William Shakespeare was a master at incorporating love in his sonnets. ... He continues on and talks about how their lover is considered to be their home and like a traveler they would eventually have to come back home. ... I assumed that these lines meant that it wouldn't be so easy for me to leave you for something worthless in exchange. ... The rhyming couplet in the end explains that the universe means nothing to him and the only thing that matters is you, the significant other. ... "Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments" (Shakespeare). ...

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Shakespeare's Sonnet 98 has a 4-6-2-2 pattern. ... Shakespeare's sonnets can be divided into 2 groups. ... "The second and third quatrain of both Sonnet 97 ("How like a winter hath my absence been") and Sonnet 98 ("From you have I been absent in the spring") are linked by muted anaphora in lines 5-9" (Booth 209). ... The keyword in this sonnet is the word "you". The couplet tie that Shakespeare uses is in the word "you" (Vendler 420). ...

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The final line-- "Who, in despite of view, is pleased to dote- has a pun on the word "view,"" which sounds similar to "you."" ... Unlike a traditional beauty in most of Shakespeare's sonnets, this woman does not have an appealing smell or "delightful- voice, and gives the reader a more relatable character. ... As the persona points out, his lover does not have a delightful tune, and when read, the line sounds much like a tune, mainly because of the alliteration-- "thy tongue's tune,"" and the extra syllable emphasizes that idea of imperfection. ... The tone however, is much like th...

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In Sonnet 73 one will realize Shakespeare follows the classic pattern of the iambic pentameter with a slight variation; the poet utilizes the "spondaic foot" or heavey stress in the beginning of the fourth line in each of the quatrains. ... ( "Upon those boughs which shake against the cold") "Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang." suggests a bare ,desolate place, empty of people, filled with decay and despair, much like the doom and gloom the poet feels in the late autumn of his life. In the second quatrain Shakespeare uses the day in the passage of time...

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I really liked this sonnet because it talked about how a person needs a child to continue your life after you are dead. ... I enjoyed how Shakespeare intended this sonnet to demonstrate how having a child is obligatory. That there is no pint in living if you do not have a child because once you die your name will die too. ... In conclusion, many people my age do not recognize or appreciate Shakespeare because of the style of writing or the prolonged stories. But what they do not realize is that they can relate to Shakespeare a lot, if they only took the time to understand what he is portr...

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Shakespeare's Famous Language Shakespeare's legendary work has been a great impact on many things when it comes to literature and grammar. ... Shakespeare created these words for a very special reason. ... Shakespeare framed the expressive verb "beetles," to indicate a cliffs summit that juts out prominently, that projects beyond its wave worn base like the head of a wooden beetle or mallet. ... When a language is created it really gets you into the work and makes you want to figure out what is really being said. An example is when you are reading Hamlet and you look down to see w...

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Poems can touch a person's heart like nothing else can even come close to. They can make you cry, make you laugh, love, make you forgive, they can bring an abundance of emotions in just a few lines. The most captivating of all poems are love poems, especially when they are telling you of how beautiful you are. In William Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day" he does that very thing. ... So poems can touch you, they can change your views, they can totally alter your being. ...

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In sonnet 116 Shakespeare writes about true love. ... The way it was written really gave me a clear picture in my head of what this woman could look like. ... When you read it, you get this picture of true love, an undying love. ... Shakespeare is describing here what a true love to him really is. ... We also hear the i sound, in words like; it, is, his, lips, admit, and impediments which is assonance. ...

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William Shakespeare's classical play "The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" begins with a prologue. ... This line informs you about whom the characters in the play are and how many. ... The last meaning of civil is civilian which is a normal person, like the people in the families who are just normal people who have disagreements. ... These two rhyming lines mean that, if you listen patiently we will explain again what you have missed, so that you understand. ... The ending pattern of the prologue is different to the rest of the lines in it, which is like how the storyline of the play is stru...

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Shakespeare's sonnets, although based on the Petrarchan model, are considered to be of their own merit due to the influence they imposed on English Literature. ... Shakespeare wrote a collection of fifty sonnets, all connected by his thoughts and desires. ... To gain a better understanding of what the poet is expressing, you would need to peruse through the rest of the sonnet collection. ... He refers to man as like a plant, subject to the same laws of nature. ...

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This is shown in "Sonnet 147" where the first quatrain outlines the speaker's feelings towards love being like a disease - "My love is as a fever," depicting a self-destructive nature to it all. ... 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 his poem "Sonnet 130" he demonstrates a clear manipulation of the idea of love, mocking the unrealistic comparisons made such as "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" and presenting us with a warped view on the nature of lo...

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She is a very simple person who has hidden talents when you get to know her. ... It was like an outsider compared to the others. ... Metaphor PEEL In Shakespeare's piece "All the Worlds a stage", the playwright compares opposite things, giving them a hidden attraction. ... Moreover Shakespeare demonstrates how intelligent though mischievous human beings are no matter what gender they are. By mentioning "players"(Page 1), he makes the audience feel like they belong in the world and that we are all part of a marvellous creation. ...

