Elegiac Sonnets Is To Sleep
The excerpts from Elegiac Sonnets by Charlotte Smith come across as very sad. From the four separate readings by her it is seemed like Smith was maybe depressed. Beginning with Written as the Close of Spring the beginning is beautiful with talk about flowers blooming and spring. Then, begging at line 9 it gets sad. She begins talking about humanity and how frail and fair it is. She is talking about how when we age we loose our youth and don't bud anymore, as flowers do. The next excerpt in Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets Is To Sleep. I had a little difficulty with this excerpt. All I was able to gather was that Smith has trouble sleeping, obviously. This is signified from the last 2 lines. No kind of aid could calm her enough to help her sleep.
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The next excerpt is To Night. After first reading over this I took it as she was speaking of the current night she was in. After reading it again, I realized she was talking about night in general, not a specific night. Starting out with the first line you can gather that her nights aren't great by her saying they're mournful, even though she says she loves them. It's seemed that she says she loves them because she just accepts them now. It's shown by her statement of, "For in thy quiet gloom the exhausted heart is calm, though wretched; hopeless, yet resign'd" (lines 11-12, pp. 55) that she is just accepting of the night now Her heart is hopeless that these bad nights will go away, so might as well accept them. The next excerpt is Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton is Sussex. In this excerpt Smith is talking about the sea. Whereas most people like the sea, Smith does not. She sees it as being dangerous. She at first describes it as having power and describing it in that way. Then in the second half she further elaborates on the lives it has taken, another reason to be scared of it. She gives good reasoning as to why she is scared of the
The next excerpt is To Night. After first reading over this I took it as she was speaking of the current night she was in. After reading it again, I realized she was talking about night in general, not a specific night. Starting out with the first line you can gather that her nights aren't great by her saying they're mournful, even though she says she loves them. It's seemed that she says she loves them because she just accepts them now. It's shown by her statement of, "For in thy quiet gloom the exhausted heart is calm, though wretched; hopeless, yet resign'd" (lines 11-12, pp. 55) that she is just accepting of the night now Her heart is hopeless that these bad nights will go away, so might as well accept them. The next excerpt is Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton is Sussex. In this excerpt Smith is talking about the sea. Whereas most people like the sea, Smith does not. She sees it as being dangerous. She at first describes it as having power and describing it in that way. Then in the second half she further elaborates on the lives it has taken, another reason to be scared of it. She gives good reasoning as to why she is scared of the