As one of the greatest wordsmiths of all time, William Shakespeare made powerful use of imagery to convey the themes and subject matter in his poetry and plays. ... Shakespeare compared the features of his mistress to those of nature, seemingly mocking her looks, ("Coral is far more red than her lips' red"). ... These observations of Shakespeare's also put to shame the over the top ramblings of other authors odes of love to their women, the hidden meaning (purpose?) ... Shakespeare also used figures of speech well to explain his subject matter. ... In the second sonnet, Shakespeare u...

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William Shakespeare was a master at incorporating love in his sonnets. ... "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines and often is his gold complexion dimmed;" (Shakespeare). ... "That it could so preposterously be stained to leave for nothing all thy sum of good" (Shakespeare). ... "Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments" (Shakespeare). ... Shakespeare used these three themes, and many others, to help centralize his main idea of his sonnets. ...

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The poem was written by William Shakespeare. ... 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 "loved." ...

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In William Shakespeare's Sonnet 87, Shakespeare appears to be bidding goodbye to the mysterious young man whom he writes so much about. ... Shakespeare himself appears to be the speaker in the poem, whereas the young man is whom Shakespeare is conveying his message. ... However, as is the case is several of Shakespeare's other sonnets, this particular sonnet does not include Shakespeare's typical use of repeating words in the same line. ... However, that just wouldn't be Shakespeare's style. Then again, it may have been Shakespeare's intent to do just that. ...

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-William Shakespeare Sonnet #34 Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day, And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke? ... -William Shakespeare William Shakespeare's sonnets are grouped in sequence in which they tell a story or suggest a story. ... Later, in line eight, Shakespeare gives the sun the quality of "stealing to the west with disgrace". ...

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LOVE In the poem Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds William Shakespeare portrays love in its most ideal form, while John Keats portrays love as eternal innocence and beauty. ... In the first four lines Shakespeare reveals that love is constant and strong, and will not "alter when it alteration finds". The following lines Shakespeare states that true love will survive any crisis. In lines 7-8, Shakespeare claims that love's actual worth cannot be known; it will always remain a mystery. ... Shakespeare and Keats portray love as eternal, and beautiful. ...

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Ever since I was growing up Shakespeare was always a male to me. ... The sonnet is by a man referring his name is William Shakespeare and upon how descriptive and romantic he is within this Sonnet. The speech is credible by how professional the writing is and by the sonnet being by William Shakespeare. ... This can relate to Shakespeare losing his hair as he ages. ... I can't really say that this language came directly from Shakespeare, where although all of his writings relate to this language, many other writers used the same language Shakespeare did. ...

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In William Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day" he does that very thing. Shakespeare is comparing the love of his life, this beautiful being, to a perfect and timeless season, and he does so in just fourteen lines. ... Shakespeare begins the poem with a question that proposes a comparison between his beloved and a summer season. ... Starting from the ninth line Shakespeare shifts his tone with a great passion: "Thy eternal summer shall not fade." ... Shakespeare is the embodiment of poetry and emotions and bringing those emotions to life. ...

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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. ... Through all the imagery, rime, figures of speech and tone in these sonnets, Shakespeare was able to successfully get his point across. ...

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At the same time, in William Shakespeare's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy from his play "Hamlet," the main character struggles with whether to live or to take his own life. ... Bryant is joined by Shakespeare when he states that we "bare the whips and scorns of time." ... Shakespeare's soliloquy refers to death as a "sleep." ... William Cullen Bryant's "Thanatopsis" tells the audience to live their life so when their time arrive they go not "like the forced slave" but go soothed and sustained. William Shakespeare's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy from "Hamlet" deals ...

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William Shakespeare's classical play "The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" begins with a prologue. ... I think that Shakespeare chose to use a sonnet, as the structure of the prologue in this play because he had already written sonnets previous to this so knew they would work and be sucessful. ... I think the last reason he may have used is sonnet is that when Shakespeare wrote this play (1600-1700) sonnets were a very popular form of poetry so people would have wanted to come and see his play. Just as the 1997 film "Romeo and Juliet" uses a news bulletin to present the prologue because moder...

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Casey Smigelski English Lit Sonnet Intrepretations Shakespear's Sonnet 18 When thinking about english liturature one of the greatest writers of all time comes to mind, WIlliam Shakespear. ... Shakespeare wrote a series of sonnets, most of which were probably addressed to a noble young lover for whom he felt deep love and admiration. ... Shakespeare makes use of much symbolism and many other figurative devices in this poem that contribute and emphasize to the overall theme of the poem. ...

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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. ...

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Tragedy and Art William Butler Yeats The theme of "Lapis Lazuli" is that all forms of art can surpass the tragedies experienced within the world; therefore making it gay. ... In the second stanza the reader is introduced to the first of the three arts in the form of Shakespeare's tragic heroes, Prince Hamlet and King Lear. ...

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William Burns had inherited farming land in Alloway from his father, and had worked the land as income. Robert, growing up set to work as a farm laborer, had only two years of formal education at Murdoch's school, where he learned of Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, and Dryden. ... William eventually left his cottage in Alloway and took the small farm to Mount Oliphant in 1765, in order so support the family as well as he wished (Electric Scotland). ... William realized Robert's need for more formal education, and sent him to the school of Hugh Rodger at Kirkoswald in the summer of 1775. ....

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One of the most outstanding English poets of this epoch was William Blake (1757 - 1827), who painted his visions both in words and in pictures Blake, inspired by songs for children, is mostly known for his two early collections, The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience. ... Blake's works are deeply influenced by Shakespeare, Milton and the Bible. ... ( Mark 10:15) The works of William Blake are often mentioned as painted visions. ...

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Elizabethan Sonnets In Elizabethan Age, the sonnets had advanced into a form with new metric and rhyme scheme that was departing from Petrarchan sonnets. Yet, Elizabethan sonnets still carried the tradition of Petrarchan conceit. Petrarchan conceit was a figure used in love poems consisting detaile...

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Title of Work: Death, be not proud Author: John Donne John Donne's Death, be not proud is a particularly interesting poem that expresses the act of dying as something natural and pleasant abandoning the reputation it has held for being frightening or powerful. The speaker notes that th...

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Compare and Contrast Comparing and contrasting can be an easy task, just as it can be a difficult one. I have chosen to compare and contrast two poems from the Age of Realism and the Romantic Era. The first poem I have chosen is The Lotos-Eaters by Lord Alfred Tennyson, and the second poem I ha...

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Of this group of poetry the poems written as part of William Shakespeare's sonnets are considered to epitomize the height of the English sonnet.... During the 19th century a movement began that ultimately would change the syntax and them of poetry. in his 1802 preface to the Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth railed against the artificial poetic diction found in the sonnets and declared his intentions to write "in a selection of language really used by men"(qtd in Where the Arts live n. pag.). ... The initial pioneers of the movement were Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady an...

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