Ah, Are You Diggin on My Grave, Thomas Hardy

The poem is in narrative form. Thomas Hardy, a short story writer and a very fine poet can incorporate the value of worldly love after death. In Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave, Hardy is unsure who will come and visit after his death. Not quite sure who will, therefore posing the question, "Ah, are you digging on my grave?" Hoping for family or a loved one to visit. Yet, the one creature who comes to the grave is a little dog. "Your little dog, who still lives near, And much I hope my movements here , Have not disturbed your rest?" The dog digs upon the grave to bury a bone and apologizing for not realizing it was a resting spot. "I am sorry, but I quite forgot, It was your resting place". It is always comforting to know that people miss us when we die. But would you want to how loved ones felt after losing you? This is a question, which would help explain the meaning behind Ah, Are You Digging On my Grave?

Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold

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The speaker in “Dover Beach” relates that his world used to be filled with and surrounded by faith, like an ocean or the “sea of faith”, but that this sea has receded, and faith has abandoned his world. Meaning that the speaker has lost the religious belief that he had in the past. He tells the woman he is speaking to that they must cling to one another, because all that they have now that faith has abandoned the world is each other. The reader should be able to relate this much of the poem to the novel by comparing the world of the novel with the world of the poem.



Matthew Arnold was the son of Dr Thomas Arnold. During the summer the family's would vaction in the same area as William Wordsworth. The famous poet William Wordsworth and Matthew Arnold became friends. On route to Europe with his new wife, Lucy Wightman was propably when Arnold wrote Dover Beach. This was most likey in June 1851. This poem however was not published until 1867. "It is a poem of maturity reflecting his own felt need to commit himself and his life."Elements of Literature. These poems highlight his realization that love enhances loneliness, a sense of loss, and is a self-imposed prison. "How vain a thing is human love", "The heart can bind itself alone, and "faith may oft be unreturn'd Self-swayed our feelings ebb and swell" are a few examples of this. Why live or love in the past if you can do it everyday of your new life.

Porphyria's Lover, Robert Browning

"Porphyria's Lover," which first appeared in 1836, is one of the earliest and most shocking of Browning's pieces of writing. The speaker in the poem lives in a cottage on the countryside. His lover, a beautiful young woman named Porphyria, comes in out of a storm and proceeds to make a fire and bring a warm feel to the cottage. She embraces the speaker, offering him her bare shoulder. "She put my arm about her waist, and made her smooth white shoulder bare."-line 17. The speaker tells us that he does not say a word to her. The speaker realizes that she "worship" him. "Murmuring how she loved me- she too weak, for all her heart's endeavor"- Line 21. Realizing that she will eventually give in to society's pressures, and wanting to preserve the moment, he wraps her hair around her neck and strangles her. " And strangled her; No pain felt she"- Line 41. After strangling her to death he then toys with her corpse, opening the eyes and propping the body up against his side. He sits with her body this way the entire night, the speaker remarking that God has not yet moved to punish him. "And yet God has not said a word!"-Line 60



Robert Browning was very found of Percy Bysshe Shelley for his writings. Browning was brilliant, undisciplined, and determined to be a poet like Percy Bysshe Shelley. My Last Duchess , and Porphyria 's Lover, open a door to a new way of expressing himself. However, Robert Browning did not have to worry about anything but writing, supported by his parents, he had the time and the availability to write.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Flower in the Crannied Wall



Flower in the crannied wall,

I pluck you out of the crannies,

I hole you here, root and all, in my hand,

Little flower-but if I could understand

What you are, root and all, and all in all,

I should know what God and man is.



The longest belief known to man is God created Earth, man, and animal. Everything that breathes, moves or thinks, was created by this one all knowing power. Nothing on this Earth was made without a design. Tennyson adressed philiophical issues and offered many ways of resolving them. "And yet to some nineteenth centry artists and believers, modern science's scrutiny of nature was a threat."- Elements of Literature

The Victorian Era

The biggest news buzzing around Europe during the Victorian Era was the crowning of the new queen. Receiving her title in June of 1837 and proudly ruling until her death in 1901. The Victorian Era was named for the time period of Queen Victoria’s reign. Only 18 when she came to the throne, Victoria oversaw England at the height of its overseas power. Through hard work and dedication to her country.The British Empire was established in her reign, and it reached its peak under her power. The government was set up of a constitutional monarch headed by Queen Victoria. Only the royalty could rule. Other politicians came from the aristocracy. The system was criticized by many as being in favor of the upper classes, and during the late 18th century, philosophers and writers began to question the social status of the nobility.


