Reading Response: “Lines of Life” Landon

Lines 101 to 104 in Lines of Life by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, she uses imagery and repeat to depict what the reader can assume to be her ultimate daydream as an subterfugeist also I believe this stanza in grouchy helps the reader to understand why she chose this title. The footnotes of the Norton text tells us that Landons, Title may cite Shakespeares sonnet 16questioning the power of art to bestow im fatality rate. I agree with this analysis because of lines 101 to 104 in the poem. In lines 101 and 102 Landon uses imagery to depict the scene of a sentry young by his dim lamp, himself a dying fervidness.The language Landon uses is real effective in creating a vision for the reader. The repition of the image of a flame is also effective in depicting a vision for the reader. Also, when Landon mentions that the, pale youth is, Himself a dying flame it reminds the reader of his mortality. This emphasis of mortality also strengthens my resolve to agree with the text that the titl e is a reference to Shakespeares sonnet 16. In lines 103 and 104 Landon says, From many an antique scroll beside, hire that which bears my name? The language Landon uses indicates that the image of the pale youth is far in the future because her work is an antique scroll. Landon, continuing to use graphical imagery, is once again emphasizing the notion that her work will bring her immortal not in the literal common sense, but in the sense that though she may be physically dead her ideas live on forever and be valued by future generations again beef up the argument that the text makes, that the title of this piece is a reference to Shakespeares Sonnet 16.