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Atlantis - A Lost Sonnet
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Atlantis - A Lost Sonnet
By Eavan Bolland
(P.1292)
Structure
Structure:
About fifteen lines.
Five Stanzas.
3rd and 4th stanza end in unfinished thoughts.
Vocabulary
- Colonades: A series of columns supporting a roof.
- White Pudding: Sausage made from pork and oatmeal that is a part of a traditional Irish breakfast.
- Convey: To communicate or express something.
- Fable-makers: Story tellers or writers.
Reflection of what was lost.
Paraphrase
Symbolism
"our old city" (ln. 7) - what is lost
Atlantis - Renewed hope
How in the world could and entire city just disappear all of a sudden?
Wouldn't a city like that be missed?
I miss my old home.
I miss the food there and meet you under the evening sky to go home together.
Maybe this is what happened:
Story tellers searched for a word to express a way to say once you loose something it is gone forever.
Tradition says that the story came from our own sarrows and loses.
Title
- Possible meaning:
- Like Atlantis loss things are hard to find.
- There is something lost like Atlantis is.
- Something cannot be found.
- Clues:
- Atlantis is a lost city.
- Lost sonnet/poem.
- The poem is full of sadness and mystery.
Literary Analysis
Mood Analysis
- Depressing
- Mournful
- Reflecting
- "They gave their sorrow a name and drowned them" (ln. 14). They treat their emotions like a physical object to deal with them.
- "what is gone is gone forever". An absolute.
- "meeting under fanlights and low skies" (ln. 9). Describing the night sky.
- "the world was small then" (ln. 5). The world wasn't really smaller.
Speaker and Audience
Theme
- Loosing something is hard especially when you can't get it back.
- People morn the things that they loose and cannot get back.
Speaker:
- She is morning the loss of a city she used to live in.
- She has lost something or someone very dear to her.
Audience:
- Those who have lost something or someone very dear to them.
Connections
- Mr. Darcy - "My good opinion once lost is lost forever"
- The Disney movie Atlantis
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