However, it is also questionable whether or not the reader has much room to take any individual meaning from a sonnet as they would be able to with other pieces of literature, as its strict contextual nature and rules that define its genre allow for limited variation across sonnet writing and therefore would appear to only present us with a single type of writing and style. ... More recently than Petrarchan, Shakespearean sonnets have taken a different approach on sonnet writing that blur the intentions of the sonnet itself and make us question the idea of love as a whole, something that Finem...

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A stark contrast can be observed as both poems focus on different elements of life, namely nature and religion, to facilitate in expressing their views about their loved ones. ... With Browning and Shakespeare's distinctive styles of representing love, another contrast can be observed between religion and nature. ... She shows no appreciation of nature as such in this Sonnet, apart from a single reference to the 'sun.' ... Both Sonnets 18 and 43 are expressions of love that surpass elements of nature and religion. ... Although, Shakespeare's sonnet can be considered as mo...

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There is an uncomfortable shallowness of the contextual nature of Andrew Marvell's poem, "To His Coy Mistress" that in some way separates it from several of William Shakespeare's sonnets. There is however, a statement made by Marvell that overcomes its unfortunate contextual nature and which uses certain myths concerning love and time that are also manifest in Shakespeare's Sonnets "18" and "73". The overriding connotations manifest in Sonnets "18" and "73" include; the mythical nature of eternal love experienced by mortal lovers (Sonnet "18"), and the reality of time as a bri...

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