Essay on Sonnet LXVII, A Poison Tree, and Leda and the Swan: Analysis of Themes, Forms and Structure, and Poetic Techniques
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Intro: Why does poetry speak to us in a way that grasps our attention and makes us want to discover more? Edmund Spenser’s ‘Sonnet LXVII’ (1595) offers an insight into a huntsman who is in pursuit of a lover, William Blake’s ‘A Poison Tree’ (1794) teaches us of the underlining conflict between a friend and a foe and William Butler...