Text Explication and Facets of Poetic Genre Sonnet 60 by William Shakespeare Professor C. Soldan Poetry is “the art of rhythmical composition‚ written or spoken‚ for exciting pleasure by beautiful‚ imaginative‚ or elevated thoughts”. This paper will focus on poet William Shakespeare (1564-1616) who was famous in the Renaissance Period prior to the year 1750. Shakespeare was found to have 154 written sonnets‚ which dealt with themes such as the time‚ love‚ beauty and mortality. However‚ a personal
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The words “Death‚ be not proud” open John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 10‚ setting the tone‚ as the narrator addresses death himself. Donne‚ inspired by his experiences with religion‚ wrote a collection of poems known as “The Divine poems‚” in which he establishes a connection between the narrator‚ and God. Holy Sonnet 10 is unique in that‚ the narrator addresses not God‚ but Death. As explored by both Joanne Woolway and Roberta J. Albrecht‚ Donne employs masterful use of apostrophe to address death‚ stylized
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“SONNET 34” by Edmund Spenser Sonnet 34‚ which is included in a collection of poems known as “Amoretti” by Edmund Spenser‚ was published in 1595. Throughout this poem the speaker expresses feelings of depression and anguish because of the loss of his beloved. However‚ he is not pessimistic at all since he knows that his love for her will bring him joy once more. This poem is a Spenserian sonnet which is composed of three quatrains and a final couplet. The rhyme pattern is abab bcbc cdcd ee written
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1 The two forms of poetry I will be analyzing in this essay is the Sonnet 30 by William Shakespeare and Three Haiku by Bashō and Chiyogo. Haiku’s are usually short and three line poems which originated from Japan. A sonnet is a poem around 14 lines and has around 10 syllables. Although both types of poems are very different in terms of how they are set up and classified‚ they also share many similarities. In the three haiku‚ one by Bashō and two by Chiyogo‚ all three poems consist
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The Anglo-Saxon Sonnet: Rewriting a Shakespeare’s Sonnet “130” Through the Eyes of the Author of Beowulf My woman’s sight-seers shine like the sun; Her kiss-givers grant a great fiery glow; Her bone-house is a rare beast made to stun; The hairs on her head hang as soft as snow. Like a pollen-producer gleams garnet‚ Her cheeks blush‚ blinding any early man; Unlike a slimy serpent’s foul sweat‚ Her scent smells of fresh gold‚ or better than. Her voice flows like the whale-road‚ that I’m
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Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? In Shakespearean sonnets (also known as English sonnets)‚ all poems are written about one thing; love. Each sonnet consists of fourteen lines. A sonnet also consists of an iambic pentameter‚ a rhyme scheme in which each sonnet line consists of ten syllables. The syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet. An iamb is a metrical unit made up of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (such as fare WELL). In each stanza
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Analysis of Edmund Spenser’s Sonnet 75 This poem is one of the eighty-nine sonnets that Edmund Spenser wrote about his courtship and marriage with Elizabeth Boyle. By reading through some of them we can get a clear picture of what was their relationship like and how Spenser could put into verse his deep emotions that he cherished towards his wife. In this essay I will analyse this sonnet by examinig and interpreting its formal and contextual structure. First of all‚ I will analyse the formal structure
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the tradition of the poet Petrarch‚ whose sonnets dealt with a wooing male lover. Petrarch arranged his sonnets into ‘sonnet consequences’ or ‘sonnet cycles’‚ in which series of sonnets were linked together by a common theme based on the various aspects of the lover’s relationship. Spencer also arranged his ‘Amoretti’ in ‘sonnet sequences’. Spencer himself evolved his own structure for the English sonnet which has come to be known as the Spenserian sonnet. It had the same three quatrains but with
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Sonnet 116 Literary Analysis Sonnet 116 is one of the most famous of the sonnets for its stalwart defense of true love. The sonnet has a relatively simple structure with each quatrain attempting to describe what love is (or is not) and the final couplet reaffirming the poet’s words by placing his own merit on the line. The opening lines of the sonnet dive the reader into the theme at a rapid pace‚ accomplished in part by the use of enjambment--the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line
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mistress’ Eyes are Nothing like the Sun” are beautiful Petrarchan sonnets with a common theme which is love. Both poets talk about his/her love for another person. Though they are Petrarchan sonnets‚ they both have their differences and similarities in their form‚ figures of speech and subject matter. ‘How do I love Thee?’ is a poem written by Elizabeth Browning in 1850 in which she explains her intense love for a man. This is a Petrarchan sonnet; made up of fourteen lines‚ contains an octave‚ sestet‚ and
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