Thursday, January 20, 2011

How my previous blog supports my thesis

Last week I wrote about William Wordsworth’s, ‘Nuns fret not at their Convent’s narrow room.’ My thesis for this poem evolved around the motifs behind his poem, which I proclaimed were freedom and confinement.  In my first paragraph I discussed confinement that was clearly depicted in lines 1 through 4. The evidence I used were those particular lines where confinement was a room, cell, or citadel. Then I backed up my evidence with well reasoned explanations. The analogies the poet used were each related to one another. Afterwards I made an observation where a being was confined to his/her  job, not a room as was clearly explained in the  first few lines.  That, I felt, was a significant change in comparisons. Next I linked how Wordsworth described confinement with images that he depicted in the poem. The beauty of Fox Gloved Bells, which I explained was the confined space for bees, was seen as a symbol for all of solitary confinement. Which like the poem’s title suggest, nuns do not fret about what they are imprisoned too. Imprisonment may be beautiful so why is everyone else so opposed to it and why is it seen as a negative thing.
In my second paragraph I brought out my second motif for the poem which is freedom. I believe that Wordsworth was relating confinement with freedom. That being, restriction was by choice of freedom. I presented evidence by quoting lines 12 through 14 of the poem. My conclusion of it was that he offers a solution which is what the couplet usually does  at the end of the poem. That was the explanation I used to support my idea and I believe it served it justice. Another explanation I used was that Wordsworth wanted to put a stop to these poets who did not follow structured sonnets. In addition Wordsworth’s solution to this problem ultimately ended the poem.

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