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When annotating poetry look for each of the following in your poem. Start with identifying the various examples of figurative language within your poem and continue on...

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YALE UNIVERSITY COURSE:

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Help with both Eros Poems:

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EXAMPLE OF A PARAPHRASED SONNET

SONNET 1

From fairest creatures we desire increase,

That thereby beauty's rose might never die,

But as the riper should by time decease,

His tender heir might bear his memory:

But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,

Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,

Making a famine where abundance lies,

Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.

Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament

And only herald to the gaudy spring,

Within thine own bud buriest thy content

And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding.

    Pity the world, or else this glutton be,

    To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.

 PARAPHRASE

We desire that all created things may grow more plentiful,

So that nature's beauty may not die out,

But as an old man dies at the hand of time,

He leaves an heir to carry on his memory:

But you, interested only in your own beauty,

Feed the radiant light of life with self-regarding fuel,

Making a void of beauty by so obsessing over your own looks,

With this behavior you are being cruel to yourself.

You are now the newest ornament in the world, young and beautiful

And the chief messenger of spring,

But you are burying the gifts you have been given within yourself

And, dear one, because you deny others your beauty, you are actually wasting it.

   Take pity on the world, or else be regarded as a selfish glutton,

   By the laws of God and nature you must

create a child, so that the grave does not

devour the memory of your loveliness.

Help with Poems

Point of view is a reflection of the opinion an individual from real life or fiction can have. Examples of point of view belong to one of these three major kinds:

1. First person point of view involves the use of either of the two pronouns “I” and “we”.

• Example:
• “I felt like I was getting drowned with shame and disgrace.”

2. Second person point of view employs the pronoun “you”.

• “Sometimes you cannot clearly discern between anger and frustration.”

3. Third person point of view uses pronouns like “he”, “she”, “it”, “they” or a name.

• “Mr. Stewart is a principled man. He acts by the book and never lets you deceive him easily.”

IMAGERY

As a literary device, imagery consists of descriptive language that can function as a way for the reader to better imagine the world of the piece of literature and also add symbolism to the work. Imagery draws on the five senses, namely the details of taste, touch, sight, smell, and sound. Imagery can also pertain to details about movement or a sense of a body in motion (kinesthetic imagery) or the emotions or sensations of a person, such as fear or hunger (organic imagery or subjective imagery). Using imagery helps the reader develop a more fully realized understanding of the imaginary world that the author has created.

Comparison and Contrast Info Packet

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