In 1888, the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper murdered and mutilated five know prostitutes from the streets of London. During this time many women could have been murdered and no one even known about it. This murderer won himself a world-wide press coverage and mass hysteria. Newspapers used the deaths to bring greater focus on the plea of the unemployed and to attack police and political leaders. The killer was never caught, and the affair contributed to Sir Charles Warren's resignation.


Before the Industrial Revolution, Britain had a very rigid social structure consisting of three distinct classes; the Church and aristocracy, the middle class, and the working class. Within the top call were the Church and nobility. This class had the power and the wealth. Only two percent of the population is in this class. The middle class or bourgeoisie was made up of factory owners, bankers, shopkeepers, merchants, lawyers, engineers, businessmen, traders, and other professionals. These people could be sometimes extremely rich, but in normal circumstances they were not privileged, and they especially resented this. The British lower class was divided into two sections, the working class and the poor. Both the poor class and the middle class had to endure a large burden of tax. This third class consisted of about eighty-five percent of the population.


Industrialisation changed the class structure dramatically in the late 18th century. This was one of the most radical changes from the Romantic Period to the Victorian Era. Industrialisation helped create hostile feelings between the upper and lower classes. As a result of factories and industry taking over ended the beautiful way of life. Prior to the boom in industry, life was less complicating. Society was and will always have something to do with money and status for some people. However, any poem/letter I have read in the Romantic Period was filled to the brim with love and imagination and heart. Nature and human coinciding were largely part of the Romantic period rather than the Victorian Era.

Multiple times through out the Victorian Period numerous people constantly found themselves questioning and raising doubts. Victorian composers would question whet er if material would satisfy human needs and wants. Within the beginning of the Victorian period some writers "complained that materialist ideas of reality, completely overlooked the spirit or soul that made life beautiful and just."-Elements of Literature. The start of the Victorian period began the "Acre in Middlesex". Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay voiced his opinion of improving society both morally and materially. Romantic writers were more about living in the moment and living life to the fullest. However, the Victorian writers were more conservative. Sex or anything along that nature were not put into exact words. Society as a whole became literate, due to schools and regulations becoming part of everyday life.

La Belle Dame Sans Merci, John Keats

"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" means "the beautiful woman without mercy." This is the title of one of Keats many solid poems. In this poem, the poet meets a knight by a woodland lake in late autumn. However, the knight did not respond. The only form of respone the poet recieved was a rambling story of one beautiful woman. The knight had been there for a long time, and is evidently dying from a "fever dew" which is the sweat of sickness from turboucious. The knight proceedes to say he "met a lady in the meads"; in the meadow. This mystery woman was describe as beautiful, and wild-looking.



To show how he felt for her, the knight showdered the beautiful woman with flowers. Yet, she did not speak, but looked and sighed as if she loved him. She spoke a language he could not understand, but he was confident she said she loved him. Sitting her apon his horse to ride, the knight walked along side, gazing at the woman he loves. He saw nothing but her, because she leaned over him and sang a mysterious song. He kissed her to sleep, and fell asleep along side her.





That night, he dreamt of host of kings, princes, and warriors, all pale as death. They shouted a terrible warning,they were the woman's slaves. And now he was her slave, too. Awakening, the woman was gone, and the knight was left on the cold hillside. Alone and dying. However, one could say they would take the one moment of pure love over a lifetime of none.





"Sidelong" means sideways. A "fragrant zone" is a flower belt. "Elfin" means "pertaining to the elves", or the fairy world. A "grot" is of course a grotto. "Betide" means "happen", and "woe betide" is a more romantical version of the contemporary expression "---- happens". "Gloam" means gloom. A "thrall" is an abject slave.

Ode to the West Wind, Percy Bysshe Shelley

Beginning with Autumn, "O wild west wind, thou breath of Autumn' s being", flowing through winter, "The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low", and ending with spring, "Thine azure sister of the spring shall blow." Reviewing the seasons through out the first canto symbolizing death and rebirth.The circle of life. The author of this poem, Percy Bysshe Shelly, was grieving the death of his three year old son while writing this poem. Running through the seasons of earth can related to going through the seasons of life. And the love of nature can provide a healing process.



