Sonnet 69
Pablo Neruda
-the dramatic situation is that the speakers life is nothing without his lover
-the structure is a Sonnet
-the theme is that love will connect people
-short phrases & complete sentences
-similes, personification
-figurative language, metaphors
- "we'll be"
-it opens with describing his life with and without love, then ends explaining how his love will always be because it is part of him
She Walks in Beauty
George Gordon, Lord Byron
-the speaker is admiring a woman he doesn't know but finds beautiful
-3 stanzas of 6 lines, rhyme every other line
-appreciation of beauty
-correct grammar
-metaphors and similes
-figurative language
-eloquent, beauty, grace
-it opens with a description of outward appearance and ends with beauty of the heart, conveying inner and outer beauty
When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be
John Keats
-the author is worried about dying early with no one who loves him
-Sonnet
-everything ends
-future and present tense
-personification
-figurative language, metaphors
-nothingness, relish, unreflecting
-discusses his fears and ends with his fears occurring and everything becoming nothing.
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