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. While Browning's poem is traditionally and conventionally a poem about love and admiration, Shakespeare rejoices the beauty of his lover beauty through time. A stark contrast can be observed as both poems focus on different elements of life, namely nature and religion, to facilitate in expressing their views about their loved ones.
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. The use of inner rhyme "depth and breath" confines Browning's love however by professing this, she initially attempts to quantify her love but then implies that it is immeasurable by relating it to the abstract idea of her "soul". Additionally, her use of anaphora in "I love thee" reinforces the countless ways she loves "thee" by the technique of listing. Noticeably, Browning repeats the phrase exactly seven times: perhaps representing the seven days of the week, expressing that she loves the addressee of her poem every day. On the other hand, Shakespeare is infatuated by the beauty of his lover, presumably a girl, and eternalizes it to a great extent. Through the technique of personification in "thy eternal summer shall not fade" and "Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade," Shakespeare's lover embodies summer itself implying that her beauty will never "fade" and even death cannot cease it. Love, as a theme exists in poems, however differently, implying the many facets of this emotion.
The majority of the 152 Sonnets Shakespeare wrote focus on love. Shakespeare wrote poems of admiration as well as poems of suffering because of love and separation. ... Sonnet 18 is a poem of admiration and glorification of Shakespeare's lover. ... Sonnet 18 is a poem that glorifies the subject and his or her beauty. ... Sonnet 18 is similar to many love poems because it is flattering. ...
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. ... In the first eight lines, the octave, Browning uses comparisons of her feelings amongst spiritual, political and religious metaphors to emphasize the depth of her love for her husband. ... Following tradition, Browni...
The majority of the 152 Sonnets Shakespeare wrote focus on love. Shakespeare wrote poems of admiration as well as poems of suffering because of love and separation. ... Sonnet 18 is a poem of admiration and glorification of Shakespeare's lover. ... Sonnet 18 is a poem that glorifies the subject and his or her beauty. ... Sonnet 18 is similar to many love poems because it is flattering. ...
"In Elizabethan England--the era during which Shakespeare's sonnets were written--the sonnet was the form of choice for lyric poets, particularly lyric poets seeking to engage with traditional themes of love and romance" (Spark Notes, Shakespeare). ... "But Shakespeare ends the sonnet by proclaiming his love for his mistress despite her lack of adornment, so he does finally embrace the fundamental theme in Petrarch's sonnets -- total and consuming love." ... According to Shakespeare, love is more profound than the materialistic, romantic poems his era seems to imply. The theme of ...
William Shakespeare was a master at incorporating love in his sonnets. I will discuss the theme concept of Love in "Sonnet 18", "Sonnet 116", and "Sonnet 109." In the "Sonnet 18" the speaker uses love in a sense of a person describing the long lasting beauty in another person, perhaps their significant other. ... Shakespeare used these three themes, and many others, to help centralize his main idea of his sonnets. Three sonnets that I used to describe love was "Sonnet 18", "Sonnet 116", and "Sonnet 109". ...
Thus, Sonnet 18 will undoubtably be studied by future generations due to themes such as love and beauty, the relationship between art and life and lastly morality. ... Love and Beauty The backbone of Shakespeare's sonnets is love. ... Which is the overarching message of not only Sonnet 18, but Shakespeare's work as a collective. ... Immortality Shakespeare, like many sonneteers, portrays time as an enemy of love. ... It is in 'Sonnet 18' that we see the idea of love being finite challenged. ...
William Shakespeare, perhaps the greatest author that ever lived, wrote a collection of 154 sonnets that are truly a work of pure brilliance. Shakespeare uses both Petrarchan and Shakespearean structure in his sonnets. Sonnet 18, one of the most famous of Shakespeare's collection, is a masterpiece that truly shows Shakespeare's incredible ability as a writer. ... Due to all of these shortcomings of summer, Shakespeare shows in the third quatrain of this sonnet that comparing his lover to this season fails to do him justice. ... Although Shakespeare seems to be conforming to the cl...
Shakespeare's Definition of Love Love (luv) n. - Deep affection and warm feeling for another. 2. ... This paper is focuses on the definition of Love in sonnets 18 and 130 by William Shakespeare. ... This paper will first talk about sonnet 18, and break it down to its true meaning, then do the same to sonnet 130. ... In sonnet 18 Shakespeare talks about things such as time, age, and something that conquers all, an "inner beauty". This is sonnet 18 paraphrased by Alphonso Alvarez. ...
William Shakespeare was an outstanding English playwright and a poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare is greatly known as the best dramatist ever. ... Sonnet 29, lets us know whether the speaker tending to a man or a lady. ... In Sonnet 29, the speaker depicts his depression and his low self-esteem. ... Furthermore, Sonnet 116 discuss the unchangeable nature of love, and that it's not focused around appearances or the change of things. ...