Commentary on Sonnet ¨Atlantis¨

Around 350 BC, Plato wrote about a graceful island in the Atlantic Ocean that went below the ocean waves in one twenty-four hours and one night. Atlantis A wooly-minded Sonnet by Eavan Boland does not comprise from head to toe the standards of a sonnet, cosmos fitting to discern it by the length of 14 lines and its GG rhyme scheme at the end. This meter is able to move from a question about Atlantis to a retrospect of the origin and finally to the overall substance about memories. Boland is able to create a close and personal atmosphere passim this sonnet through a outgrowth person narrator, the substance abuse of formulate prime(a) and rhetorical questions.It is the type of narrator in a poem that helps the ref identify itself with. In this case, Atlantis is written in outgrowth person, moment that the reader relates to the characters personal thoughts and feelings. At the beginning of the poem she emphasizes the word I in relation back to her thoughts about t he myth of the missing city, How on earth did it happen, I utilise to marvel(1). In this way making the reader enter and try to infrastand the authors look out on this surreal event. While at the centre she changes the use of the word I to describe her feeling, I miss our old(a) city you and I meeting(7-8).Explaining a major change in the marrow of the poem since she is no longer public lecture about Atlantis but if not on her past love, someone she misses. Being able to comp are them both since their overall import of lost and disappeared constantly is the same. Moreover, Boland chooses to further on explain the meaning in her poem based on the simple word choice that compares both scenarios. Straightforward language like under, lost and drowned are used in this poem because of their double meaning one alright day gone under? (4) surely a with child(p) city moldiness have been missed? (6) ave their sorrow a find and drowned it. (14). At the end we see how this words operate betterly with both ideas. Given that Atlantis is recognise as a city that drowned and leftover no evidence, we say it is hidden underneath the ocean.This idea of disappearing is a perfect example that the author is able to attach to her personal emotions of someone she really misses and provide never come back to her sustenance which would actually make the reader stand for about how the author decided to use this city as a pattern of her now gone lover. So wherefore is a rhetorical question apply in this sonnet? It is primarily to chieve a stronger and direct statement with no extremity of answering the question. In this poem at that place are two questions at the touch off and middle part one fine day gone under? (4) Surely a great city must have been missed? (6), both of this are talking about Atlantis. In a sort of way, the author is being corrosive because neither she nor we will ever exist the true answer since it is a figment with thousands of explanations but neither one is coulomb% accurate. At the end, this types of questions cause the reader to attribute to her judgments in a stronger way since they would in like manner want to know how a city may disappear right under our noses.As a final point, the center of this powerful poem is understood in its last two most weighty lines, to convey that what is gone is gone forever and never found it. And so, in the best traditions of where we come from, they gave their sorrow a name and drowned it. (12-14). Boland?s simple rhyme, imagery, and use of avatar create the final resolution of the authors feelings and thoughts towards a past which cannot be recovered except with your memory.