Once upon a time, a frog croaked in Bingle Bog throughout the entire night, starting from dusk and lasting until dawn. Despite the hatred of all the creatures towards its loud and unpleasant voice, they had no alternative. The voice emanated from the sumac tree, where the frog sang every night until morning.
Despite facing stones, prayers, sticks, insults, and complaints, he remained determined and shameless in his determination to sing. One night, in the moonlight, a nightingale began to sing and amazed both the frog and other creatures. The entire bog was captivated by her voice and applauded her when she finished. The frog, fueled by jealousy, made up his mind to get rid of his competitor.
When the nightingale was about to sing the next night, she was disturbed by the croak of the frog. The nightingale inquired about the frog and he responded that he possessed the sumac tree and was renowned for his wonderful voice. He also mentioned that he had composed numerous songs for the Bog Trumpet. The nightingale then asked his opinion on her song.
The frog criticized the song, stating that it was not bad but too long and lacked force. The nightingale was impressed that the frog had critiqued her song. She expressed happiness that the song was her own creation. In response, the frog advised her to undergo proper training in order to attain a strong voice, otherwise she would remain a beginner.
He also mentioned that he would provide training to her but would require a fee. At present, the nightingale was brimming with confidence and had become a sensation, drawing animals from far distances. The frog, with precision, collected admission fees from all of them. Despite unfavorable weather conditions, the frog initiated vocal training for the nightingale, even though initially she had declined to sing. However, the frog persisted and made her sing continuously for six hours until she was trembling and her voice had turned hoarse and indistinct.
However, the next day, her neck miraculously cleared up and she regained her ability to sing. This attracted a breathless audience, including rich ladies, kings, queens, and others. The frog had mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, he was happy to be earning lots of money. On the other hand, he was jealous of his rival’s newfound fame and success. Every day, the frog would scold her and make her practice even longer, pointing out her small errors such as nervousness and not adding more trills and frills to her performance.
He reminded her about the sixty shillings she owed him, which was why he wanted the crowd to gather. However, the nightingale’s condition was deteriorating, causing her song to become tired and uninspired. She couldn’t bear this, as she had become accustomed to applause and had therefore become miserable.
The heartless frog scolded the brainless bird, causing her to tremble and eventually die from bursting a vein. The frog claimed to have tried teaching her but deemed her foolish, nervous, and easily influenced. Afterwards, the frog’s fog horn began blearing once more, unchallenged in the bog.
The poem teaches us that it is foolish to be inspired or influenced by someone who is unknown and strange. The nightingale made a mistake by not considering how a frog with a harsh voice could be a music maestro, and she ended up suffering for her misjudgment. This lesson applies to human society too, where people often try to exploit the innocence or ignorance of others.
Sonnet 130 And Sonnet 18 By William Shakespeare Analysis
The poems “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet 130” were first published in 1609 and were written by William Shakespeare. The “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet 130” have no titles that are the reason that they have a number (for example 18 and 130) for the poems. The number was based on the order in which the poems were first published in 1609. These poems are two of one hundred fifty four poems written by Shakespeare. The poems consist of fourteen lines that is divided into two parts. One is an opening octet with eight lines, and the other one is a closing sestet with six lines.
Shakespeare uses many poetic devices in both poems, which include end and internal rhyme, consonance, assonance, metaphors, repetition, symbolism, personification and alliteration. Both poems talk about love/relationships with a delight tone. Sonnet 18 is plainly about the relationship between man and nature/season. He started the poem with an imagery question, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? ” (line 1). Then Shakespeare started painting the picture. For example, he said, “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May” (line 3) meaning the strong winds will wipe out the flower buds.Another example would be, “And summer’s lease hath all too short a date” (line 4) is describing how the summer is too short. Next, the summer temperature is described as hot in lines five and six. Finally, “And every fair from fair sometimes declines” (line 7) refers to everything beautiful must end. In the Sonnet 18, Shakespeare uses alliteration, which is words repeating one or more letters at the beginning of a word in the same line. One example of alliteration would be, “hot”, “heaven” in line 5. Another, in line 7, is “Fair” and”From” and “Fair”.
Next, is in line 8 “chance” and “changing”, and “course”. Another, in line 14, is “long” and “lives” and “life”. Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds. One example of assonance would be, “compare” and “summers”, in line 1. Next, in line 3,”rough”, “buds”. Finally, in line 14 “lives”, “This”. Consonance means that the final consonants agree. One example of consonance would be, in line 9, is “eternal”, “shall”. Another would be, “complexion”, “sometimes” in (line 6 and 7). There is also some end rhyme in the poem. One example is “day” (line 1) rhymes with “May” in line 3.Also, “fade” (line 9) rhymes with “shade” in line 11.
