(Lines 1-2) Here, Shakespeare is stating that there should be no obstacles between two people in "true" love. ... (Lines 2-4) Shakespeare is informing his audience and his beloved on the stiff, mathematical rules he has placed on love. ... It looks upon a tempest and remains immutable; it is like the North Star that all boughs of the trees bend towards. ... Is Shakespeare confident of his work? ... Shakespeare uses the sonnet to fully describe love, and is able to powerfully to add certainty to his point....

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• Grade Level: High School

The poem was written by William Shakespeare. ... The second quatrain states: O no, it is an ever fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand"ring bark, Whose worth's unknown although his height be taken. ... Doom, in Shakespeare's day was not necessarily bad; it was just a time of judgment. ... Shakespeare says if what I have said is wrong; then, I have never written anything. Notice proved and loved don't really rhyme, but if Shakespeare used the Scottish pronunciation of the word "loved"; then it would sound more like "l...

• Word Count: 669
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• Grade Level: High School

Explore Shakespeare's presentation and use of relationships in The Tempest. ... Shakespeare presents each relationship individually each with a different point to show. ... Prospero has the power and speaks the most in The Tempest. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Poetry Critique In William Shakespeare's sonnet 130 he writes about an ironic love for a fairly unattractive mistress. ... In sonnet 116 Shakespeare writes about true love. ... In both of these sonnet form poems Shakespeare includes a great quantity of imagery, tone, figures of speech, and rime scheme. ... Shakespeare is describing here what a true love to him really is. ... " It is an ever fixed mark, that looks on tempests and is never shaken", and " It is the star to every wandering bark" are the metaphors in this sonnet. ...

• Word Count: 950
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• Grade Level: High School

All throughout The Tempest, representations of new versus old are mentioned, most in poor nature, although there remains a small case for transforming old ideas into new, but in general simplicity will work best. I think Shakespeare tried to make a statement with this play that might stir up something in the reader's mind, possibly even question the basic concept of advancing on in life. ...

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William Shakespeare's Othello is a tragic play regarding jealousy and its decomposing effects on the human psychology. ... If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have wakened death! ... "William Shakespeare's Othello,"" Blooms Notes. ... Shakespeare's Tragedies, New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1978. Shakespeare, William. ...

• Word Count: 1660
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Her love for her husband was like Barret Browning's "How Do I Love Thee" Ann Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband" and William Shakespeare's "Shall I compare Thee to a Summer's Day?... Shakespeare's "Shall I compare Thee to a Summer's Day?... " (l. 9-10) Shakespeare finishes the poem by using a metaphor that suggests that as long as the poem he writes to her exists and people can read it then she will keep on living too. ... He writes, So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear –floods, nor sigh-tempests move; &ap...

• Word Count: 1336
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

King Lear is one of the greatest tragedy play written by William Shakespeare, which portrays the intense suffering from the blindness through Lear king of Britain and the earl of Gloucester. ... Shakespeare use parallel structure of the main plot and subplot that mirror each other like throughout the play. ... They both blind to the truth by reject the good children and favor the bad ones .All Shakespeare's tragedies has a tragic hero which carried a tragic flaw: For Lear is pride and Gloucester is Lust. ... In Shakespeare's works the weather always reflect the situation in the pl...

• Word Count: 3449
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School