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Sonnet (1999) Billy Collins

What are the dominant images?

Basic information about the poem

The dominant images are Candles, medieval, storm tossed seas, the stations of the cross

What kind of devices are used to convey meaning?

imagery, metaphors, simile, symbols

How is the rhythm achieved? Is there any rhyme?

What is the overall meaning of the poem?

There is a bit of rhyme

A commentary on historic and modern sonnets through comedic lens.

How is it organized? What kind of form is used?

The sonnet is made up of an octave and a sestet. Just like in a traditional Petrarchan sonnet, but this is where the similarity ends. There is no set end rhyme scheme and the iambic pentameter beat occurs in only two lines, instead of all fourteen.

1. Who is the speaker?

The sonnet is the narrator

Is it a specific type of poem?

What is the division of the ideas? How does the punctuation serve as a clue to meaning?

It's a sonnet

He uses commas to divide his thoughts and points and different sections of the poem. He uses the number aspect to represent the uniformity in sonnets.

What kind of diction is used? Words you do not know? Denotations? Connotations?

Iambic, Elizabethan

What is the content?

What is the attitude or tone being conveyed?

The subject matter is a commentary on sonnets, and how they're created. All sonnets are based are on love. Social norm for sonnets and poetry. There is religious references. People who write sonnets try to write like Shakespeare but they should be writing in their own way and in their own time.

The tone is observant on how historically written that sonnets are written

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