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Oscar Wilde is noted more for his plays than for his poems. He was a proponent of "art for art's sake," a kind of precursor to the fragmentation of modernism.

While many thinkers protest against the unknowable mind of God, Cullen's speaker uses his own God-given qualities to evaluate the Divine's "inscrutable" ways.

The speaker in Robert Frost's sonnet, "Putting in the Seed," dramatizes his deep love for the simple act of planting seeds in the earth's rich soil.

Gwendolyn Bennett's sonnet, "Some things are very dear to me," resembles the Elizabethan sonnet with the rime scheme, ABACDCDEFEFGG, in its three quatrains and couplet.

Keats' sonnet follows the Shakespeare model, using the same English form and dramatizing a series of agonizing thoughts that focus the mind.

Sonnet 126 is a problem; it is not technically a sonnet. It has only 12 lines, six rimed couplets. It is located between the "young man" and the "dark lady" sonnets.

Shakespeare sonnet 18 begins the thematic group in which the speaker/poet muses on his writing talent, often addressing his Muse, his ability, and even his poems.

The theme of "The Noble New" is individualism; the speaker is urging the devotee not to be dragged down by a herd-mentality when journeying toward self-realization.

"Astrophil" comes from the Greek for "star" and "love"; therefore, the lover in this sonnet sequence is a "starlover"; "Stella," his love object, is Latin for "star."

Lyric poetry is the most common form of poetry; it does not tell a story as the epic and narrative forms do; the lyric poem has grown into many forms since ancient times.