Classic to Modern English Literature

Care-Charmer Sleep by Samuel Daniel Introduction A great reformer of English Verse, Samuel Daniel (1562-1619), writes his most notable collection “Delia” in the sixteenth century. The compilation was first published in 1592. Concerning this section, Delia’s first collecting sonnet was “Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night”. In this poem, the poet longs for their embrace, and suggests the deeply dark nature of his mood. It also asserts that we have a connection with death and suffering. The theses pretended such as, “Misery, despair, desolation, anguish and depression.” In essence, the core concept revolves that “Delia” was extolled by sixteenth century’s English poet Edmund Spenser. Structure Daniel’s critical sonnet, “Care-Charmer Sleep, Son of the Sable Night” contains fourteen lines. It has also followed Shakespearean sonnet style with Iambic Pentameter. On the other hand, the rhyme

Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines by Pablo Neruda Introduction One of Pablo Neruda’s iconic love poems ‘Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines’, appeared in Neruda’s collection, “Twenty love poems and a song of Despair”. It was first published in 1924 when Neruda was nineteenth. One of the most striking aspects of the poem is its “Universality”. It’s a master piece of modern poetry. In the poem, Neruda expresses his current state of mind and the emotions. He writes about the “beauty of love”, and how it gets the power to bring peace and happiness to his soul. The poem explores, “lost love, grief, and power of art”. Structure Neruda’s poem ‘Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines’ consists of thirty-one lines. The poem is a free verse. It has no proper rhyme scheme and follows a “peculiar form” of poetry. Summary Paragraph 1: In the first seven lines, t