Commentary on Sonnet ¨Atlantis¨

Around 350 BC, Plato wrote about a beautiful island in the Atlantic Ocean that went under the ocean waves in one day and one night. Atlantis A Lost Sonnet by Eavan Boland does non follow from head to toe the standards of a sonnet, being able to give away it by the length of 14 lines and its GG rhyme scheme at the end. This poesy is able to move from a question about Atlantis to a repositing of the author and final examly to the overall meaning about memories. Boland is able to stimulate a close and ad hominem atmosphere doneout this sonnet through a first person narrator, the use of word choice and rhetorical questions.It is the type of narrator in a poem that helps the endorser delineate itself with. In this case, Atlantis is written in first person, meaning that the reader relates to the temperaments personal thoughts and feelings. At the beginning of the poem she emphasizes the word I in relation to her thoughts about the myth of the missing urban center, How on orb d id it happen, I used to wonder(1). In this way making the reader enter and try to understand the authors view on this surreal event. fleck at the centre she changes the use of the word I to describe her feeling, I miss our old city you and I meeting(7-8).Explaining a study change in the meaning of the poem since she is no longer lecture about Atlantis but if not on her past love, someone she misses. universe able to compare them both since their overall meaning of lost and disappeared endlessly is the same. Moreover, Boland chooses to further on explain the meaning in her poem establish on the simple word choice that compares both scenarios. Straightforward course like under, missed and drowned are used in this poem because of their devilfold meaning one fine day at peace(p)(a) under? (4) surely a great city must expect been missed? (6) ave their melancholy a plant and drowned it. (14). At the end we see how this words conflate perfectly with both ideas. Given t hat Atlantis is recognized as a city that drowned and left no evidence, we say it is hidden underneath the ocean.This idea of fade is a perfect example that the author is able to connect to her personal emotions of someone she really misses and will n constantly come back to her life sentence which would actually make the reader think about how the author stubborn to use this city as a representation of her now gone lover. So why is a rhetorical question applied in this sonnet? It is primarily to chieve a stronger and direct statement with no collect of answering the question. In this poem there are two questions at the start 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 sarcastic because uncomplete she nor we will ever know the true answer since it is a legend with thousands of explanations but neither one is 100% accurate. At the end, this types of qu estions cause the reader to connect to her judgments in a stronger way since they would also want to know how a city may disappear right under our noses.As a final point, the message of this powerful poem is understood in its last two most important 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 personification create the final resultant role of the authors feelings and thoughts towards a past which cannot be recovered overleap with your memory.