Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnet 1 Theme: Unexpectedness of love Falling in love with Robert and his returning of her love came as a great surprise to Elizabeth‚ considering past her circumstances. Analysis: Reworks the traditional sonnet sequence by transforming gender roles. She utilises the female voice instead of the traditional male voice. She assumes the role of epic hero. She adopts the petrachan sonnet style. The octet’s strict rhyming pattern reflects how she feels her life
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William Shakespeare—Sonnets The first 17 poems of Shakespeare’s sonnets are addressed to a young man urging him to marry and have children in order to immortalize his beauty by passing it to the next generation. The subsequent sonnets (18 to 126) express the speaker’s love for a young man; brood upon loneliness‚ death‚ and the transience of life. The remaining sonnets (127 to 152) focus on Dark Lady. Dark Lady sonnets are about desire and lust. In this paper‚ I will discuss how William Shakespeare’s
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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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Shakespearean Sonnet 15 Explication A Shakespearean sonnet consists of fourteen lines‚ each line containing ten syllables written in iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter is a pattern in which a deemphasized syllable follows an emphasized syllable; this pattern repeats five times per line. The rhyme scheme in Shakespearean sonnets is a-b-a-b‚ c-d-c-d‚ e-f-e-f‚ g-g; the last two lines are a rhyming couplet. Shakespeare’s fifteenth sonnet‚ a procreation sonnet addressed to a young man‚ is a
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The “Virtuous” Mind Sonnet Comparison Essay William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser are two of the most prolific poets of their time. Both support a different vantage point on the way a woman should behave and the way love should be. At the time‚ love was conventionally defined as a woman who knew her place and was pure. However‚ there were women who spoke their minds and talked out of turn. They were considered to be shrews. Shrews were not married‚ and if they were‚ the person who married them
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Paul Fussell begins the chapter by stating any poems two kinds of basic organization. The poem may either be stichic or strophic; in a stichic arrangement‚ line follows line without any formal or mathematical grouping of the lines into stanzas. In strophic organization‚ the lines are arranged in stanzas of varying degrees of logical complexity. A compromise between these two can be found in heroic couplets‚ which are best thought of as stichic‚ with a line of twenty‚ rather than ten syllables. Stichic
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Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 20’ This sonnet has been the subject of much debate as academics theorise for and against the possible homosexuality of Shakespeare‚ as per the sexual connotations present in the sonnet and the way Shakespeare plays with gender. However‚ the way in which one interprets poems of any kind is highly subjective. Consider‚ for instance‚ a poem on love: the poet cannot be claimed as being an expert on love and its merits‚ and oftentimes a poem is not necessarily based on a personal
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Sonnet 129 is an interesting poem in Shakespeare’s set of sonnets‚ supposedly‚ addressed to his dark mistress. This sonnet is full figurative language and other poetic devices that let the reader know exactly how the poet feels about the emotions and dangers associated with lust. He also uses interesting punctuation choices that create the flow and tone of the poem. As the readers‚ we do not know who this poem is addressed to due to the lack of thou‚ he‚ or she in the poem. It does seem to be describing
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Abernathy British Literature‚ 4th Due: 23 April 2012 Time in “Sonnet 19” In the equation of life‚ Time has always been an independent variable. Time cannot be slowed‚ lengthened‚ nor controlled in any manner. However‚ Time has control over all things. Time leaves its mark everywhere; whether it is in nature with the seasons changing or the aging of an animal. How one accepts its results is one’s own choice. In William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 19” Time is shown deteriorating the strongest beings in nature
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Sonnets 50 and 51 paired together depict a theme of travel. Specifically‚ the speakers travels on horseback. These travels cause him great despair because he is leaving behind his beloved young man. Shakespeare begins the poem with “How heavy do I journey on the way”. Heavy is describing the emotional burden he feels as he reluctanly leaves his friend. As the sonnet continues‚ the speakers feelings of misery become greater. Consequently‚ he draws an analogy between himself and the horse
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