From the sonnets you have studied compare and comment upon three poems, explain why you think they are successful show which you prefered and why.
FROM THE SONNETS YOU HAVE STUDIED, COMPARE AND COMMENT UPON THREE POEMS. EXPLAIN WHY YOU THINK THEY ARE SUCCESSFUL. SHOW WHICH YOU PREFERED AND WHY. Before I compare these sonnets I must understand exactly what a sonnet is. A sonnet is a type of poem, which poets often use to express their feelings. The themes of most sonnets are subjects such as war and death or love and happiness. Sonnets are useful because the poet can tell the reader what they want to say in just fourteen short lines. The person who wrote the first sonnet is unknown but the form of the sonnet originated in Italy in the thirteenth century, a long time before Shakespeare was born. The sonnet first reached England in the sixteenth century courtesy of Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Earl of Surrey. Sonnets are a form of poem, which are different from all others. They always consist of fourteen lines, and each line has ten syllables. Each line also has a regular pattern where the first syllable is unstressed and is then followed by a stressed syllable. Once this is repeated five times in each line it is known as an iambic pentameter. The most famous form of sonnet is the Shakespearean sonnet and is known as this because it is the pattern that Shakespeare used for many of his sonnets. The sonnets that I have chosen are all Shakespearean and written by Shakespeare. I am going to compare three sonnets
Comparison of Shall I compare thee? and My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun
Comparison of "Shall I compare thee...?" and "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun..." Shall I compare thee...? Shall compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of maie, And summers lease hath all to short a date: 5 Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dim'd, And every faire from faire sometime declines, By chance, or natures changing course untrim'd: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, 10 Nor loose possession of that faire thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wandr'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breath or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee. In this sonnet, Shakespeare is creating a mental picture of spring and summer to compare against his loved one. He uses the fact that fine and beautiful days are the creation of nature, and nature is constantly changing all the time. Fine days never stay the same: `rough winds' or the sun obscured by clouds; `and often is his gold complexion dim'd', can easily mar a fine day. He talks about these negative factors of change in the first eight lines, and Shakespeare then uses these ideas to claim that his loved one will always remain untarnished, speaking of how `thy eternal summer shall not fade' and how his loved
Compare the treatment of time in Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias", Shakespeare's Sonnet LXV "Since Brass nor Stone", Shakespeare's Sonnet II "When Forty Winters", Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time".
"Compare the Treatment of time In the Selection of poems you have Read" The four poems I will be doing are: Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" Shakespeare's Sonnet LXV "Since Brass nor Stone" Shakespeare's Sonnet II "When Forty Winters" Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" All of these poets talk about the destructive power of time. There are two very different ways that you can look at the destructive power of time. One is where time can mature and enrich people or wine, generally a good view of time. The other is where time destroys everything in its path, like the fall of an empire. All of the poems we have studied focus on the destructive power of time. I believe that the passage of time is a destructive force and that the poems using that view are better as they are more powerful and display strong images about time. Even though a child will grow and mature they will die in the end like everything in the world. So I believe "There is no defence against time's scythe." In "Ozymandias" Shelley writes ironically about how time can ruin the greatest men in their day. It talks about a ruined statue of an ancient ruler of an "ancient" city. This means that time has destroyed his city and his entire empire has been reduced to "lone and level sands" that "stretch far away." Shelley uses alliteration here to speed up this line and it makes you read it
Shylock: Villain or Victim
Shylock: villain or victim? Shylock is a controversial character as he has aspects of both victim and villain. Audiences over four hundred years have responded both negatively and personally to him, although he only appears in 5 scenes he has a very strong personality. Shakespeare wrote the merchant of Venice in 1596. The Elizabethans attitude towards the Jews was negative because most Elizabethans are Christians so they would blame Jews for the death of Jesus. From when that happened Jews were classed as second class citizens. Even though Shylock is portrayed as a villain he can also be seen as a victim in some scenes. In Act 1 Scene 3 Shylock repeats what Antonio has said to him before 'You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, and spit upon my Jewish gabardine' .This shows that Shylock has been a victim of physical and verbal abuse by Antonio. After the holocaust many people felt sympathy for the Jews as most people's families were brutally murdered. In Act 1 Scene 3 we meet Shylock for the first time. He and Bassanio are discussing a loan that Shylock may make to Antonio ,Shylock says 'Antonio is a good man' When Shylock says this Bassanio's and Shylock have opposite ideas of good. Bassanio's way of good is to help people when they need it, but Shylock's way of good is when he is making interest off of his loans to people. When Bassanio says 'If it please you to dine
Love in Romeo and Juliet and Sonnets 18, 29 and 130.
