“Look again at ‘Shall I Compare Thee….?’ By William Shakespeare, compare this poem with one other of your choice”

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Stephen Kent                                                                                  17/5/02

“Look again at ‘Shall I Compare Thee….?’ By William Shakespeare, compare this poem with one other of your choice”

In this essay I will be comparing “Shall I Compare Thee…?”, and “The Flea”, by John Donne. These two poets both have the same ambition; they are trying to get a woman. Shakespeare is trying to earn the women’s love and respect, while Donne is just trying to get the women into bed.  The main difference between these two poems is that “Shall I Compare Thee…?”, is a love poem and “The Flea”, is not.

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      William Shakespeare wrote more than 150 sonnets, one of them being “Shall I Compare Thee…?”. This poem is very rhythmic giving it a sort of a love poem feeling. This poem is rhythmic because it has a good Iambic Pentameter. Shakespeare compares the women to a “summers day”. The first line of the poem “shall I compare thee to a summers day” is a rhetorical question. This poem is split into four parts, in the first part Shakespeare is asking questions and answering them himself. In the second line he is starting to say, “Thou art more ...

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