Great Regulars: As it burned, the speaker visualizes

the possibility that it brought "To the midnight sky a sunset glow." He creates the image of a flower whose leaves have blown away leaving only the protruding pistil to dramatize how only the chimney of the house is left standing.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Frost Speaker Explores Connection of Two Worlds

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This change of heart could merely be a ploy, just another attempt to curtail the woman's infidelity. He might be trying to break her hold on him. Knowing that she is vain about her appearance as well as her personality, he is probably trying to employ reverse psychology to make her more attentive to him. If she thinks he does not really care so much for her looks, he might dump her before she can dump him.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 141

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The speaker then suggests an alternative that if she concludes the comparison and still prevaricates with "those lips of thine," it is because her lips have "profan'd their scarlet ornaments." Again, he is accusing her of giving herself promiscuously to others: she has "seal'd false bond" with other men, to whom he lies as often as she does with him. (Pun intended.)

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 142

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The speaker begins with the assertion, "One must have a mind of winter," which puts forth a fascinating proposal that demands attention. What exactly is "a mind of winter"? Is it a clear mind, a cool mind, or simply a mind-set that is capable of grasping the significance of a winter scene? Perhaps it is merely a mind full of winter, a mind that lets itself engulf the whole idea of winterness.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Wallace Stevens' The Snow Man

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The guru/speaker of Paramahansa Yogananda's "The Noble New" from Songs of the Soul offers eight loving commands to devotees in an octet that consists of two quatrains; the first quatrain features two riming couplets, and second quatrain has the traditional rime scheme of an Elizabethan sonnet, ABAB.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Yogananda's The Noble New

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