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SONNET - 1 That thereby beauty’s rose might never die,  But as the riper should by time decease,  His tender heir might bear his memory:  But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,  Feed’st thy light’st flame with self-substantial fuel,  Making a famine where abundance lies,  Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.  Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament  And only herald to the gaudy spring,  Within thine own bud buriest thy content  And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding.  Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee.                                                         - William  Shakespeare Links You May Like: Poetry: https://themotivationaladda.blogspot.com/search/label/Poe...

Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no longer than a flower? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? O fearful meditation! where, alack, Shall time's best jewel from times chest lie hid? Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back? Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid? O, none, unless this miracle have might, That is black ink mt love may still shine bright. - William Shakespeare Theme: Sonnet 65 is the continuation of sonnet 64, in these sonnets, Shakespeare depicted the endless ravage of time on love and life. For him, Time is the ultimate destroyer, it destroys everything that anyone thinks is endless. The clutches of time are destructive, it des...

A Complaint:-   There is a change—and I am poor; Your love hath been, nor long ago, A fountain at my fond heart's door, Whose only business was to flow; And flow it did; not taking heed Of its own bounty, or my need. What happy moments did I count! Blest was I then all bliss above! Now, for that consecrated fount Of murmuring, sparkling, living love, What have I? shall I dare to tell? A comfortless and hidden well. A well of love—it may be deep— I trust it is,—and never dry: What matter? if the waters sleep In silence and obscurity. —Such change, and at the very door Of my fond heart, hath made me poor. -William Wordsworth Summary And Theme: Poem 'A Complaint' is an example of romantic poetry . For an opening line of "A Complaint", it is a dark, sombre message of the grief that is yet to come – it sets the tone for the rest of 'A Complaint', and opens up the idea of this loss as being something personally shaking. 'A Complaint' speaks about a grav...

A Fairy Song (Sonnet) Full Explanation, Theme, and Related Questions:- Sonnet Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire! I do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the Fairy Queen, To dew her orbs upon the green; The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours; In those freckles live their savours; I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. -William Shakespeare Theme: The poem is all about a fairy serving the fairy queen. Her job is to make everything pretty and put  dew  drops over the cowslips. It is obvious that the theme of this poem is the  life  and job of a fairy. Explanation: Links You May Link: Poetry: https://themotivationaladda.blogspot.com/search/label/Poetry Sonnets: https://themotivationaladda.blogspot.com/search/label/Sonne...

When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, (Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. - William Shakespeare Summary And Theme : According To Gradesaver.com , In the Sonnet 'When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes' . The emotional state of the speaker is one of depression: in the first line, he assumes himself to be "in disgrace with fortune," meaning he has...

O Star (the fairest one in sight), We grant your loftiness the right To some obscurity of cloud – It will not do to say of night, Since dark is what brings out your light. Some mystery becomes the proud. But to be wholly taciturn In your reserve is not allowed. Say something to us we can learn By heart and when alone repeat. Say something! And it says "I burn." But say with what degree of heat. Talk Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade. Use language we can comprehend. Tell us what elements you blend. It gives us strangely little aid, But does tell something in the end. And steadfast as Keats' Eremite, * Not even stooping from its sphere, It asks a little of us here. It asks of us a certain height, So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.                               - Robert Frost Theme: The Poem 'C hoose s...

Answers I KEEP MY ANSWERS SMALL AND KEEP THEM NEAR BIG QUESTIONS BRUISED MY MIND BUT STILL, I LET SMALL ANSWERS BE A BULWARK TO MY FEAR THE HUGE ATTRACTION- "I KEEP FROM THE LIGHT" SMALL THINGS I HANDLED AND CARESSED AND LOVED,  I LET, THE STARS ASSUME THE WHOLE OF THE NIGHT BUT THE BIG ANSWERS CLAMOURED TO BE MOVED INTO MY LIFE. THEIR GREAT AUDACITY SHOUTED TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED AND BELIEVED EVEN WHEN ALL SMALL ANSWERS BUILD UP TO PROTECTION OF MY SPIRIT I SHALL HEAR BIG ANSWERS STRIVING FOR THEIR OVERTHROW AND ALL GREAT CONCLUSIONS COMING NEAR - Elizabeth Jennings Summary: The Poem "Answers" describes how the poet slot the big questions and answers of life in their mind. In the poem, the poet says that she always stays good with short answers and always keeps them near. While the Big answers always hurt her, as they require more attention and thinking, they become harder to ignore and forget. Poet also says that to dodge the contest of big questions (like pain, hard...

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