AllykaLianza
JoaquinAraneta
KiethAmaquin
ENG10,TeacherJeanilleCogtas
Quarter3CriticalAnalysisPaper
April1,2022
Cursed
Cursed, a Shakespearean Sonnet by Jeanille Cogtas employs a variety of poetic tropes. The essential goal is for the audience to comprehend the meaning of the sonnet. The sonnet is stunning,especiallywhenreadwithemotion;thetheme,atmosphere,andtoneareallgreat.
The use of imagery throughout the paragraph heightens the sense of danger felt by the narrator when he sees the glaring sun and tells it to stay away. She sleptforalongtimewithout interruptions or awakenings, despite the fact that it was a hot day. The Cyclops walked in with heavy, resonant footsteps. Her petite limbs were grasped by huge hands, wounds were opened, andbloodwasspilled.Shecrouched,butAeoulus'bagscoopedheruplikesand.Shewassetfree from that sack, but was she truly free? She stood up and was given to Cain as a gift. She grew tough from her tears, and she rose from the abyss. The marks willnotcondemnherorbringher curses,butratherwillmakeherwise.
The sonnet is about a person who tries to escapethehardshipsofherlifeandtreatsthem as a curse. The theme of the sonnet ishardshipsinlifemakeuswise.Therhymeschemeisabab and the meter is Iambic pentameter. The speaker is the author herself and the tone is that of a
scared person. The exposition of the sonnet is the protagonist, who is the author,lyinginsheets in a closed room at daytime. The poet argues that the marks that she bears curse. Then, she concludesthattheymakeherwise.
The poem shows a deeper meaning than what the eyesofthereaderscanseethroughthe use of various figures of speech. The author makes use of Personification in the first line ofthe sonnet which is “When glaring sun peeps through closed doors for me”. She also makes use of lots ofimagerysuchasthemarksthatshebearssymbolizethehardshipsofherlife.Assonanceis used in the line “The day is warm but, mum, I shall obey”. Anaphora is used in the line “This deviouslifeIlead,Icried,ohwhy!”.
Cursed, happens to be an existing sonnet made by Jeanille Cogtas. It has an existing fourteen line poem that is 3 alternating rhyme stanzas as well as an existing couplet at the end, which for all intents and purposes is quite significant. The rhyme scheme follows the "ABABCDCDEFEFGG" pattern such as most Shakespearean sonnets in a sort of major way. It has rhyming patterns that basically belongs to the reason that it particularly makes the sonnet prettymuchmoreappealingtotheaudience.
Metersinthesonnetisusingtheiambicpentameterwhichforallintentsandpurposes is commonly used in really shakespearean sonnets in a fairly big way. It tends to use figurative languages as well as imagery to specifically convey an existing message, which happens to literally essentially be kind of fairly more essentially emphasized along thebasicallyforthelast twolines,definitelyisgoingtobequitesignificantinasubtleway
This sonnet is appealing; it's beautiful, and reading it with passion would undoubtedly improve it. The ambiance, tone, and theme are all excellent. That's one of the things I enjoy about it. But when it comes to the language employed, I'm not sure what to make of it. The sonnet is excellent, but there are a few terms in it that I do not get. Jeanille Cogtas, the author, utilized words that a reader may not understand and one needs to comprehend in order to understandwhatthesonnetmeansandwhatit'sallabout.
Lines 1 to 11 (excluding Lines 3 and 4) discuss risk; as you read the lines, there is something in each line that mentions danger. It detects danger inthesamewaythatLine1does. It continues on Line 2, sensing danger and telling it to leave. She's finally in trouble on lines 5 and6.However,thedangerincreasedinLines7and8,asbloodspilledfromopenwounds.Lines 9 and 10 indicate that she is about to begin overcoming her worries by accepting her agony. Then,inLines11and12,sheovercameheranxietiesofdangerandgrewstrongerasaresult.
Caren Krutsinger's poem “DaNGER”hassimilaritiestoJeanilleCogtas'sonnet"Cursed."
The two have a lot in common when it comes to danger, and they both talk about it. Stanzas 1 and 2 ofthepoemillustrateherperplexityastowhyshewasdroppedinanalley,whichishardly a pleasant location to be placed. Stanzas 3 and 4 demonstrate that she does not need to be concerned because she recognizes danger and is prepared for what is to come. Stanzas 5 and 6 show that she's on the lookout, that she's aware of the danger around him, and that she's overcomeherconcerns.
