poetry assignment

Sonnet 116
by William Shakespeare                                                                         12-08-2012
                                                                     
 Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved

here the poet is describing the qualities of love 
he say's ,it's not love which changes when an alternative is found or when some one is able to remove it but it's everlasting and nothing can  disturb it.He stresses that it wont change with time as all the earthly things do! he also says that if the things what he had said in the poem were proved to be wrong then no one would have ever loved.                                                
he wrote the poem in a very appealing style with perfect rhyming,appropriate and wonderful comparisons.His use of expressions at required places made it more lively!



Lake Isle of Innisfree
by W.B. Yeats

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.


here the poet wants to stay in a place where he will build a cabin for him with natural things ,away from the busy materialistic world with all the nuisance and sound pollution .
 he wonderfully depicts the beauty of the place at different times in a day.he wants to go their immediately because the lapping of the river water is echoing in his heart.
                      

Annus Mirabilis

by Philip Larkin

Sexual intercourse began

In nineteen sixty-three

(which was rather late for me) -

Between the end of the "Chatterley" ban

And the Beatles' first LP.

Up to then there'd only been

A sort of bargaining,

A wrangle for the ring,

A shame that started at sixteen

And spread to everything.

Then all at once the quarrel sank:

Everyone felt the same,

And every life became

A brilliant breaking of the bank,

A quite unlosable game.

So life was never better than

In nineteen sixty-three
(Though just too late for me) -
Between the end of the "Chatterley" ban
And the Beatles' first LP

here the poet is talking about the sexual revolution that has occurred during nineteen sixty three,the awareness it has created among people and he also regrets that it is quite late for him.he also mentions some famous people of that age so that it reaches the reader in a more effective way!he also depicts how it had changed the social lives of the people with good rhyming and comparisons .