Until the first semi-colon, the author uses simple past participles, which leads to back to the assumption that this sonnet may be describing an event that happened a while ago. */“Surprised,” one of the past participles, is used unusually because it’s not modifying anything/* The semi-colon after “forgotten” is known as a super comma, because this list could use a comma, but instead the author uses a semi-colon. The purpose for this semi-colon serves the same purpose as a comma, in a sense that they both are used to continue the list of objects the author thinks are beautiful, but the semi-colon is also used as a separation between normal objects from naturalistic objects he introduces after the semi-colon. Usually, nature is used to describe beautiful things, the author does this by using nature words, but instead are used to describe common nasty things in nature as beautiful. Another recurring linguistic device begins to occur after the semi-colon, these are the prepositional phrases that keep showing on almost every line. After the word “Filmed,” which not only modifies the “ditch and bog,” but also gives …show more content…
Though many people are afraid of a “cracking hinge,” in this case afraid of finding something that’s not beautiful, the author is not afraid of something unknown, thus he accepts all beauty and “push[es]” all the doors. Since everyone is “craven” towards unknown beauty, the author requests the normal people to “[t]urn back” because they are to cowardly to face true beauty. Furthermore, since people are afraid of what beauty really is, the author’s purpose for saying “I tell you Beauty bares an ultrafringe,” is to exclaim that Beauty is everywhere even outside of what normal Beauty is. Beauty has been given so much personification that the author felt a need to make Beauty uppercase as if it were a proper noun. After much emphasis, the author concludes by letting the reader think about the fact that, all this time, a “gossamer shawl,”-beauty-with strands of threads is right in front of us but we don’t notice because we are used to the normal beauty we see