Sunday, April 1, 2012

Remix the textbook


Sonnet 69 by Pablo Neruda

Dramatic Situation: 
  • The sonnet is a lover communicating to their significant other how meaningless a life without  them would be. Also, how in love they are defined as individuals and as one, together. 
Structure: 
  • Sonnet, no rhymes. "'Without" repeated. 
Theme: 
  • Love for a person you cannot live without. 
Grammar/Meaning:
  • Commas used to separate similes and metaphors. 
Images/ Figures of Speech: 
  • sight is thet strongest sense acknowledged, figurative
  • personification
Important Words:
  • presence
  • since
  • will be
  • maybe
Tone: 
  • infatuation, romance "twitterpated"
Literary Devices: 
  • similes and metaphors
Prosody: 
  • no rhyming, two stanzas

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