The abstract theme of love is explored in Sonnet 43 and 18, written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Shakespeare respectively, through a range of metaphors, alliteration and repetition. ... On the contrary, Sonnet 18 composes of colons, semi-colons and full stops that sever to describe his love; the regularity of the punctuation throughout the sonnet suggests that Shakespeare aims to slowly and gradually proceed with describing the beauty of his lover. It can be observed that Browning uses the medium of punctuation to fasten the pace of her sonnet, where as Shakespeare does the opposi...

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In sonnet 141 (CXLI), Shakespeare speaks again of physical and emotional aspects of the persona's lover, however this sonnet differs in that the woman's physical appearance and ways of conduct are not appealing at all to the persona. From the start of the first quatrain, the persona declares his lover unappealing-- "In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors note - (Lines 1-2) The beginning line is rather deceitful because Shakespeare's pattern from previous sonnets continues with either an explanation of the persona's blind love that g...

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In "Sonnet 20," Shakespeare grapples with paradoxes, centering his poem on a man both masculine and feminine, powerful and powerless-the impossible object of a homosexual love that should not be. ... The painful duality of the speaker's muse is loudly echoed in Shakespeare's structural choices for the poem. ... Sonnets in particular were used for professing love to female lovers and paramours, yet this poem professes adoration of a man. ... It is written like all of Shakespeare's work in iambic pentameter, but to each line is added a single syllable-a weak or feminine ...

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For this reason there is a question over the true authorship of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. ... One basic piece of evidence supporting Shakespeare as the author of these masterpieces is the fact that his name was on all of the sonnets and poems. ... With this abundant support, one would conclude that William Shakespeare is the true author of these many beloved sonnets and plays of his time period. 2 Quite as evident is the substantial merit to the idea that some other individual constructed these literary treasures. ... For these reasons one could c...

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Imposing the thematic sequence of a Petrarchan sonnet in a more formal pattern, Shakespeare uses the first and second quatrain to build on an argument and then concludes this by the final couplet. ... Shakespeare has used this type of unconventional writing in many of his poems, further supporting the argument that this is his interpretation of the sonnet. ... In comparison to Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning adopts the Petrarchan style of sonnet writing in its entirety within her poem "Sonnet 43" in terms of both form and content, choosing to follow its conventions. ... However unlike ...

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The escalating liveliness and usage of imagery in regards to the time, light, and season both supplement and contradict the speaker's disappearing body in William Shakespeare's Sonnet 73. ... The season fall becomes the sonnets most general metaphor in respect to the addressers aging body in the first quatrain of sonnet 73. ... As with majority of the Shakespearean sonnets, the couplet is comprised of monosyllabic vocabulary, which concludes Shakespeares point with conclusiveness. ... With the sequence of sonnets, various times Shakespeare mentions rival poets, questioning whether t...

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Essay Topic: An analysis of the ideological implication of Andrew Marvell's poem, "To His Coy Mistress", in respect to similar themes in William Shakespeare's Sonnets "18" and "73". 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 "...

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Shakespeare's Play, Richard III According to William Shakespeare's presentation, Richard III in the eponymous play is a man driven by vengeance, ambition, and a thirst for power. ... Richard is the main character in Shakespeare's play; the author presents him as a villain who does wicked things intentionally to satisfy his selfish desires and achieve his goals. ... The unattractive physique used by Shakespeare makes Richard III look like an anti-hero, and as a result, other characters and the audience repelled him. ... The bad character of Richard III was seen when he plotted ...

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Aldous Huxley chooses to include references to the literary works of Shakespeare many places in his novel Brave New World. ... Shakespeare's The Tempest is the play from which the phrase originates. ... Huxley juxtaposes sonnets and hypnopaedic rhymes to demonstrate their infantile pleasures and trite language. ... Love, the basis for action in so many of Shakespeare's plays and many of his sonnets, is now an unfamiliar theory; something that was done in the past, but no one now understands the reasons behind it. ... Shakespeare and his works point out many specific aspects of this "...

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Shakespeare was an infamous poet and playwright who wrote many sonnets and plays- tragedies, comedies and histories, whose common themes were love, life and death. ... In this poem, Shakespeare presents a very strong argument to the reader, and does this using numerous poetic devices. Shakespeare exercises complex metaphors to depict the struggles one undergoes in life, and to contrast between life and death. ... Shakespeare employs this device to outline different groups of people, and qualities- young or old, strong or weak which will face death. ... Shakespeare uses metonymy to introduce a...

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Analysis on "Love is Not Blind" - Millay's sonnet xxvi In this sonnet "Love is Not Blind", Edna St. ... Similar to Shakespeare's sonnet 130, Millay then draws a comparison between the mistress' ugliness and other women's grace. ... According to Shakespeare, this is how his lady looks like: "eyes are nothing like the sun," "her breasts are dun," and "black wires grow on her head". Whereas Shakespeare devotes his entire poem on depicting the ugly appearance of his mistress in great details, on contrary, Millay's physi...

