Sonnets by William Shakespeare

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    Shakespeare 's writing about love is exceptionally deep and intensely layered with numerous implications and utilization of rhyme and metaphors. The power of feeling, the profundity of thought, and serious creative energy are all to be found in his sonnets. Shakespeare 's Sonnets clarify the value of human relationships by showing that friendship can end one’s own sadness, that love should be commemorated, and that marriage between true minds is loyal and consistent. “But if the while

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    Sonnets 5 and 6 from Shakespeare’s Sonnets, a collection of sonnets written by William Shakespeare, represent themes such as procreation, the passage of time, beauty, love and mortality. Shakespeare’s sophisticated use of rhetorical methods, persuasive techniques, metaphors, repetition, structural framing, combined with his aesthetic values create a parallel in these two sonnets. In both sonnets, he tries to convince the handsome young man to marry and beget children so that the youth 's incredible

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    works of William Shakespeare have become well-renowned. One could say that through his work, the subjects of which he wrote and the author himself have become immortalized, receiving acclaim from scholars around the world. One such collection of work that has gained fame and admiration is his sonnets. Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets have received much speculation and criticism over the years regarding their intent and subjects. Although some believe Shakespeare to be the narrator of the sonnets, with the

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    “SONNET 18” BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE William Shakespeare wrote Sonnet 18 as part of a sequence of 154 sonnets. Also known as “Shall I Compare Thee?” Sonnet 18 has become one of his most well loved poems. Shakespeare includes symbols of time, decay and eternity within this work. The speaker explicates his unending love for his beloved and how it will live on after death. The first quatrain introduces the personification of summer. The speaker begins the sonnet by asking if he can compare his friend

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    all time, Sonnet 144 is among one of William Shakespeare 's most popular poems. To understand the meaning of this poem it is important to read the complete sequence of Shakespeare 's sonnets. Sonnets 1-126 are addressed to Shakespeare 's admired friend, a young man superior in social station and sonnets 127-152 are about his mistress, a dark lady, who charms the young man into an affair (POWERPOINT). Although the complete sequence of sonnets were not published until 1609, many of his sonnets circulated

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    Sonnet 29 In Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare, the author describes the emotional state of a man after he becomes a social outcast. His discontentment with the disgrace and scorn he faces from the community force him to reconcile with what is of ultimate importance in his life. The author uses sonnet structure, tone, and symbolisms to convey the theme of contrasting social and economic wealth versus spiritual wealth. In Sonnet 29, he tells the reader that men and money no longer favor him, and

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    Sonnet 71 by William Shakespeare Sonnet 71 theme is love; reputation, death and mood is mournful The speaker reflects on his life, and he states his last wishes are to forget him. The speaker is worried that his reputation if that should surface that it will cause pain and anguish to his wife. This sonnet has a role reversal, persuasion to entirely forget the poet and not to dwell on the poets death or the painful past it may cause. The sonnet 71 is in four quadrants this is rhyme pattern as "abab

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    Sonnet 138, by William Shakespeare

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    (Interesting hook) William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 138 depicts the relationship of a couple, who many believe to be Shakespeare and his mistress, a woman referred to as, The Black Lady. Throughout the sonnet the vast use of imagery causes the reader to imagine the sonnet as if it were a play where the characters are covered by a mask of lies. (Put a clever transition in here) Although Sonnet 138 depicts the speakers’ willingness to settle for false love and put on a mask, Sonnet 138 depicts a relationship

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    Shakespeare’s Sonnets William Shakespeare The Sonnet Form A sonnet is a fourteen-line lyric poem, traditionally written in iambic pentameter—that is, in lines ten syllables long, with accents falling on every second syllable, as in: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” The sonnet form first became popular during the Italian Renaissance, when the poet Petrarch published a sequence of love sonnets addressed to an idealized woman named Laura. Taking firm hold among Italian poets, the sonnet spread

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    The poem Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare follows a typical Shakespearean sonnet structure; fourteen lines, three quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet, a basic ababcdcdefefgg rhyme scheme, and predominately following iambic pentameter with one additional unstressed syllable in the first line of each quatrain and the couplet. The sonnet as a whole is an extended metaphor for the aging and process and death; however, it is broken into three smaller metaphors all supporting the speaker’s impending

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