The second canto describes an enormous storm on the verge. "Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed", the clouds look as if they were leaves falling from a tree during fall. The storm is figuratively his life after the lost of a loved one. For his son was not to wake again, "Thou who didst waken from his dreams". However his son is said to be in a beautiful place, "And saw in sleep old palaces and towers".



And Spring yet again appears. The rebirth of the Earth, of Mankind. Percy Shelly saw Spring as a rebirth for himself. He enacted his life with nature. "Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is". A lyre is a stringed instrument; an instrument can spead music; such as spreading the happiness for life. Speading the thoughts of death "over the of universe" like "withered leaves" to "quicken a new birth!" Shelly personifaction with nature and humans. This form of writing was common during the Romantic era.

Shelley closed his poem,"The trumpet of a prophecy! O, Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" Winter may come but spring will follow.


Ashes and sparks , my words among man kind! "if winter comes, spring be far behind.

A Letter To the Hon, Augusta Byron

TO THE HON. AUGUSTA BYRON Southwell, March 26th, 1804



I received your affectionate letter, my ever Dear Sister, yesterday and I now hasten to comply with your injunction by answering it as soon as possible . . .
I am as you may imagine a little dull here; not being on terms of intimacy with Lord Grey I avoid Newstead, and my resources of amusement are Books, and writing to my Augusta, which wherever I am, will always constitute my Greatest pleasure. I am not reconciled to Lord Grey, and I never will. He was once my Greatest Friend, my reasons for ceasing that Friendship are such as I cannot explain, not even to you, my Dear Sister, (although were they to be made known to any body, you would be the first,) but they will ever remain hidden in my own breast.
They are Good ones, however, for although I am violent I am not capricious in my attachments. My mother disapproves of my quarrelling with him, but if she knew the cause (which she never will know,) She would reproach me no more. He Has forfeited all title to my esteem, but I hold him in too much contempt ever to hate him . . .





George Gordon, also known as Lord Byron, wrote many letters to people in his life at the time. His letters illustrate a form of communication before phones and technology. The concept of corresponding was the exlcusive way of communicating during the Romantic period. Therefore many brillant writers emerged in this time. The letter I chose to review, was a letter from Lord Byron to his sister, Augusta Byron. March 26th 1804, was the date, Southwell was the location. Writing letters was the only opition for Byron. Hence writing letters to his "dearest sister" was an imporant part of his life; and was also his greatest form of enjoyment. Briefly, Byron exlpains his curious lost of friendship with Lord Grey; but does not go into any detail about the sitution. "Not being on terms of intimacy with Lord Grey I avoid Newstead, and my resources of amusement are Books, and writing to my Augusta, which wherever I am, will always constitute my Greatest pleasure". Byron exclaims "my reasons for ceasing that Friendship are such as I cannot explain, not even to you". Although, if he were to tell anyone it would be his sister; Lord Bryon insures her. However, later explains, "My mother disapproves of my quarrelling with him, but if she knew the cause (which she never will know,) She would reproach me no more." This news only brings a source of multiple questions. What happened between Lord Bryon and Lord Grey? Bryon, describes himself as "violent" however "not capricious in his attachments". He does not have a likely of changing frequently, suddenly, or unexpectedly. Therefore something horrific happened to end their friendship forever. "He Has forfeited all title to my esteem, but I hold him in too much contempt ever to hate him . . . " Closing his letter with sharing his feelings toward Lord Grey; Lord Byron has no respect for his formal friend, Lord Grey. Having no urge to even waste another thought on him.

I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud, William Wordsworth

Within the first words of I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud, William Wordsworth, describes wandering above as if a cloud which is floating above hills and valleys. Where he encountered a lake with a field of daffodils. "I wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw... golden daffodils." The speaker explains the poet could not help but be happy in such a joyful company of flowers in this moment of ecasty.

The speaker is metaphorically compared to a natural object, a cloud. "I wandered lonely as a cloud... That floats on high...", and the daffodils are repeatedly personified as human beings, dancing and "tossing their heads" in "a crowd, a host." This technique helped to describe the bond between man and nature. "They flash upon that inward eye", his memory; "which is the bliss of solitude", his memory coming forth when he is bored, alone, or restless. "And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils." Happiness is found through thought and nature. Nature and people are connected. This was a largely practice concept through the Romantic Period. People were one with nature, and enjoyed to personify themsevles as elements in nature.

