And i live on, but in grief and self-contempt, left here without the light i loved so much, in a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt. no more love songs, then, i have done with such; my old skill now runs thin at each attempt, and tears are heard within the harp i touch. (lines 9-14) which of the lines, taken from the sestet shown above, is the volta?

And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt is the correct answer

In poetry, we used the volta (a word from the Italian language that means turn) to change the thought, tone or argument in a sonnet, usually indicated with words like But, Yet, And yet, etc. in this passage, the tone changes in the first line “And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt”. From now on we can notice that the tone is sadder than before and starts seeing life from another perspective, not a happy one, leaving all the light the narrator had in life behind.

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the simple past tense of strive.

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