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"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." - //Robert Frost//  Sonnet 30  **   William Shakespeare  HEN to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thought I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe, And moan th' expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore-bemoanèd moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end. //Background Picture courtesy of [|www1.istockphoto.com] Lyrics courtesy of [|www.poetry-archive.com]//

**//__Analysis__//** A sonnet is a fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter. Webster's New Millenium Dictionary of English defines iambic pentameter as a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five accents, or feet, each containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable. For example, in Line 1, iambic pentameter is shown as "When **to** the **sess**ions **of** sweet **sil**ent **thought**,” emphasizing every other syllable, beginning with the second. In this sonnet, William Shakespeare appears to be both the narrator and the author of this poem. He speaks as if to a friend who he has left, or who has left him, grieving over his abandonment and state of sadness.  The mood of the sonnet, however, is somewhat paradoxical on that point. The poet begins in the first line by calling the silence of his unaccompanied state ‘sweet,’ but later goes on to lament it, saying, “Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,/And heavily from woe to woe tell o’er.” From the first line to the last few, the narrator changes his perspective.  Courtroom metaphors are used in this sonnet in the first few lines. For example, the words “session, “summon up,” “cancell’d” are all courtroom metaphors. This is also used by Shakespeare in //Othello//, “Keep leets and law days, and in sessions sit/With mediations lawful.” These metaphors give the sonnet a formal appearance, with the austerity of a courtroom signifying his loneliness. In Line 13 of Sonnet 30, William Shakespeare uses an apostrophe, or an address to a person or personified object or idea that is not present. He says, “But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,” directly addressing his ‘dear friend,’ who appears to not be present.

What I’ve Done Linkin Park  media type="custom" key="817495" In this farewell There’s no blood There’s no Alibi ‘Cause I’ve Drawn Regret From the truth Of a Thousand Lies

//[Pre-Chorus:]// So let Mercy Come And Wash Away What I’ve Done

//[Chorus:]// I'll face myself To Cross out what I’ve Become Erase Myself And let Go of What I’ve done Put to rest What you Thought of Me While I clean this Slate With the Hands of Uncertainty

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For What I’ve Done I start again And whatever pain may come        Today this ends I’m Forgiving What I’ve Done!!! //[Chorus]//

What I’ve Done Forgiving What I’ve Done //Song lyrics taken from// [|Elyrics.net]

"What I've Done" is one of the most memorable pieces by Linkin Park. The song is about a man who faces regrets from the things he did in the past and the way he wants to fix it all. Chester Bennington, the singer of this song, tells the listeners a story through the use of metaphors and figurative language. The song starts by saying that "there is no blood or alibi". The blood is representative of some evil, and the alibi is referring to the singer trying to get out of the blame for that evil. Chester says that he has drawn regret of what he has done so far and hence does not want to crawl his way out of taking the blame. The song also uses other metaphors like "Erase Myself" and "Clean this slate". It is obviously not possible to erase onself. Thr ough this, the author is trying to say that he would like to erase all the bad things that he has done. The same kind of meaning is meant when the author says "Clean this slate". The slate is referring to his life and to clean it would be to clean all the evils that he had done in his life.
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In the first verse, the author talks about drawing regrets from the truth of a thousand lies. This sounds like a paradox, as truths and lies are antonyms. But in this song, it is used as a poetic device to make the listener think about what he is hearing. The phrase "truth of a thousand lies" is referring to the fact (truth) that the narrator has used excuses (lies) numerous times (a thousand) as alibis to get out of what he has done.

As said earlier, this song describes the point of view of a man who has drawn regret from what he did and vows to start over. But this song also secretly points towards the evils of today's human society and what we should do about it. Everything that is said in the song relates to something that humans are doing today. The song also tells us that humans are constantly doing wrong things and then using lies, or alibis, to get away from the blame. The music video made for this song especially touches on this subject. It shows the different ways that we are destroying the earth and doing nothign to remedy the situation. Current events like global warming are evils that we have caused, but we use alibis to avoid responsibility. In a way, the theme of this song is that we should start taking responsibility for our actions and do something to "clear that slate" of the evils that we have already done.

  media type="custom" key="813183" **An Original Poem** Time is space, Frozen in place. And time runs out far too fast.

I thought it’d be nice, To watch from afar Untouched by the ravages of time.

To live forever, Frozen beyond time, Watching as the world left me behind.

The world rushes like rivers, Like breaths of cold air, And I am the stone, around which it flows.

A human life is fleeting, Every moment might be their last Is this what makes them happy? Is this what make them blessed?

Time for me is passing, And I am frozen still, Waiting for forever’s ending, Waiting for unfreezing’s time.

** The Road Goes Ever On and On ** J.R.R. Tolkien The Road goes ever on and on     Down from the door where it began       Now far ahead the Road has gone,       And I must follow, if I can,       Pursuing it with eager feet,       Until it joins some larger way       Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. This poem is from the book //The Fellowship of the Ring//, the first in the popular series //The Lord of the Rings//, by J.R.R. Tolkien. Frodo explains it by repeating what his Uncle Bilbo has often said to him, “He used to often say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. ‘It’s a dangerous path, Frodo, going out of your door,’ he used to say. ‘You step onto the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.’” That is, essentially, the ultimate meaning of the poem. In //The Hobbit//, Bilbo is an unsuspecting hobbit who is swept from his life of pipe smoking, eating, and living in his humble hobbit-hole into a world of magical adventures, complete with dragons, elves, wizards, and dwarves. Simply by stepping out of his house one day on behest of a friend, he finds himself swept away on a journey beyond his wildest dreams. On this journey, he finds a magical ring. It says in the poem that, “The Road goes ever on and on.” As Bilbo is reciting this poem, he is starting out on what he calls his last journey, to Rivendell to meet with his friends, the elves, one last time. However, his journey is being continued by his cousin, Frodo Baggins, to whom he has given the Ring. Frodo begins on his own journey, to destroy the Ring. Yet, even as the ring is destroyed, the journey still goes on. Frodo and Bilbo travel with the elves on their last journey, leaving Middle Earth, and Sam – who also bore the Ring, for however short a period of time – is left to continue his own journey. In truth, the poem is saying that all journeys are, at the source, one. One person’s journey is begun by another’s, and he, in turn, may spark yet another journey. There is always more room to travel, more space to explore, and all one can do is follow the road already laid out for him. This poem also deals in destiny. It says that, “Now far ahead the Road has gone,/and I must follow, if I can.” The Road is destiny, and it weaves possible paths, leading to greatness of our own belief. One person’s definition of greatness may be different from another’s, but the Road leads to the culmination of one’s dreams, a predetermined culmination. However, not everything is up to destiny. We make our own choices, and we follow the road, if we can. To err is human, and we all fail – but what is up to us is, when we falter and fall, if we get up and continue to follow the road, as Frodo did, or if we simply lie down and die. It also says, in its last line, “Whither then? I cannot say.” J. R. R. Tolkien is expressing, through this line, that we cannot know our destinies. We can only make the best choices and try our hardest to follow the Road. We can see only a while ahead, but the Road goes ever on and on. media type="custom" key="809371" width="193" height="108"
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