Monthly Archives: February 2011

John Keats’ sonnet “When I Have Fears,” deals with the speaker coming to terms with mortality.  The sonnet is written in Shakespearean form, with each quatrain discussing an anxiety the speaker has in regards to the fleetingness of time. The … Continue reading →

In the first stanza of The Sun Rising by John Donne, the speaker compares the sun to a human.  The first line begins this personification with, “Busy old fool, unruly sun.”  The speaker calls the sun a fool and unruly, … Continue reading →

In Shakespeare Sonnet 116, two prominent networks of imagery are used to further the speaker’s argument that true love is a powerful and steadfast emotion that does not bend to the whims of men or time.  One of these networks … Continue reading →