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    ISSN 1799-2591 Theory and Practice in Language Studies‚ Vol. 1‚ No. 8‚ pp. 1011-1014‚ August 2011 © 2011 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland. doi:10.4304/tpls.1.8.1011-1014 Religious Belief in Sonnet 55 of Shakespeare Dingming Wang English Department‚ Literature and Law School of Sichuan Agricultural University‚ Ya’an‚ Sichuan Province‚ China Email: wangdingming@163.com Dini Zhang English Department‚ Literature and Law School of Sichuan Agricultural University‚ Ya’an‚ Sichuan Province

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    This poem‚ Sonnet 130 of Shakespeare’s Sonnets‚ serves to show that the accepted conventions of romantic poetry did not always accurately portray the feelings of love. The use of similes‚ metaphors and imagery contradict‚ in the most extreme ways‚ those rhetorical devices that are most often used in love poetry. Shakespeare backhanded romantic poetry and it made quite abang. “This poem became popular among the satirical poems of traditional love”(sparknote). To begin the poem Shakespeare references

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    The best way to tackle Sonnet 18 is by breaking up the Quatrains and the Couplet. The first thing to look at is the opening stanza: 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: The first thing to note is line one. It is a prompt. Looking at the sonnets in a bigger picture it is comprised into two sentences. Shakespeare asks us‚ and more reasonably‚ himself‚ if he shall

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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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    relationship. In “Sonnet 130”‚ William Shakespeare speaks about his mistress metaphorically‚ compares her to nature‚ and states how their love is different and rare. In “My Papa’s Waltz”‚ Theodore Roethke illustrates a father who is under the influences‚ dancing around the kitchen with his child‚ trying to dance his child to sleep. Therefore‚ Shakespeare and Roethke use diction‚ imagery‚ and detail to convey the complexities of power and their effect on the dynamics of relationships. In “Sonnet 130”‚ Shakespeare

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    The Holy Sonnets By making many references to the Bible‚ John Donne’s Holy Sonnets reveal his want to be accepted and forgiven by God. A fear of death without God’s forgiveness of sins is conveyed in these sonnets. Donne expresses extreme anxiety and fright that Satan has taken over his soul and God won’t forgive him for it or his sins. A central theme of healing and forgiveness imply that John Donne‚ however much he wrote about God and being holy‚ wasn’t such a holy man all

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    The Significance of Shakespeare’s Regards toward his Mistress in "Sonnet 130" "Sonnet 130" compares William Shakespeare’s mistress to typical‚ natural beauty; each time drawing attention to his mistress’ obvious imperfections. He addresses her as if she cannot compare to the ideal appearances women are expected to look like in that of the natural world. The comparisons Shakespeare addresses highlight aspects of nature‚ such as snow (3)or coral (2) yet; each comparison proves to be unflatteringly

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    Argumentative Rhetoric in Sonnet 116 “If this be error‚ and upon me proved‚ / I never writ‚ nor no man ever loved.” So reads the concluding couplet in Sonnet 116‚ one Shakespeare’s most well known‚ due to its idealistic depiction of love. Unlike‚ most couplets in sonnets‚ these lines give any indication of an overarching theme. Instead‚ it takes the form of a syllogism It is this assertion that Shakespeare refers to with his “this.” Often Shakespeare uses meter in this sonnet to convince audiences

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    man that he must perceive these things‚ and that his love must be strengthened by the knowledge that he will soon be parted from the speaker when the speaker‚ like the fire‚ is extinguished by time. Commentary Sonnet 73 takes up one of the most pressing issues of the first 126 sonnets‚ the speaker’s anxieties regarding what he perceives to be his advanced age‚ and develops the theme through a sequence of metaphors each implying something different. The first quatrain‚ which employs the metaphor

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    Comparison and Contrast: Football and basketball Sports have been played all over the world for hundreds of years. Football and basketball are two of the most common sports that are played in many parts of the world. Some of them are played individually‚ whereas others are played in teams against another team. Some of them are very popular and most sports provide many benefits to anyone who plays them. The best way the to select which of the two sports you should play is to know the characteristics

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