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However, one could imply a caesura after the word "eyes," making the phrase "My mistress" eyes, are nothing like the sun" rather than "My mistress" eyes are nothing like the sun." ... My mistress" eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips" red. ... Shakespeare is saying that he finds this woman as rare and that his love for her is not like any other he has experienced. This woman is not like others he has met. ... She is different than other women and Shakespeare has found that you can love a person who is real and average. ...

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Bryant is joined by Shakespeare when he states that we "bare the whips and scorns of time." ... He says that when thoughts of death come "over thy spirit" and makes you "grow sick at heart" you should go out "under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings, while from all around...comes a still voice." ... Bryant finishes his poem by stating that one should "approach thy grave like on who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." ... All three writings make death seem like something pleasant by linking them to dreams and good nights. ... Shakespe...

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She was like a grandmother to me. ... 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?... Browning is trying to count the ways she loves him but when you are in love words cannot be counted. ... Shakespeare's "Shall I compare Thee to a Summer's Day?... Love is communicated via text or email it is no longer personal; it doesn't give you butterflies. ...

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A mid-autumn night's dream of Love: a critical commentary on one of Carol Anne Duffy's most notable works William Shakespeare once wrote "The course of true love never did run smooth.... The concept of a dream is also well-ensconced in Van Gogh's artwork, which could imply that the poem, like the artwork, is nothing but a dream; a figment of the poet's delicious imagination. ... Shakespeare has been noted in many of his works to possess a vested interested in understanding the mechanisms that propel the substance of dreams (Camden). ... This inference emphasizes the po...

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Explain how two poems you have studied have conformed to the form or sub-genre in which they were written and how that has affected your reading of the poems Introduction Poetry is a genre of literature where the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensely by use of distinctive style and rhythm. My understanding of form and sun-genre have helped to form/shape my reading of Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18" and Gwen Harwood's "Suburban Sonnet". ... Body Paragraph One My understanding of form and sub-genre have helped to form my reading of Shakespeare's "...

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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. Whether you refer to his poem as "A Song" or "Ask Me No More," Carew revolutionizes the love poem and redefines beauty in such a way that the recipient of these words could care less about what the poem is called simply because it would be just as romantic with any other title. ... The image Carew creates in these lines is that of all of the roses in the world are, essentially...

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In comparing the two poems one can notice the use of iambic pentameter, which was first innovated by William Shakespeare and his sonnets as well his plays. ... Some, like a downward smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn did go; And some through wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumberous sheet of foam below. ... The two authors use different lengths to tell their stories, one short and sweet but gives a lot of meaning within a few short lines of a stanza and the other is long, drawn out and takes you to where he wants you to be, in his home. ...

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John Donne, one of the infamous Metaphysical Poets, is known to some only by random quotes such as "for whom the bell tolls" or "no man is an island", but to others he is as important a writer as Shakespeare and thus has been valued as such in many forms. However John Donnes popularity is not universal and although he may be well known, he is not necessarily well liked. ... He says "to read (the metaphysical poetry) you need only count syllables, but to read Donne you must measure time, and discover the time of each word by the sense of passion". ...

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HEAVEN AND AFTERLIFE IMAGERY SYMBOL ANALYSIS When you die, you go to heaven, which will be like paradise. ... Like figgy pudding. ... God, of course, lives in heaven (just in case you were wondering), which is described as being just like England. ... If you've read any Shakespeare, you've run into this rhythm a time or two, even if you weren't aware of it at the time. ... You want an example? ...

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This poem is like one of Shakespeare's sonnets, which were generally love poems, showing how he loved his son. ... It would have been like he lost the veins to carries blood to his heart. ... Why did you have to take him/her and not me? ... We each have a time limit that we are to spend on earth and when that time is up God will take you. ... In this day and age, every parent is like Ben, wanting the world and more for their child/children. ...

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Dickinson often drew on the Bible, classical mythology, and Shakespeare for allusions and references. ... "Her subjects are often parts of the topography of her own psyche; she explores her own feelings with painstaking and often painful honesty but never loses sight of their universal poetic application; one of her greatest techniques is to write about the particulars of her own emotions in a kind of universal homiletic or adage-like tone ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes") that seems to describe the reader's mind as well as it does the poet's." ... Both authors' work...

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Blake's works are deeply influenced by Shakespeare, Milton and the Bible. ... In Matthew 17:2, the story of transfiguration the text says: "His face shone like the sum, and his clothes became as white as the light". Another time, after the resurrection His description goes like: "His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow." ... Based on Jesus" words, "whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me" we can suppose that Jesus being present random in anyone is also present in the animal and therefore is in the lamb and is th...

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She creates a fairy-tale atmosphere, suggested by the inclusion of the goblin men and the adolescent independence of Laura and Lizzie who reside in this dream-like world, would suggest that this is a children's poem. ... (Symons 141) Edmund Gosse would seem to agree with this intention, choosing not to make the suggestions of the poem crystal clear to its readers: Like a Japanese work of art, one perceives the general intention, and one is satisfied with the beauty of all the detail, without comprehending, or wishing to comprehend every part of the execution. ... For example, the sist...

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