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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Ashley Rodriguez AP Literature Sonnet 138 In sonnet 138‚ the poem uses ambiguous dictation (when both meanings of a word make sense). In order to understand the poem we have to base it on our own experiences and interpretations. The poem lets us know that both lovers lie to one another but in different ways. They both lie to each other ‚ they know it but don’t want to accept it or believe. Throughout the poem we see double meaning
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Shakespeare in his 12th sonnet talks about his experience and fading beauty. The purpose of this poem is to encourage a young man to not lose his beauty to the ravages of time. In order to do this‚ one must reproduce so beauty will live. In the first quatrain‚ Shakespeare begins his meditation on the process of decay. He begins the poem with "I"‚ which signals that Shakespeare will later give his own experience and account. The first object presented in this sonnet is a clock‚ which is to
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Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti chronicles his courtship with his wife Elizabeth Boyle. It was originally published in 1595 and loosely follows the Petrarchan sonnet model. Petrarch wrote his sonnets about women that he would never be able to obtain‚ while Spenser wrote about a single woman whom he did marry. Sonnet 34 appears to describe a break in Spenser’s relationship with Elizabeth; it seems like they had a fight and Spenser is biding his time until she forgives him. Spenser uses the analogy of a
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In this Picasso painting‚ he uses sharp contrast. It portrays a woman who looks to be suffering. The artwork is distorted so the observer has to piece together the “puzzle” in some areas. The woman is covering her mouth with her hands while tears pour down her face. The color scheme in this painting is very simplistic. Picasso makes the colors contrast and stand out so the viewer can see what exactly is going on. For example he uses the blue to show that she is crying. Without the solid blue‚ the
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born: the sonnet. Known as a “little song” (Sayre 2015‚ 648)‚ the sonnet comprises of two types: Italian (Petrarchan) and English (Shakespearean). The English sonnet was standardized by William Shakespeare in which the format consists of three quatrains‚ an ending couplet‚ and iambic pentameter. This standardization also occurs in his reoccurring attempt at the opposition of the conventional theme of chivalrous love in poetry. Though one sonnet in particular defies this ideal: Sonnet 18. Sonnet 18 was
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values on that time led many of nineteenth century poets to write a sonnets which wishes the rebirth of famous English poet Milton and Milton soul to save this values and protect them from the vital concerns that Milton gave it before he died‚ those poets like Shelly‚ Wordsworth and other poets wrote according to them direction on the exploration of one’s identity and the declaration of political democracy‚ Shelley’s wrote the sonnets ’England in 1819’ and ’Ozymandias’ against the political despotism
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Sonnet CXXX is yet another love sonnet that’s Shakespeare has written although it’s a pleasure to read for its simplicity and frankness of expression. Its message is simple and direct which is the dark lady’s beauty cannot be compared to the beauty of a goddess or to that found in nature‚ for she is but a mortal human being This is what made the poem memorable and famous which is for its blunt but charming sincerity. "I grant I never saw a goddess go; / My mistress‚ when she walks‚ treads on the
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Edmund Spenser Sonnet 30 (Fire and Ice) ! My love is like to ice‚ and I to fire: a how comes it then that this her cold so great b is not dissolv’d through my so hot desire‚ a but harder grows‚ the more I her entreat? b ! Or how comes it that my exceeding heat c is not delayed by her heart frozen cold‚ d but that I burn much more in boiling sweat‚ c and feel my flames augmented manifold? d ! What more miraculous thing may be told e that fire‚ which all thing melts
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last for eternity? I believe it can‚ and this is the concept Elizabeth Barrett Browning questions in her poem ‘Sonnet 14’. The idea that to be human is to experience the paradox of love and war is also explored in this poem. Barrett Browning delves deeply into the love side of this statement‚ although it is clear the persona is also undergoing an internal battle. The octet in ‘Sonnet 14’ describes the qualities that will fade over time‚ such as her smile‚ her looks and her voice. Her beauty and
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