Moving from couple cheerless metaphors to those much livelier and passionate ones within each quatrain, the sonnet takes on the paradox from the speakers perishing body with living soul to create a parallel metaphor in regards to the speakers unacquainted love relationship with the Fair Young Man. The season fall becomes the sonnets most general metaphor in respect to the addressers aging body in the first quatrain of sonnet 73. ... The connections in the preceding oppositions of animation concealed by weariness that the speakers soul is Consumd with that which it was nurrisht by, (12) which ...

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Humanism became a movement of sorts with the appointment of Coluccio Salutati as chancellor of Florence, Italy in 1375. ... By attracting others to the affinity of humanistic thought, many classical texts were revived and translated by his colleagues, including Cicero's Brutus, Orator, and On the Orator, which became staples in teaching rhetoric (Humanism: Italy " 2). ... With respect and knowledge of the actual virtues man possessed, a prince can rule without virtuosity. ... He became the first pope to openly advocate humanism, and he recruited scholars to come to Rome and translate anci...

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A poem with three quatrains of alternating rhythm followed by a couplet is categorically deemed an English sonnet. ... Lawrence both wrote poems with peculiar perspectives about a confrontation with a snake. ... The encounter with the snake slithering by steadily is nonthreatening. ... As he narrates his surroundings "in pajamas for the heat" the absentmindedness is translated over to the careless organization of meter (2). ... The indecisiveness of the poet is translated into the hesitance of the persona. ...

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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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