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Analysis Of 100 Sonnets By Henry Frank Lott

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Henry Frank Lott is a working-class poet, whose writing focuses on the everyday lives of people in the laboring class. His sonnet’s shift when he writes about a lover, who makes his days brighter, but also, reveals an inner battle. His work turns dark once more when the relationship is over. After it ends, Lott feels scorned by love, and refuses to write about love again, claiming why write about common topics such as love when there are harder topics to write about. After this, infused with nature imagery, his sonnets portray a love for freedom from the oppression of society, and the longing for the laboring class to advance from simply working and dying. In Lott’s 100 Sonnets, he writes about the different phases in his life. In Lott’s 100

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