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    Constancy in Literature

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    courteous‚ and excelled in court/knightly behavior as seen in several books of Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. The ideal woman’s virtues were patience‚ humility‚ chastity and above all‚ constancy. Constancy is the overwhelming theme in Lady Mary Wroth’s sonnet sequence‚ Pamphilia to Amphilanthus. Pamphilia is overcome with love for Amphilanthus‚ but his inconstancy is what grieves her the most. She is lost in a world of pleasure and pain where Amphilanthus is the creator of both emotions. Her most hopeful

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    Sidney In his sonnet‚ “Astrophil and Stella”‚ Sir Phillip Sidney attempts to break free of the conventional displays of love while still maintaining a conventional sonnet form to represent that love does not follow any “rules”. The poem itself is a metaphor of love‚ infused with drama and passion that ultimately ruins the relationship. However‚ to stay within the confines of a sonnet from allows love‚ an uncontrollable force‚ to be controlled. Sidney wants to follow the form of a sonnet‚ but he makes

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    SONNET 18 PARAPHRASE Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Shall I compare you to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: You are more lovely and more constant: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ Rough winds shake the beloved buds of May And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: And summer is far too short: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines‚ At times the sun is too hot‚ And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; Or often goes behind the clouds;

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    DRAMA >.a composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict or contrast of character‚ especially one intended to be acted on the stage; a play. >.the branch of literature having such compositions as its subject; dramatic art or representation. >.the art dealing with the writing and production of plays. >.any situation or series of events having vivid‚ emotional‚ conflicting‚ or striking interest or results: the drama of a murder trial . 1. a

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    one discussed will be the sonnet. According to the author of our text‚ “Lyric poetry is more subjective than narrative poetry. Usually brief‚ a lyric poem expresses a poet’s thoughts and imagination. Its melody and emotion create a dominant‚ unified impression” (Clugston‚ 2010). The classic poem “On His Blindness” by John Milton (1655) is an explicitly religious autobiographical sonnet of John Milton describing his complete blindness by the age of 44. The theme of the sonnet is acceptance and submission

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    naturalized values of his or her culture. In her two sonnets‚ In the Park‚ and Suburban Sonnet: Boxing Day‚ the Australian poet Gwen Harwood uses the generic conventions of poetry to construct a central persona who‚ through their voice‚ conveys the social expectations of women in 1950s suburban Australia. Both sonnets centre on a mother dealing with the everyday challenges of motherhood and through the use of the poetic techniques of the sonnet form‚ imagery‚ irony‚ tone and symbolism‚ socially define

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    metaphors‚ similes‚ personification‚ allusion‚ etc. The poems‚ Sonnet 29 written by Edna St. Vincent Millay‚ and Sonnet 43 written by Elizabeth Barret Browning‚ are both very different from each other as they both are conveying different messages. Sonnet 29 talks about the reality of love which is it is difficult to stick with one person‚ where as Sonnet 43 talks about how love is necessity in life and how much you love it. Sonnet 43 and Sonnet 29 are very different from each other in terms of the theme

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    Claude Mckay America

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    community‚ who did not have one. “America” by Claude McKay is a sonnet that does not explore the meaning of love like traditional sonnets do‚ but instead McKay uses the form of a sonnet to express the rage and frustration the African Americans were feeling during that time period. A sonnet is one of the oldest forms of poetry‚ a classic. It follows a set of rules: fourteen lines‚ iambic pentameter‚ and end-rhyme scheme‚ that make a poem a sonnet which the poem “America” decides not follow strictly. Even

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    land‚” is a pick-up line and in Romeo and Juliet‚ a tragic play by William Shakespeare‚ Romeo used a pick-up line in order to get his objective through to kiss Juliet. The conversation Romeo and Juliet had‚ was written by Shakespeare in the form of a sonnet‚ a 14-line poem usually containing one of several conventional rhyme schemes. To describe this romantic‚ somewhat intimate first encounter between Romeo and Juliet‚ Shakespeare used a rhyme scheme‚ metaphors‚ and imagery. The love that began during

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    Elizabethan Sonneteers

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    literary genres the sonnet in England was imported from abroad. Most probably it was originated in Italy in the 13th century with Dante who wrote a number of sonnets to his beloved named Beatrice. A sonnet is according to M.H. Abrahm‚ “A lyric poem of fourteen lines that has a specific rhyme scheme written in iambic pentameter.” The flowering of the sonnet came with Petrarch‚ a generation later. It was Wyatt who introduced the sonnet in England. He wrote much earlier but his sonnets were published in

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