Sonnet 18 and Crikey
Poets express ideas and feelings about love in different and powerful ways.
Love is expressed in the poems Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare and Crikey by Cilla McQueen through ideas of eternal beauty and being overwhelmed by love; and the feelings of excitement and longing for the preservation of the love conveyed.
To determine the accuracy of the statement ‘poets express ideas and feeling about love in different ways’ the two poems that are being analysed firstly need to be compared. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 uses iambic pentameter to develop a beat at which the poem is spoken where as Cilla McQueen’s Crikey uses no beat but runs as if it was being spoken in a conversation. It also uses colloquial language and Shakespeare uses more formal language however there is a significant time between when the poems where written. Both of the poems use versions of a volta around the middle of the poems to indicate a change in tone or idea. The statement is somewhat accurate as the poems have some common techniques that are used to express their ideas.
Shakespeare uses comparison to express the love he feels in Sonnet 18. He starts off by asking a rhetorical question to outline the theme of the poem ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ as Shakespeare compares her to summer he realises the faults it has. Personification is used to describe the faults of the sun ‘sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, and often his gold complexion dimmed.’ This shows that the sun can be too hot or covered by cloud. This technique is effective as it is as if he was comparing her to a real person that can be related to. At the end of the first eight lines of the poem a metaphor is used to relate natural aging to the sails of a boat ‘and every fair from fair sometime declines, by chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed.’ This technique is effective because to change the course of a boat the sails must be trimmed but the poem is saying that nature doesn’t change and everything must
Love is expressed in the poems Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare and Crikey by Cilla McQueen through ideas of eternal beauty and being overwhelmed by love; and the feelings of excitement and longing for the preservation of the love conveyed.
To determine the accuracy of the statement ‘poets express ideas and feeling about love in different ways’ the two poems that are being analysed firstly need to be compared. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 uses iambic pentameter to develop a beat at which the poem is spoken where as Cilla McQueen’s Crikey uses no beat but runs as if it was being spoken in a conversation. It also uses colloquial language and Shakespeare uses more formal language however there is a significant time between when the poems where written. Both of the poems use versions of a volta around the middle of the poems to indicate a change in tone or idea. The statement is somewhat accurate as the poems have some common techniques that are used to express their ideas.
Shakespeare uses comparison to express the love he feels in Sonnet 18. He starts off by asking a rhetorical question to outline the theme of the poem ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ as Shakespeare compares her to summer he realises the faults it has. Personification is used to describe the faults of the sun ‘sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, and often his gold complexion dimmed.’ This shows that the sun can be too hot or covered by cloud. This technique is effective as it is as if he was comparing her to a real person that can be related to. At the end of the first eight lines of the poem a metaphor is used to relate natural aging to the sails of a boat ‘and every fair from fair sometime declines, by chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed.’ This technique is effective because to change the course of a boat the sails must be trimmed but the poem is saying that nature doesn’t change and everything must