1. Contributions of William Shakespeare to English Literature William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright‚ widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s preeminent dramatist. His surviving works consist of 38 plays‚ 154 sonnets‚ two long narrative poems‚ and several shorter poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. William Shakespeare’s influence extends from theatre
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Holy Sonnet 10 Although Elizabethan times are characterized by romantic and highly ornamented poetry devoted to the exploration of the human feelings‚ there was also a group of bold poets in the 17th Century who took their words to a rather analytical side of the abstracts aspects of life. John Donne‚ one of Metaphysical Poetry’s main figures‚ stands out for his choice of simple words to approach more complex themes of life. In ‘‘Holy Sonnet 10’’‚ Donne brings Death to human level in which he
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Critical analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 compares the speaker’s lover to a number of other beauties—and never in the lover’s favor. Her eyes are “nothing like the sun‚” her lips are less red than coral; compared to white snow‚ her breasts are dun-colored‚ and her hairs are like black wires on her head. In the second quatrain‚ the speaker says he has seen roses separated by color (“damasked”) into red and white‚ but he sees no such roses in his mistress’s cheeks; and
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WebQuest: Searching for Sonnet 116 INTRODUCTION It’s confusing‚ reading. Especially poetry. Except when it’s not. Sometimes we can just let poetry wash over us as we float in the words‚ the ebb and flow of the meter and the rhyme syncing with our heartbeat. But other times‚ we get stuck. We wonder. Then we ... check out‚ right? It’s just too hard. I mean‚ really‚ when you get lost‚ you get out your GPS on your phone. What’s all this about stars and astrolabes and barks? But wait -- I know you
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venerated poets of the Victorian era. Browning’s muse for writing sonnets was her undying love for Robert Browning in spite of her father’s disapproval. Standard sonnet form consists of 14 lines written in iambic pentameter. Elizabeth Barrett Browning works within the standard Italian sonnet tradition by using diction to create shifts throughout her sonnets from Sonnets of the Portuguese to reveal her thoughts regarding love. Sonnet 1 contrasts the optimistic beliefs of Theocritus‚ an ancient Greek
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Love and Lust in Shakespeare’ sonnets Shakespeare’ sonnets are on a variety of themes such as time‚ love‚ gender‚ politics‚ sexuality‚ law‚ methaphysics and many others. They express strong feelings and strong arguments. However shakespeare struggle with love and lust is evident in his sonnets. Troughout the reading of Shakespeare’ sonnets I can persieve that he is a profound admirer of beuty; and he persieves beuty of different ways. There are some kinds of beuty that he considers good
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William Shakespeare shows in all his writing how talented he is. William Shakespeare shows many differences and similarities in both sonnets 116 and 130. However‚ his theory is that love is a true bond that two companions possess as rare. Even though he wasn’t a hopeless romantic‚ he does show a slight softer side in a lot of his work. Most people might feel like a lot of his work is hard to read it’s easy to pick up the similarities his work shares. In his sonnets he has some resemblances
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Sonnet 13 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning says that the beloved wants the speaker to tell him of her love for him‚ but she is hesitant because she is afraid that she cannot appropriately relay her sentiments. The speaker first compares herself attempting to express her love for her beloved as holding “a torch out‚ while the winds are rough” because she believes that there is risk in conveying her emotions. She then states that she drops the torch “at thy feet” because although her beloved wishes for
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Shakespeare is expressing‚ though not in the first person‚ that he knows women are not the perfect beauties they are portrayed to be and that we should love them anyway. He uses two types of descriptions‚ one of their physical beauty and the other of their characteristics to make fun of all those romantic’ poets trying to brown nose’ the girls they like. One of the physical attributes‚ in the first quatrain‚ that he mentions is his "mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun‚" meaning she has no
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1 Shanahan In the poems the “Holy Sonnet IV” and the “Holy Sonnet VII”‚ the writer John Donne accepts the theme of death and understands that death doesn’t wait for anyone. The similarities in each poem’s theme of accepting death are very alike due to John Donne’s morals that one must repent and go through death to reach an eternal life. In the “Holy Sonnet VI”‚ Donne contrasts life and death. In the first cinquain the speaker explains how life is coming to an end by stating that this is “My spans
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