Translation Improvised Sonnet A Sonnet Included in "La niña de plata- Violante a sonnet makes me write, then in my life I've never been in such a fit, fourteen lines say it's a sonnet's beat, mocking and joking, three lines go before this one, right? ... His many love affairs caused him many problems with the law, and are the reason for many of his works. ... Meaning as if I choose "such a fit-, I would need a rhyming verse like "a sonnet's beat-, or "it's a sonnet (son-it)- (with this last one I play with the word's pronunciation to actually ...

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The Speaker-Message-Receiver in Sonnet LXXX is much more specific than many of the other sonnets. It is about "Guy A" loving a woman he has no chance with. ... In the first quatrain, the poet, Guy A, states his problem as "I love you, I write about you, but a man I cannot compete with also loves you." ...

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While living on the sea coast, Elizabeth published her translation of Prometheus Bound (1833), by the Greek dramatist Aeschylus. ... In 1833, Browning's translation of Prometheus Bound received high praise. ... I do, as I say, love these books with all my heart - and I love you too." ... In "Sonnets from the Portuguese- Browning declares her strong emotions of love toward Robert Browning. ... Leighton describes Elizabeth's expressions as "fulsome and yet witty energy, which flirts and skirmishes with the inherited convections of the love sonnet."" ...

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His works were considered to be the first "modern" poems and the inventor of the sonnet, writing over 300 sonnets. ... They include the "Africa", dealing with the Second Punic war and especially with the tales of Scipio Africanus, and the "Carmen bucolicum" which was made up of twelve poems. ... His daughter Francesca moved in with him. His friends such as Boccaccio, who brought him a Latin translation of Homer's poems, frequently visited him. ... His development of the sonnet helped influence literary greats like Shakespeare and Chaucer. ...

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After Petrarch studied the humanists before him, he began to write great sonnets and he was known to be the "father of humanism". Petrarch wrote lyric poetry dealing with individuals; he wanted to share knowledge for the public good. ... He started a library of the classics where he translated them for everyone to read. ... Boccaccio lived in Florence with Petrarch and Dante in 1350. ... (Fleming 253) After the fall of Constantinople the collection and translations of classical books or writings became really popular. ...

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In comparing the two poems one can notice the use of iambic pentameter, which was first innovated by William Shakespeare and his sonnets as well his plays. ... The Lotos-Eaters is much longer than that of On First Looking into Chapman's Homer and after further review one finds that Lord Alfred Tennyson doesn't use the common Elizabethan Sonnet format. ... Keats discusses the translation of Homer's Odyssey done by Chapman and how it changed his view of the world. ... Lord Alfred varies from Keats in that he tells of a story in which he comes across a new land with his crew that...

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The book was written in French but was first published (1786) in English translation. ... He achieved literary fame with his Account of Corsica (1768), based on his visit to that island and on his acquaintance with the Corsican patriot Pasquale Paoli. ... In 1739 he began a grand tour of the Continent with Horace Walpole . ... His first important poems, written in 1742, include "To Spring,"" "On a Distant Prospect of Eton College,"" and a sonnet on the death of his close friend Richard West. ... Much of his verse is tinged with melancholy, and even more of it reflects his extensive learning....

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Don Quixote is the second most edited and translated book in history, the first one is the Bible. ... After reading many knight themed books he decides to dress up as one ride the roads of Spain with his two companions in search of glory and grand adventure, his aim throughout this adventure is to "go around the world with his weapons and horse to find adventures, and putting in all that he had read that the knights did, getting rid of all kinds of grievance and putting themselves in danger occasions when, finishing them, he will gain eternal name and fame"(Chap. 1). ... During his wand...

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Observing the originals' meters and rhyming, though not always according to the original schemes, Nims' translations allow us to appreciate that greatness. ... That this great artist represents himself as unworthy of his loves and frustrated by his inadequacies (many of them having to do with his age, for these are poems written mostly in his 60s and later to much younger beloveds) is conventional--other sonneteers and madrigalists of the time voiced similar sentiments--yet as Nims' accompanying text makes clear, it is also psychologically accurate. ... We are here face to face ...

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Romeo and Juliet have attained the role as the quintessential lovers, and the noun, "a Romeo," is synonymous with " lover." ... At the Capulet ball in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, all of the characters speak in blank verse, but when Romeo and Juliet converse, they speak in sonnet form. ... Bernstein and Robbins translated Shakespeare's spoken word into modern dance techniques (Gravely 1). ... Just as Tony initially fell in love with one glace, Tony perishes with a single shot. Upon discovering Romeo's death, Juliet ends her own by piercing her chest with her truelove's d...

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During his career, he wrote 37 plays, 154 Sonnets, and two poems. ... Hamlet is the most popular play written by William Shakespeare and was translated into many languages and has become the subject of excited and critical debate more than any other work of literature. ... Furthermore, Hamlet instructs his mother not to sleep with Claudius " Good Night. ... Hamlet is obviously disgusted with his mother. He speaks very sexually in regards to her relationship with Claudius. ...

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I guess one can analogize this situation to an archaeologist translating the Rosetta Stone into English, or even, for you hi-techies out there, converting a computer file from one format to another. ... I was very impressed with the way Dr. ... Where have you been in the past with your writing? ... I won second place with my first story, Little Bear Plays Tag. In third grade, I won third with the less inspiring piece, Chris's Birthday Party. ...

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Morpheus is to go to the Great Sea (the Mediterranean) and enliven the king's drowned body with his own spirit. ... The walls are painted with the text and pictures of the  Romaunce of the Rose. ... It is filled with deer and other animals, more than can be counted. ... The complaint details how his lady-love, whom he "loved with al my might" (line 478), has been lost. ... The dreamer awakens from this fantastic dream with Ovid's  Metamorphoses  still in his hand. ...

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