Anthology 2016 by Emma Conner

Poetry Anthology Entry #2

Emma Conner Sonnet 13

O that you were yourself! But, love, you are No longer yours than you yourself here live. Against this coming end you should prepare, And your sweet semblance to some other give. So should that beauty which you hold in lease Find no determination; then you were Yourself again after yourself’s decease, When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear. Who lets so fair a house fall to decay, Which husbandry in honor might uphold Against the stormy gusts of winter’s day And barren rage of death’s eternal cold? O, none but unthrifts, dear my love you know, You had a father; let your son say so.

Poetry Anthology Entry #2

Emma Conner

I like Sonnet 13 because it deals with the human misconception of beauty: putting physical beauty above all. I am planning on having children one day and passing my legacy down to them and this poem has just heightened the stakes of those plans. This sonnet is a poem in part through its rhymes, its iambic pentameter and its use of figurative language. The poem has an “AB” rhyme through the lines except for the last two lines, which have an “AA” rhyme. This is very common in Shakespeare. Iambic Pentameter is also a common tool used in Shakespeare. Iambic pentameter has a vocal pattern of “weak, STRONG; weak STRONG” with five strong beats per line. Take the first line for example, “oh THAT you WERE yourSELF! but LOVE you ARE,” The syllables, “that”, “were”, “self”, “love”, and, “are” are the 5 strong beats in this line. This is important because it tells you which syllables to stress. There is much less figurative language than my last entry. One metaphor in this poem is in line 9 when it says, “Who lets such fair a house decay,” comparing the legacy of a family to its house. This is important because it compares the beauty to something we know much about to give us an idea of how much of a waste not using this beauty is; think of a beautiful house that gets left empty and begins to rot all alone and soon enough kids are daring each other to go in there because they think it's some sorta monster haunted house. The speaker seems to have some sort of anger towards the reader for wasting their beauty. This anger the speaker has towards the reader is important because it is the tone of the poem. We need to know this tone both so that we can know how to say the poem(kindly, angrily, lovingly, etc.) and also because it tells us how the author is truly feeling. This poem starts by giving the impression of a female audience(given the fact that beauty isn’t often used to describe men), however, in the last line, it refers to the reader as a father implying that he is male. This is important because the audience is to whom the poem is being directed. No matter how different these language features jobs are they need each other to make a complete poem.

Emma Conner 81 Anthology 8

Not forever. not for long. just for now. I put on a smile she smiles back. What is it she has that I lack? She took my hope; The little bit I had; I knew I had no chance but still I was sad You had been just out of reach but, now you’re light years away She had stolen you with her flirty little sway And in her flirty nice girl way She took you out to sea and left me reaching out from the bay You were gone that much was true, I don’t know why i’ve decided to tell this to you. I’ve been in denial for so long, But still you’ve known that you weren’t wrong. I pushed you around and called you names While you insulted me and made me play your games Do you not know, your words can mold me like clay Do you not see my soul hopeless and ready to pray I didn't want to feel like this I tried to lock it away I tried to push my emotions back day after day but, I knew, I know that like rain I knew, I know no one can stop pain. Not forever. not for long. just for now.

Poetry Anthology Entry #4

69 Those parts of thee that the world’s eye doth view Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend. All tongues, the voice of souls, give thee that due, Utt'ring bare truth, ev'n so as foes commend. Thy outward thus with outward praise is crowned; But those same tongues that give thee so thine own In other accents do this praise confound By seeing farther than the eye hath shown. They look into the beauty of thy mind, And that in guess they measure by thy deeds; Then, churls, their thoughts (although their eyes were kind) To thy fair flower add the rank smell of weeds; But why thy odor matcheth not thy show, The soil is this, that thou dost common grow.

