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William Blake’s “The Tyger” examines and challenges the biblical account of creation.  Throughout the poem, Blake uses powerful fire and blacksmith imagery to evoke the idea formation. Furthermore the partially trochaic meter, formatted in rhyming couplets, mirrors the sing-song quality … Continue reading →

William Blake’s “The Tyger” speaks to a truth about the duality of life.  The poem, published in Blake’s “Songs of Experience,” is, itself, a dark and ominous companion piece to “The Lamb,” a much more lighthearted poem in Blake’s “Songs … Continue reading →

Again, we could chalk this up to hyperbole on the part of the speaker, but as we delve deeper into the sonnet, the irony seems to settle on a thematic point; the beauty of the city lies in its absence … Continue reading →

William Wordsworth’s sonnet, “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802,” is a deceptive piece.  Taken at surface level, the sonnet reads merely as a beautiful description of London and the River Thames as seen from the Westminster Bridge.  Wordsworth’s use … Continue reading →

As in Milton’s style, Paradise Lost is riddled with enjambment, and in Book Four, while Satan is giving his soliloquy, Milton’s use of enjambment nicely complements Satan’s fleeting moment of regret by making Satan a more sympathetic character.  Satan confronted … Continue reading →

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 →

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