After reading the sonnet, one may not feel alone anymore because the last line "These marksIbeardon'tcurse,theymakemewise"mademerealizethateverybodymakesmistakes.
What is likable about the sonnet is how it conveys emotions through the use of imagery such as the marks bestowed on Cain, pit and Aeolus’ sack. What one may dislike about the sonnet is how deep it is that it tends to confuse whether the theme of it is our mistakes or the hardships of life. One maynotbecleverenoughtocriticallyanalyzethedeepermeaningofwhat is more toseethanwhatmeetstheeyeofthereaders.Nomatterthetheme,youcouldn’thelpbut still agree with the author. Our mistakes or hardships in life make us wise. In fact, it greatly relates to our lives. If you are an awful perfectionist, the last line of the sonnet may have awakened your mind that mistakes are not a curse but a gift. The purpose of the author on writing the sonnet is to remind the readers that our mistakes and hardships in life should be acceptedandwemustlearnfromitinordertobecomestrongerandwiser.
There are great and low points in the sonnet most especially, various emotions were felt after reading it. For the youth out there who feel like lifeisanenemy,wemustaccepthardships that we are facing for they make us stronger and wiser along the way and they are just trials to testourdeterminationtonevergiveup.
The two authors must have had a similar dreadful experience, albeit under different circumstances. Returning to the sonnet "Cursed," lines3and4discussobedience.Line3depicts her questioning herself as to why shesleptforsolongwithnointerruptionsorawakenings.Line 4depictsthedaybeinghot,butshechosetocomplyandstayinside.Thisstillreferstodanger,as the statement stated that she opted to remain safe and away from thedangerbecauseshesensed it.
Upon interpretation, it may well be understood that she escaped the difficulties she treated as hercurse,kindofcontrarytopopularbelief.Thewomanbasicallyisagenerallystrong woman,overcomingincomprehensiblesituations,beingspecificallygrabbedbycyclops,opening wounds, and dripping blood, or so they particularly thought. She held her ground and mostly fought independently without any help. She accepted the pain and strengthened them in a definitely big way. Not all of these markings show her curse, but they essentially doshowwhat she for the most part has experienced, making her a smarter, pretty much more particularly collectivethought.
Thewomanonthesonnetissimpletoconnectwith.Wehavehadourupsanddownsin life, but we have to come out of them and accept them as our own. She is free from the grip of difficulties and just like before, she treats difficulties as curses when in reality it is life's challenge to respond to new things. come and go. She's strong in the way that she doesn't stop fighting and fighting, and then byacceptingthepainshetriestodeny,shegetstougherandfaces reality. It takes courage to do these things, especially when fighting alone. So taking a breakis notgivingup.
It's all about risk, according to my interpretation of the sonnet. By simply reading and looking at the words, phrases, and sentences utilized, you can immediately see whatitmeansto me. Reading phrases like "stay away," "Blood broke from open wounds," and "devious" makes you feel like something is wrong or someone is in danger I didn't only utilize my imagination whenIreadthesonnet;Ifounditsmeaninginthestructureofthelanguage.
It's similar to the multiverse ideaintermsofanalysisandliterature;haveyouheardofit?
According to multiverse theory, ouruniverse,withitshundredsofbillionsofgalaxiesandnearly innumerable stars spanning tens of billions of light-years, isn't the only one. You can interpret sonnets, poems, and stories in your own way in analysis and literature. Even though it has its own meaning, there may be a point of thesonnetwhenyoufeelitandhaveanexperiencethatis identical to the sonnet. There are a plethora of possible meanings. Itcouldbestrangeoritcould makesense.
WorksCited Cogtas,Jeanille.(2018,December3).“HowtoWriteaCriticalAnalysisofaSonnet”.
https://jeanillec.blogspot.com/search?q=Critical+analysis&m=1 Krutsinger,Caren.(2022,March15).“DaNGER”.
https://allpoetry.com/poems/about/danger Sutter,Paul.(2021,August24).“Whatismultiversetheory?”.
https://www.livescience.com/multiverse