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Explain what you have discovered about the sonnet form from your reading of three of the following poems: ‘After Death’, ‘Youth Gone, Beauty Gone’, ‘Two Pursuits’, ‘Endurance’ and ‘Remember’- Do you think the content of these poems is well suited to the s
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Kate Feld UVL Explain what you have discovered about the sonnet form from your reading of three of the following poems: 'After Death', 'Youth Gone, Beauty Gone', 'Two Pursuits', 'Endurance' and 'Remember'- Do you think the content of these poems is well suited to the sonnet from? The three poems I have chosen are 'After Death', 'Youth Gone, Beauty Gone' and 'Remember'. I have chosen 'After Death' and 'Remember' because they give very different, unstereotypical ideas about death, and 'Youth Gone, Beauty Gone' ties in with these because it is referring to growing old. Reading and examining these poems I have discovered that a sonnet has a very definite structure, which is emphasised by a particular rhyme scheme. Sonnets also have a distinctive rhythm. All three sonnets have the same style of language and imagery, and use of a personal voice. There is a very set structure to a sonnet; each...
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