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    It’s very clear throughout the poem what Shakespeare’s view on love is; it’s something which is unalterable and lasts forever. Shakespeare describes love as timeless‚ constant and no matter what comes your way it will never affect the way you feel about that one special person. “Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks‚ but bears it out even to the edge of doom.” suggests the lovers will love each other forever and even when death parts them‚ they will continue to love one another in the afterlife

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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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    The Lotus

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    poems have an Indian theme and an Indian background. The poem‚ ‘The Lotus’ is a sonnet in the Petrarchan type. Toru Dutt’s mastery over the sonnet form is proved in this poem. The sonnet is divided into two divisions‚ the Octave and the Sestet. The octave consists of eight lines and the sestet consists of six lines. A sonnet deals with a single idea‚ the octave proposing and the sestet resolving. Within 14 lines of the sonnet‚ Toru Dutt raises a problem in the Octave and resolves it in the sestet. In

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    The waste of time

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    Sonnet 18 Explication Sonnet 18 is a typical Shakespearean sonnet that hardly departs from the “classic” rules of an English sonnet. It has fourteen lines in a simple iambic pentameter; although‚ there are a few strong first syllables in the poem and some lines have eleven syllables instead of just ten. None of the lines flow into the next one. All of them have a distinct stopping place except that of line 9 (as far as punctuation goes.) There are three quatrains in the poem‚ the third one changes

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    Chaos in Fourteen Lines

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    elements that actually illustrate chaos in the poem. Structurally‚ there isn’t anything chaotic about the poem. The sonnet is broken down into two parts: an octave followed by a sestet that resolves the issue at hand. However‚ the last two lines in the sonnet can be interpreted as an unrhymed couplet‚ contributing to the "chaos" that Millay claimed to trap. The order of the sonnet is in Yang 2 the rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA CDCDCD‚ which is classically Italian in terms of rhyming pattern

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    Astrophil and Stella

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    English Literature and Culture I Noémi Najbauer 14 03 2009 Astrophil and Stella - Sonnet 1 Sir Philip Sydney was one of the greatest poets of the Elizabethan age. Astrophil and Stella‚ the first sonnet of the Astrophil and Stella sequence‚ which containes 108 sonnets and 11 songs‚ was written in the 1580s. The word ‘‘sonnet’’ comes from the Italian ‘‘sonetto’’ word‚ which means little song. As a genre‚ sonnet can be defined as a fourteen-lined lyric poem‚ written in iambic pentameter. It means

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    Those Winter Sundays

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    However we learn that the child‚ who is now an adult looking back on these events‚ now acknowledges the hard work and compassionate deeds of the father. The poems structure‚ a sonnet‚ allows readers to learn about the dynamic relationship between the father and child. Because the poem is a sonnet it only furthers the argument that it is a love poem. Hayden used his own personal experience as inspiration as he had an estranged relationship with both his foster parents but was specifically

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    entertains multiple themes throughout his sonnet collection and portays an overarching theme of love. Sir Philip Sydney’s difficulties with love are shown in his collection of sonnets “Astrophil and Stella”. Both poets discuss the complications with love and the desire it creates. For example‚ in sonnet 1 Sydney has trouble conveying his love but hopes that through these sonnets she (Stella) will understand. Shakespeare’s sonnet 129 as well as Sydney sonnet 109 both mention the reason for their hardships

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