I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud, William Wordsworth, gave a simple example of nature and humans combinding; making it famous through centuries. Everyone can find some form of peace with nature, Wordsworth just tried to explain how to do it.

William Blake, The little black boy

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The Little Black Boy, William Blake









The Little Black Boy, composed by William Blake is a poem of an African child coming to terms with his skin color. A skin color of blake. Blake builds the poem on clear concept of light and dark. Claiming his color within the the first stanza, "My mother bore me in the southren wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white". Claiming his soul to be white . A poem showing the contrast of the child's black skin and his belief in the whiteness of his soul. With white being heavenly and black being devilish. The little black boy is showing he is capable and deserving of perfect love as a white person is.





The child's mother symbolizes a natural and selfless love. She shows a concern for her child's self-esteem, as well as a strong desire that he is knowledgeable of God. "Look on the rising sin: there is God does live, and gives his heat away." His mother suggests that his earthly life is but a preparation for the rewards of heaven. Basically, skin is temporary, your eternal essence is what matters. Skin, which is a factor only in this earthly life, becomes useless in heaven.









The black boy applies his mother's life lessons to his everyday. "Thus my mother say, and kissed me; When I from black and he form white cloud free".The little black boy explains to another white boy, they are equals, but that neither will be truly free until they are released from the constraints of the physical world. He even imagines himself shading and protecting his friend from the brightness of God's love until he can become accustomed to it. This helps show the black boy is more knowledge of heaven and God were mroe advanced than the white boy. Perhaps this sense of understanding is the effect of having dark skin. His mother prepared him with the knowledge of having pride in your skin color not shame. Blake however, did not give a response of the white boy.

The Romantic Period

Positive thinking was a large part of the Romantic Period. Within the era, many profound poets emerged. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were two of the many emerging writers. Lyrical Ballads, -William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was published in 1798; this opened a window for many new poets.



During the Romantic era, western Europe faced many difficult radical life changes. Humans fell to technology, faster and larger quanities were needed. Therefore products began to be massed produced with machines. Hence, the industry world began to take over by technology. Most lower class children were seen as a burden. The children were used as laborers and literally worked to death. Land was being lost and people were out of control. Many famous pieces of work exploring the psychological and mysterious aspects of human life were written and published during the transition. Such as Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Grimm's Fairly Tales, Brothers Grim, and William Blake, Songs of Innocence. A strong vibe behind the words of these writers. Words flowing in as if from a stream with a vibe described; there is nature, and there are human beings to experience nature. Writers in this time, also wrote about connecting to the inner piece, the imagination. And the imagination is a way of desire, a motive which drives the mind to learn and know things it can not learn by rational or logical thinking.



Beginning in the last decades of the 18th century, Romanticism transformed poetry, the novel, drama, painting, sculpture, all forms of concert music, especially opera, and ballet. It was deeply connected with the politics of the time, echoing people's fears, hopes, and aspirations. Romanticism was more widespread both in its origins and influence. It was the voice of revolution at the beginning of the 19th century.

Society was still getting over the aftermath of the Restoration, or the Eighteenth Century. Poems and pieces of Literature helped push more and more people through times of hurt. These writers became legends in the world of words.

Years of Plague in Review

Years of agony, mystery and death crept upon London. Ten of thousands dead every week. Dying from a diease which has many names, yet commonly known as the plauge. Society at the time of the eighteenth century, were most concerned about surviving. There was a day to day chance of gaining a token. A token is also known as a gangrene spot. Stories of the sick and the dying, from A Journal of the Plague Year, written by Daniel Defoe, describes horrific deaths in number, the grief of the people and the hardship of staying alive. "Till they found to their unspeakable surprise, the tokens come out upon them; after which they seldom lived six hours;for those spots they called the tokens",-The Infection Spread. A death which could not be stop or prevented.



Unknowing of the rats and fleas spreading the infection onto humans by the numbers. The prilivaged and wealthy fled to villages and towns surrounding London. "As particularly of person falling dead in the streets, terrible shrieks and screeching of women, who, in their agonies, would throw open their chamber window and cry out in dismal."-Dismal Scenes. Grief and sorrow filled hearts everywhere.





