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    Sonnet 1 by Edmund Spenser and Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare differ greatly in form‚ tone‚ content‚ meaning‚ and persona. Shakespeare begins with a rather unflattering attribute; "My mistress’ are nothing like the sun" while Spenser‚ praises his love by wishing he were a book she was reading. Sonnet 1 by Spenser follows a rhyme scheme of his own devising (ababbcbccdcdee) that combines interwoven thoughts. In this sonnet he praises his wife’s beauty and attempts to flatter her through conveying

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    One: An Analysis of Sonnets 64 and 73 William Shakespeare is one of the greatest playwrights of all time. It is also important‚ however‚ to remember and to study his sonnets. The sonnets are separated into two groups‚ 1-126 and 127-54. All of them are love poems of some sort‚ whether addressed to a young man or the infamous "Dark Lady." It is important to compare and analyze the sonnets‚ and to see the similarities between them. The purpose of this essay is to compare sonnets 64 and 73‚ and show that

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    and Sonnets RL 2 Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text‚ including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text. RL 5 Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact. Sonnet 30 Sonnet 75 Poetry by Edmund Spenser Meet the Author Edmund Spenser

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    Analysis of Edmund Spenser’s Sonnet 75 This poem is one of the eighty-nine sonnets that Edmund Spenser wrote about his courtship and marriage with Elizabeth Boyle. By reading through some of them we can get a clear picture of what was their relationship like and how Spenser could put into verse his deep emotions that he cherished towards his wife. In this essay I will analyse this sonnet by examinig and interpreting its formal and contextual structure. First of all‚ I will analyse the formal structure

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    SONNET 34” by Edmund Spenser Sonnet 34‚ which is included in a collection of poems known as “Amoretti” by Edmund Spenser‚ was published in 1595. Throughout this poem the speaker expresses feelings of depression and anguish because of the loss of his beloved. However‚ he is not pessimistic at all since he knows that his love for her will bring him joy once more. This poem is a Spenserian sonnet which is composed of three quatrains and a final couplet. The rhyme pattern is abab bcbc cdcd ee written

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    Sonnet 30 by Edmund Spenser figurative devices theme My love is like to ice‚ and I to fire: simile comparing his love for her to fire‚ hers for him to ice How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire‚ But harder grows the more I her entreat? Rhetorical question relating to her increasing coldness towards him the more he desires her Or how comes it that my exceeding heat Is not

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    Ashley-Anna Aboreden AP English Language and Composition Teacher: Dr. Stobaugh September 23‚ 2014 The Theme in Edmund Spenser’s "Sonnet 26" "So every sweet with sour is tempered still‚ / That maketh it be coveted the more." (Spenser‚ "Sonnet 26"‚ lines 11-12). In Edmund Spenser’s "Sonnet 26"‚ Spenser emphasized the notion that life is made sweeter by some kind of pain or obstacle. He recorded several beautiful flowers to evidence this notion. He then used this list of flowers to express that

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    Ruth Baez AP/UCONN English Mr. Dodge February 5‚ 2009 The Mortality of Marriage Edmund Spenser’s “Sonnet 75” is an epithalamium regarding the mortality of marriage. The speaker acts upon his lust‚ flattering his lover with bribery and continuously asking her to marry him. The poem implies marriage in the third line‚ with the word “hand‚” because it is a synecdoche to marriage. His lover responds with the statement “taking a mortal thing [marriage] so to immortalize [her name]” is senseless

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    impossible to achieve‚ it is in fact a very possible thing through literature. In Sonnet 75 by Edmund Spenser‚ the speaker tells a brief tale about himself and his mistress‚ debating about mortality one day at the beach. In Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare‚ the persona is speaking to his lover via the poem; he compliments him and states that his beauty will live on forever through this poem. Sonnet 75 by Spenser and Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare are similar due to the fact that they both incorporate the idea

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    There are many similarities and differences between the two poems‚ “I… and your eyes” and Mary Wroth’s sonnet 64. The major theme in both poems is distinguished upon eyes. In the first poem‚ the author discussed a desire for eyes. The second poem‚ on the other hand‚ explains the significance for eyes. Both poems are written in two different styles of writing. Notably‚ both poems are alike because they contain a message about eyes; however‚ they differ in their reasoning for eyes while containing

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