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This paper explains the imagery and poetic tools of the sonnet, as well as its ideas and meanings. Those elements are examined against other interpretations of the sonnet, and the author finally concludes that despite the poems initial difficulties in its understanding, it remains applicable in today's society.

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This paper uses both the new criticism and the deconstruction approach to find deeper insight to the possible meanings and connections in "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"

Tags:New, Criticism, deconstruction

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Shakespeare's collection of 154 sonnets are analyzed for uniformity and genre. The paper shows that information about the sonnets is somewhat sketchy and incomplete. Scholars disagree on the order in which he wrote the sonnets, the identities of the people to whom he referred in the sonnets, and even whether or not he intended the sonnets to be autobiographical.

From the Paper
"The sonnets address universal themes such as love, jealousy, and, interestingly, concerns about aging and the effects of the passage of time on one's life. In Sonnet 2, for instance, the persona encourages a friend in the bloom of youth to have children to carry on his beauty before age steals it away. In Sonnet 73, the persona laments his own old age. These two sonnets have several factors in common. Both are addressed to the same young friend or perhaps lover of the persona, both focus on the ravages of age, and both employ the symbolism of nature. There are, however, some major differences. While Sonnet 2 deals with renewal, Sonnet 73 clearly foreshadows the persona's impending death; and while Sonnet 2 essentially appeals to the selfish emotion of vanity, Sonnet 73 is about a selfless love."

Tags:love

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This paper analyzes sonnets nine and ten, written by William Shakespeare, which have a central theme of love and passion. The paper looks at how the sonnets develop with the use of vernacular language in the poet's own style. It also discusses the words, phrasing, tempo, style and flow of both sonnets.

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"Shakespeare is one of those gifted writers whose work is seen as having a particular aspect and his commission of his art is exemplary of the world in his day, yet one cannot fail to ask what his motivations are that he should tell the youth to seek out a wife and multiply his seed.
Then in sonnet ten he turns around as if to say it doesn't matter. What are his motivations then, his mind changes from one sonnet to the other is it perhaps that he does not want the boy to be unhappy in his pursuit of a wife?"

Tags:marry, youth, Stratford, upon, Avon

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This paper performs a line by line close reading of Shakespeare's "Sonnet 138", examining the ways in which Shakespeare's careful use of language subtly adds layers of depth to the sonnet's meaning. The paper focuses its analysis on the themes of love, truth, lies, and self-deception the main themes of the sonnet.

From the Paper
"In Sonnet 138, Shakespeare writes about the layers of deceit in a relationship between a man and a woman. The speaker and his lover each choose to believe the other's lies in order to remain secure about themselves. The speaker calmly explains his complex relationship with cynical wit and resignation, and without expressing a wish to change or improve the dynamic between himself and his lover. Shakespeare plays with words surrounding the central ideas of the poem such as belief, knowledge, truth, and simplicity, creating in them layers of meaning. Shakespeare also presents the reader with paradoxes and logic-plays. Each line builds on the last, so that every line of the sonnet adds new depth and complexity to the lovers' deceit. Also Shakespeare's language effectively conveys the speaker's tone and emotions through word choice and structure; Shakespeare communicates detachment and bitter humor on the part of the speaker, as well as a resigned and cynical outlook on love."

Tags:tone, paradox, lovers, tongue

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This paper focuses on the use of literary techniques such as scenic imagery, contradictions, and inspiring diction in these three different sonnets. In addition, it compares how these techniques are used differently in the three sonnets.

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""A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth." This quote by Percy Byshe Shelley, explains the definition of poetry. Poetry, in some cases, is written to express emotional messages. Poems in the form of sonnets often convey strong messages of love. To convey these messages, poets often use scenic imagery, contradictions, and inspiring diction."

Tags:literary, love, poetry, sonnets, techniques

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This essay goes through each of the twelve lines contained within this sonnet, which expresses the author's love to a young man, giving a detailed analysis of the techniques employed by William Shakespeare. A brief historical commentary increases the understanding of this particular sonnet among Shakespeare's others. A general summary of techniques and the significance of this sonnet concludes the essay.

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"Over his life, Shakespeare wrote a total of one hundred and fifty-four sonnets; one hundred and twenty-six of these were to a young unidentified man. These sonnets indicate the level of love that Shakespeare felt for this young man. Yet, his love was a petrarchan love; unrequited and fated never to develop. The one hundred and twenty-sixth sonnet that Shakespeare wrote was the final piece written to the young man. His writing takes on an almost prophetic tone in this sonnet as Shakespeare bids his love farewell."

Tags:alliteration, poetry

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The essay explains the different aspects of romantic love through an explication of Sonnets 116, 130 and 138. According to the author, the three types of love are, respectively, real love, ideal love, and lying love. The poems emphasize different aspects of love, but all three kinds are required for love to stand the test of time.

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"In Sonnet 116, Shakespeare makes several claims about ideal love. As described in this poem, ideal love is permanent. If someone is truly in love with another, his love will never end. Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,/ But bears it out even to the edge of doom (ln. 10-11). This love, according to Shakespeare will never wither away or be broken down by any obstacle (ln. 6). Nothing can stand in the way of this feeling, true and strong. Ideal love will also never change, even as the possessors do. As they change, they will still love each other just as strongly, or even more so (ln. 2-3). This is the most important and most difficult aspect of reaching ideal love. Though many believe they have achieved it, they fall short as they come to realize that as they learn more about each other, they drift apart."

Tags:lies, beauty, false, comparison, flattery

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This paper briefly offers a line by line analysis of this sonnet. It shows that Shakespeare?s "Sonnet 138" revolves around a narrator who takes a somewhat witty and sarcastic approach toward the necessary infidelities involved in his marriage.

From the Paper
"The first line, "When my love swears that she is made of truth," opens with a clause, pushing the reader to find out what happens when she swears her honesty to him. The word "love" is not only in reference to his wife, but also to the fact that it is his love that is making him believe her, not her lies fooling him. The word "swears" also leads the reader to immediately question why the connotation seems so tense. The narrator then says, ?I do believe her, though I know she lies [emphasis added],? the word "do" connotes trying to convince himself of her faithfulness, fully knowing that it is not true. The word "lies" has two meanings here: the first that his wife is dishonest, and the second meaning that she lies with other men, adulterously."

Tags:adultry, marriage

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This paper examines Shakespeare's use of the theme of time-as-destroyer, in three of the sonnets: No's 64, 65, and 73. Shakespeare's poetic techniques are analyzed in detail. Some of these include meter, alliteration, antithesis, syllogism, personification, ploce, and chiasmus. In order to demonstrate these different techniques, the author makes extensive comparisons between the three sonnets.

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"The poem is an apostrophe, addressed to the absent (or at least voiceless) lover. It says these things you may see in me: that I am aging, that I am like a setting sun, that I must soon die. But because you see this impermanence, this fading or deterioration, you only love me more. Now, impermanence has become a positive thing, fueling the love his beloved has for him.
"The imagery in this sonnet is gentler than that of the two others. There, we had raging, engulfing oceans, and battering days, and rocks and brass and hard, indomitable things. Now, the imagery is of yellowing leaves, and boughs that once had sweet singing birds on them. The giving over to inevitable death is not one raged against, but is a sweet thing like the setting of a sun. His late stage of life is being compared with fading light, and with night which is "death's second self that seals up all in rest." We are being eased into death here, being made to think of it as slumber."

Tags:alliteration, beauty, chiasmus, courtly, elizabethan, literature, love, personification, ploce, poetry, shakespeare, sonnets, theme, time, life, imagery, repetition, couplet, technique, contrast