NAVIGATION: Index of Introduction to Poetry Materials Index of Dr. Weller's Class Materials

Exercise on Sound Effects



For each of the following poems, find the sound effects in the poem and explain how they are related to the meaning to the poem.)
  1. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1637),
    Sonnets: 30 ("When to the sessions of sweet silent thought")
  2. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616),
    Sonnets: 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds ")
  3. William Blake (1757 - 1827),
    "The Tyger"
  4. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889),
    "God's Grandeur"
  5. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889),
    "The Windhover" -- pp. 755 - 756
  6. Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953),
    "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"