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Analysis of Literary Devices Used in “On my First Son”. literary devices are very important elements used to bring richness to the texts. They also make readers understand the hidden meanings and themes. Ben Johnson has also made this poem superb by using figurative language. Here is the analysis of some literary devices used in this poem.
Written around 1603, Ben Jonson’s deceptively plain elegy, “On My First Son,” consists of one twelve-line stanza of iambic pentameter rhyming couplets. Taking the form of a “classical ...
On my First Son Summary and Analysis of "On my First Son". Summary. “ On my First Son ” is addressed to Jonson’s seven-year-old son, who had recently died. In the first line, Jonson bids him goodbye, and expresses that the child was his favorite, and the greatest source of joy in his life. Jonson writes that his mistake was hoping too ...
Ben Jonson's 'On My First Son' is a poem published in 1616 about grieving the loss of his son. Examine a brief summary of the poem, explore the poem's themes, and analyze how Johnson used the ...
In 1603, Ben Jonson had a dream, a very strange dream. He was visiting a friend (Sir Robert Cotton) outside of London. There, as one of Jonson's friends later recounted, "he saw in a vision his eldest son, then a child and at London, appear unto him with the mark of a bloody cross on his forehead, as if it had been cut with a sword; at which amazed he prayed unto God, and in the morning he ...
Epigrams: On my First Son. Ben Jonson. 1572 –. 1637. Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy. Seven years tho' wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I lose all father now!
Ben Jonson: On My First Son. On My First Son. by Ben Jonson. Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy ; My sin was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy. Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. Oh, could I lose all father now ! For why.