Emma Conner

Poetry Anthology Entry #4

Emma Conner

I have some experience with this. A lot of the time when I’m out with my friends, random guys my age will tell me they think I’m cute(it’s kind of disturbing). The most recent example was a group of; hoodie head, grey shirt and the two soccer nerds at skyzone. the guys who actually know me think I’m weird and annoying and want nothing to do with me. So that’s my relation to pretty looks;rotten smell. Some things that make this sonnet a poem are its meter, it’s rhyme scheme, its comparisons and its tone. This sonnet has iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter is often used in Shakespeare. This matters because it tells us how to say the poem; which syllables to stress or put emphasis on. Having it in Iambic Pentameter means it is spoken in colloquial language. The rhyme scheme is “AB” for lines 112 and “AA” for lines 13 and 14. This adds to the rhythm of the poem. The comparisons used in this poem are mainly metaphors. The metaphor I found here was on line 12 when it compares the audience to a flower saying, “To thy fair flower add the rank smell of weeds;” this metaphor continues onto line 14 when it says, “ The soil is this, that thou dost common grow. ”. This metaphor adds to the poem because it simplifies to a point where it is easier to grasp because we know what the speaker means on line 13 when he says, “But why thy odor matcheth not thy show,” symbolically referring to the odor of the flower. It helps to continue this metaphor because it takes the comparison we already know, something we understand, and adds to it instead of throwing a different one in our face to try and reinterpret from the start. The tone in these 14 lines seems to change; however, to understand that you must first know who the audience is. THe audience in this poem is a person who is very beautiful but does not hang out with people like them. The tone from the speaker to the audience seems to change from adoration to some form of anger. THe tone is important because it helps us know both what the speaker wants to say and how to read it ourselves. While all of these jobs are very different, they combine here to make 14 marvelous Shakespearian lines.

Poetry Anthology Entry #5

109 O never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seemed my flame to qualify. As easy might I from myself depart As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie. That is my home of love; if I have ranged, Like him that travels I return again, Just to the time, not with the time exchanged, So that myself bring water for my stain. Never believe, though in my nature reigned All frailties that besiege all kinds of blood, That it could so preposterously be stained To leave for nothing all thy sum of good. For nothing this wide universe I call, Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all.

Emma Conner

Poetry Anthology Entry #5

Emma Conner

I can relate to this poem, weirdly because of how I was born. I was born because my father had an affair with my mother. I’m assuming that my dad gave a speech like this to my stepmom at some point. Happily for them they just celebrated their 25 anniversary last summer. It is so sweet for her to accept me into her family and treat me like one of her own even though I am very far from it. This sonnet is a poem because of its comparisons, rhyme scheme, meter, and tone. The comparisons used in this sonnet are similes, and metaphors. Similes are language tools that compare two separate things using like or as. The simile i found is in line 6 where the speaker compares himself to a traveler by saying “Like him that travels I return again.”. This simile is important because it gives you an image of the speaker in a way that you didn’t have before. The metaphor that I found was on the 14th line when the speaker compares the audience to a rose saying, “Save thou, my rose…”. This metaphor adds to the poem because it shows how much the speaker adores the audience; a rose is something beautiful that people love,on the other hand however, this could be considered as objectifying women. The rhyme scheme here, like in many other Shakespeare sonnets is an interlineal “AB” rhyme for lines 112 and another “AA” rhyme for the last two lines. This rhyme scheme helps give the poem rhythm The meter in this sonnet is iambic pentameter, it is fourteen lines long. The Iambic Pentameter gives it colloquial speech. The audience in this poem is a girl(or boy) which the speaker is passionate towards. This audience is important because it sets up the tone for the story, passion. THe tone is important because it gives you some insight to what the author is thinking and feeling. It’s amazing how many jobs need to be done in a poem: comparing, giving rhythm, giving emotion, and much more. However, at the end of the day, they all come together to make a wonderful poem for the public’s enjoyment.

SONNET 80 O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might, To make me tonguetied, speaking of your fame! But since your worth, wide as the ocean is, The humble as the proudest sail doth bear, My saucy bark inferior far to his On your broad main doth wilfully appear. Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat, Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride; Or being wreck'd, I am a worthless boat, He of tall building and of goodly pride: Then if he thrive and I be cast away, The worst was this; my love was my decay.

One of the elements I liked about Sonnet 80 was the element of unrequited love. This was a topic brought up in Romeo and Juliet and I was quite entertained by it. While I have never been in love. In first grade I had a crush on a boy who did NOT like me back. No matter what I did he wouldn’t like me! I mean I’m SO likable! Anyway I kept chasing him for four years and got no where. It still hurts. Sonnet 80 is a poem because of its meter, its rhyme scheme, its comparasons and its tone. The meter it uses is Iambic Pentameter. It has an AB rhyme scheme, with an AA rhyme for the last two lines. There is one simile and one metaphor in this poem. In line 5 Shakespeare compared worth to the ocean. He also compared the speaker to a worthless boat in line 11. This is important not only because it relates the speakers thoughts and feelings to something that we already understand but, also because it they both keep with the same theme with an ocean and a boat. Shakespeare used a punctuation pattern of “, , , .” at the end of each line. This is important because it slows the poem down with an end stop on every fourth line. The audience to this poem is the girl to whom the speaker is attracted. The tone of this poem is very gentle, kind, and caring. Weather it’s comparing, giving rhythm or describing the speakers emotions, each language feature has a big role in the sonnet.

Poetry Anthology Entry #1 2/10/16 Emma Conner

Shakespeare Sonnet #1 By Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase, 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's flame with selfsubstantial 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.

