Appreciation of Love Poetry

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Appreciation of Love Poetry

        Since man learned to read and write, poetry has been around.  Many poems can be classed under the theme of “love”.  I have studied many pieces of love poetry and discovered that they talk about love, passion, death, remorse, sorrow, and joy.  In this essay I have chosen to share my views on three poems: “Sonnet 18”, “Even Tho”, and “Song”. The poets each use similar writing styles ad each is equally as inspirational and well written as the other.

        The first poem I studied was “Sonnet 18” written by William Shakespeare in the 16th Century.  The word sonnet is Italian for small love song.  Which suggests that it is meant to be to be said or sung aloud.  Te first line tells readers that it maybe the author, Shakespeare, writing of his love towards another person.  “Shall I”, being Shakespeare, “compare thee” thee being the person he fancied.  Shakespeare uses metaphors to tell the readers of the persons’ beauty.  He goes on to describe his beloved with imagery for example comparing his beloved to a summers’ day.  He uses personification when he says the gold complexion of the sun is dimmed.

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        I think that this poem is structured very cleverly.  Each line has ten syllables.  Every other line in the poem rhyme, e.g. day with May: and temperate with date.  The last two lines in the poem are different.  These are a rhyming couplet.  The poem is divided into two parts by an octet and a sestet.  The first part has eight lines making it the octet.  The octet sets up an argument that all living things die and become forgotten.  The second part has six lines this makes it the sestet.  The sestet is the part of the poem that ...

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