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Before Shakespeare's formation and death he was just an ordinary poet among many others. ... In 1592, at the start of Shakespeare's career, a well-known writer at the time named Robert Green insulted Shakespeare by naming him an "upstart crow". ... If seen from a more positive perspective, this gave Shakespeare a huge opportunity and caused his popularity to increase, this lead Shakespeare to be taken more seriously and people were beginning to get influenced to giving Shakespeare interest because it implied that regardless of his education and his class, Shakespeare was ca...

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This simple rhyming pattern encourages the reader to recite the sonnet slowly creating a "tranquil" tone. ... The overall tone of the sonnet is appreciation, which Norton lavishes her "friends" the books with. Through her choice of diction, Norton romanticises the sonnet, allowing the reader to confuse this, with a sonnet intended for a lover. ... To My Books, as a performance, would be categorised as a soliloquy; the sonnet is used as a vehicle for Norton's thoughts and feelings to be expressed and is comparable to Shakespeare's sonnets. ... The overall tone of the sonnet is ador...

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Shakespeare explains the idea of men in love with a fatal tragedy or sometimes a comic resolved endings. ... Also, Shakespeare displays that both the men in love, Romeo and Benedick, are very dangerous and reveal that love is potentially divisive. ... Romeo is initially presented as a Petrarchan lover, a man whose feelings of love aren't reciprocated by the lady he admits he is in love with, Rosaline, and who uses the poetic language of sonnets to express his emotions about his situation. ... By Shakespeare making Romeo poetic he presents the Prologue as a sonnet in order to point to the...

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Shakespeare's main source for this infamous play is Arthur Brooke's 'Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet', a long, dense poem. ... These fourteen lines in question fit together to form a perfect Shakespearean sonnet. The sonnet is most often associated with love therefore is used to present the emotion of their first meeting. ... Romeo, the courageous lover, starts off the sonnet with a sly hint of physical and religious language. ... William Shakespeare applies the technique of oxymorons to display the uncertainty about her love towards Romeo in Act 3 Scene 2. ...

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The continued relevance and influence of William Shakespeare is unquestionable; the very name "Shakespeare" is a known and respected around the world. ... Pope, in the preface to his six-folio edition of the works of Shakespeare also says, "Shakespeare is not so much an imitator, as an instrument of nature"." ... Shakespeare's approach to writing plays revolutionized Elizabethan theatre. ... He wrote sonnets to appease his patrons and keep a stable income, which enabled him to further his career as a playwright. ... There are few others who hold such widespread acclaim as William Shakespe...

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His use of the sonnet form of poetry influenced future English poets such as Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare. ... In 1327, he would meet his life long love Laura de Noves, (a Frenchwoman) who would give him inspiration for his sonnets in his collection written in Italian and entitled Rime in vite di Madonna Laura or Canzoniere (Songbook). ... Sonnets are made up of 14-line verses usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes and are mostly dedicated to love. ... Petrarch developed new ways of expression, which was what the Renaissance was all about, with his innovative and...

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Literature as a way of representing humans thoughts and facts , it becomes people's interest ; they tend to read novels , short stories , and fictions .in accordance to this research topic "Immortality" , Shakespeare was one of the most famous writers to wrote about death , immortality , and existence of souls . The sonnets of Shakespeare abound in imagery of all kinds, and many dominant themes. In his sonnet 65, he describes the force of time saying: "Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power,  How with this rage shall beauty ho...

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His literature works written over 400 years ago, have survived the challenge of time, so much so that Shakespeare's plays, sonnets and poems are still considered to this day an integral facet within the study of culture, society and language. ... The 1998 film, Shakespeare in Love, cleverly altered the way in which audiences viewed Shakespeare by adjusting the temperament of the film with a modern lens. ... The set of Shakespeare in Love is a clever conception of London in the 1500's and convincingly reveals to the audience the possible conditions of how Shakespeare may have lived (F...

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Shakespeare in England produced works that emphasized the intricacies of the complex human character The style of architecture reflected that of classical culture and spread throughout Europe, replacing the medieval Gothic style. ... The sonnets of Michelangelo are impassioned expressions of inner feelings and religious conviction. ... These tales formed the basis of many European literary works, such as Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet. ...

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The famous poet William Shakespeare once said "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" and his words couldn't be any truer for the work of 17th century English poet Thomas Carew. ... Breaking from the Shakespearean sonnet that had become commonplace, Carew's poem exhibits a few distinct structural differences that make it unique and memorable. Rather than writing a fourteen line poem with three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter like every sonnet of the time, Carew writes "A Song" in twenty lines of paired, short couplets in iambic tetrameter. ......

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I used my knowledge of the techniques and factors that were relevant during Elizabethan times and which Shakespeare included in ""Romeo and Juliet"" to develop a modern transformation of the play, the film ""Romeo Must Die"". ... I have altered the relevance of the grudge to reflect my opinion that today's society is, in the majority, a great deal more money hungry than that of Shakespeare's time. ... I have developed this character from that of the Nurse from Shakespeare's Romeo an Juliet who is also employed to take care of Juliet and has a humorous side that is reflected thro...

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