Iambic tetrameter

Throughout all the texts we’ve read in class by William Shakespeare, we have seen love depicted in multiple different ways, from paternal and pathological to romantic and even erotic. The love that we have seen has been conducted in many different forms as well, including familial, homosocial, and hetro/homosexual; Shakespeare has showed these types of love in varying degrees of sincerity. Shakespeare’s sonnets are a perfect example of how he depicts love in different forms. He uses the speaker…

Figurative Language in Shakespeare’s “That Time of Year Thou Mayst in me Behold” Shakespeare is a master of imagery and the use of figurative expressions in literary works. In his 73rd Sonnet “That Time of Year Thou Mayst in me Behold,” Shakespeare uses figurative language coupled with imagery to portray a speaker’s mounting anxiety over aging. The speaker speaks to his beloved; characterizing what he believes to be advancing old age by comparing it with nature. The speaker paints a different…

Petrarch is a poet that writes many of his poems with a theme about his first love, Laura. His love for Laura is discussed in the introductory part of the book when it says, "his thoughts and identity are scattered and transformed by the experience of love for a beautiful, unattainable woman named Laura." (164). Laura played a major role in Petrarch's poetry because she played an important role in Petrarch's life causing him to focus on her in many parts of his poetry. When Laura dies Petrarch…

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Love is Not All” employs numerous poetic devices in order to express the simultaneous senselessness and essentiality of love. Structurally, Millay’s sonnet fits perfectly into Shakespeare’s niche: the first 13 lines express the superfluity and foolishness of being in love, while the last line confesses that Millay does “not think [she] would” (Line 14) surrender love for purpose. This single closing statement encompasses the human tendency to love for the experience,…

People express their love for one another in numerous ways. Anne Bradstreet’s poem, To My Dear and Loving Husband, demonstrates the love between her husband and herself through imagery, metaphor, repetition, and tone. Throughout the poem, Bradstreet expresses the great love she has for her husband, and the love he has for her. The theme of love is portrayed in her poem for her husband. Anne Bradstreet uses imagery in her poem, To My Dear and Loving Husband, to demonstrate her love for her…

In the poem "sonnet" 43 Elizabeth Barrett Browning uses the theme of love to express her feelings for her husband Robert Browning.Elizabeth was born in 1806 in Durham,England,Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet who gained enormous fame during her lifetime. she was born into great wealth at age ten she was studying Greek, writing her own epic poem in Greek style two years. Elizabeth decide to write in 1844 she published a poetry with the simple title of poems. the was one of the books…

Poetry Explication Essay: That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold This sonnet is alluding to the way time affects us all, and compares the seasons of the year to different periods of our lives. The overall impression the narrator or listener is left with is that of an ominous, almost fearful view on time passing far too rapidly. To support this the use of imagery, simile, repetition, and the first person point of view is significant. The use of assonance and rhyme is less obvious but there…

For this assessment, I will study Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare and Elizabeth Barrett’s poem: Sonnet 43. William Shakespeare was an English poet during the Elizabethan era and was regarded as one of the greatest English poet of all times. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 is one of his most famous, yet poignant sonnets that had been written. The main poem explores on the theme of love, religion nature; love being the central aspect, but the poet does not address the poem to any speaker, rather it…

battle with life’s meaning, he was able to express his doubts and become a critically acclaimed poet. With a total of nine hundred and forty-seven poems, Hardy is one prolific poets of the twentieth century. In 1898, Hardy wrote the three-stanza iambic pentameter poem “Hap”, articulating his pessimistic view of the universe. The title: “Hap” means that which happens by chance, luck, coincidence, or fortune. However, in this poem, “Hap” takes on the meaning of bad luck, accident, and…

Claude McKay is a brilliant poet, whose words illustrate the struggles of black communities in America. Some of his most popular poems are about a black man living in America. In fact, “America” is arguably one of his most influential poems, speaking about the duality of the United States through the eyes of a black man. Claude McKay was a skilled poet who used many literary techniques to convey his deep-rooted messages in his poems. He uses specific techniques such as a sonnet structure in…