sounds

In most of Shakespeare's plays, he uses blank verse.  This is unrhymed iambic pentameter.  Iambic pentameter is when there are 10 symbols per line with 5 stressed and 5 unstressed symbols.  This was very common in England.  In Hamlet we see both blank verse and free verse.  Both are utilized and can effectively be illustrated through Hamlets speech.  When he speaks in free verse, we see less emotion as the words are endless, while in blank verse, we see his emotion better as he only has 10 symbols to convey the emotion that he wants.  In Hamlet we see sounds as an important feature to the play.  It gives the words and intentions more meaning.  In one of Hamlets soliloquies, he says egg shelled then he repeats the word greatly and the g sound.  The g sound is very rough and tough and egg shelled is very sturdy as well.  In his speech he is trying to convince himself that these soldiers are fighting for an illegitimate cause and i am still standing here not having fought or done anything for his legitimate concern. The strong g's illustrate that he must become more strong and have more fortitude.  He is greatly angered and frustrated with himself.  This can be clearly illustrated through Hamlet's sounds.  In Frosts poem, we can see sound clearly through the end when the boy lays on the bed and we hear the puffing of his lips and the breathing of the boy.  This demonstrates the despair that he is in and makes the scene more real and dramatic.  Through these sounds, we can also get a better sense of the setting and the roll the setting plays in the poem.  In Popes poem, we see the opposite as the words and the sounds soften up the tone.  the words soft strain gently blows.  As in Hamlet we saw that the g sound was rough and heavy, this g sound is light as a feather and it flows with the smoothness and softness of the poem.  We see that sounds can have different meanings in the play and can have different effects on different pieces of literature.