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Analysis

     This is a sonnet about dream that having a spectacular university dream. The superb university has the best education and best environment. However, it is difficult to be admitted by that university. There are a variety of literary terms and devices that using by this poem such as simile, metaphor, personification, and alliteration. For example, “The distant dream is like a high-pitched hill (line 8)”, uses simile to compare dream and hill. The “quill (line 7)” is a feather on the hill and it means a special temptation. In the lives, it is quite common to meet some temptation that obstructing you. Thus, ignore and resist it are the key of successes. In the stanza 3, there is a metaphor and personification to compare snail and the poet. “I saw a slow snail climbing on the leaf (line 9)” uses alliteration (saw, slow, and snail) that the snail tries its best to make its dream come true. The poem has a rhyme scheme with ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. In brief, this poem not only follows the structure of sonnet, but also shows the dream that entering my ideal university in the future. The snail will encourage me to insist the dream and try my best to work hard everyday to be a member of the ideal university.