Shakespeare is reputed to be one of the most eloquent and influential writer, poet, actor and playwright in English Literature. Born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon to John and Mary Shakespeare, Shakespeare was part of a successful middle class family. He grew up in a time where poetry and acting was at an all-time high which helped towards him leading a very successful profession. Throughout his career, he wrote 36 plays and 154 sonnets, four of which will be delved into in this essay. These four are his play “Romeo and Juliet” and sonnets “18, 29 and 130”. These works of art are a few examples of how Shakespeare uses his clever wit, brilliant mind and his deep understanding of human emotions to show the feelings of romantic love, requited and unrequited. These texts also portray Shakespeare's mastery over the English language, successfully stirring deep emotions within the reader through his subtle manipulation of language, grammar and structure. This essay will delve into how romantic love is presented throughout the four writings and will compare how it is presented to the reader. Firstly, Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, is one of the most famous romantic tragedy stories in English Literature. A story with love being the most influential and imperative theme, a force of nature that supersedes all other values and emotions. The plot revolves around to
Compare and contrast the two sonnets "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" and "Sonnet 130".
Compare and contrast the two sonnets "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" and "Sonnet 130" This essay is based on two sonnets, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" and "Sonnet 130", both of which are written by William Shakespeare. Although the poems are different to each other, they both come across as having the same meaning. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" is a traditional, romantic love poem of the seventeenth century. The purpose behind the poem is to flatter women. In the poem, Shakespeare compares his love to a summer's day. The way he does this is by highlighting all the negative points about summer and saying that she is much better. He beguiles her into thinking that in comparison to a day of summer she is much more extravagant. On the other hand "Sonnet 130" contradicts this poem. In "Sonnet 130" Shakespeare mentions all the bad points about his mistress in comparison with the small beauties in the world. This may sound as though he is unromantic towards his mistress, but he says that despite his mistress not being perfect, he still loves her as she is 'rare'. In this poem he is very critical towards other sonnets, for being over exaggerated and unrealistic to flatter women, as he feels it doesn't do women any justice. The irony about this is that, "Shall I compare thee..." is written by Shakespeare in a traditional form as well as
How do Barret Browning and Wordsworth use the sonnet form to portray strong feelings and emotions?
How do Barret Browning and Wordsworth use the sonnet form to portray strong feelings and emotions? A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines. They provide a strict structure. They have a strict rhyming pattern and are usually written in iambic pentameter. There are two types of sonnets, Petrachan and Shakespearean. They both have slightly different rhyming patterns from each other. Both poems, 'Sonnets from the Portuguese XLIII' and 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' are Petrachan sonnets. The rhyming structure of a Petrachan sonnet is ABBA ABBA CDCDCD, an octet and a sestet. They are also written in iambic pentameter. This makes the structure restricted. The poets would have had to be selective in choosing which feelings and emotions are shown in the poem. So only the important ones come through. The sonnets were written in different time eras. Wordsworth wrote 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge' in the Romantic era. At that time, people were naturalistic. This could explain why his poem has so much nature in it. So much, that there seems to be an absence of humanity. 'In the smokeless air.' Wordsworth's feelings and emotions are expressed in conjunction with nature. He blends images of the city and his own reactions to them in one whole. 'Earth has not anything to show more fair'. He effortlessly shifts from nature to structure without losing the central theme
Examine the literary tradition of sonnet writing with particular reference to the sonnets of William Shakespeare.
