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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[Type text] [Type text] [Type text] Holland Martin Mary Kaiser English 102 29 April 2014 An Unconventional Love- Sonnet 130 If one were talking about a beloved‚ one would go out of one’s way to praise her and point out all of the ways that she is the best. However‚ in William Shakespeare’sSonnet 130‚ Shakespeare spends the poem comparing his mistress’s appearance to other things‚ and tells the reader how she doesn’t measure up to the comparisons. While using the standard Shakespearean iambic
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Shakespeare’s 18th and 130th sonnets have similar messages‚ and yet manage to contrast one another entirely. Both sonnets discuss the uselessness of applying superlatives to the description of a person. The Bard’s 18th sonnet‚ “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day‚” addresses someone who Shakespeare feels is more beautiful and perfect than a summer day and that even the clearest skies and loveliest flowers are no match for his beloved. Sonnet 130‚ “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun‚” also
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One: An Analysis of Sonnets 64 and 73 William Shakespeare is one of the greatest playwrights of all time. It is also important‚ however‚ to remember and to study his sonnets. The sonnets are separated into two groups‚ 1-126 and 127-54. All of them are love poems of some sort‚ whether addressed to a young man or the infamous "Dark Lady." It is important to compare and analyze the sonnets‚ and to see the similarities between them. The purpose of this essay is to compare sonnets 64 and 73‚ and show
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English Paper Section A – Question 7 “Hour compared with Sonnet 43” Both poems are about love. Hour presents love as being times enemy‚ whereas‚ Sonnet 43 presents love as absolute and unconditional. Both poets see love as being precious and worth more than life itself. Barrett Browning shows love as lasting forever‚ but Duffy feels that love can’t last forever. Sonnet 43 is an old fashioned poem; you can see this from the form. It uses iambic pentameter which creates the feeling of real speech
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Many feelings and underlying tones exist throughout one of William Shakespeare’s most infamous sonnets‚ Sonnet 18. The speaker opens the poem with a rhetorical question addressed to the beloved: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (line 1). The speaker begins by asking whether he should or will compare "thee" to a summer’s day; although the question is “rhetorical”‚ it is‚ however‚ indirectly answered throughout the remaining parts of the poem. (SparkNote). The stability of love and its power
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Shay Dayley Sonnet 29-106 1. Sonnet 9 begins with the speaker describing moments of great sadness and then there is a change in mood in the sonnet; it becomes more upbeat. This is caused by him remembering a love he once felt for someone; he thinks fondly of the person who is inspired the sonnet. 2. in this poem‚ the speaker is holding a pity party for himself and is jealous of other people. In Sonnet 29‚ the Speaker in this sonnet fails to produce a solution possibly because his overwhelming
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ne’s Holy Sonnet 10: Death Be Not Proud Donne’s Holy Sonnet 10‚ “Death‚ be not proud” expresses the speaker feelings towards death. He uses personification by addressing death as if it was a human. In the first stanza the author says: Death‚ be not proud‚ though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful‚ for thou art not so; For those‚ whom thou think’s thou dost overthrow‚ Die not‚ poor Death‚ nor yet canst thou kill me. (1-4) From the tone of the stanza it may seem like the speaker is talking
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In the last four lines of the sonnet‚ Wyatt’s diction encompasses a more personal tone and reveals that the “deer” is an extended metaphor for his beloved “deare.” In the lines “And graven with diamond in letters plain / There is written‚ her fair neck round about‚ / “Noli me tangere‚ for Caesar’s I am‚ / And wild for to hold‚ though I seem tame (11-14).” At first glance‚ it is absurd to think that a wild animal would be wearing a diamond-encrusted necklace. But this “necklace” is a symbol of possession
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Sonnet 16 – On His Blindness by John Milton John Milton is considered to be the most significant English author after William Shakespeare. Although his chief work is “Paradise Lost”‚ he also wrote other wonderful poems‚ prose‚ as well as sonnets‚ in which he tackles a number of subjects which range from religious to political. Rarely is one piece of writing limited to one or the other of those fields. Among all the sonnets‚ Sonnet 16 is special because
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