HuhLOG IN SIGN UP ENTERTAINMENT TECH LIFESTYLE FOOD HEALTH POLITICS MONEY SPORTS ALL SECTIONS ANSWERS CLOUD SERVICES in POETRY‚ DEFINITIONS‚ THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN What are the differences between poetry prose and drama? Jeffrey A. Beard Answered Last poetry often has a formal structure or even a cadence while you are reading it... it is a form of writing where the words are usually chosen more carefully and people are effectively presenting it Prose is normal
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"My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun" is a poem written by William Shakespeare about the love towards an imperfect woman. He explains that although his mistress is imperfect‚ he finds his love special and "rare." If the modern day reader is not careful‚ he/she might be quick to assume the role of the woman that Shakespeare writes about. Although the word mistress now refers to a sweetheart or a woman who lives with a man without being married to him‚ in Shakespeare’s time‚ it meant a woman
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with no possibility of a reconciliation‚ whilst also adding to the ease of understanding and therefore also to the meaning of the poem. Another constraint of the sonnet is the length of the lines themselves. In a sonnet‚ the rhythm is always iambic pentameter‚ which means that there must always be ten syllables per line‚ with each second syllable being stressed. Where the author breaks this pattern‚ it must obviously be for a good reason‚ when the author wants a certain word or syllable to be stressed
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sonnets are the types labeled as the English (Shakespearean)‚ Italian‚ and Occitan Sonnet. One of the most modern types of sonnets is known as Free Form. Most sonnets will follow its conventional form. This poem will consist of 14 lines with iambic pentameter‚ which is an unstressed syllable that is followed by a stressed syllable. It will also have a certain rhythmic pattern that will follow throughout the poem. The subject of the poem is about love‚ desire‚ or unrequited love. A poem which is
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thousand ships to be launched into battle‚ initiating the Trojan Wars. (Phrase finder‚ web) The idea of bill Collins adding this into the sonnet is because he is showing from the beginning of the sonnet the love of the poem‚ which is needed for an iambic pentameter. In the next allusion in the poem Sonnet by Bill Collins‚ he mentions Petrarch. According to Petrarch biography‚ Petrarch is an Italian poet who is best known for the Iyric poetry of his Canzoniere named Lura and is considered one of the greatest
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the other last six lines being the sestet. The Shakespearean sonnet however differs from the Petrarchian sonnets and the Spenserian sonnet‚ it ends with a rhymed couplet and follows the rhyme scheme. Therefore‚ the octet and sestet structure can be unconventionally divided into three quatrains with alternating rhymes concluding in a rhymed couplet. Till present day‚ over more than one hundred fifty of Shakespeare’s sonnets is still debated and very much well-known throughout English literature. Shakespeare’s
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|Summary/Themes |Born Yesterday and Nettles | | | |Born Yesterday and Nettles are both written about adults’ thoughts regarding children and how they will survive in the world. | |Born Yesterday explores the poet’s feelings about the birth of his friend’s daughter and rejects traditional‚
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Sonnet #18 "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?" -- William Shakespeare Mood: Cheerful‚ praising‚ awestruck‚ confident Theme: True beauty is immortalized through art and thus prevails despite the ravages of time. Structure: Lines 1-9‚ 10-14 In sonnet #18‚ William Shakespeare reveals that through art‚ true beauty is immortalized and thus surmounts the ravages of time. The poet expresses an awestruck‚ confident and praising attitude towards his subject to convey his idea that his mistress is
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duchess but never quotes her words‚ the duke a performer who mimics the voices of others‚ chilling sinister tone‚ etc. Setting: the duke of Ferrara’s palace‚ upstairs in the gallery‚ 16th century setting‚ etc. Dramatic monologue‚ written in iambic pentameters‚ reads like blank verse in a drama/contains 3 formal elements: an occasion‚ a speaker‚ a hearer/ words are heard and intended to be heard by an implied auditor (the count’s envoy)/ has the appearance of being excerpted from the body of a verse
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Elizabethan times so they knew what they meant and how there were used. All Sonnets have the same structure‚ each one has 14 lines with three quatrains with alternate rhyme and end with a rhyming couplet (Volta). The rhyme scheme of a sonnet is always “a b a b‚ c d c d‚ e f e f‚ g g”- also the lines of sonnet are written in iambic pentameter that is ten syllables across each line. This has the effect of internal rhythm within the poem which creates at tension between the two characters. Each of the sonnets
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