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    Sonnet 138

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    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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    Sociological Reactions to HIV/AIDS in the 80’s90s and new Millennium In the early stages of identifying HIV‚ it was first believed that only certain individuals were able to become infected. This group was known as the 4-H group: homosexuals‚ hemophiliacs‚ heroin addicts and Haitians. The stigma of HIV was that it infected people with promiscuous or unclean ways. Jerry Falwell‚ a televangelist‚ fundamentalist Southern Baptist pastor and conservative cofounder of the Moral Majority‚ became a

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    Analysis of Sonnet” An introduction should keep a reader’s attention for more than one sentence‚ hopefully. It should aim to have more sentences than the amount of letters in “should.” It should explain in a paragraph a brief summary of what’s to come. It should…shouldn’t it? In the same way an introduction can be referenced sarcastically‚ Billy Collins uses several techniques to mock sonnets. In “Sonnet” Billy Collins uses speaker‚ external form and tone to mock the traditional sonnets. The speaker

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    Sonnet 18

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    Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day main theme Shakespeare asks‚ Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? in his famous love poem. In Sonnet 18 he praises his lover’s beauty in such an astonishing way that makes you want to be the person he is in love with. On the other hand he is aware of the fact that beauty is not everlasting and he is bewildered by the idea. So he tries to find a way to make her beauty eternal and resolves in dedicating this poem to her. Therefore the main theme in the

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    Winter sonnet

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    Winter sonnet 3 areas‚ build to TWIST‚ don’t make obvious what the couplet will “resolve” or conclude or point out! I enclosed some specific negatives for reference‚ but frankly‚ I wouldn’t go there; I wouldn’t mention much in the way of negatives; I would just talk about the activities in each setting and how good they feel>>>> and then highlight how even as good as they are‚ that the whole of them together in the winter season is more than simply the sum of their parts; it’s the combination

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    In "Cousin Kate"‚ Rossetti gives messages about an abuse of power. The "Lord" "lured" the narrator to his "palace home". The word "lured" is very ominous and enforces the idea that he is a figure with authority. He manages to seduce the narrator with his flattery‚ and then enthrals her like a predator with his prey. The Lord has a high social standing which explains how he "wore" the "cottage maiden" like a "silken knot". The narrator felt inferior to the Lord‚ therefore she allows him to abuse her

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    Edmund Spenser's Sonnet 75

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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 116 Analysis

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    EARLY RENAISSANCE POETRY: THE POEMS Source Text: Ferguson‚ Margaret‚ et al (eds). The Norton Anthology of Poetry. Fifth Edition. New York: W.W. Norton‚ 2005. 1 Thomas Wyatt 1503 – 1542 The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor1 The long˚ love‚ that in my thought doth harbour‚˚ enduring/lodge And in mine heart doth keep his residence‚ Into my face presseth with bold pretence‚ And therein campeth‚ spreading his banner.2 She that me learneth˚

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    follows the tradition of the poet Petrarch‚ whose sonnets dealt with a wooing male lover. Petrarch arranged his sonnets into ‘sonnet consequences’ or ‘sonnet cycles’‚ in which series of sonnets were linked together by a common theme based on the various aspects of the lover’s relationship. Spencer also arranged his ‘Amoretti’ in ‘sonnet sequences’. Spencer himself evolved his own structure for the English sonnet which has come to be known as the Spenserian sonnet. It had the same three quatrains but

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    Sonnet 116 “Let me not to marriage” This Poem by William Shakespeare talks about the immortal beauty of his beloved against the destruction caused by time. In the first line of the poem he propagates the union between two minds which is another different representation of love. In this poem Shakespeare talks about true love which in the poem is treated as a centre which the poet and his poetry orbit. “ It is an ever fixed mark” ‚ He refers to the solidity and steadfastness and the permanent centre

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