sonnet starts by Shakespeare asking himself whether he should compare his beloved to a summer's day, and then proceeds by saying that she is even more lovely than that.
He states that although there are rough winds at the beginning, which could symbolize some misunderstandings, or negative conversations,and although summer is short and at times the heat may feel torturous to bare, or that the sky is covered by clouds and summer may fade,
Shakespeare expresses that his girl will never lose her beauty. she will never be overcome with Death and even though she may get wrinkles when she grows old, as long as men can breath and see, she will stay alive. It is almost saying that she is turned immortal because she will live forever. 

Love 116, Adam Sprung

This poem seems to be talking about the consistency with love. It can change, move and be altered at any point in time, but love is a steadfast thing. He says that it is not a fool of time, because it last forever. The poem, like most of Shakespeare's sonnet's are 3 quatrains with a couplet at the end. I like this poem because it plays with the idea that once you have loved, you will always love. I think its a funny idea. People say that they fall in and out of love, but i believe that once you have loved someone, you will always have some feeling for them. It may not have the lust it used to, but there is still an emotional connection. I think even though the couplet is suppose to sum up the poem, his two lines before that is what does it the best. "Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.".

Love Sonnet 29

Shakespeare tells us about a man who has fallen on hard times. He despises himself for his ill fate and wishes he were in more fortunate circumstances. He thinks his prayers fall on deaf ears. He has come to to be dissatisfied with the things he once enjoyed.

Then he thinks about the love of his life and all his woes fade away. Much like the break of dawn moves the lark to sing beautifuly, the happy thoughts of his love make the man realize how unimportant his material problems are.

While earlier he wishes to have been in the circumstances of someone more fortunate, he now says that no riches can match the wealth he has in his loved one.

Sonnet 147

I chose Sonnet 147 because unlike most Shakespeare sonnet’s it has a dark tone. It is alike his other sonnets because the rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. I found this sonnet interesting because he talks about the dangers of love. The sonnets message revolves around how you can love someone so much that it hurts, and without their love in return, you become physically/mentally/emotionally ill. He refers to a physician meaning the ‘love doctor’ and he’s mad because he didn’t “keep his prescriptions,” or follow his directions. As time progresses that patient only gets worse and his pain turns into insanity, for whom he thought was the brightest and fairest, was actually ‘black as hell and dark as night.’

Sonnet 148 EMS

In Shakespeare's Sonnet 148, we are told about love's eyes, and the mischief they play. The poem starts off with "O me", which immediately signals the distress that the narrator is feeling. Why is he feeling this distress? Because these eyes of love "have no correspondence with true sight", meaning that the visions that love gives are not what is real. The narrator first asks whether it matters that his vision is being altered, asking "What means the world to say it is not so?", meaning does it matter that his visions of love are not what other people see, as long as he sees it that way. He ends by calling love cunning for keeping him blind with its tears, and for hiding the "foul faults" of his lover that he would be able to see if not blinded by love.

Sonnet 2

I chose this poem because the idea of your legacy being carried on by child and your bloodline being continued by your child is of importance to me because that is your creation and the mark that you leave on earth when you pass.

Shakespeare structures sonnet 2 as he commonly does, using three quatrains and a couplet. Shakespeare follows an ABABCDCDEFEFGG pattern. In the first quatrain he discusses the toll age takes on on the beauty of another using personification, giving the winter the ability to "besiege thy brow" to depict a vivid image of the deterioration of physical beauty and youth of the subject who is unclear at this point.

The second quatrain I feel is a necessary transitioning portion of the poem that responds to the first quatrain. It seems as if he is saying that the lust and the beauty is gone and it leaves them in shame. I say them because he uses the words "were" in the last line of the quatrain. At this point I feel he is discussing aging not of a another alone, but including himself. It confuses me.

The third and final quatrain is important because he is talking more about another and it supports my belief that in this poem he is talking about another becoming old. He begins to talk about someone being succeeded by a child. When he uses words like "thine" and "thou" Shakespeare hints that he is addressing another.

The final two lines is a couplet. In this couplet he continues discussion of a child as a successor saying that the new child gives life to the old using his last line to exemplify that. "And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold" Because when you die your blood is cold and while you are alive it is warm there is a double meaning to that last

line. Shakespeare is saying that the old person will live through the new child and in actuality your blood

is in your offspring so it makes sense in two ways.

Sonnet 63

The sonnet I chose was Sonnet 63, which is similar to many other Shakespearean sonnets in form. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg, and consists of 14 lines in iambic pentameter and the final 2 lines are a rhyming couplet. I chose this sonnet because of the message it sends to the reader. It is talking about how a friend is aging and as a result his physical appearance is changing. However, the sonnet is saying that despite this he will not let the memory of his friend change but instead will remember him as he was when he was young and full of life. In his mind he will always remember him as young which is how his friend will live on in his memories as young forever even after his time on earth is up.

Sonnet 40

The sonnet I chose was Sonnet 40. Like most of Shakespeare's other sonnets, Sonnet 40 consist of three quatrains and a couplet. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. One reason I found this sonnet interesting was the author seemed to be forgiving the recipient of this sonnet for taking his love. After reading this at first I thought that maybe the recipient of this sonnet didnt know that he/she stole the authors love. After further analyzing the couplet I then thought that maybe that the recipient was aware of the fact that he/she stole the authors love. The last line of the sonnet "Kill me with spites but we must not be foes" makes me think that the author is telling the recipient that you can be mad at me now, but in the future we should be friends again. I came to the conclusion that the author was originnally mad at the recipient of this sonnet for stealing his love, but is now forgiving him/her and still wants to be friends. I still can't come to a conclusion on whether the recipient knew he/she stole the authors love.

-Frank Koelbel-

Shakespeare Sonnet 18

In the Sonnet 18, Shakespeare praises a woman's beauty by comparing it to the summer. Especially Shakespeare emphasize May. In May, flowers come into bloom, winds become soft, and everything become lovely. After all the loveliness filled the world, however, they disappear as fall is coming. Shakespeare wants to capture the moment of beauty in May. So at the very last line, Shakespeare writes the purpose of the poet. He wants to remember the time when the woman was most beautiful on her life.

-Wooram Park-

Take, O Take - R. Abbott

In this love poem of only four lines, Shakespeare using an interesting rhyme scheme of A, B, A, B, C, C, C, C. This poem is also thought provoking because it is not typical of a love poem; it more talks about wanting his ex-lover to now leave him alone for pain she may have caused or a void she left in his fagile heart. In line 2, he uses the word forsworn, which means to renounce or deny under oath, to describe is lover's lips. He then goes on in lines 3-4 to describe the eyes of his lover similar to the morning sun light, but a light that was actually misconstrued by Shakespeare and misled him. In the last few lines he talks of bringing his kiss again, maybe because he deeply misses this person, but he says any kiss from this point on would only been in vain - it could never be genuinely out of love anymore.
--Ryan Abbott