Shakespeare's sonnets

T.S. Eliot is known to be the most influential writer of the twentieth century due to his wide-ranging contributions to poetry, criticism, prose, and drama (Explanation of: “The Waste Land”). In this case, his work becomes stronger as his allusions contribute to help convey the meaning of each poem. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock seems to start out as a love poem when he tells someone, “Let us go then, you and I” (Sound and Sense, 284). Farther on though, it starts to stray to Prufrock…

Poems are all different, but also all the same in their own ways, showing how even through time, people can write about similar themes. For example ”O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Seven Ages of Man” have many similarities. They both talk about a stage that one can go through in life, use iambic pentameter, and are both a big metaphor. They also have differences like the rhyme-scheme, the different stages, and the big metaphor. Both “O Captain! My Captain” and “The Seven Ages of Man” talk about…

Depiction of Eroticism in Vikram Seth’s poems Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs states that one of the most primary needs in mankind is that of sex and therefore it can come as no surprise that eroticism is one of the oldest avenues in which writers have expressed their passion from advent of literature. From the Biblical Song of Songs that uses a euphemistic approach to sexuality to modern poetry that is content to depict sexual acts blatantly, although eroticism may have altered in its…

In 1609, William Shakespeare authored his poem entitled “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing like the Sun”, which, as revealed in the last line, is a parody. This poem encapsulates the epitome of beauty for a woman by exhibiting ideal feminine qualities through similes and metaphors that compare a woman’s characteristics to beautiful features of nature. However, Shakespeare phrases his play to say that the speaker’s mistress does not possess such goddess-like qualities, but is as beautiful as any…

Good evening and welcome to today’s seminar, my name is Jemma and I’ll be talking about two of Shakespeare’s poem, both representing the theme of love. The two poems that will be explored today are Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130. Although both of these poems represent the theme of love, they do so in different ways. The two poems that I will be discussing and analysing are both written by the well-known poet, William Shakespeare. Shakespeare was born in Srattford-upon-avon, Warwickshire in England.…

The title of the isorhythmic motet is “Felix virgo/ Inviolata genitrix/ Ad te suspiramus” and is composed by Guillaume de Machaut. The structure of this motet is an isorhythmic motet in that it is made up of two poems where the motet gets its lyrics. The translation of the motet title is “Happy Virgin/ Inviolate mother/ To you” in reference to the Virgin Mother Mary. The last words of the title “...Ad te suspiramus” is a song that was made to the Virgin Mary to come and give support and to…

Many sonnets display an essential message regarding the concept of love. However, they all relay a variety of different themes that can be interpreted in many ways. Sonnet 30 and Sonnet 130 are prime examples of this type of nature. Sonnet 130 consists of the poet listing out his lover’s imperfections and mocking the said imperfections. On the contrary, Sonnet 30 portrays the confusion and the curiosity of the poet. He constantly wonders how his lover can deal with him and vice versa due to…

Ditika Gupta Kanika Dang English midterm literary analysis paper 3rd November2015 Depiction of love in “The Notebook” and “A Walk to Remember” Nicholas Charles Sparks is an American writer and novelist. Ten of Sparks’ romantic-drama novels have been adapted to film. In the novels “The Notebook” and “A Walk to Remember” Sparks explores the endless cycle of love that transcends the eternal cycle of time. His works depict the eternity of love. “The Notebook” and “A Walk to Remember” are…

Mushrooms Poetry Analysis A quiet revolution: perhaps oxymoronic sounding upon first glance. However, this poem paints a picture of a story about exactly that, doing so through a subtle metaphor and simple but powerful visual imagery. Though a poem about the oppression of a group of people, it does not tell a story of despair. Quite the opposite, speaking instead of an uprising of a different sort, of hope as modest as mushrooms themselves. Mushrooms may seem at first like a very peculiar…

Beowulf characterizes Old English poetry as it is composed in alliterative verse, which relies upon alliteration within its organization of a poetic line. Old English alliteration verse employs accentual meter, and a caesura (strong pause separating two half- lines. Beowulf epitomizes Old English poetry as it lacks a consistent rhyme pattern. Historically speaking, Beowulf was not purely a fictitious creation. Although it was primarily fantasy, many of the characters within the novel once…