Sonnet 18 and Crikey - 819 Words

Poets express ideas and feelings about love in different and powerful ways. Love is expressed in the poems Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare and Crikey by Cilla McQueen through ideas of eternal beauty and being overwhelmed by love; and the feelings of excitement and longing for the preservation of the love conveyed. To determine the accuracy of the statement ‘poets express ideas and feeling about love in different ways’ the two poems that are being analysed firstly need to be compared. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 uses iambic pentameter to develop a beat at which the poem is spoken where as Cilla McQueen’s Crikey uses no beat but runs as if it was being spoken in a conversation. It also uses colloquial language and Shakespeare uses more formal†¦show more content†¦The volta brings about change in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 that in turn expresses his true feelings of love. The sestet reveals that she is not at all like a summer’s day because her ‘eternal summer shall not fade’ and she will never grow old. Personification is also used to describe death and how she will never wander in the shadow of death; she will continue to grow within the poems lines. The repetition of the word eternal emphasises her everlasting beauty and life that is conv eyed in the poem. The rhyming couplet at the end explains how every time the sonnet is read it is as if she comes back to life along with his feelings for her. The language techniques in Crikey by Cilla McQueen convey the excitement felt when in love. Enjambment in the poem replicates the feeling of excitement as her thoughts pour out all at once. ‘ In sugar amp; spice god you’re nice’ has connotations to the poem â€Å"sugar and spice and all things nice, that’s what little girls are made of.† This shows that she feels like she is young and in love again, this is also added to by the rhyming of ‘spice’ and ‘nice’. The cumulative simile in the poem, ‘I feel like a morning a kiss†¦tunnel of love’ enhances the imagery of the poem by listing the different emotions she feels. ‘Crikey’ indicates a change in the poem and acts similarly to a volta. After the colloquial volta Cilla McQueen uses a list of actions she is doing as if she were trying to distract herself.