Compare the way the poets write about love and relationships in "Sonnet" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and "Sonnet 138" by William Shakespeare
Compare the way the poets write about love and relationships in "Sonnet" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and "Sonnet 138" by William Shakespeare A sonnet is traditionally a love poem, with 14 lines and generally ending with a couplet. The two sonnets I am comparing discuss the nature of love, but portray two completely different relationships between lovers. While Browning's poem is an ode to a pure, simple and almost childlike love, Shakespeare's is a critique of his relationship, in which both sides play a game of double-bluff. This poem mocks the idea of true love. We sense simply from the titles that, while Browning's "Sonnet" is an expression of heartfelt emotions, Shakespeare's "Sonnet 138" is just another meaningless work out of many, perhaps like his mistresses. Browning's work is extremely feminine and is almost certainly about her husband, as she was married, as opposed to the masculine view of women in Shakespeare's era that mistresses were disposable. I believe that Shakespeare has written this sonnet about a mistress rather than his wife, Anne Hathaway, because the untruthfulness in the relationship shows a lack of commitment between the two lovers. In these poems, the attitudes of the poets to their relationships and partners are extremely different. When Browning says, "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach", she implies that she
Critical Appreciation of "Since There's No Help" By Michael Drayton.
Critical Appreciation: Since There's No Help ~By Michael Drayton~ 'Since There's No Help' is a typical example of Drayton's work, yet it has been solely responsible for plucking Drayton from the general obscurity of Elizabethan sonneteers. It was his one and only "excellent" sonnet, reaching the "highest level of poetic feeling and expression"1 considered to be the "the one sonnet by a contemporary which deserves to rank with some of Shakespeare's best"1. This poem is written in traditional Shakespearian sonnet form, consisting of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is also consistent of a Shakespearean sonnet, being [abab cdcd efef gg]; yet critics are divided as to whether this sonnet can be split into the traditional three quatrains and a rhyming couplet, as with other Shakespearean sonnets. Lemuel Whitaker, in his essay 'The Sonnets of Michael Drayton', argued "many critics have shut their eyes to the sestet". "Now", at the opening of line 9, undoubtedly acts as a Volta, marking a substantial change in tone and causing some critics, including Whitaker, to consider this sonnet as an octave and a sestet, following the Petrachan sonnet form, rather than as a Shakespearian sonnet. The language has a vivid, spoken quality, whilst being sincerely simplistic. It also displays the directness that characterises most Elizabethan poetry. After the Volta in
Compare how love is portrayed in Sonnet 18,
Katherine Doyle English Poetry Coursework Compare how love is portrayed in Sonnet 18, "The Sun Rising" and "To His Coy Mistress". The three poems studied for this, all contain material describing love for a woman. Among this theme are other underlying messages being projected to attentive readers but the theme which will most probably be initially remarked upon or noticed by someone reading these poems for the first time will be their dedication to the female form. Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare begins with what seems like an ode to a special person, we can assume is a women. Shakespeare uses terms such as "lovely" and "darling" in order to describe the image which he wants to portray of this particular person. These descriptions initially seem entirely complimentary towards the subject seemingly implying that she is full of love. However, the word "temperate" is also used in the same phrase as "lovely". Temperate meaning not too hot or too cold, seems to imply that the subject being discussed is average. These too words used side by side seem to imply a contradiction within that particular phrase. The word "temperate" in this phrase could also be describing the subject's personality as average, nothing special. This would make the phrase quite a complete description if that were the case, as we would have the physical description as "lovely" in juxtaposition with the
Sonnets. Shakespeare liked the sonnet and created 154 of his own as well as incorporating them into his plays with adaptations of their style.
