Whether it is an essay, an email, or a poem, each form of writing has an audience and a purpose. They play a key role in influencing how a piece of work is written. The audience is crucial in what goes into each piece of writing and how it is written. By analyzing the audience, writers are able to adapt their style in order to portray their purpose. This is seen mainly in the differences between genres. However, the influence of audience and purpose can be seen among the same genre in Spenser's "Amoretti XV " and Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130. " .
Writing is not always easy to decipher. Most works do not specifically tell the reader what the narrator is implying or trying to portray. They do not usually add parenthesis after a sentence indicating, "I am being sarcastic " if they are doing so. At times I feel the author needs to spell it out for readers, but that's beside the point. We write in a certain way, depending on who is on the other end reading it, and what we want them to take away from our writing. An email to a professor and a romantic poem read differently because of the significance that audience and purpose place on written communication. They influence the pattern, diction, tone, and style of a particular piece. Different concepts may be emphasized and levels of detail may vary. The author does specific things to appeal to their audience and elicit a certain response. This can be seen in writing throughout different time periods and different genres. .
Becoming famous around the 14th century, the blazon is a literary work in which the author uses direct comparisons to describe specific parts of his/her lover's body. The purpose of the blazon is to describe a woman's beauty. Spenser and Shakespeare take on the blazon with similar audiences in mind. Both Spenser's "Amoretti XV " and Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130 " were written at a time when the blazon was a common form of poetry. Both poems targeted an audience that was familiar with this type of poetry.