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Shakespeare's Sonnets
(All line citations are taken from the text available at the Shakespeare Online reference provided.) Question 1: Which of the following best describes the whole structure of the poem as a whole? A)...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
The poem is a lament by the speaker about fickleness. The speaker, upon an occasion, hears a nightingale sing and takes pity on the poor bird for its beautiful song sounds like a wail. He then...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Although many of the lines from Sonnet 116 are simply abstract statements about love, we do find several examples of imagery: 1. "That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;" Here, the speaker is...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
There is more than one form of the sonnet. Shakespeare popularized the English sonnet. It has three quatrains (four-line stanzas) and a rhymed couplet (two-line stanza) at the end. The rhyme scheme...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare's "Sonnet 112" opens with a metaphor in the first two lines: Your love and pity doth the impression fillWhich vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow; (1-2) In these lines, the speaker...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
These lines are from the couplet of Shakespeare's sonnet 116, Let me not to the marriage of true minds ... Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
In this angry sonnet, the narrator curses the Dark Lady he is in love with because she has also trapped the heart of the young man the narrator is also in love with. The narrator feels enslaved and...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare used the English sonnet form to develop a metaphor in three quatrains (groupings of four lines) and then an outcome in the final couplet (two lines). The speaker in sonnet 1 addresses...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
I'll address each portion of your question individually: A Shakespearean sonnet is written in iambic pentameter, a type of meter. "Iambe" is a foot, or a unit of measurement in language, that...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
The speaker in sonnet 73 compares himself to yellowed leaves, ruined church buildings, twilight, sunset and a last glowing ember lying in the ashes of a fire that is almost burned out. All of these...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
You can analyze a poem in a variety of ways by taking into account rhyme, meter, theme, subject, structure, etc. I always like to start with rhyme. "Sonnet 84" is a standard Shakespearean sonnet...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare had a deservedly high opinion of his poetic genius. It is a bit uncanny that he seems to be knowing that we will be reading his lines so many years after his death. In quite a few...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
The "problem" in Sonnet 130 is that Shakespeare is attempting to write an over-the-top sonnet full of elevated language about a woman who is clearly only ordinary looking -- or perhaps even ugly....
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Sonnet 29 is one of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets. It is a characteristic to be found in many of his sonnets that he deviates from the iambic pentameter lines at one turning point. In Sonnet...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Scholars believe that Shakespeare's sonnets were based on his personal relationships, namely with the Fair Youth (Sonnets 1-126), and, therefore, deal the subjects of love, friendship, and...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
While both Shakespeare's Sonnet 80 and Sonnet 130 incorporate contrasts, the poems are fundamentally different in a couple of key ways. First, in Sonnet 80, Shakespeare is addressing a young man,...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Sonnet 22 is written to a beautiful young man whom Shakespeare loves and mentors (this is not a homosexual poem, in case you're wondering). It essentially says the following: My mirror won't...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
The speaker in both sonnets is a man (presumably) who does not care about what a woman looks like, only how beautiful she is inside. He is mature enough to overlook physicality and focus on the...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
We have no evidence of why William Shakespeare wrote his sonnets. He did not leave behind any account of his reasons for writing them. Because he wrote before the advent of copyright, he would not...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
First, I'd like to say that you are absolutely on the right track in your writing process here. First, you have chosen your authors. Next you have chosen your theme, and now you are working on...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
The Italian term sonetto simply means a short or little song. The fourteen-line sonnet form with which later became known as the "Italian" or "Petrarchan" sonnet appears to have first been...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
In addition to his formidable output as a playwright, William Shakespeare wrote a particular form of poem called a sonnet. He is credited with 154 sonnets, almost all of which follow the same...
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Literature
By far the most common literary devices used in Shakespeare's sonnets are metaphors and similes. Another common literary device is poetic conceits, but it is Shakespeare's metaphors and similes...
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Sonnet XVI
Your question indicates that you are comparing Shakespeare's Sonnet XXVII to John Milton's Sonnet VXI and you link to John Milton's Sonnet XVI, which starts, "Cromwell, our chief of men..." But,...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
This is a good question. From a broad perspective, the whole sonnet is figurative. From the surface it is hard to understand what is happening, but under closer examination, there are three main...