Craig Tolley 10CR Sonnets Essay Rough Draft The traditional sonnet is the worlds way of conveying love between two bodies. The traditional love poem that originated in Italy in the middle 1400's has been taken up by many other countries of the world. Shakespeare liked the sonnet and created 154 of his own as well as incorporating them into his plays with adaptations of their style. The Shakespearean sonnet was built around end rhymes on every other line. For example: Shall I compare thee to a summers day? (A) Thou art more lovely and more temperate (B) Rough winds do shake the darling buds of may (A) A summers lease hath all too short a date (B) As you can see may and day rhyme as do temperate and date. The final two lines in all Shakespearean sonnets have a rhyming couplet to complete the verse. These rhyme and have no rhyme connection with the rest of the sonnet. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see So long lives this and this gives life to thee. This is the form of all Shakespearean sonnets and the same applies to the sonnets that are in his plays. There are multiple sonnets in Romeo and Juliet consisting of traditional love sonnets, hate and love sonnets, some individual roles and some with the role of the chorus. Some of the sonnets illustrate these ideas are the Prologue, the discussion between Romeo and Benvolio just before the Capulets dinner party
Consider the sonnet as a verse form. With examples compare the Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets and show developments in this form to the twentieth century.
Lara Finnegan 20th January 2000 Consider the sonnet as a verse form. With examples compare the Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnets and show developments in this form to the twentieth century. The first sonnets were written by a Sicilian lawyer named Giacomo da Lentino, during the first part of the thirteenth century. The form soon became very popular and was publicised through the works of many well-known Italian poets, such as Cavalcanti, Dante and Petrarch, thus becoming known as the Petrarchan sonnet form. It soon spread through Europe and finally to England during the sixteenth century, through Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, who developed it slightly. Soon after, Shakespeare realised the limitations of such a strict format and therefore developed and changed it further, creating the Shakespearean form. However, not everyone agreed with his indifference towards tradition; John Milton and Wordsworth soon reverted to the strictly disciplined Petrarchan form again, preferring it to the relatively 'free and easy' style of Shakespeare. Through time, many poets have experimented with different styles and techniques, and by the twentieth century, writers such as Elizabeth Jennings wrote such undisciplined poetry that it could only be recognised as a sonnet by the
Sonnets. There are three different types of sonnets, Petrarchan, Shakespearian and Spenserian, and they have different structures,
Sonnets Sonnets are poems about different types of love, they are about, romantic love, were the love is equal, both partners love one another, unrequited love where the love is only one sided, you love someone but they do not desire you in the same way, and then there is bereavement, when you are grieving the death of a loved one. The poets who write these sonnets try to explain the impossible, what is love? By expressing what they feel for their partner on paper, whether it be exaggerated or just honest. But in order for us to recognise what these poets are trying to express, they use similes, images and symbols so the readers can relate to what the poets are trying to say. Sonnets have a rule that they must be fourteen lines long. There are three different types of sonnets, Petrarchan, Shakespearian and Spenserian, and they have different structures, for example Petrarchan sonnets have an Octet Sestet structure with Octet being the first eight lines on the first idea and the Sestet being the last six lines on a variation on the first idea, while Shakespearean and Spenserian sonnets have a Quatrain Quatrain Quatrain Couplet structure, the first four lines on the first idea, four lines on second idea, four lines on development of previous idea and the two line Conclusion. Also the sonnets have a rhyming scheme in which Shakespearean sonnets are written as ABAB CDCD EFEF GG,
What is love? Compare and contrast Shakespeare's presentation of it's paradox in sonnets 116 and 147.
Sonnet Coursework Task:- What is love? Compare and contrast Shakespeare's presentation of it's paradox in sonnets 116 and 147. Shakespeare was born in 1564 on the 23rd of April the same date he died 52 years later. But it was only in 1590's when he started to write sonnets. He mainly wrote them during the plague as all the theatres were closed. (1592) Sonnets are lyrical poems of 14 lines with a formal rhyme scheme, expressing different aspects of a single thought, mood, or feeling, resolved or summed up in the last lines of the poem. Sonnets are generally composed in the standard metre of the language in which they are written - in English this is iambic pentameter. The there are two main forms of sonnet but these two (sonnet 116 and 147) are both written in Shakespearean form of abab, cdcd, efef, gg. Shakespeare's sonnets unlike the Italian (petrarchan) form are not structured as an octave (8 lines) followed by a sestet (6 lines) but as 3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet. Yet the first 8 lines of Shakespeare's sonnets still introduce the argument and the final lines conclude it. Within each quatrain lines 1 and 3 would rhyme as would lines 2 and 4, this continued for all 3 quatrains and the final two lines would rhyme. This gives a total of the 14 lines. Sonnets were originally written to show allegiance to a monarch, woman, or a poetic predecessor in the Renaissance.
