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    Sonnet 18

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    Sonnet 18 breakdown The poem Sonnet 18 was written by William Shakespeare. A poet from the 17th century who was a renowned writer for his works on theater and poems. Sonnet 18 describes the power of love and immortality of the poem and himself as long as men walk the earth. He gives a message of eternal beauty and love through out the poem with his selective word choices. He describes the beauty of the poem as immortal as long as men breathe‚ due to the beauty of the poem and love of the men. The

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    Sonnet 18

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    fair sometime declines.” The final quatrain of the sonnet tells how the beloved differs from the summer in that respect: his beauty will last forever (“Thy eternal summer shall not fade...”) and never die. In the couplet‚ the speaker explains how the beloved’s beauty will accomplish this feat‚ and not perish because it is preserved in the poem‚ which will last forever; it will live “as long as men can breathe or eyes can see.” THEMES: LOVE: Sonnet 18 opens up looking an awful lot like a traditional

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    sonnet 18

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    Sonnet 18 Tracy Brito 4/1/2014 A sonnet is a fourteen line poem‚ formed by a single complete thought‚ sentiment‚ or an idea that originated in Europe. The sonnet consists of rhymes that are arranged according to a certain definite scheme‚ which is in a strict or Italian form‚ divided into a major group of eight lines‚ which is called the octave. The octave is followed by a minor group of six lines which is called the sestet. In common English form it is in three quatrains followed

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    Sonnet 18

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    Sonnet 18 begins with the narrator asking if he should compare the subject‚ which we will assume is a woman‚ to a summer’s day. Because Shakespeare asks if he should make this comparison implies that it is arbitrary. Shakespeare is asserting that Sonnet 18 could quite as easily be about the woman’s comparison to anything beautiful because she is more dazzling‚ or "more lovely"‚ as Shakespeare asserts in the second line when he begins his comparison‚ than any other beauteous object or concept in the

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    invest the value of love into child heart from the early beginning. Later‚ reading different poems‚ stories‚ novels create our own imagination about it. According to Sonnet 18‚ “You are more lovely and more constant” describes that people experience true love. They also can be inspired by it to create something great like Sonnet 18. To be faithful and truthful is not easy in our life. Due to losing the meaning of real love or being selfish‚ not all people love the same person all life. Different

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    Sonnet 18

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    thee to a summer’s day main theme Shakespeare asks‚ Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? in his famous love poem. In Sonnet 18 he praises his lover’s beauty in such an astonishing way that makes you want to be the person he is in love with. On the other hand he is aware of the fact that beauty is not everlasting and he is bewildered by the idea. So he tries to find a way to make her beauty eternal and resolves in dedicating this poem to her. Therefore the main theme in the poem Shall I compare

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    Sonnet 18

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    alive is not easy. One knows that life eventually comes to an end‚ but does love? Time passes and days must end. It is in "Sonnet 18"‚ by Shakespeare‚ that we see a challenge to the idea that love is finite. Shakespeare shows us how some love is eternal and will live on forever in comparison to a beautiful summer ’s day. Shakespeare has a way of keeping love alive in "Sonnet 18"‚ and he uses a variety of techniques to demonstrate how love is more brilliant and everlasting than a summer ’s day. The

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    Sonnet 18 Controversy

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    plays‚ left behind more than a hundred of sonnets for all to enjoy. His sonnets are famous for the love and romance. One of the most well known of which is Sonnet 18. Sonnet 18 is a part of a collection called the Fair Youth. The collection of sonnets‚ composed of sonnets 1 to 126 is dedicated to a Mr. W. H.‚ whose identity is highly debated. The collection consists of beautiful and romantic sonnets exemplified by sonnet 18. The intent behind these sonnets is also highly debated‚ some say it is for

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    Sonnet 130 and Sonnet 18

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    The poems “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet 130” were first published in 1609 and were written by William Shakespeare. The “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet 130” have no titles that are the reason that they have a number (for example 18 and 130) for the poems. The number was based on the order in which the poems were first published in 1609. These poems are two of one hundred fifty four poems written by Shakespeare. The poems consist of fourteen lines that is divided into two parts. One is an opening octet with eight

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    analysis of sonnet 18

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    Theme Although the most obvious theme in most of the Shakespearian sonnets‚ including this one‚ is love‚ there is always an underlying theme. In this poem‚ it is time; immortality and the transience of beauty. The speaker mentions numerous times throughout the poem that “every fair from fair sometime declines” be it that of nature‚ “summer’s lease hath all too short a date” and eventually Autumn begins in which the leaves shrivel and die‚ or that of the subject. From the third quatrain onwards‚

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