Comparing Refugee Mother and Child & On my first Sonne

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Antonio Carlos Tostes – 9C

9/5/2007

Comparing Refugee Mother and Child & On my first Sonne

        The poem On my First Sonne by Ben Jonson, describes the loss of a son. I think there is much imagination into this poem, the way he has used the meaning of that 'child of my right hand' the iambic pentameter of which showing that his feelings are strong which is also shown through the rhyming stanzas. Still he has used a pause showing that his life is now unhappy by the fact that his son had died and now he is traumatized.

The poem is powerful in a certain way, as the poet uses so many techniques, despite it being so small. The metaphor of his son being 'his best piece of poetry' shows that he thinks his son was his best work of art. The fact that he uses the image of his son being 'lent' to him by God and so it should be God's will that had to take him away also.

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It is brilliant the way he thinks that by, the death of his son he will never suffer, that death is inevitable to a human being. The ending is the very powerful, by the fact that he has said that next time he will promise and make sure that he will be careful about who he loves. Also it shows the father will only love the son as an obligation, but not like him, not to suffer again.

        The structure of the poem is organized four stanzas and for every stanza there is rhyming of AABB. A very poetic language ...

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