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Flashcards in Sonnet 43 Deck (5)
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1
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Form / Structure

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Sonnet

2
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Imagery

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BY SUN AND CANDLELIGHT
image of mortality - day and night
FOR THE ENDS IF BEING AND IDEAL GRACE
what god freely gives if people accept Christ’s resurrection 
I SHALL LOVE THEE BETTER AFTER DEATH
- love is in gods hands 
AS MEN STRIVE FOR RIGHTS
- human rights 
- slavery
3
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Language

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Semantics of love

  • depth
  • soul
  • love
Semantics of religion 
- being
- grace
- candlelight 
RELIGIOUS NOTION OF LOVE
4
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Mood

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Attitudes:
Love has enabled her to reach impossible extremes
Emotion
Feeling out of sight
- love not seen as tangible but as instinctive

5
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Soundscape

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No rhyme scheme
- love is ambiguous
Iambic pentameter