Some internal rhymes were also used in the poem. One example would be, “do” (line 3) rhymes with “too” (line 4), and “lives” (line 14) rhymes with “gives” in line 14. Some repetition in the poem are “nor’’ and “nor” (line 10 and 11) and “so long” and “so long” (line 13 and 14). Personification is giving human or animate characteristics to something that is not alive. One example of personification would be, “darling buds” (line 3) giving human being attributes to a flower.Another, in line 4 “and summer’s lease hath all too short a date” treats summer like leasing a piece of property. Finally, in line 5 is “eye of heaven shines. Onomatopoeia is words that sound like their meanings.
Two examples of onomatopoeia would be, “rough” and “shake” in line. Sonnet 130 is another love poem that expresses the love for a woman. Shakespeare use very strong imagery in the Sonnet 130. He started the poem talking about a mistress in the first line. “Coral is far more red than her lips’ red” (line 2) is another clear image that he is talking about a woman.Line 3 is talking about a woman’s breasts, which reinforce the theme of the poem. “If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head,” (line 4) a person could only imagine long black hair. “Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks” (line 8) paint the picture that she has bad breath.
“I grant I never saw a goddess go”, (lines 11 and 12) “My mistress when she walks treads on the ground”, talks about a natural women walking like a goddess. In the Sonnet 130, Shakespeare use alliteration. One example of alliteration would be, “why” and “white” in line 3. Next, in line 10, is “music” and “more”. Finally, in line 12 is “when” and “walk”. Assonance is also present in the poem. Two examples of assonance would be, (“no”, “roses”), and (“see”, “cheeks”) in line. In addition, another in line 5 “seen” to (line 6) “see”.
There is some consonance in the poem also. One example is “coral”, “more” (in line 2). In line 6, “but”, and “such” is an example of internal rhymes. The poem has end rhymes at the end of every line. For example, “sun” at the end of (line 1) rhymes with “dun” at the end of line. Next, “white” at the end of (line 5) rhymes with “delight” at the end of line 7. Finally, these ends both rhymes “rare” (line 13) and “compare” (line 14). One example of personification would be “black wires grow on her head” in line.
Since, Shakespeare wrote “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet 130”, they both have a traditional English sonnet format, and for the most part structured in the same way. Both poems have a single stanza of fourteen lines, ordered into three quatrains of four lines followed by a concluding single couplet of two ines. In addition, both “Sonnet 18 and 130”, contain just ten syllables per line. Another similarity between the sonnets is that there a common rhyme scheme.
Next, they are written in iambic pentameter. In addition, imagery is present all through both “Sonnet 18 and 130”. On the other hand, there is a difference in “Sonnet 18 and “Sonnet 130”. In “Sonnet 18”, the poem starts the first quatrain with beautiful descriptions admiring the lover. Next, Shakespeare writes about how all the lover beauty declines. Finally yet importantly, in the final quatrain and the couplet, Shakespeare signs off by saying that his sonnet will preserve his lover beauty forever. That is a paraphrase of lines 13 and 14. On the other hand, in sonnet 130 Shakespeare only divides the poem into two sections. The first one includes all three quatrains that describe how horrible and ugly his lover looks. Next, the last two lines show that Shakespeare still loves her, giving the readers a surprising twist.
Macbeth’s Mental Deterioration
In ShakeSpeare’s Macbeth, Macbeth’s mental deterioration throughout the play is a result of Macbeth killing the king and disrupting the chain of being. The chain of being is a system of ranks, for example a king is above everyone else but under god. So the king serves under god but is responsible for everyone under him.
Macbeth disrupts the chain of being when he kills the king resulting in his mental deterioration in the play. In the beginning of the play Macbeth’s mental state is normal and un-affected.As the chain of being is also normal and un-disrupted in the beginning. Macbeth’s mental state relates to the chain of being.
When Macbeth kills Duncan and disrupts the chain of being his mental state begins to deteriorate as seen here “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood from my hand? No. ” (59) He has disrupted the chain of being by killing Duncan and is beginning to lose and is paranoid saying not even all the water in the ocean will clean the blood from his hands.The chain of being is disrupted more when Lady Macbeth insults him for being a coward after that and says “A little water clears us of this deed. ” (59) whats happening is Lady Macbeth is taking the role of a man and Macbeth is being a coward as his mental state deteriorates, which disrupts the chain of being further.
Macbeth’s Mental deterioration leads to the killing of Banquo in act 3. Macbeth knows that Banquo is innocent.He orders their murder out of fear that the throne will be taken away from him and that Banquo’s descendants will inherit it. Others began to notice his mental deterioration as seen here “some say he’s mad.
” (167) This was Caithness saying that some people said Macbeth was mad. In the the end everything begins to go really bad in Act 5 scene 5 the trees move which is against the chain of being. Macbeth believes he can’t be killed because he was born from a women, but MacDuff says “was from his mothers womb untimely ripped. (185) Macbeth then is killed after being told he wasn’t born from a women but ripped from his mothers womb.
In conclusion Macbeth’s Mental deterioration throughout the play, was a result of Macbeth killing Duncan and disrupting the chain of being. As Macbeth mental state continues to deteriorate the chain of being is even further disrupted by the killing of Banquo resulting in his mental deterioration and tragic end to the play Macbeth.