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    The document contains 4 sonnets by Toribia Mano exploring the theme of love. In the first sonnet, the poet describes experiencing love like birds knowing the sky through different seasons, watching petals fall and moons rise. Love is likened to a burning sun that sets but also provides strength. The second sonnet speaks of lighting a lamp each day for their love and finding beauty in changing hues of light, knowing their love will last among the few. The third sonnet expresses the poet's joy in hearing their love's laughter and feeling their nearness intensely. The fourth warns that passion will consume like a burning sun but their love will be found even in darkness.

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    The document contains 4 sonnets by Toribia Mano exploring the theme of love. In the first sonnet, the poet describes experiencing love like birds knowing the sky through different seasons, watching petals fall and moons rise. Love is likened to a burning sun that sets but also provides strength. The second sonnet speaks of lighting a lamp each day for their love and finding beauty in changing hues of light, knowing their love will last among the few. The third sonnet expresses the poet's joy in hearing their love's laughter and feeling their nearness intensely. The fourth warns that passion will consume like a burning sun but their love will be found even in darkness.

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    Four Sonnets: Toribia Mano

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    The document contains 4 sonnets by Toribia Mano exploring the theme of love. In the first sonnet, the poet describes experiencing love like birds knowing the sky through different seasons, watching petals fall and moons rise. Love is likened to a burning sun that sets but also provides strength. The second sonnet speaks of lighting a lamp each day for their love and finding beauty in changing hues of light, knowing their love will last among the few. The third sonnet expresses the poet's joy in hearing their love's laughter and feeling their nearness intensely. The fourth warns that passion will consume like a burning sun but their love will be found even in darkness.

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    FOUR SONNETS

    Toribia Mano

    1
    Love have I known as birds have known their skies
    In lush of spring and in the summer’s fall;
    In a gray field of rain, a sun-drenched wall
    I have watched petals fall, and new moons rise:
    And this I have found that although I am wise
    To all the ways of love, I know not all,
    But like a child, still grope and heed the call
    Of magic sunlight dancing in my eyes.
    And love is this: a sun that burns and sets,
    A kingdom greater than a pile of gold,
    Or a name written in fire of flag unfurled,
    Or silver stars across vast orbits hurled.
    And love is this, too: strength that one begets
    By toil, fear, ecstasy the heart can hold.

    2
    Each day I light my little lamp for you,
    My flames of faith, of love, and anguished cry,
    For burnished beauty which has held me by
    In times of need; day yet bright, yet new
    Against my eyes. And in each varied hue
    Of light I see, I know that as I sigh
    For colored wing or leaf that ere it fly,
    Shall find you last with me among the few,
    For even as all beauty must pass by
    Or lamps like mine berusted as they shine
    Or life be dimed by death each was we got
    This I have learned and this will always know:
    You are close to me as earth to sky,
    As root, nor leaf, is closer to the vine.
    3
    I shall not tire you, no, never tire
    To hear your laughter in my mind like song,
    Feel in my heart your nearness, fierce and strong
    As death on living flesh, as steel round fires,
    As sunlight with a passionate desire
    Burns leaf and flower, earth to crimson throng,
    And leaves a splendor as he goes along
    Of coins and laurels, music from a lyre.
    No, never will I tire of you, My love.
    Only a fear I have that with each thrill
    Between your heart and eyes, between your lips
    One day you’ll find as taste of sand, as drips
    Of ice and bareness of rocks. Then, Love,
    All sunlight will be dark, all music still.

    4
    If you have drunk of love and found it sparse
    Of bitterness of sweetness on your tongue,
    If thunder you have sought but knew no wars
    Because your spirit is no longer young,
    Be wise, Love is sun that burns the reddest rose,
    That brings the fondest lover to his grave,
    And makes of men and women neither friends nor foes
    But lovers all, each to his king and slave.
    Thus passion will be neither here nor there
    But in moment held articulate
    Between a lover and his love in any place.
    You will not walk in sorrow nor despair.
    Unknown you’ll find me in your darkest hate
    Tearing your heart with pain and crying in your face.
    Name: ___________________________________________ Score: _______________
    Course: ________________________________ Professor: ______________________

    I. Testing One’s Word Power

    Choose the best synonym for the underlined words from the words enclosed in
    parentheses. Write the answer on the provided space.

    ________________ 1. lush of spring (succulent, beautiful, dry, elastic)


    ________________ 2. sun-drenched wall (painted, bathed, dried, colored)
    ________________ 3. burnished beauty (innocent, clean, faded, polished)
    ________________ 4. flag unfurled (spread, unguarded, lowered, hidden)
    ________________ 5. crimson throng (agitation, excitement, crowd, noise)

    II. Checking One’s Understanding


    Answer the following questions.

    1. What is the poet’s attitude towards love? Do you agree to his perception? Why
    or why not?
    2. Identify the imagery used and cadence of the beat and the meter of the sonnets.
    Are the images appropriate to the idea being presented? Explain your answer.
    3. Quote lines that use figures of speech. Identify the figures of speech used.
    4.
    III. Enrichment Activity
    Present a choral recitation of these sonnets.

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