Shakespeare's sonnets

Sonnet 18, written by William Shakespeare, is the most popular amongst his other 154 sonnets. The sonnet starts off by praising a beloved’s beauty and, as we slowly progress through the rest of the sonnet, transform this beloved’s beauty into something almost immortal. It is as if Shakespeare is describing his beloved as a perfect being. In Sonnet 18’s octave, he starts off with a question and a quick statement of his beloved “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more…

Ariana Wilde A Dollar a Day Keeps Death Away As one version of an oral tale-which vary greatly depending on the tale teller-, the Beowulf readers are familiar with reflects the morals and values of its circa tenth century recorder as well as those of the sixth century setting. The recorder of Beowulf uses several of the characteristics of epic poems in an attempt to instigate the generous and charitable behavior that (presumably) he views as morally correct.…

The most obvious reason for the success of Tamburlaine was the surprise and delight with which Marlowe’s style was received, a style which has often been analysed, praised, and criticised in the same time. The blank-verse line with its variations in pace and rhythm, the beauty of the language filled with sonorous place-names and words expressing colour, light, and space, the long sentences, abounding in hyperbole and imagery from classical mythology were the source from which the rich variety…

In Tale-Danda Karnad breathed a different kind of life into the poetic texts and historical events by developing a dramatic structure that would ‘explain’ the relation of poetry and religious mysitism to political economy and social radicalism and in the english version of the play he incorporated a generous selection of old and new translations of the vachanas by Ramanujan. The Fire and the Rain was originally written in kannada [Agni mattu Male (1995)] but rendered immediately into english for…

Introduction Among all the famous contemporary children’s poets, Shel Silverstein is hailed as one of the most popular authors of children’s books in the twentieth century and is dubbed “Poet laureate of kids” by the critic Megan Rosenfeld. His poems are not only embraced by children but by people of all ages; one of the solid proof is that they have been translated into over 30 languages and some of them have been adopted for animations. In some of his reputed poems he depicted the alienation…

The way Shakespeare sees beauty is different from Keats and Petrarch, instead of praising his mistress he speaks only about her imperfection and he compares her appearance to the sun, coral and wire then tell how she cannot measure up to them, she doesn’t have a big eyes, nor red lips, neither a neat hair rather than a yellowish skin, hair like a wire, and bad smell. But even with all of these flaws Shakespeare shows his love by adoring her voice and the way she speaks more than her physical…

“Where did the handsome beloved go?” is a poem written in 13th century Persia by Sufi poet Jalal Al-Din Rumi. This 26-line free verse couplet poem follows no rhyming scheme. The tones throughout this poem are somber, loving, yearning, and religious. It follows Rumi in his search for someone he misses greatly. He looks everywhere he knows and ask many people if they’ve seen him. We realize at the end that this beloved of his is Shams Tabriz his spiritual instructor that has died. Jalal…

Shakespeare’s work is the most recited piece of literature other than the bible. He introduced many of the common words we use today. The play, Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, was a tragic love story. Taking place in Verona, Italy during the 1500’s, two people from families who were great enemies, quickly fall in love. Romeo and Juliet, the two people, face many obstacles that break their secret relationship and lead them to kill themselves. Fate is when something you cannot…

Analysis of To Autumn by John Keats The poem ‘To Autumn’ is written by John Keats (31.October 1795 – 23.February 1821). The speaker starts the poem by describing autumns’ abundance and its intimacy with the sun. How autumn ripens fruits and causes the flowers to bloom. In the second stanza, the speaker describes the hard work in the field, how the crops and fruits are ready to be harvested. In the third stanza, the speaker describes the sound and the music of autumn. The speaker tells Autumn…

Sonnet 130, written by William Shakespeare is about how a mistress’ husband compares his wife to beautiful things and then contradicts that she is nothing like them. In the first line, the speaker, the mistress’s husband, foreshadows negativity by saying that his wife’s eyes are nothing like the sun. The first quatrain begins to introduce the main theme of the poem where the speaker later continues on to the next two quatrain. The speaker compares his wife to attractive things where he discovers…