Billy Collins Introduction to poetry
This sonnet is about a professor that wants to teach his students how to read and analyze poetry. He wants his students to delve into the poetry so that they could find the meaning that lays dormant. But instead all they want to do is get the simplified meaning.
Billy Collins Sonnet
This sonnet is simply about how to write a sonnet.Collin makes a writing a sonnet seem like a simple task. He states his instructions in a matter which his audience can quickly pick up on sonnet writing.
Shakespeare Sonnet 173
Shakespeare is comparing himself to the fall. Fall is personified as his dying self and uses the night as the image of death that is slowly but surely coming over him. But he also states that with that death the sun will rise again.
Shakespeare Sonnet 130
This sonnet is about his mistress and how he views her. Sonnet 130 is meant to be a comedic and insulting poem about the women he says is his mistress. He compares her and coral but states that she isn’t as lovely as the coral. The funniest line in that sonnet is ‘if snow is white, then why her breast are dun.”
Shakespeare Sonnet 146
Sonnet 146 seems to be about what happens to the body after death. His body is being covered and eaten by worms. I didn’t understand this piece as much as the rest.
Billy Collins introduction to poetry
This is basically an introduction with instructions on how to read and understand poetry. The professor is saying that students read poetry the wrong way and that they make it more complicated than it should be, he wants his students to admire poetry instead they torture it.
Billy Collins sonnet
In this sonnet Collins is showing us the formula for writting a sonnet. he tells us how to begin and how to conclude, and he tries to show it as a simple task. he tells us that by the time we get to the final six lines we should have made our points clear and resolved, and uses an example of a couple to say by that time the female will have the male stop writing and come to bed.
William Shakespear sonnet 73
In this sonnet Shakespear is speaking of death, he speaks of fall and the beggining of the winter cold, where the birds use to sing, he is speaking of life that is comming to an end, the life he enjoyed, the life he loved, the youth that is gone.
William Sheakespear sonnet 130
In this sonnet Shakespear speaks of his mistress, he uses many comparisons to discribe her physical appearance, an appearance he discribes as dark, or one that opposes everything that is bright and beautiful, but yet he loves her.
William Shakespear sonnet 146
Shakespear is talking about the human body in the face of death, the slow death that comes with old age. he is discribing the decaying body, and is asking why spend so much to keep the body beautiful but the beauty of it only last for a short period of time, why is the cost of living so high when in the end its worms that inherit it for free. in the end he states that we then feed on death and death can no longer feed on us because we only die once.
Hey sikjr2
I want to know did understand sonnet 146 because i think i might have misinterpreted it.
Billy Collins Introduction to Poetry
Billy Collins saying that students are reading poetry wrong, they are “torturing it”, by making it harder to understand. He is trying to teach his students how to read the poetry better, how to understand the inside of it. That is why his poem’s name is Introduction to Poetry; it is about how a person supposed to read a poem to understand it.
Billy Collins sonnet
Billy Collin’s Sonnet is a poem about sonnet, how to write it. He does not use rhyme, which you have to us in a sonnet. However, he uses some sonnet rules, it has 14 lines and it turns on the ninth line. In addition, it split into two parts.
William Shakespear sonnet 73
Shakespeare is using metaphors to characterize the nature of what he refers to be his old age. In addition, he talks about moving further from youth and closer to death.
William Sheakespear sonnet 130
In this sonnet, Shakespeare is talking about different beauties that a women can have. When I first read this sonnet, I thought he was writing about his love, his mistress. However, I have done some research and I found out that he was talking about Petrarch, who wrote most of his sonnets about love he had to his idolized mistress Laura.
William Shakespear sonnet 146
Shakespeare in this sonnet talks about death. He is metaphorically comparing his physical body to a building. Because of saying that, all mortals suffer the same by caring about their body whole life. However, in the end we all going to die and worms will eat everything we cared about our whole life. Therefore, there is no use; we must try to live simply.
malafyntik (who are you?)–you mention reading an outside source that suggested that Sonnet 130 is about Petrarch and Laura. Can you cite your source? It is important to remember that if we look at outside materials, we need to give credit to those sources. As we start talking about this semester’s research project, we’ll also start talking about various types of sources and their varying degrees of quality–so be careful that you use reputable sources. Let’s all take a look at the source you read.
Angel seems to suggest that Sonnet 146 is the most difficult of the 5 assigned poems, and I would agree with that. What makes it harder to understand than the rest? What do we understand? Sikjr2 (who are you?) includes in the reading response posted above some descriptions and interpretations from the poem. We’ll see which poems we have time to address in class, and whichever we don’t talk about then, we can talk about on the blog.
Its me Vita. I try to add myself to this blog,but I can’t.The only thing I can do is to write comments.=(((
I got all the information about Sonnet 130 on http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/shakesonnets/section10.rhtml
Vita,
I’ve added you as an author on the blog so you can now write your own posts.
About the resource that you used: Sparknotes isn’t exactly the most reliable resource. We want to use resources that are more appropriate for the level of work that we do. Think about using resources that are from .edu or .org sites rather than .com sites–we’ll talk more about this as we begin our research projects. Try reading the poems yourself–this blog is more about our responses to the readings than about outside resources, and if we elevate what other resources have to say, we limit the extent to which we can interact with the reading. We need to become experts ourselves, rather than assuming that our ideas are not as valuable as what we can find on the internet.
Professor Rosen
I had some trouble reading Sonnet 146 because i wasn’t sure if he was trying to compare himself to death or if he was literally talking about the process of death. But I did how ever enjoy reading that particular piece because of all the imagery and vivid words that were used.
well Angelc5 about sonnet 146 i think its basically about the human body and the about of time and enegy we take to nourish it and take care of it only to see it fade away and turn old and useless so quickly
Billy Collins introduction poetry
-he tells his student that poetry is simple but they’re looking at it the wrong way, making the poem hard to read.in the his intoduction to poetry, he tries to teach how the students should read the poem and find the meaning of it.
Billy Collins sonnet
-like his introduction to poetry, he teaches the students how to write a sonnet.in his sonnet, he splits it in half and puts in examples.
William Shakespear sonnet 73
-he speaks about the beginning(young) and end (old) of his life. he compares his age to: the seasons, age differences, love and uses personifciation. he believes since he’s old, its his time to go.
William Sheakespear sonnet 130
-in this sonnet, shakespear speaks about his lover’s flaws and compares it to mostly food. at the end, he says, although she has imperfection, he still loves her.
William Shakespear sonnet 146
-like sonnet 73, shakespear talks about death but he doesn’t speak of aging. he speaks about decaying bodies and how we try to keep it perfect but in the end after death, the bodys are infested and covered with worms. i thought this sonnet was kind of weird.