Hundreds and thousands of dead bodies thrown from a cart into a pit added to the massive grave already present. "The common grave of mankind, as we may call it, for here was no difference made, but poor and rich went together", -Burial Pits and Dead. London became a city of worry, and terror. Staying alive was the main focus for anyone near London during the years of the plauge. A diease that can only be discribed as a bomb. A bomb that stuck London directly in the face.

A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel Defoe

Word spreads long after many dead, would be a adequate head liner for the daily newspaper. Over ten thousand lives taken per week by the plague. Peaking during August and September of 1665, the plague seemed as if this " mysterious" disease were about to overcome London. The wealthy an privileged moved to villages and towns to try and escape the horrific death.




By 1722, Daniel Defoe had published a journal, A Journal of the Plague Year. Defoe built this journal from his very own child memories, the accounts of family members and others, city records, and research. He would find more helpful information from pamphlets and books written previous years before. With the resources collected, a fictional journal travels though a time of death in number, society broken down, and London at its worst. The people of this time had no clue how or what to do to prevent this disease from spreading."Visitation never perceived that they were infected till they found their unspeakable, surprise, the tokens come out upon them; after which they seldom lived six hours"- The Infection Spreads. Society did not have the knowledge of rats and fleas being the culprit of the infection. So this mystery disease created a border line morbid eyewitness account. However, I find the journal interesting and plausible.









Quarantines were set for anyone who had been in contact with the disease. However, the law was seldom followed. For even the near death would find an escape. "I heard of one infected creature who, running out of bed in his shirt in the anguish and agony of his swelling, ....., snatching the coat from him, he threw her down, ran over her, ran downstairs and into the street...plunged into the Thames"- A Violent Cure. Memories from "survivors" helped create the sense of a realistic journal. Defoe combined history, experience, and memorabilia to have an "authentic" journal. In review, A Journal of the Plague Year, written by Daniel Defoe, was a nicely composed piece of work.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson

The beginning of my journey within the book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, began with a quote, "This book is the final word, a brilliant vision, a terrible magnificently funny telling of what happened to this country in the 1960's"-Lucian K. Truscott IV, Village Voice. This quote earged my finishing the book. Also previously, I have saw the movie coinciding with the book. "A savage journey to the heart of the American dream", the soul storyline of both the movie and the book. This journey to fulfil the knowing of the American dream, beings and ends with a drug frenzy. However, twisted, wasted, hopped, basically stoned out of your head, life makes perfect sense. Duke, a young journalist, fresh from the drug culture of the 60s, arrives in Las Vegas, to cover the annual 1971 bikers race out in the desert with his good friend, Dr. Gonzo who is Duke's so called lawyer. Both arrive in a fancy white sports car, dubbed the Great White Shark, zonked out on drugs and intend to remain that way. Later receiving a new assignment to cover the annual Law Enforcement Meeting On Drugs. While "covering the meeting", both men generally scare the tourists, and annoy the natives. Along the way trippy situations occur, usually with our protagonists sniffing, smoking, or chewing something. They pick up a hitchhiker, ruin a hotel room, and harass a car full of poor, old Southern folk. "All under the safety of a fake name, of course." Not once during the book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, was I lost, or uninterested. This book was a wonderful collection for the author, Hunter S. Thompson and marvelous piece of writing incorporating the way of life of an other's point of view.

A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift

"A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick." This is only part of the title of the atrocious proposal of using poor country children as food. The wealthy would be able to barter for the children on size and age. This "method" would help with the poverty level, which were predominantly Catholic. Initially, this proposal was written to monk the government at the time. Proposing the idea of making money off children being sold for food. But of course there would have to be regulations. For example, children of the poor could be sold into a meat market at the age of one. With the children being sold, overpopulation and unemployment would lessen; supposedly sparing families the expense of child-bearing while providing them with a little extra income, improving the culinary experience of the wealthy, and contributing to the overall economic well-being of the nation. What an idea. Swift's form of writing was a form of satire because the idea was completely unimaginable and would never hopefully be considered. it is also described as a satire since he is "blowing out of proportion" or mocking.

Satire

A satire, is a form of mocking or imitating someone or something in an out of proportion way.

Some examples of satire are as followed, Saturday Night Live, MAD TV, Who's Line Is It Anyway, South Park, Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Simpsons, and King of the Hill.

