Post-Apocalyptic Sonnets
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Thanks Jamie I heard Maggie preach on the the text on Sunday and wrote the sonnet this morning.
Thanks for posting on FB. When I saw the photo of the branch and the tender shoot, I thought you would be doing Isaiah Interesting juxtaposition of a tender shoot. Your last line is especially striking.
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The Sonnet: Poetic Form
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This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Since the Petrarchan presents an argument, observation, question, or some other answerable charge in the octave, a turn, or volta, occurs between the eighth and ninth lines.
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This turn marks a shift in the direction of the foregoing argument or narrative, turning the sestet into the vehicle for the counterargument, clarification, or whatever answer the octave demands. Sir Thomas Wyatt introduced the Petrarchan sonnet to England in the early sixteenth century. This structure has been noted to lend itself much better to the comparatively rhyme-poor English language. The second major type of sonnet, the Shakespearean, or English sonnet, follows a different set of rules.
Here, three quatrains and a couplet follow this rhyme scheme: The couplet plays a pivotal role, usually arriving in the form of a conclusion, amplification, or even refutation of the previous three stanzas, often creating an epiphanic quality to the end. But the concluding couplet swerves in a surprising direction:. Milton freed the sonnet from its typical incarnation in a sequence of sonnets, writing the occasional sonnet that often expressed interior, self-directed concerns.
He also took liberties with the turn, allowing the octave to run into the sestet as needed. The Spenserian sonnet, invented by sixteenth century English poet Edmund Spenser, cribs its structure from the Shakespearean—three quatrains and a couplet—but employs a series of "couplet links" between quatrains, as revealed in the rhyme scheme: At the time of the preparations for the test on 16 July Oppenheimer reportedly was reading Holy Sonnets.
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- To Touch the Face of God: The Sacred, the Profane, and the American Space Program, 1957–1975 (New Series in NASA History).
In , Lieutenant General Leslie Groves — wrote to Oppenheimer about the origin of the name, asking if he had chosen it because it was a name common to rivers and peaks in the West and would not attract attention. I did suggest it, but not on that ground Why I chose the name is not clear, but I know what thoughts were in my mind.
There is a poem of John Donne, written just before his death, which I know and love.
What’s it going to be then, eh?
From it a quotation: Historian Gregg Herken believes that Oppenheimer named the site in reference to Donne's poetry as a tribute to his deceased mistress, psychiatrist and physician Jean Tatlock — —the daughter of an English literature professor and philologist—who introduced Oppenheimer to the works of Donne. The history of the Trinity test, and the stress and anxiety of the Manhattan Project's workers in the preparations for the test was the focus of the opera Doctor Atomic by contemporary American composer John Adams , with libretto by Peter Sellars.
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John Donne — at Poetry Foundation www. Retrieved 2 July Genre and the Religious Construction of the Self.
It was much more common then than now. From the Italian sonetto , which means "a little sound or song," the sonnet is a popular classical form that has compelled poets for centuries. Your last line is especially striking. The poems are "suffused with the language of bodily decay" expressing a fear of death that recognizes the impermanence of life by descriptions of his physical condition and inevitability of "mortal flesh" compared with an eternal afterlife. Rebirth and Renewal New York: Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: The nineteen poems that constitute the collection were never published during Donne's lifetime although they did circulate in manuscript.
Oxford University Press, , The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Oxford University Press, Volume 7, Part 1. Indiana University Press, , ix—x, 5— The Complete Poetry of John Donne. New York UP; London: U of London P, The End of the World.
Thomas Dunne Books, , John Donne, Body and Soul. University of Chicago Press, Rebirth and Renewal New York: Infobase Publishing, , The Poetry of Meditation: