My understanding of form and sun-genre have helped to form/shape my reading of Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18" and Gwen Harwood's "Suburban Sonnet". "Suburban Sonnet" and "Sonnet 18" conforms to the sub-genre of a sonnet through the use of specific generic poetic conventions to put forward the ideas of eternal love and immortal beauty, the stressful trap, role and unwanted stress of motherhood. ... My reading of "Sonnet 18" is that its a poem that shows the powerful nature of language, through its ability to immortalise human beauty. ... Ov...

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Of these sonnets one of the greatest he has ever written was sonnet number 18, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?". This sonnet contains a theme of beauty and of love and has a content comapring his lovers external beauty to that of the beauty which he sees in nature. ... Shakespear is saying shall i compare you to the beauty of nature which i see around me. ... There are also several alliterations to this sonnet. ... In the second stanza begining with "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines" Shakespear is saying that nature too is imperfect, with too hot a sun and too low a ...

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Petrarchan sonnets and Shakespearean sonnets differ in rhyme pattern and theme presentation, their structural similarities are the fourteen lines, consisting of three quatrains and the ending couplet. Shakespeare wrote a collection of fifty sonnets, all connected by his thoughts and desires. It is sometimes difficult to understand who or what the poet is talking about in a single sonnet. ... He refers to man as like a plant, subject to the same laws of nature. ... The couplet in this sonnet is a statement of his devotion. ...

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John Lennon, the author wrote this entire sonnet in crossed rhyme with six quatrains which resembles an English sonnet except for the fact that it is twenty-four lines in length and does not end in a couplet. ... This is different from a Standard English sonnet due to the lack of a couplet which is the standard ending of most all English poems. ... The speaker seems to be a genuinely good natured man due to the fact that he only chuckled to himself once he finally found the source of the singing, even though it was not what he had expected to find. The entire sonnet is most closely related to...

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Technical description of Gerard Manley Hopkins" poem: The poem in designed as an English and Italian sonnet. ... The poet is creating an effective metaphor in line 9 to line 12, between God's master piece- nature, to his unsuccessful work. ... Lust is very common positive topic in sonnets but here lust is an awful sin that is negative and is upsetting the speaker very much. ... The image of nature that is presented in the poem is hinting of God's creation, which no man will ever achieve. ... This sonnet is an untraditional one, this might mean that the poet, knowing he is asking unt...

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This poem takes the form of a sonnet and it is a form used mostly for love poems. Why use a sonnet to write a poem in which you criticise people for being lustful, greedy and destructive? ... This "bare" image of nature, pertains not just to man's destruction of nature, but to his spiritual bareness. ... "And for all this, nature is never spent." ... God through his infinite mercy continues to sustain and rejuvenate nature, with nature representing the physical nature and the human spirit so that we may continue to live in hope. ...

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• Grade Level: High School