The "Glorious Revolution" of 1688

The overthrow of James II in 1688 was the second time during the 17th century that a Stuart king had lost his crown. However, unlike Charles I, his father, James II did not lose his head as well. It was a bloodless revolution, but nonetheless an extremely important one. The kings and queens who have succeeded to the throne since 1688 have all had to obey a set of rules imposed by the representatives of the people, that is, by Parliament. In other words, 1688 marks the end of absolutism and the beginning of Constitutional Government in England.



James the II fled in exile to France when he knew his country had abandoned him. In 1688, a son was born to James the II, but not long after they were forced to leave England. His daughter Mary and her husband the Dutch Protestant prince, William of Orange, began to rule and pursue the Protestant demonation. James II tried to connect both Catholic and Protestant, yet the people of that times were so set in their mind frame he was denied. However, this showed how much power the people had over the people ruling. Society was incharge for once.

Go Ask Alice Review

"A raindrop just splashed on my forehead and it was like a tear from heaven. Am I really alone in the whole wide gray world? Is it possible that even God is crying for me? Oh no, no, no ... I'm losing my mind. Please God, help me." This entry is from Go Ask Alice, a true story of an anonymous girl and her days as a runaway drug addict in the 1960s. This 15-year-old girl comes from a middle class family. Her siblings, Tim and Alexandria, are very supportive and her father is a professor at a prominent university.
On a visit to her old town, she is invited to a party given by people she always wanted to be friends with. At the party she takes acid without her knowledge. It's hard to believe she was unaware of her first "trip." Yet, this was the start of the awful experiences of an innocent young girl taken in by the cruel, awful world of drugs.
During this time, she runs away, sells drugs and survives a group of druggies who are out to get her. On the road to recovery, she meets Joel at the college where her father works; he is someone who really cares about her.
All teenagers can relate to her life, and, after reading it, most won't ever touch drugs; it's a strong and painful story.This non-fiction book is a series of diary entries, well-written, emotional and quite destructive. Several entries discuss her sad attempt to get away from drugs. Will she make it? Or become one of thousands of drug deaths each year. You will have to find out on your own.
If you would like to read a realistic book that really covers how a teenage life can be this is the book to read. Numerous times though out the book, I could relate to the main character Alice. Yet, though everything she tries to keep a positive out look on life and what life has to offer.

Tears from Earth

How can we live in this world of shame? (A)

Slowly killing the place we call home(B)

Sadly, we are to blame.(A)

the falling planet earth losing its tone.(B)



Why does no one see the shame?(A)

The Earth is not for our taking (C)

For saving the Earth is no game. (A)

Slowly Mother Earth's heart is breaking. (C)



Glaciers melt, oceans spread (D)

My home is losing power (E)

No more tears are to be shed. (D)

If we do not change our ways how is earth suppose to flower? (E)



Help start the new birth (F)

Give a hand and save planet Earth. (F)



Within my sonnet, I found my own style. Instead of using Shakespeare flow or Spencer style, I pretty much combined both to come up with Ryann's style. My rhyme is as followed, ABAB, ACAC, DEDE, FF. While writing this sonnet, I found this rhyme helped me explain the help needed from the people to save the earth. It flows and keeps with the traditional sonnet, but has my own mark. Writing this sonnet was fun and enjoyable for me to express how much the Earth is ignored.

Edmund Spencer

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, (A)
But came the waves and washed it away: (B)
Again I write it with a second hand, (A)
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.(B)

Edmund Spencer begins his poem with a vain attempt to keep his name and his lover's name in the sand. Yet, the waves come and go and continually erase the names. This was not the way for Spencer to gain the immortal love he yerned for.
Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay, (B)
A mortal thing so to immortalize, (C)
For I myself shall like to this decay,(B)
And eek my name be wiped out likewise.(C)

Spencer tried and defeat time by immortalize his love. He does this by writing in the sand. However, nobody can out live time. Everyone must leave the mortal world for the mystery of what comes next.

Not so, (quod I) let baser things devise (C)
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: (D)
My verse, your virtues rare shall eternize, (C)
And in the heavens write your glorious name. (D)

Even if the body may not be eternal, words can live on. Spencer wrote this sonnet for his love in attempt to make their love everlasting.
Where when as death shall all the world subdue, (E)
Our love shall live, and later life renew. (E)

Words out live people. This poem was a way for Spencer to keep his love know a alive for centuries.