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Poetry Senior Theme

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Adrian Ramirez

AP English 4
Per-5
Mrs. Speer
2/2/14
Topic Outline
Introduction:
Thesis: Although these writers differ in styles of writing, many similarities can be found within these three sonnets such as the theme and the way in which they convey their emotions.
Shakespeare
Love and Death Rhyme Scheme and Iambic Pentameter
Metaphors and Imagery
Conclusion:

Topic Sentence Outline
Introduction:
Thesis: Although these writers differ in styles of writing, many similarities can be found within these three sonnets such as the theme and the way in which they convey their emotions.
William Shakespeare was one of the most influential poets of his time and still is today because how well he immortalizes the emotions in his poems.
Most of Shakespeare’s sonnets have a deep meaning of love behind them and sometimes it is death that Shakespeare uses to intensify the type of love he tries to convey to his readers.
The Shakespearian sonnet style, also known as the iambic pentameter, is commonly used throughout all of poetry and was appropriated by Shakespeare himself.
Each of these three sonnets are very different but carry within themselves very similar figures of speech that help the reader to envision its setting and to feel the emotions bursting from each line.
Conclusion:

Poetry sonnets, what are they? But of course they are nothing more than just ordinary poems, are they not? Many of those who do not take an interest in poems, such as myself, often do not know what a sonnet is. My interpretation of a sonnet is a poem that consists of fourteen lines and is guided by a very specific rhyme scheme or even a certain structure, which by the way varies because the numerous types of styles in which one can write a sonnet. Sonnets are very old, as a matter of fact they date back to the thirteenth century when they

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