Compare and contrast the following poems‚ Michael Drayton sonnet 61‚ ‘Since there’s no help’ and John Donne‚ ‘A valediction: Forbidding Mourning’ with attention to style‚ imagery‚ language and formal qualities. Analyze the poems and comment on their effects. When looked at very closely‚ poetry of the 16th and 17th century was very similar in ways of expressing feelings and thoughts. However this has not prevented the two from having amazingly huge differences between them‚ whether it is in the theme
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‘Analyze How Poets Have Used the Sonnet Form to Explore Ideas About Love and Mortality’ Sonnets have been used to paint a detailed picture of human emotion‚ tradition and culture‚ through the centuries. Originally‚ they began in the 14th century and each era inherited the collections of fourteen lined literary genius and reworked its form‚ subject or use of sensual imagery in order to allow the literature to represent the moods of the time. The word “sonnet” comes from the Italian word‚ ‘sonnetto’
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Reader-Response Criticism The sonnet “Since There’s No Help” is a typical example of Michael Drayton’s work‚ yet it has been considered the one sonnet responsible for plucking Drayton from the general obscurity of Elizabethan sonnet writers. Many are of the opinion it was his one and only sonnet that reached the highest level of poetic feeling and allowed the audience to suffer alongside the writer. This poem is written in traditional Shakespearian sonnet form‚ consisting of fourteen lines of
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SHakespeare have this natural talent or did he just smoke a lot of cannabis sativa to get his inspiration‚ which would explain why a lot of his work is hard to understand and the reason why he cuts of words just to mess with people in his play writings? (Sonnet 5)‚ “But flowers distilled‚ though they with winter meet‚ leese but
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seen them‚ gentle‚ tame‚ and meek‚ That now are wild‚ and do not remember That sometime they put themselves in danger To take bread at my hand;” Sonnet 61 (Michael Drayton) This is a petrarchan sonnet (Male POV) with an Iambic Pentameter (5 feet – stressed/unstressed syllable in each line) with metric shifts (Change in gender????). Michael Drayton wrote this when the girl he loved – Annie‚ married Henry Rainford and did not even tell him. He is confused as different emotions whirl inside him
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distinct national tradition. Puttenham and Sidney were concerned to build a canon and help shape English poetry into a tradition capable of rivalling more prestigious literatures (for example of Italy and France). The courtly lyric/ Petrarchan love sonnet introduced to English by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard‚ Earl of Surrey: not the only poetic genre in the Renaissance‚ but one of the most interesting‚ which has shaped our later conceptions of English poetry. Wyatt and Surrey were “courtly makers”
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Drayton’s sonnet #6 from Idea‚ beginning with “How many paltry‚ foolish‚ painted things‚” demonstrates the deification of women based only on their physical appearance. The loose dichotomy
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What Is A Sonnet? A sonnet‚ from the Italian word sonetto meaning ’little song‚’ is a lyric poem usually with 14 lines of iambic pentameter and a set rhyme scheme. While sonnets can explore all sorts of themes‚ love is the most common‚ and the original topic of the sonnet. Two Major Types The sonnet takes many forms‚ including the Spenserian sonnet and Miltonic sonnet‚ which is just fun to say. But the two most-studied sonnets are the Italian sonnet‚ known as the Petrarchan sonnet‚ and the English
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SONNET ‘A very useful book indeed‚ and one which will add to the scope of current debates about the sonnet.’ John Drakakis‚ University of Stirling In this indispensable introductory study of the Renaissance sonnet‚ Michael R.G.Spiller takes the reader on an illuminating guided tour. He begins with the invention of the sonnet in thirteenth-century Italy and traces its progress through to the time of Milton‚ showing how the form has developed and acquired the capacity to express
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