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    Sonnet CXXX” is a spoof of the typical love sonnets written by Shakespeare’s contemporaries. It ridicules the senseless depictions that poets gave their lovers whereas in comparison the speaker in “Sonnet CXXX‚” illustrates his mistress with honest comments. These remarks declare her “true” character and show the speaker’s absolute and total adoration for her because of it. As the poem opens‚ in the first quatrain‚ we are introduced to the narrator’s‚ “I”‚ “mistress.” This term however‚ is not

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    Sonnet 130 Shakespeare

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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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    Block - H 11 January 2010 Analysis for Shakespeare’s Sonnets Two and Three Sonnet 2... In Shakespeare’s Sonnet II‚ the sonnet progresses from a gentle warning‚ to a more stern threat by the end of the poem. In the first stanza‚ Shakespeare says that in forty years when the man is all wrinkled‚ the beauty of his youth will mean nothing. But if he has a child‚ then the legacy of his beauty will live on forever. In the second stanza‚ Shakespeare says that the man will hate himself if he does not have

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    Shakespeare’s Sonnet 152 “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” The famous opening line of Shakespeare’s eighteenth sonnet still resounds in today’s educational setting. Little do many students know that William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets; all of them in the same format. Going through many of Shakespeare’s sonnets‚ a recurring theme of forbidden and secret love appeared. In his Sonnet 152‚ Shakespeare desperately pleads with an unknown love about their hidden love and how it affects their

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    Sonnets are rhymed poems consisting of fourteen lines‚ it is divided into two different lines‚ the first eight lines making up the octet and the other last six lines being the sestet. The Shakespearean sonnet however differs from the Petrarchian sonnets and the Spenserian sonnet‚ it ends with a rhymed couplet and follows the rhyme scheme. Therefore‚ the octet and sestet structure can be unconventionally divided into three quatrains with alternating rhymes concluding in a rhymed couplet. Till present

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    chc A TERM PAPER IN THE ENGLISH LITERATURE I. POEM ANALYSIS: Sonnet 41 by Shakespeare 1. Persona- The poem is about a youth and her personality. The youth is identified as young and beautiful and her beauty (or pleasing personality) ---as in‚ “Beauteous thou art”--- makes her susceptible to temptations thus‚ causing him to commit sins. The persona could be the poet himself accusing a beloved girl for her mistakes in life which are really expected. 2. Addressee- The persona is addressing

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    Sonnet 18 vs. Sonnet 130 Although sonnets 18 and 130‚ two of the most famous sonnets William Shakespeare ever wrote‚ tell about the speaker’s lover‚ they have contrasting personalities. The two sonnets are written and addressed to the poet’s lover. Throughout Sonnet 18 the lines are devoted to comparisons such as "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day."� This opening line refers to a beloved man as being greater than something beautiful in nature. The speaker goes on to say‚ "more lovely and more

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    A sonnet is a poem explaining a single idea‚ and usually contains 14 lines. They usually follow the rule of Iambic Pentameter while using any type of rhyming scheme. Shakespeare composed over 150 sonnets during his life and all of his sonnets appeared in a collection called “SHAKE-SPEARS SONNETS” in 1609. Shakespeare’s sonnets consist of three quatrains and are finished off with a couplet. Around the third quatrain his sonnets take a turn‚ which is when the mood of the poem changes for the better

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    me not to the marriage of true minds’ (sonnet 116) by William Shakespeare (1609) This poem is called ’let me not to the marriage of true minds’ and it’s written by William Shakespeare. It was first published in 1609. This sonnet is one of Shakespeare’s most famous love sonnets. William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright. He is often called England’s national poet and the ’Bard of Avon’. His surviving work consists of 38 plays‚ 154 sonnets‚ 2 long narrative poems and several other

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    Sonnet 109 What is love? Is there a true definition of it? A dictionary says love is an intense affection for another arising out of kinship or personal use. A symbol to represent love would be a heart between two lovers of any race‚ gender‚ and age. A song to introduce love would be numerous due that many song-writers write love songs. A poet might say love is just love. In this sonnet of William Shakespeare‚ he is deeply in love. He cannot do anything without her. So therefore‚ I believe William

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