Assignment 01: Poetry (Seasons Come to Pass) William Shakespeare My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun 1. The poem is written in iambic pentameter with an abab cdcd efef gg rhyming scheme. My mistress ’ eyes are nothing like the sun; a Coral is far more red than her lips ’ red; b If snow be white‚ why then her breasts are dun; a If hairs be wires‚ black wires grow on her head. b I have seen roses damasked‚ red and white‚ c But no such roses see I in her cheeks; d And in
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Proffitt ENG 243 Phil Ferguson 11-17-14 Sonnet 130 William Shakespeare’s 130th sonnet is perhaps the most intriguing and conceptually bizarre. The majority of his sonnets on the subject of women detail how lovely and fair they are‚ or how he is unable to serenade them (often because of a superior man); this particular example is an utter contradiction to his other female-based works. The central idea of the speaker here is to describe the appearance of his love interest to someone else‚ in the most
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SONNET 146 Poor soul‚ the center of my sinful earth‚ Lord of these rebel powers that thee array‚ Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth‚ Painting thy outward walls so costly gay? Why so large cost‚ having so short a lease‚ Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shall worms‚ inheritors of this excess‚ Eat up thy charge? is this thy body’s end? Then soul‚ live thou upon thy servant’s loss‚ And let that pine to aggravate thy store; Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
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It never ends. Some people are predators and she happens to be the prey. According to lines twelve through fourteen‚ young girls are expected to "play coy‚ exhorted to come on hearty‚ exercise‚ diet‚ smile and wheedle” (Piercy 624). Why must they do that? Who is to say how a woman should behave? Living in a patriarchal world‚ most women strive for the ideal look in order to please men. Since the 1970’s
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John Coy has successfully managed to write a story explaining how the struggle of being the best on a sports team and having a hard life at home will begin to effect you and the measures you will go through to retain your status. Crackback‚ by John Coy‚ is a very realistic book about the struggles of an average teenage boy named Miles Manning. The American author‚ who mostly focused on sports fiction‚ once again entertained us with this tale of Miles’ home and social life. From this story‚ we can
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Sonnet 138 In sonnet 138‚ the poem uses ambiguous dictation (when both meanings of a word make sense). In order to understand the poem we have to base it on our own experiences and interpretations. The poem lets us know that both lovers lie to one another but in different ways. They both lie to each other ‚ they know it but don’t want to accept it or believe. Throughout the poem we see double meaning of "lies". Shakespeare is attentive that his love is not a perfect but
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Shakespeare’s view on love is; it’s something which is unalterable and lasts forever. Shakespeare describes love as timeless‚ constant and no matter what comes your way it will never affect the way you feel about that one special person. “Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks‚ but bears it out even to the edge of doom.” suggests the lovers will love each other forever and even when death parts them‚ they will continue to love one another in the afterlife. Love is likened to light‚ the metaphor “It
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the English Sonnet or The Corruption of the Italian Sonnet Petrarch (Francesco Petrarcha) (1304-1374): The Petrarchan Sonnet Background: • Wrote a collection called variously Canzoniere (canzone means song)‚ Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (Fragments of vernacular things)‚ or Rime Sparse (Scattered Rhymes) • Considered the Father of the sonnet‚ from Ital. sonetto‚ meaning a little song or sound • Wrote a volume containing 366 poems in the Tuscan vernacular; 317 of which are sonnets • Divided
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Sonnet 55 Name- Ishita Trivedi Grade – 10M Subject – English Mar’s favourite Rhyme Written by William Shakespeare the renowned “Sonnet 55” is a lyrical poem that effectively states his idea of immortality. Throughout the three quatrains Shakespeare portrays the subject and certain aspects of the theme as stated in the couplet. The profound theme that the poet explores is the mightiness of words over time. The persona addresses his beloved‚ recounting how her beauty shall live on till
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Direksyon 1. Sino ang director? 2. Maayos ba ang pagkakabuo ng pelikula? SAGOT: 1. Olivia Lamasan. Si Olivia Lamasan ay isang director at prodyuser. Natapos siya sa kursong Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts sa Maryknoll College. Hanggang ngayon ay isa parin siya sa mga award winning director at prodyuser. Writer: * Milan (2004) * Got 2 Believe (2002) -- screenplay * Minsan‚ Minahal Kita (2000) -- screenplay‚ story * Madrasta (a.k.a. The Stepmother) (1996)
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