Snowflakes

Tag: allusion

  • Death of a Young Son by Drowning

    “Death of a Young Son by Drowning” by Margaret Atwood is a moving poem about the death of a child. The use of metaphor makes the poem more challenging. Theme: Hope dies when one’s child dies. Techniques: metaphor, simile, symbolism, allusion. Issues: What happened to the speaker? To her son? What reflective question does this…

  • Not only marble, but the plastic toys

    “Not only marble, but the plastic toys” by Wendy Cope is a parody of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet LV”. Theme: Creative works cannot endure. Techniques: Sonnet structure, comparison, parody, allusion. Issues: See Shakespeare’s “Sonnet LV”. Summarize this sonnet in your own words using your summary of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet LV” as a starting point or model. Do you…

  • Sonnet LV

    Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmear’d with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor war’s quick fire shall burn The living…