from the English sonnet form in line length and meter; instead of iambic pentameter, it employs iambic tetrameter. This simple love sonnet portrays a charming tone, dramatizing the simple pleasures that the speaker holds dear, as it cascades to a surprising ending.from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Gwendolyn Bennett's Love Sonnet
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The reader then is accosted with the fact that those underwater caves, which may be decorated or not, are filled with land-dwelling, air-breathing mammals. Thus, the piece becomes a fantasy verse or does it? The reader suspends belief and continues, learning that those animals, "apes," eat figs. This fact is nothing extraordinary; apes love fruit, but why the versifier chooses "figs" remains a mystery.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Obama's Underground
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Because of his having to take "public means," he then has to perform certain duties that are distasteful to him. He is probably referring to having to write and stage the plays out of financial necessity rather than out of pure inspiration and love of the art.
His name becomes "a brand," quite possibly the reason he used the pseudonym, "William Shakespeare." At least this way, he keeps a portion of his privacy and dignity.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 111
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The speaker addresses his Muse, reporting to her, "Your love and pity doth the impression fill/Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow." He dramatizes accusations hurled at him by claiming that they have cut into his "brow" leaving a gaping hole. But fortunately, his Muse will bandage his wound and fill it is as one would fill in a divot.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 112
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His literal, physical eye seems to leave its "function and is partly blind." Exaggerating, he claims that he cannot see with the same visual acuity as when he is in the presence of his Muse.
The speaker interprets the act of "seeing" as a mental concept; while composing his poetry, he is so aware of himself as creator that he seems literally to see with his mind. Of course, the act of seeing with the mind is not literal, but quite figurative.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 113
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She adds that she wishes for blending with her beloved as "a snowflake in the sea." Of course, a snowflake in the sea would melt immediately, becoming one with the water. Despite the opening negative remark, the speaker has turned her claim around and even made it more intense than it would have been had she not begun by with the assertion, "I am not yours."
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Teasdale's I Am Not Yours
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"Behold the silvery river--in it the splashing horses, loitering, stop to drink"
The next offering features the river itself, which the speaker describes as "silvery," and then he lets his viewers see the "splashing horses," who take a drink when they are able to stop and wait for their turn to move ahead. However, instead merely stating the description, he commands his viewer to look, "Behold the silvery river."
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Whitman's Cavalry Crossing a Ford
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The Divine does not speak directly as a parent would directly instruct a child through language, but by meditating and "disconnecting" one's attention "from sensory distractions," the devotee who seeks to transform his life, to "tame" his "tiger" body, and "maim" his "failure's talons," may do so by freeing his attention from "sensory distractions." After that freedom is achieved, the devotee can perceive that unspoken name as "the Indwelling Glory.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Yogananda's Silence
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