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sonnet xxxii.to melancholy
Posted by: morpheus (62.215.49.---)
Date: March 21, 2005 12:43PM

hi
i need a full analyses to the sonnet xxxii. to melancholy, and england 1819 by shelly, and london by blake, and lucy to wordworts


Re: sonnet xxxii.to melancholy
Posted by: lg (---.ca.charter.com)
Date: March 21, 2005 02:15PM

Sorry, we don't do wordworts.


Les


Re: sonnet xxxii.to melancholy
Posted by: Pam Adams (---.bus.csupomona.edu)
Date: March 21, 2005 03:41PM

Is that what you get for playing with literate toads?

pam


Re: sonnet xxxii.to melancholy
Posted by: Hugh Clary (---.denver-02rh15-16rt.co.dial-access.att.net)
Date: March 22, 2005 11:39AM

As near as my traceroute can place it, morpheus seems to be posting from Kuwait, but I cannot be sure. That would account for the English language difficulties, not to mention the difficulties with English poets. Apparently s/he is taking an advanced poetry class as well. Tough spot to be in.

The question is posed with too little information for me to be sure what is desired. When I think of sonnet xxxii, I usually think of Shakespeare, not Shelley, but it must be this one:

When latest Autumn spreads her evening veil,
And the grev mists from these dim waves arise,
I love to listen to the hollow sighs,
Thro the half-leafless wood that breathes the gale:
For at such hours the shadowy phantom pale,
Oft seems to fleet before the poet's eye;
Strange sounds are heard, and mournful melodies,
As of night-wanderers, who their woes bewail!
Here, by his native stream, at such an hour,
Pity's own Otway I methinks could meet,
And hear his deep sighs swell the sadden'd wind!
O Melancholy! -- such thy magic power,
That to the soul these dreams are often sweet,
And soothe the pensive visionary mind!


The language here is very hard to follow, even for native speakers, so it seems strange it would be chosen for students not familiar with advanced English. The verb 'to fleet', for example, is no longer used, even if it were back in Shelley's day. Pity's own Otway is probably not Pig Latin, but it escapes me anyway. IN any case, the poem is titled 'To Melancholy', so one infers that Autumn brings to Percy a sense of melancholy, which he finds so enchanting that he writes a sonnet about it.

England 1819 is:

[eir.library.utoronto.ca] />
For Blake's London, see:

[www.english.uga.edu] />
Click on the picture and work your way around the various frames.

Wordsworth wrote several Lucy verses, so I am not sure which is being studied, but see:

[www.cs.rice.edu] />
[www.bartleby.com] />
For the drollery on frogs/toads causing (warts), see:

[en.wikipedia.org]


Re: sonnet xxxii.to melancholy
Posted by: morpheus (62.215.28.---)
Date: March 22, 2005 02:18PM

thax all


Hugh Clary , yes dear i am a girl student from kuwait(that to affirm your guess, actually i'm studinng english litreture and i need help with my course. thax dear for your kind and helping

it seems that you are very generous. so, help me to find answer to this questionsmiling smiley , how could you know where i am from?. finally, i will be so happy if you conect with me in my email, give me yours to add you in my list(if you like)
thanx


Re: sonnet xxxii.to melancholy
Posted by: Hugh Clary (---.denver-04rh16rt.co.dial-access.att.net)
Date: March 23, 2005 11:23AM

My wife won't let me correspond with girl students from Kuwait (or anywhere else for that matter), but your posting address of 62.215.28.??? indicates your origin. There are lots of tools to search for a particular IP address, but the one I use is:

[www.samspade.org]


Re: sonnet xxxii.to melancholy
Posted by: morpheus (62.215.42.---)
Date: March 24, 2005 09:56AM

Hugh Clary

it is ok smiling smiley




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