Week 9
Iconic Poems in the English Language Poetry employs forms and traditions to indicate multiple meanings or create emotions. Assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, and rhythm create musical or incantatory effects. Poems frequently have several meanings due to ambiguity, symbolism, irony, and other poetic diction. Metaphor, simile, and metonymy create a resonance between completely unrelated pictures by layering meanings and generating new connections. Rhyme and rhythm may resonate between verses. Pablo Neruda's 'Sonnet XI' is a fourteen-line sonnet divided into four stanzas. The first and second are quatrains, which have four lines each, while the third and fourth are tercets, which have three lines each. There is no distinct rhyme scheme or metrical rhythm since Neruda wrote in Spanish and this poem has been translated into English. Despite the translation process, there are various literary approaches in 'Sonnet XI' that a keen reader might examine. Anaphora, exag