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    This love will be different and nothing will compare to this person. No poem nor song nor person could explain the feelings or love for that person. In Sonnet 130‚ Shakespeare wrote a sonnet about the person he loves and this love compares to no other. In most sonnets he has written he has compared beauty to the most beautiful things but this sonnet is different. He talks about her beauty but contrasted it from things that were beautiful. Shakespeare uses a critical and crucial tone to suggest that

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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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    There are four basic necessities to sustain life: food‚ sleep‚ shelter‚ and air. Without these four things‚ humans cannot survive‚ but are living and surviving two different concepts? In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Love Is Not All”‚ she argues that while love does not keep us alive‚ it is the one thing in this world worth more than food‚ or shelter‚ or air. While basic necessitates for survival are wonderful‚ even they cannot overcome the human desire for love‚ shown by how the author sets up

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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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    eyes. A place where laughter is the only rule and lessons are learned in paradox school. Author notes Sonnet Sonnets are formal poems and consist of 14 lines (3 quatrains and a couplet) ‚ traditionally written in iambic pentameter - that is‚ in lines ten syllables long‚ with accents falling on every second syllable Desperation Guppie Stokes What will I write about in this sonnet?  Of who’s existence I really don’t care... Why‚ just the thought of doing it Makes me feel the need for fresh

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    Sonnet 18 Essay

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    Dear incoming freshmen‚ coming into 9th grade is the scariest experience one will have. Unless you have an older sibling‚ you do not know what to expect. These will be some of the best of times‚ and some of the worst of times. you will meet people you will like‚ and people you just can not avoid. You will form relationships with people and become really close to them. You will have to overcome many obstacles during these years of high school. There will be subjects you like‚ and some that you will

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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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    Compare and Contrast Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare In this essay I am going to highlight the comparisons and contrasts between William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130 and also give my opinions. A similarity between the two poems is that they are both about a man’s love for a woman. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Meaning that the woman that Shakespeare loves in Sonnet 18 is ‘more lovely’

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    English Literature What is a sonnet? A sonnet is a form of poetry‚ which originated in Italy and was created by the Sicilian poet Giacomo da Lentini during the Renaissance. The term sonnet comes from the Italian word sonnetto‚ meaning “little song” and is a poem of fourteen lines‚ which can be broken down into four sections called quatrains. It follows a strict rhyme scheme‚ which is ABAB/CDCD/EFEF/GG. This means that the first and third lines and the second and fourth lines of each quatrain

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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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