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    In “Sonnet 130: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun‚” William Shakespeare uses the literary devices of imagery and figurative language to show that people should be judged based on who they are‚ not on their looks or what society says one should be like. To begin with‚ the text states‚ “If hairs be wires‚ black wires grow on her head.” (I.iv) The author uses figurative language to show how his mistress’ hair looks like. He compares her hair to wires which aren’t typically compared to hair

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    Important Titles (Analysis of Three Favorite Titles) Throughout the first semester of my senior year‚ there were a lot of different stories‚ as well as poems‚ that we covered thoroughly. There were some that I thought were very interesting and really captured my mind and attention‚ but then there were some that I felt didn’t relate to me at all‚ which made them lose my interest. Although it was very interesting learning more about some of Shakespeare’s works‚ it was also quite interesting to learn

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    The Strange Thing Called Love Despite the complexity of the sonnets that William Shakespeare and Sir Philip Sidney create‚ one is left with a feeling of total admiration for the rich language in each poem that forces its reader to pay very close attention to detail. The sonnets differ in the focus of metaphors for love and how this passion affects the poets; however‚ both of the poems intrigue their audience through their integration of ornate imagery in their portrayal of beauty and love. There

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    of Shakespearean Sonnets Proposal It has been a widely controversial debate over the context of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Was part of the sonnets a dedicated to a gay lover‚ a rival poet‚ and a black woman? These questions remain up for academic debate due to Shakespeare’s sonnets having alterations that were made in the editing process of these sonnets—and more specifically‚ the lack of pronouns that leave the sonnets ambiguous. This paper will be observing the sonnets (sonnets: two‚ twenty‚ eight-six

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    Two Tones of Love Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29‚ and Sonnet 130 are both poems written about love. Although they are both speaking of love‚ the tone and delivery are vastly different. In Sonnet 29‚ it is apparent that the Shakespeare is writing the speaker talking to his love with the lines “Haply I think on thee”… “For thy sweet love remembered….” Meanwhile in Sonnet 130‚ Shakespeare is writing the speaker talking about his love to another person with the lines‚ “My mistress‚ when she walks

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    simple tasks. Events such as these cause aforementioned worries to develop from occasional nuisances into plaguing thoughts. It is in moments such as this where I find myself asking the same question that Lady Mary Wroth did in the title of her sonnet‚ “In this strange labyrinth how shall I turn?” Unable to return to the past and too scared to run headfirst into the future‚ both Wroth and I find ourselves lost in a maze of our

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    theme in sonnets. This kind of lyrical poem flourished during the Elizabethan Age. One of the best-known sonneteers is William Shakespeare. He wrote 154 sonnets‚ which were published as “SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS” in 1609. Out of the 154‚ “Sonnet 130” is the most famous about love. In this poem‚ the poet shows that true love goes beyond physical beauty. Shakespearean sonnet is written in three quatrains and a couplet. The quatrains lay down the conflicts and a couplet offers the resolutions. “Sonnet 130”

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    “Nocturnal” by Disclosure Brett Brett is seen as the promiscuous party lady‚ she is first seen with a crowd of young men as they enter the dancing club. She is the center of attention when she walks into the scene‚ Robert asks her to dance but is rejected because she had already “promised to dance this with Jacob‚” (Hemingway 12). At the club scene she is the life of the party and seems to stay up all night partying. In the song he sings that he’s “Always restless … body clock’s

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    February 2013 "Sonnet 130" – William Shakespeare An Unconventional Love I will be writing about William Shakespeare ’s poem "Sonnet 130." In the sonnet‚ every other line rhymes‚ with the exception of the last two lines which rhyme on their own as a rhyming couplet. The poem follows the rhyme scheme of a-b-a-b‚ c-d-c-d‚ e-f-e-f‚ g-g. This sonnet is written in iambic pentameter‚ containing fourteen lines and ten syllables within each line. The iambic pentameter makes the sonnet sound redundant‚

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    contributory carelessness is accessible when the offended party’s own particular carelessness added to its own injuries.[6] Also allude to Pennington v Norris for second test.[7] Culture "Contributory Negligence"[8] was the title of an around 1982 sonnet by Attila the Stockbroker‚ an execution writer in the UK. The lyric scrutinized a court choice where an attacker got away overwhelming discipline and was requested to pay just a fine on the ground that the ladies somehow incited or added to the assault

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