Commentary on Sonnet ¨Atlantis¨

Around 350 BC, Plato wrote around a beautiful island in the Atlantic Ocean that went down the stairs the ocean waves in peerless day and ace night. Atlantis A Lost Sonnet by Eavan Boland does not occur from head to toe the standards of a praise, being cap sufficient to identify it by the length of 14 lines and its GG rhyme scheme at the end. This poem is able to move from a question about Atlantis to a memory of the compose and finally to the overall consequence about memories. Boland is able to create a close and personal atmosphere throughout this sonnet through a first person narrator, the practice session of word choice and rhetorical questions.It is the lineament of narrator in a poem that helps the reader identify itself with. In this case, Atlantis is written in first person, meaning that the reader relates to the characters 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 look out oning city, How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder(1). In this way making the reader take down and try to understand the motives view on this surreal event. While at the centre she miscellaneas the use of the word I to describe her feeling, I miss our old city you and I meeting(7-8).Explaining a major change in the meaning of the poem since she is no longer talking about Atlantis but if not on her past love, person she misses. Being able to compare them both since their overall meaning of lost and disappeared forever is the same. Moreover, Boland chooses to come on on explain the meaning in her poem based on the simple word choice that compares both scenarios. Straightforward words corresponding under, lost and drowned are used in this poem because of their double meaning one fine day gone under? (4) Surely a great city must have been missed? (6) ave their sorrow a name and drowned it. (14). At the end we see how this words flow absolutely with both ideas. Given that Atlantis is recognized as a city that drowned and odd no evidence, we say it is hidden underneath the ocean.This idea of disappearing is a perfect example that the author is able to connect to her personal emotions of someone she really misses and will never come back to her life which would real make the reader think about how the author decided 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 need of state the question. In this poem there are two questions at the dismount 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 miscellany of way, the author is being sarcastic because neither she nor we will ever issue the true answer since it is a legend with thousands of explanations but neither one is 100% accurate. At the end, this types of questions cau se 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 heart of this powerful poem is understood in its last two close to important lines, to convey that what is gone is gone forever and never form 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 resolution of the authors feelings and thoughts towards a past which cannot be recovered except with your memory.