Shakespeare in Love

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…

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 explores on the reasoning of love as a…

Nothing,” playwright William Shakespeare gives us five examples of deception that contribute to the play’s theme: love will always have moments that are deceitful and treacherous. Throughout the plot of the play, Shakespeare has characters find ways to scheme one another with the purpose of creating new love or causing trouble in relationships. The first example of deception is shown when Don Pedro, Leonato, and Claudio speak about how Beatrice is “madly in love” with Benedick. This is…

Love, in most people’s eyes, would be classified as a noun. In actuality, love is an action word, otherwise known as a verb; you express love to prove love. Though people commonly use materialistic things like roses, cards, and chocolates to express their love towards one another, expressing love can be done verbally. In particular, the two poems, “There is a Garden in her Face” by Thomas Campion and “ Sonnet 130” by William Shakespeare, project their love verbally. Though, both poets give…

Starting with Romeo and Juliet we can begin to tackle how Shakespeare was able to bypass the standards set in his era and express a point of view ahead its time. Romeo and Juliet was originally published in 1597. It is the story of two star crossed lovers who cannot be together due to status of their families. Romeo is from the noble family of the Montagues and Juliet is from the opposing noble family, the Capulets. Romeo and Juliet fall in love at first sight. The progresses and the two get…

True Love Holds No Grudge In everyone’s life, whether it be guy or girl, we will experience a time where the person you are with may have a few negative factors about them and you may think that the individual may not be the right one until you look past all the negativity and see the true love that you have for them. Even some of the most famous writers show us this effect by talking of their own mistress, such as William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130”. In this sonnet, Shakespeare uses a…

suggesting a positive representation of love and implying that love is light which you cannot live without. Another common device that the two poems use is imagery. Both Carol Ann Duffy and William Shakespeare use imagery to describe the appearance of each one’s lover. In Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116”, he states that “though rosy lips and cheeks/ within his bending sickle’s compass come” (9-10). This line describes how time is love 's enemy and will one day reach love and age us, taking away our…

What is true love? Is it when two people are in a trusting relationship? Or, maybe, true love can only be found when both partners are committed? In William Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream, there are many characters who possess aspects of true love for a specific person, but there's only one pairing that truly exhibits this trait. Lysander and Hermia have a love that is so true that they believe in each other even when they are told they can't be together. Lysander’s love for…

An Explication of Love: “Sonnet 130” Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130” is a powerful poem that describes love as something based off of more than mere beauty. The poem depicts the speaker pointing out the many imperfections of his mistress. This is a far cry from the ideal women many poets depict. An English or Shakespearean sonnet consists of fourteen lines “composed of three quatrains and a terminal couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef gg” (“Shakespearean sonnet”). In…

description of the object of affection, the blason is considered to be the literary manifestation of the male gaze and is critiqued as a patriarchal method for the objectification of women. However, poets such as Shakespeare and Marlowe alter the conventions of this trope. In his “Sonnet 130,” Shakespeare parodies the traditions of the Petrarchan sonnet through his description of his mistress. And in his poem Hero and Leander, Marlowe utilizes…