Examine the literary tradition of sonnet writing with particular reference to the sonnets of William Shakespeare. Introduction Sonnets are poems which have been written for many centuries by the like of William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth and John Milton amongst many others. Although each sonnet is fourteen lines long there are still at least two categories into which a sonnet can fall. The first is the Shakespearean, Elizabethan or English sonnet. These sonnets were started in the Elizabethan period by, most notably, William Shakespeare who wrote over one hundred and fifty sonnets. The form is still used today, thanks to the likes of Claude McKay. The Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three quatrains and ends with a rhyming couplet. The traditional rhyme scheme for a Shakespearean sonnet is; a, b, a, b, c, d, c, d, e, f, e, f, g, g. The metre in a Shakespearean sonnet is usually iambic pentameter (10 syllables per line). The main topic in a Shakespearean sonnet is love, as William Shakespeare, Sidney and Spencer wrote. But it can also be used to show other emotions. For example, Claude McKay used the Shakespearean sonnet to illustrate what the black people of his time were going through in "If We Must Die" and "The Lynching". The other category into which a sonnet can fall is the Petrarchan or Italian sonnet. These were also written in the Elizabethan era, but
explore the ways these poets examine racism in thei culture
Explore the ways these poets examine racism in their culture We have been introduced to a selection of American poetry all to do with racism. In this essay I am going to look at the ways that two poets see racism in their culture. The poems that I have chosen to write about are 'Strange Fruit' by Abel Meeropol and 'I Too' by Langston Hughes. Abel Meeropol was a Jewish teacher living in the Bronx. He wrote Strange Fruit in 1938, after seeing a photograph of two men being lynched. Strange fruit refers to the bodies of the black people hanging from the trees. This isn't obvious in the first line, however in the second line where it says 'Blood on the leaves and blood at the root' it becomes obvious that it is about lynching. In the second stanza, Meeropol contrasts nature with reality as he writes: 'Pastoral scenes of the gallant South, The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth' People who were unaware of lynching and the dreadful way that black people were treated might of imagined South America as an idealized place. By creating such gruesome visual imagery, Meeropol makes it a really successful contrast. He does this again in the second couplet of the stanza as he writes: 'Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh, Then the sudden smell of burning flesh' This contrast is even more dramatic than the first one as not only does it use visual imagery, it makes you imagine the
Wirte a Comparative Essay On ‘the Portuguese Sonnet’ By Elizabeh Barret Browning, ‘Sonnet 130’ By William Shakespeare and the ‘Glasgow Sonnet’ By Edwin Morgan
WIRTE A COMPARATIVE ESSAY ON 'THE PORTUGUESE SONNET' BY ELIZABEH BARRET BROWNING, 'SONNET 130' BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND THE 'GLASGOW SONNET' BY EDWIN MORGAN These 3 sonnets; 'the Portuguese Sonnet', 'Sonnet 130' and 'the Glasgow Sonnet' all have different themes and different framework. Each sonnet has a particular format it has to stick to, this makes writing them very demanding. 'Sonnet 130' by William Shakespeare is all about love, but not in the usual sense. In this Sonnet Shakespeare speaks of his love in a manure not used by most poets. This sonnet isn't all roses and love hearts, his vision of love is more real, he describes his love exactly how she is, flawed. 'If snow be white why then her breasts are dull.' In Shakespearian times women were supposed to have snow-white skin and breasts, but his love doesn't have white skin, her breasts are dull. Most poets wouldn't say this about their love, or even describe somebody in a poem like this, but Shakespeare did. As this is how he saw his love, with all of her physical flaws, but he still loved her. Another example of this is 'in some perfume there is more delight then in the breath that from my mistress reeks'. This quotation means her breath isn't as sweet as perfume, but it reeks. This isn't something you would say to a lover, he was using it as a statement, that love isn't always with the most attractive person,