Both the poems, Sonnet 43 and Sonnet 18, express love in distinctive ways, Browning begins the octave of the sonnet with a question, "how do I love thee," giving the reader an indication of her intense love that is further elaborated by a three dimensional "depth and breadth and height" limit. ... Along with full stops, and the broken punctuation of the hyphens Browning strengthens the passion of her love. ... 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 sug...

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Moving from couple cheerless metaphors to those much livelier and passionate ones within each quatrain, the sonnet takes on the paradox from the speakers perishing body with living soul to create a parallel metaphor in regards to the speakers unacquainted love relationship with the Fair Young Man. The season fall becomes the sonnets most general metaphor in respect to the addressers aging body in the first quatrain of sonnet 73. ... The connections in the preceding oppositions of animation concealed by weariness that the speakers soul is Consumd with that which it was nurrisht by, (12) which ...

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His use of the sonnet form of poetry influenced future English poets such as Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare. ... Canzoniere was translated into English in1931. ... An example of this is his Vita Solitaria (1480), which was translated in 1924 as Solitary Life. ... He had a close friendship with the writer Giovanni Boccaccio and together with Dante; the three of them were responsible for making the Tuscan dialect of Italian the written language of Italy. ... Petrarch developed new ways of expression, which was what the Renaissance was all about, with his innovative and beauti...

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Finally, this section will also compare the two characters with that of Satan, the major character in the poem "Paradise Lost" by John Milton. ... Ironically, he is still not satisfied with his profound knowledge and, as a result, he turns to magic, to a dangerous practice of necromancy. ... With the help of his satanic power, Faustus swindles a Horse-courser, and then plays a terrifying trick on him to confuse him when he returns. Similarly, he entertains the Duke and Duchess using illusions before Robin the Clown arrives and then manipulates them with his powers, overcoming them with dreadf...

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Humanism became a movement of sorts with the appointment of Coluccio Salutati as chancellor of Florence, Italy in 1375. ... By attracting others to the affinity of humanistic thought, many classical texts were revived and translated by his colleagues, including Cicero's Brutus, Orator, and On the Orator, which became staples in teaching rhetoric (Humanism: Italy " 2). ... With respect and knowledge of the actual virtues man possessed, a prince can rule without virtuosity. ... He became the first pope to openly advocate humanism, and he recruited scholars to come to Rome and translate anci...

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Two years after the publishing of La fanfarlo, Baudelaire acquired a fascination with American writer Edgar Allan Poe; and began translating many of his works into French. ... He identified completely with Poe integrating many of his thoughts and ideas into his own poetry. ... He wrote in Les paradis artificiels, "It is in dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world that surrounds him." ... He would add that regret, coupled with dejection, provided a direct contrast to joy [3]. ... A considerable amount of symbolist tendencies are in Correspondances, Baudelaire's sonnet from Les f...

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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. ... In a way, the characters, although played by male actors, conceptualised women in a forum appropriate to the era, to which is deemed to be: 'women translated by the opinions of m...

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