The sonnet: A historical analysis of the greatest form of poetry.
The sonnet: A historical analysis of the greatest form of poetry In this piece of English coursework, I have been asked to look at what I think is one of the greatest forms of poetry in history, which I personally think is a sonnet. In this topic, there are two main categories for sonnets, the first is Italian, and the second is English. Some say there is a Spenserian sonnet made by Edmund Spenser who varied the English form to make it slightly irregular. All sonnets have 14 lines in total. The Italian sonnet form is called the Petrarchan form. The form seems to have originated in the 13th century among the Sicilian school of court poets, who were influenced by the love poetry of Provençal troubadours (who were poets of high regards). It is usually an octet followed by a sestet. When the break between the verses occur the mood of the sonnet changes sometimes to differentiate between each other. The English sonnet form is called the Shakespearean form, which is usually made up of three quatrains and a couplet and the transition changes before the couplet. An octet is an eight-line verse, a sestet is a six-line verse, a quatrain is a four-line verse, and a couplet is a two-line verse. We were asked to write an analysis of a sonnet called "Shall I compare thee...?". This is a perfect example of a sonnet and a specific one too because it is formed in a Shakespearean sonnet
The History of the Sonnet
The History of the Sonnet The word "sonnet" is derived from the Italian word "sonneto", meaning little sound. It is a fourteen line poem, written in Iambic Pentameter, meaning short beat, long beat rhythm. The first word or syllable is unstressed, while the second is stressed, as in "delight". A line in a sonnet has five of these, meaning there are ten syllables to a line. Different poets change the structure slightly or dramatically, not because they are incapable of writing a sonnet like that, but because they want to call attention to the change or use it differently. This difference in structures is called the pattern of rhyme. The Italian, or Petrarchan sonnet was perfected by Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch). It consists of two parts, and octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines). The octave addresses one theme or thought, turning on the Volta or shift, and the poem ends dramatically in the last six lines. The pattern of rhyme is generally abba abba cde cde. An example of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet, by Christina Rossetti: O Earth, lie heavenly upon her eyes; Seal her sweet eyes weary of watching, Earth; Lie close around her; leave no room for mirth With its harsh laughter, nor for sounds of sighs. She hath no questions, she hath no replies, Hushed in and curtained with a blessed dearth Of all that irked her from the hour of birth; With stillness that is
A sonnet is recognised as a poem that consists of fourteen lines, split up into an octave and sestet, has ten syllables in each line and ends with a rhyming couplet.
SONNETS COURSEWORK A sonnet is recognised as a poem that consists of fourteen lines, split up into an octave and sestet, has ten syllables in each line and ends with a rhyming couplet. In a sonnet there is usually an idea or a question introduced in the octave, which is developed or answered in the sestet. The rhyming couplet at the end is there to sum up/round up the end. Comparison of Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? & My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Sonnet XVII) and My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (sonnet CXXX) were written by William Shakespeare. They are both comparisons of Shakespeare's love and his mistress. They are both associated with love and comparisons but differ quite a lot from each other. Shall I compare thee...? was written before My mistresses' eyes are nothing like the sun, which would have influenced the way that Shakespeare thought about love and the style of writing sonnets, would have also changed. Sonnet XVII is split into four quatrains and a rhyming couplet. Each quatrain develops further into the idea of his love being compared to a summer's day. The structure of the sonnet helps to break up the comparisons and make the sonnet more interesting. Sonnet CXXX is not split up into quatrains but does have a rhyming couplet at the end. This sonnet doesn't develop like the first