Epithalamion Stanzas 1 through 12 Epithalamion is an ode written by Edmund Spenser as a gift to his bride‚ Elizabeth Boyle‚ on their wedding day. The poem moves through the couples’ wedding day‚ from the groom’s impatient hours before dawn to the late hours of night after the husband and wife have consummated their marriage. Spenser is very methodical in his depiction of time as it passes‚ both in the accurate chronological sense and in the subjective sense of time as felt by those waiting in anticipation
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work best representation of Romanticism. At the age of 21‚ Keats gives up his pursuit to be a surgeon and starts to be a full-time poet. Keats change his occupation to be a poet after reading Edmund Spenser’s 16th-century epic poem The Faerie Queen‚ which leads Keats to write his poem Lines in Imitation of Spenser. Addition to Spenser’s work influencing Keats to be a poet‚ William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge influence Keats to change his style of writing to be more Romanticism. Keats’ tone
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Renaissance literature in the Early Modern English style appeared. William Shakespeare‚ whose works include Hamlet‚ Romeo and Juliet‚Macbeth‚ and A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ remains one of the most championed authors in English literature. Christopher Marlowe‚ Edmund Spenser‚ Philip Sydney‚ Thomas Kyd‚ John Donne‚ and Ben Jonsonare other established authors of the Elizabethan age. Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes wrote on empiricism and materialism‚ including scientific method and social contract. Filmer wrote on the Divine
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In Shakespeare’s sonnet 18‚ Edmund Spenser’s sonnet 75 and Elizabeth Barret Browning’s sonnet 43 a key idea encompassed through all of them is the theme of love‚ which is portrayed using an array of language features most commonly figurative language. Shakespeare uses Figurative language to help himself portray the theme of love in sonnet 18 . "Shall I compare thee to a summers day?" at the start of the sonnet he asks a rhetorical question too himself if he is able to compare the beauty of
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music and played the Lute - She also enjoyed dancing and watching plays - The arts flourished during Elizabeth’s time with the creation of works by Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe - Writers paid tribute to the queen in many literary forms - Edmund Spenser based the character Gloriana in the Faerie Queen on Elizabeth - Artists honoured her by painting her portrait - she was an early fashionista in many ways - She loved beautiful clothing and jewellery - Her clothes were made of gold
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Petrarchan sonnet (puh TRAHR kun) a fourteen line sonnet consisting of two parts: the octave‚ eight lines with the rhyme scheme abbaabba‚ and the sestet‚ six lines usually with the rhyme scheme cdecde the octave often poses a question or dilemma that the sestet answers or resolves‚ beginning with a turn‚ also known as a volta also referred to as an Italian sonnet Example: Whoso list to hunt‚ I know where is an hind! But as for me‚ alas‚ I may no more; The vain travail hath
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published. • She was the first woman to be published. Her book was also the American book of poems to be published. • After migrating to the Massachusetts Bay Colony‚ her husband became the governor. • Two poets that have influenced her writing are‚ Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney. • If you look to the right you can see a picture of her first book which was published in 1650. • Even though she was doing many chores and raising eight children‚ she filled any free time she had with writing. • Due to the
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device through which the speaker can better understand himself. Spenser similarly adapts the sonnet form to better suit his creative voice. He briefly entertains the Petrarchan trope of unrequited love though he soon rejects it‚ as in his collection Amoretti‚ which follows the speaker seducing and ultimately wedding his beloved. Further‚ his beloved sometimes has agency: she voices her concerns‚ or uses the speakers
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| | | | Page Back | | | Sonnets Index | William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day? | | | | | | | Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day? Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines‚ And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime
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The reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558 – 1603) is often referred to as the Elizabethan or “Golden Age” in English history. She was responsible for English exploration of the New World and the flourishing of the economy. The reign of Queen Elizabeth I was also noted for the English Renaissance. It was during this time period‚ that there was an outpour of poetry and drama. Her court became a center for poets‚ musicians‚ writers (including Shakespeare) and scholars. The Queen was very fond of Shakespeare’s
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