Shakespeare's sonnets

In "Sonnet 91" by William Shakespeare the poem raises the question of the value of love, which is answered through Shakespeare's play on words and the narrator's own preferences of his kind of love. This poem captivates the reader's interest and causes them to understand how love is different from wealth or possessions. William Shakespeare in "Sonnet 91" uses metaphors and tone variety to exemplify the vulnerability of love when it is placed first above all else in life. Shakespeare uses…

Shakespeare’s successful career continued to grow rapidly as his 154 sonnets were published. As more people read deeper into the sonnets there have been multiple theories on who Shakespeare was writing about specifically in the sonnets. For example, with the first sonnet up to sonnet 126 the poet introduces the “fair youth” which the reader can then infer that the poet might be talking about a male. However, the dark lady is introduced in sonnet 127, and then brought up again in sonnet 128.…

Comparing Poetry by William Shakespeare and Phillip Sidney William Shakespeare and Phillip Sidney’s sonnets (specifically, 130 for Shakespeare and 7 for Sidney) do similar things like comparing women to things in nature, but they come up with different conclusions in the end. For example, one could say that Shakespeare compares the woman in his poem to nature in order to prove that it isn’t necessary to be similar nature to make her beautiful and rare. Then, Sidney compares his lady, Stella, to…

A Different Tone of View In the sonnet “My Mistress Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun,” Shakespeare conveys an ironically humorous tone. Throughout the text he contrasts his lover’s attributes against cliched poetic comparisons. By doing so, he misleads the reader into thinking that he is disparaging his lover, when in fact he is criticizing the impossible standards of beauty to which most women are held. This humorous irony is demonstrated by the subject of his false comparisons, his word choice…

elevated even more “by [a] manuscript circulation of his sonnets” (Shakespeare 1170). In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 or “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” is a poem that is part of a group of sonnets that “focus chiefly on the so-called Dark Lady as an alluring but degrading object of desire” (Shakespeare 1170). Sonnet 130 can be identified as a Shakespearean or English sonnet. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg thus breaking the sonnet into three quatrains and one couplet. It is…

Explore the ways that ideas about relationships are developed in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” and the “The Sonnets”. There are many ways in which Shakespeare presents associations in “The Sonnets” and the scenes from “Romeo and Juliet”. A sonnet consists of 14 lines and is usually wrote in the form of an iambic pentameter. Furthermore, it has 3 quatrains and 1 couplet in the end which is very pithy and full of meaning. However, sometimes it has volta which is change in the theme or ideas.…

Week Two, DB2 Prompt 1 1. Shakespeare's sonnet "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" begins with what might be called a reverse simile (an anti-simile?). Throughout the poem, the speaker alludes to common figurative language for describing a woman's beauty in the love poetry of his day: e.g., eyes like the sun, lips like coral, breasts as white as snow, rosy cheeks, perfumed breath, musical voice. What is Shakespeare doing with these familiar examples of figurative language in this poem?…

(장이연) EN 540: Mr. Fornshell Shakespeare Teagle Love, As Seen in Shakespeare’s Sonnets Due to his eminence as a playwright, Shakespeare’s caliber as a poet has a tendency of going overlooked. Compared to his theatrical works, the Bard’s sonnets have been greatly under examined and, even when analyzed, critics often narrowly focus on whom the works are addressed to or their biographic implications. As interesting as Shakespeare’s lovers and himself were, it is just as riveting to look into the…

reality. Shakespeare wrote sonnets.The word “sonnet comes from the Italian word’sonneto meaning a little sound or strain.sonnet is a poem expressing one main idea or emotion consisting…

it to the other side or not make it at all. As you travel through the tunnel, your going to have some changes and challenges come your way. Your going to have to battle with a lot of emotions in the stage of love. The original name to this poem is “Sonnet 130” I just wanted to make the title more interesting. From William Shakespeare, “the author of the poem” view he compares his woman to many spectacular things. This creates the effect of an expanding and developing argument, which does after…