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William Shakespeare
The structure of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 11, "As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st" is comprised both of repeated patterns of sound and of rhetorical patterns giving shape to the...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Your question really made me think! I am very proud of you for attempting this particular thesis and, yes, there are things "that come to my mind from the sonnets that might be linked to plays."...
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Reference
Even in his first sonnet, Shakespeare alludes to the never-ending quest for permanence as he wishes that, "Beauty's rose might never die."(1 line 2) By preserving, in this case, beauty, Shakespeare...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
In specific Shakespearean sonnets, the theme of unfaithfulness is explored as a part of human identity. It reflects a complex nature of being. This intricate development of identity as a result of...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Within Shakespeare's sonnets, there are contradictions and complexities that certainly resist generalization on any topic or theme. Still, the portrayal of beauty and love prevail through most of...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare's first division of Sonnets, I-CXXIX, subvert courtly love since the one addressed is a man, rather than a woman. So, while the poet addresses the man in language appropriate to a...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
This sonnet explores the tremendous beauty of the object of Shakespeare's affection. The speaker chooses to emphasise his beloved's beauty through personifying nature as a woman in her own right...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare certainly does have several sonnets that concern the theme of friendship. One of the best examples can be seen in Sonnet 29. This sonnet opens with the speaker feeling in a state of...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
If someone wrote Sonnet 30 to me, I would feel very good indeed. Most of the poem is about the speaker’s regrets. The language is old fashioned, but if you look at phrases like “I sigh with...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare definitely was a poet who, at times, deliberately subverted and challenged the norms of his day and age in his literature to expound his message. This is certainly true of his treatment...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
One of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets, Sonnet XVIII extoles the quality of love that can transcend the mortality of Nature, while at the same time it recognizes the qualities in nature that...
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Hamlet
In Sonnet 3 death is viewed in a way that is very similar to how it is presented in Hamlet. In Act III scene 1, for example, Hamlet in his soliloquy describes death as: The undiscovered country...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare's sonnets are concerned with love, beauty, poetry, and, perhaps most pervasively, the force that the passage of time exerts upon all three. In Sonnet 116, the narrator tells the "young...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Of the 154 sonnets in the now standard edition, 29 feature the unusual device of a question within the first quatrain. The initiation of the sonnet with a question accords with a logical pattern...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare loves great work and full length play,that's why he liked collection form of the sonnets. Through this work,he got a great applause.
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
The first 126 of Shakespeare's collected 154 sonnets are addressed to a young man; and based on the premise that the poet had an actual individual in mind when he wrote them, several efforts have...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
The second (and last) set of poems (127 through 154) in Shakespeare's sonnets is addressed to a "Dark Lady." Akin to the search for the identity of the "young man," some of Shakespeare's...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
There are at least two major deviations from standard Shakespearean sonnet form among the 154 pieces now grouped under the heading of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Sonnet 126, the last in the "young man"...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
William Shakepseare's "Sonnet 104" speaks to his view on friendship (or at least his narrator's view on friendship). This sonnet illustrates the timeless nature of friendship for Shakespeare....
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
The Elizabethan sonnet is also called the English or Shakespearean sonnet. The Elizabethan sonnet tends to contain messages of love (similar to the Petrarchan sonnet). The Elizabethan sonnet...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
These sonnets by Shakespeare relate to the theme of love but Shakespeare, tired of the overly romantic view which people purport to support and which only complicates love, gives a down-to-earth...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 2" is written using iambic pentameter (five pairs of iambs, equally ten syllables). It contains fourteen lines (three quatrains and a couplet). The first twelve lines...
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Poetry
Each of these poetic forms has something in common with at least one other form. First, the haiku, an old Japanese form of poem, is made up of three lines with a set number of syllables per line....
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
A pun used in “Sonnet 1” is a play on the word tender, meaning both young and money. A pun is a play on words. It often involves double meaning. In this poem, we have a young man being...
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Hamlet
Based upon Ophelia's fate in Shakespeare's Hamlet, Petrarch's "Sonnet 333" might be seen as problematic. There is some difficulty in addressing this question because of the way Ophelia's death is...
