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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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    Nature in Shakespeare’s Sonnets In Shakespeare’s fair youth Sonnets‚ the speaker uses imagery and metaphors from nature to describe man’s life cycle. While reading the Sonnets‚ it may seem at first that the main point of the Sonnets is that life’s purpose is to reproduce. However‚ after reading the fair youth Sonnets‚ it becomes clear that imagery from nature is used to prove that death is inevitable and should be accepted. The fair youth Sonnets are ordered in a specific way to resemble the

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    introduced to Dante’s best friend Guido Cavalcanti in The Vita Nuova in the XXIV Chapter dedicated to Guido Cavalcanti. Dante believes here that Guido’s heart “[is] still marvelled at the beauty of this gentile Primavera [(Beatrice])” (Vita Nuova 759). The Sonnet for Guido reveals their “brotherly” love towards each other and the support they confined within each other’s lives. The “gaze” is quite proven by Dante’s summary of his own work following the poem‚ where he explains in warm-heartedness the “[happiness]

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    than what first meets the eye is what writers are trending towards. Authors like William Williams paved the way for communication using less words back in 1923. The use of words in poems can sometimes go overboard‚ but the authors of “Dog Haiku”‚ “Sonnet 18”‚ and “This is Just to Say”‚ to name a few‚ take a stand writing short poems that still express their deep thoughts. Sometimes short and sweet is the way to write.

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    The Sonnet Form and its Meaning: Shakespeare Sonnet 65 The sonnet‚ being one of the most traditional and recognized forms of poetry‚ has been used and altered in many time periods by writers to convey different messages to the audience. The strict constraints of the form have often been used to parallel the subject in the poem. Many times‚ the first three quatrains introduce the subject and build on one another‚ showing progression in the poem. The final couplet brings closure to the poem by

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    Sonnet 138

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    Sonnet 138 Analysis In “When my love swears that she is made of truth‚” William Shakespeare uses personification‚ pun‚ and tone to unmask the fear that the speaker feels towards his age. The author personifies the speaker’s mentality as a woman to identify his uneasiness towards old age. The speaker’s mentality is referred to as woman because women are always self conscious of their age: “And wherefore say not I that I am old?” (line 10). The speaker can’t admit that he is old. That is why his

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    Sonnet Analysis-Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare I will be writing about “Sonnet 130” that was written in 1609 by William Shakespeare. The theme of this sonnet is romance‚ but it isn’t the conventional love poem were you praise your mistress and point out to the readers all the ways in which she is perfect and the best. In this sonnet we could see that beauty isn’t a rush when you talk about love and how does Shakespeare compares her mistress appearance to things which she isn’t‚ this means her

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    Sonnet 18

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    Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day main theme Shakespeare asks‚ Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? in his famous love poem. In Sonnet 18 he praises his lover’s beauty in such an astonishing way that makes you want to be the person he is in love with. On the other hand he is aware of the fact that beauty is not everlasting and he is bewildered by the idea. So he tries to find a way to make her beauty eternal and resolves in dedicating this poem to her. Therefore the main theme in the

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    Winter sonnet 3 areas‚ build to TWIST‚ don’t make obvious what the couplet will “resolve” or conclude or point out! I enclosed some specific negatives for reference‚ but frankly‚ I wouldn’t go there; I wouldn’t mention much in the way of negatives; I would just talk about the activities in each setting and how good they feel>>>> and then highlight how even as good as they are‚ that the whole of them together in the winter season is more than simply the sum of their parts; it’s the combination

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    Irving Diaz CP English Per. 5 Mrs. Feuerborn February 2‚ 2012 Shakespeare’s Love In his sonnet William Shakespeare uses extended metaphors‚ symbolism‚ and rhyme pattern to both compare a young woman’s beauty to summer and show that her beauty will live on throughout his poem‚ thus death would truly mean nothing in writing. He develops the characteristics of the women by drawing comparisons between her and summer using the extended metaphor implying that even though she is comparable to summer

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