Unit Four Portfolio - Sonnets - Abi White
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- This line is setting the stage for the end of October. It paints a picture in the readers head of the leaves falling and changing colors, and of the weather cooling. The importance of this line is to prepare for the next line and make it more impactful. The golden days of October represent life changing. The line reminds you that time is limited and sets the stage for the theme of the poem.
- The golden days of late October fade
- The poem takes us from Octobers golden colors to bleak iron skies and a sense of grayness and heaviness. November skies make me think of colder, slower, more difficult times. This is important because it's setting the mood for the poem. Reminding us of passing time and the changes that occur.
- As bleak Novembers iron skies decend.
- Imagery is used in this poem. The writer uses imagery to provide the reader mental images to tell the story and paint the pictures in the readers mind which make the writers message easier to understand. By using imagery, the writer creates a clear contrast between the "golden days of October" and "bleak November iron skies". You can feel the heaviness of the changing scenes described. Poems written using imagery are easier to understand through visualization. Typically, the images described stick with me longer than poems written using other devices.
- The turn of the poem appears to be line 7. In line 7 the author transitions from referring to November winter as the bleak harbinger of the dreariness, cold and gray to come, to the acceptance that time moving forward is inevitable after the turn. After the turn, the author seems more accepting of the change although undesired. The metaphor seems to be that we must accept these changes that we may dislike when we cannot change them. There is no sense wasting time worrying about things that we can't control. The poem seems to transition to more of a story about time, and how even the gray gloomy days of November will soon "be ancient past". When the author refers to the "each Golden Age" expiring, I thought about the fact that without summer fading, there would never be a time when a new summer could begin.
- This line is important because it shows the physical deterioration that occurs over time. The description of "Persepolis crumbling back to dust" is another reference to the heaviness and change that occur over the passing of time. It strengthens the theme with a more physical description of the crumbling of an empire. There is a darkness to this line without saying much at all, a sense of despair. The "golden days" are behind.
- Persepolis has crumbled back to dust.
- This line is a clear reminder to be grateful for the time we have because it will be gone before we know it. The writer is giving a warning of sorts to cherish this life we've been given. To enjoy each moment. Throughout the poem, we see the changes occurring over time, until this message. This message is more direct. Everything has an end. Nothing lasts forever. The theme comes through clearly in this line in my opinion. It's that change and death are inevitable.
- Embrace what time remains, it will not last.
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