Beautiful like the stars and clearly visible as a cloudless night. ... It is also romantic in the way that he talks of the beauty of a woman in terms of the beauty of the night, a clear and starry night. ... For example the author says, "she walks in beauty like the night" here he is saying that she is beautiful in the same way the night is beautiful (Poetry Series Supplement, 3442). ... There is also an example of alliteration in lines two and five " Of cloudless climes and starry skies" and " Thus mellowed to that tender light." Showing a repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of th...

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• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

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." (I.i. 134) Earnestly professed by Lysander in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, the character assertively articulates one of the play's most crucial themes: the complexities of love. ... The language of love is coaxingly peppered with scintillating imagery and profound symbolism, and love's tender and heartfelt pretext, a convention of many love poems, is contrasted...

• Word Count: 1990
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate