Sonnet 18 Explication Sonnet 18 is a typical Shakespearean sonnet that hardly departs from the “classic” rules of an English sonnet. It has fourteen lines in a simple iambic pentameter; although‚ there are a few strong first syllables in the poem and some lines have eleven syllables instead of just ten. None of the lines flow into the next one. All of them have a distinct stopping place except that of line 9 (as far as punctuation goes.) There are three quatrains in the poem‚ the third one changes
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“Anne Hathaway” by Carol Ann Duffy‚ the current poet laureate‚ is a strikingly poignant poem. It is in the persona of Anne Hathaway‚ Shakespeare’s wife‚ and is perceived to be the opinion of what she thinks about when she is left the second best bed in his will. The sonnet explores the loss felt by Hathaway as she grieves for her husband. Throughout the poem Duffy effectively uses poetic techniques to explore the feeling of loss felt by Hathaway as she is now a widow. The sonnet form allows Duffy
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W.B. Yeats was born in Dublin‚ Ireland. He was a lonely and unhappy boy‚ because of which he began to day dream and write escapist poetry. Yeats grew up as a member of the former Protestant Ascendancy at the time undergoing a crisis of identity. In 1889‚ Yeats met Maud Gonne‚ then a 23-year-old heiress and ardent Nationalist. Gonne had admired "The Isle of Statues" and sought out his acquaintance. Yeats developed an obsessive infatuation with her beauty and outspoken manner‚ and she was to have a
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poem by comparing his lover to a summer’s day and says how lovely and ‘temperate’ his lover is. He describes his lover to represent her beauty in the form of hotness‚ according to me. The first two lines of the poem are very rhythmic; this is iambic pentameter‚ a very important language feature which Shakespeare has used. And in the first line the pronoun “I” Is a stressed syllable and “thou” is whereas unstressed in the second line‚ which shows the importance he gave himself in the poem. In the third
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Both Spenser ’s Sonnet 75 and Shakespeare ’s Sonnet 19 similarly claim to bestow immortality upon the beloved. Despite similar themes‚ however‚ these sonnets contrast sharply. Spenser ’s sonnet ostensibly reports a conversation between the poet and his beloved‚ whereas Shakespeare ’s sonnet directly addresses personified time‚ and shows the greater dramatic flair. Spenser ’s first two words‚ "One day"‚ eschew drama by setting his poem in a vague and unparticularised past. Line 1 tells
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Critical analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 compares the speaker’s lover to a number of other beauties—and never in the lover’s favor. Her eyes are “nothing like the sun‚” her lips are less red than coral; compared to white snow‚ her breasts are dun-colored‚ and her hairs are like black wires on her head. In the second quatrain‚ the speaker says he has seen roses separated by color (“damasked”) into red and white‚ but he sees no such roses in his mistress’s cheeks; and
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Eye of the Beholder Shakespeare’s‚ “My Mistress’ Eyes are nothing like the Sun”‚ is a sonnet that contains fourteen lines. Each line possessing ten syllables and the meter of the sonnet is Iambic pentameter. In these fourteen lines Shakespeare beings to describe the beauty of his mistress and shows how she is still yet a human being with flaws. Shakespeare’s sonnet‚ “My Mistress’ Eyes are nothing like the Sun”‚ can be broken into four pieces‚ three quatrains and a couplet. This sonnet by Shakespeare
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Lady and Man Stereotyping “The raven himself is hoarse‚” Lady Macbeth says‚ speaking of the atrocious act of murder she must commit. Lady Macbeth cannot simply go through with the act in her feminine state‚ so she calls to the spirits to make her more like a man‚ the seemingly more malicious sex. Through his own words‚ Shakespeare is able to tell a story from not only his point of view‚ but the view of his era. In the soliloquy spoken by Lady Macbeth in Act 1 Scene 3‚ she is speaking of her paradigm
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I will be analysing a poem called ‘on my first son’ by Ben Jonson (1572-1637) was an actor‚ play write poet. He wrote his plays around the same time as William Shakespeare. This poem expression of grief over the death of eldest son‚ this is a real story which occurred to Ben Jonson himself. Ben Jonson left London early in 1603‚ to stay at a country house‚ just as a bout of plague was about to envelop the city. He seems to have been worried about his eldest son‚ called Ben his father‚ because he
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he is talking to himself and whom he is talking about. This sonnet can also be referred to as mediation between the soul and the body relationship. The imagery in the first line ‘my sinful earth’ stands out as it has a stronger tone with iambic pentameter‚ which causes ‘my’ to have an emphasised tone. The sentence then reflects the image of us‚ as it is our responsibility to keep this earth well. With the use of Shakespears imagery throughout the sonnet‚ he did a good job on structuring the poem
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