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Analyzing Sonnets - "An Autumn Night"

Read the following sonnet by Kate Elizabeth Clark. Read and annotate the poem, paying close attention to the poet’s literary techniques in order to analyze the relationship between the speaker and his/her setting.

An Autumn Night

What mellow radiance wraps the slumbering world,

Soothing its harshness with benignant hand!

Against a lustrous amber background stand

Black-bordered leaves and branches loosely-swirled;

In flushed or citrine-tinted heaps close-curled

The apples rest; the orange pumpkins yield

To cumbrous sleep; and on the spreading field

The tasselled tents of ripened corn are furled.

Elusive spirits flutter everywhere

'Mid moist brown leaves, and all the vaporous air

Is filled with whispering in an unknown tongue.

Yet not unknown; Thy praise is every sound,

The teeming earth Thine altar is, fruit-crowned,

The moon a golden censer near it swung.

DMU Timestamp: September 25, 2021 03:47

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Myah S Myah S (Sep 29 2021 9:37AM) : Personification of the world as slumbering

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Hailey M Hailey M (Sep 29 2021 10:40AM) : Positive connotation throughout the entire piece(radiance, soothing, lustrous, etc)

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Katarina A Katarina A (Sep 29 2021 3:23PM) : I agree it feels calm and almost relaxing.

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Isaiah A Isaiah A (Sep 29 2021 11:45AM) : The author is using calming and peaceful diction such as soothing and benignant, as well as mellow in the previous line

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Myah S Myah S (Sep 29 2021 9:39AM) : Alliteration with “b” but unsure of why that would have impact on the poem so probably wouldn’t use in paragraph

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Chenoa F Chenoa F (Sep 30 2021 9:55AM) : Alliteration is typically explored as "emphasis." The question would then be "Why would the speaker want to emphasize this particular line?" You are right, Myah. Alliteration is difficult to analyze because it is hard to understand the function of it.

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Audry G Audry G (Sep 30 2021 12:48PM) : Rhyme scheme is ABBA but then in goes BCCB, etc. Not typical.

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Rayna H Rayna H (Sep 29 2021 1:23PM) : personification and imagery are two techniques that are heavily used

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Angela G Angela G (Sep 30 2021 12:34PM) : Personification with the apples resting and pumpkins yielding.

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Cole R Cole R (Sep 30 2021 10:52AM) : For a body paragraph, I would use the "spreading fields" and have it flow into the other fall imagery like in the lines above and below with the pumpkins and corn.

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Cole R Cole R (Sep 30 2021 2:13PM) : Personification as the field is spreading.

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Meghan M Meghan M (Sep 29 2021 12:00AM) : Imagery is a big literary technique used.

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Will M Will M (Oct 01 2021 1:49PM) : Alliteration of "tasselled tents" insignificant to the meaning of the piece so would not use in an essay.

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Sabrina B Sabrina B (Sep 29 2021 9:05PM) : The author uses imagery that describes the field with light words such as "flutter".

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Katarina A Katarina A (Sep 29 2021 3:25PM) : Very descriptive imagery, with "moist brown leaves"

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Hailey A Hailey A (Sep 29 2021 12:26PM) : Personifies the leaves by saying they are whispering in unknown tongues. Shows that they are making rustling noises in the night.

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Meghan M Meghan M (Sep 29 2021 12:08AM) : For a topic I would talk about how the setting is outside and most likely during fall.

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Hailey M Hailey M (Sep 29 2021 10:47AM) : For a topic I would talk about how the description and imagery of the setting shows a positive relationship with the setting

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Isaiah A Isaiah A (Sep 29 2021 11:55AM) : For a body paragraph I would write about progression from the scale of the whole world down to individual things like leaves and apples, and then it expands farther to fields and ends back at the Earth and Moon, and how that gives the poem movement

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Chenoa F Chenoa F (Sep 30 2021 9:57AM) : This is good, Isaiah! You could consider the verbs, too, as it portrays a great deal of movement throughout the poem.

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Hailey A Hailey A (Sep 29 2021 12:18PM) : For a body paragraph I would talk about how the setting gives the speaker a soothing feeling which helps demonstrates the positive relationship between the two.

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Rayna H Rayna H (Sep 29 2021 1:24PM) : for a body paragraph i would talk about how the author uses imagery to describe the setting

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Chenoa F Chenoa F (Sep 30 2021 9:58AM) : You could probably get away with a lit-term-based topic in this instance because there is SO MUCH imagery in this poem. Just don't forget to discuss how the imagery illustrates the relationship between speaker & setting.

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Sabrina B Sabrina B (Sep 29 2021 9:12PM) : In a body paragraph I would write about the light tone that is carried throughout the poem when describing the setting, making the speaker seem at peace with their setting.

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Angela G Angela G (Sep 30 2021 12:39PM) : For a body paragraph I would talk about lines 8-12 and the significance of focusing more on the field.

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Audry G Audry G (Sep 30 2021 2:54PM) : Body paragraph: the way the speaker personifies the forest and makes it so personal the way that it comes to life.

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Will M Will M (Oct 01 2021 2:03PM) : For a body paragraph I would discuss the tone and diction and how the positive language reflects the relationship between the setting and speaker

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