ENGL 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Enjambment, Sonnet 29
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Read intro to the early 17th century for oct 18 class. Come up with 10 questions and answer, only one question from the timeline. When i do count the clock that tells the time : 10 syllables in a line of poetry, metrical foot, any two syllables, 5 metrical feet in this line, where are the stresses, i, count, clock, tells, time. And see the brave day sank in hideous night : more irregular than the first, where are the stresses, see, brave, sank, hideous, night. Defense of time and mortality: religion, living in the moment, carpe diem (seize the day, fantasy life (imagination, vampires, *procreation (breed, your children will live on for you, *shakespear deals with this a lot in his sonnets. Is the ending convincing: not really, signs of death and mortality are talked about for most of the poem, vivid images of death, brave sky leaves everyday, lofty trees, harvesting time.