Natalie Meyers Hidden Heart and Astophils Astohpil and Stella Essay

Natalie Meyers vague Heart and Astophils Astohpil and StellaLonging to bleed my issue into actors line that stain his heart,That in my wound he take, delight that has no wearDelight may light a fire, of burning thoughts to start,To devotee the flame of pity, would help to spark his care,Desperate to show my sorrow with denominations equal to art.Searching round the depths for lucid language, fair,The force behind my drumhead locked round a solid part.Some spry ideas seeped, through my yard with a tear,But whisked into a wind, that twirled them in a haze,And dizzy sully that blurs my head into a stare,Becomes a source of strength to break my pachydermous gaze.Frustration takes a dive, and offers me a dare,A new voice (not my own), calls me from within, spell out with your heart not head and now I can begin.The heart to ScribeThe desire to express ones feelings can be a complicated and stressful task. In the free imitation poem, Hidden Heart, by Natalie Meyers, a young woman e xpresses the frustration she experiences when trying to save her loved one. Likewise, the first sequence of Sir Philip Sydneys sonnet, Astrophil and Stella, explores one mans struggle to write from his heart and eliminate the yearning to select the pure(a) words for a letter written to his love, Stella. Both Astrophil and Meyers are distraught over what to say and how to say it. Since Hidden Heart is an imitation of Sydneys sonnet, several parallels can be drawn between their common theme, word choice, and form. The Hidden Hearts theme of free expression, its diction, and structure, must be compared and contrasted with intertextual references from Astrophil and Stella, in order to effectively analyze it.Throughout the poem, Natalie ... ... severally a resolution by the end of the poem. Both meter and rhyme are very all important(p) in building a solid, yet fluid structure to each poem. Hidden Heart mirrors Astrophil and Stella in many ways, but contains several fantastic quali ties as well. Natalies account was based on personal experience, where Astrophil is a character creation of Sir Philip Sydney. The similarities and differences of the theme, diction, and structure helped enrich both poems without cheapening them. Overall, both hard-pressed the importance of writing with ones heart to convey received emotion instead of agonizing over the literary quality of a personal letter. Also, the stylistic aspects of each poem carefully wove in a tone that contributed to their personality. With all of these attributes combine, Natalie and Sydney demonstrate the value found in linking dickens poems together through imitation.