PERSONAL RESPONSE: It appears to be set to the middle-aged, medieval time. It set a cold, wintery, lost mood. I was quite curious about the traveller. I question what his motives are. This small piece doesn’t have much to offer so I couldn’t come to any conclusions. Maybe the traveller was on a quest in search for a king, as said in the second piece.
MEANINGS:
Antique = A collectable object
Visage = A person’s facial features/expressions
NOTICE STRUCTURE: The beginning mentions a traveller, this character could become more important. A variety of descriptive words are used to emphasize the setting & characters. All of the lines are in an iambic pentameter rhythm apart from the first line, having elelevan syllables as opposed to ten. The whole sonnet has an alternating rhyme (ABAB, CDCD)