Poetry Anthology Entry #1 2/10/16 Emma Conner I can relate to this in the future because at some point in the far future I will have children of my own. I will not live through my children but, I would hope that they would look up to and aspire to be like me even just a little bit. Some things that make this sonnet a poem are its metaphors and its rhymes. A metaphor is a comparison of two things without using the words like or as. One of these metaphors is found in the second line where it says, “...beauty’s rose might never die,”. There is no like or as in this quote, also, our outer beauty is compared to a rose. This metaphor is significant because it tells you how beautiful this person really was , not just comparing the audience to a flower but, a rose which is often thought to be the most beautiful flower of them all. The second metaphor found here is on line 6 where it says, “...the world’s fresh ornament”. This metaphor compares the reader to an ornament and no like or as is used. It is significant because it relates the reader to something that is easier to comprehend. Rhyming is also a big factor in making of this poem. There are two types of rhyming in this poem, some rhymes in the same line some interlineal rhymes. There is really only one example of a rhyme within a line which can be found in line 4 with the words heir and bear. There is also an AB rhyme pattern of end lines(last word). However, there are some exceptions to this pattern. Both lines 13 and 14 have an AA rhyme. The tone here is anger. The speaker has this tone because they believe that the audience is being wasteful with their beauty. The audience of this poem is someone who has said that they did not want children and wants to end their family line. No audience gender is specified. In the end all of these things that further explain or give patterns to the poem come together to make this beautiful sonnet.

One of the elements I liked about Sonnet 80 was the element of unrequited love. This was a topic brought up in Romeo and Juliet and I was quite entertained by it. Sonnet 80 is a poem because it uses Iambic Pentameter and has an AB rhyme scheme, with an AA rhyme for the last two lines. There are two metaphors in this poem. Shakespeare compared worth to the ocean. He also compared the speaker to a worthless boat. Shakespeare used a punctuation pattern of “, , , .” at the end of each line, adding a rhythmic element to the poem. The audience to this poem is the girl to whom the speaker is attracted.

Poetry Anthology Entry #2

Emma Conner Sonnet 13

Poetry Anthology Entry #2

Emma Conner

I like Sonnet 13 because it deals with the human misconception of beauty: putting physical beauty above all. This sonnet is a poem in part through its rhymes, its iambic pentameter and its use of figurative language. The poem has an “AB” rhyme through the lines except for the last two lines, which have an “AA” rhyme. This is very common in Shakespeare. Iambic Pentameter is also a common tool used in Shakespeare. Iambic pentameter has a vocal pattern of “weak, STRONG; weak STRONG” with five strong beats per line. Take the first line for example, “oh THAT you WERE yourSELF! but LOVE you ARE,” The syllables, “that”, “were”, “self”, “love”, and, “are” are the 5 strong beats in this line. There is much less figurative language than my last entry. One metaphor in this poem is in line 9 when it says, “Who lets such fair a house decay,” comparing the legacy of a family to its house. The speaker seems to have some sort of anger towards the reader for wasting their beauty. This metaphor strengthens the poem by explaining the family’s legacy/beauty in a different way. This poem starts by giving the impression of a female audience(given the fact that beauty isn’t often used to describe men), however, in the last line, it refers to the reader as a father implying that he is male. This is important because the poem is meant to interest the audience.

Poetry Anthology Entry #1 2/10/16 Emma Conner

Shakespeare Sonnet #1 By Shakespeare

Poetry Anthology Entry #1 2/10/16 Emma Conner I chose this poem because I enjoyed how it pointed out our human need for perfection. I also chose it because of my love for Shakespeare. THe need for repopulation of beautiful people/things is not a flaw that went away with Shakespeare’s generation, it still exists in our daily life. I love plays like Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream s o, when I first saw this assignment I automatically thought Shakespeare. Two things that make this sonnet a poem are its language tools and its rhymes. This sonnet uses metaphors as its language tool. A metaphor is a comparison of two things without using the words like or as. One of these metaphors is found in the second line where it says, “...beauty’s rose might never die,”. There is no like or as in this quote, also, our outer beauty is compared to a rose. The second metaphor found here is on line 6 where it says, “...the world’s fresh ornament”. This metaphor compares the reader to an ornament and no like or as is used. Rhyming is also a big factor in making of this poem. There are two types of rhyming in this poem, some in the same line some in different lines. There is really only one example of a rhyme within a line which can be found in line 4 with the words heir and bear. There is also rhyming with the end word of every other line. However, there are some exceptions to this pattern. Lines 2 and 4 do not rhyme and both lines 13 and 14 do rhyme.