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The structure of the poem is a way of exploring love in a poem. Both poems by Shakespeare are written with the same structure. Sonnet 116 and Sonnet 18 are written in sonnets as this appealed to the Elizabethan audience, and a sonnet was traditionally used to represent love and therefore is an immediate indicator that the poem is linked with love. The sonnets are written in 3 quatrains with a couplet at the end. They both have a simple structure with each quatrain representing a different area of love and the final couplet reaffirming the poet 's words by placing his own merit on the line; therefore detonating that if the two poems were put in separate sections, you would be able to understand them. Due to the iambic pentameter beat it gives the poems a sturdy feel, as it is a fixed formation, which

In literature sonnets have been structured according to two major principle categories. A sonnet could be either ‘the English’ (also known as the Shakespearean sonnet) or could be ‘the Italian’ (also commonly known as the Petrarchan sonnet) (Mays, 2014). In the English sonnet, the sonnet is divided into three units with each unit having four lines which are known as the quatrains and a final unit that is made up of two lines which are known as couplet making up a total of fourteen lines pg 644. Usually the poem is laid out sometimes with line spacing to give a clear outline that the sonnet is an English sonnet. The sonnet is also distinguished using the rhyme scheme applied which

A common conception of William Shakespeare’s poetry entails complex language and hidden meanings. Shakespeare is famous for his ability to author a web of images that creates layers of interpretations and understandings. In Sonnet 138 however, Shakespeare is more direct in describing his relationship with his lover by avoiding imagery and metaphors, explaining to the reader that this seemingly unconventional relationship is indeed justified. Shakespeare constructs a persona of the speaker in a way that establishes a casual and

‘Sonnet 116’ by William Shakespeare and ‘What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why” by Edna St. Vincent Millay are both sonnets that discuss companionship and a glimpse of each poet’s experiences. In ‘Sonnet 116’, Shakespeare illustrates how capability is weakened by its metaphysical stereotype and ideals such as, love, while on the contrary, in ‘What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why” Millay feeds on the chaos between the ideal of love and its harsh reality, heartbreak. Both poets seem to be love struck but there is a significant difference in the two. I will compare and contrast ‘Sonnet 116’ by William Shakespeare and ‘What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why” by Edna St. Vincent Millay. I will also inquire and analyze why this particular form of poetry established different effects.

Through his countless sonnets and plays, William Shakespeare rarely, if ever, runs with a preconceived notion of something. His work is unique, calling upon a vast array of subjects while inventing newfound ways of approaching them. One topic in which Shakespeare is all too familiar with is love. His sonnets especially deal with this subject, with sonnet 130 standing out as probably the largest betrayal of our normal expectations of love as any. Within 14 lines, Shakespeare manages to describe his love in a less than positive fashion for most of the poem, quite contrary to the dreamy-eyed poems about love to which many are familiar. Through the use of figurative language, Shakespeare manages to create his own social expectation for love while

based upon himself, and his lover, Laura. The conventional format of a sonnet contains fourteen lines, and is segregated to illustrate two arguments. Every sonnet takes the conventional format of fourteen lines, although the way the arguments are split up, may be different. For example, Petrarch and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnet both take the format of an octave and a sestet, whereas Shakespeare's sonnet takes the format of three quatrains and a rhyming couplet.

Sonnets hold more detail and depth than can be easily noted in a first reading. Due to their strict structure and short length, a lot of thought must be put into the words chosen by the poets. Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare exemplify the idea of sonnet diction being a vital part of the poem. This is especially true in the cases of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 and Spenser’s Sonnet 64. Both sonnets feature a strong focus on a female beloved and her appearance. The two authors have different approaches in how they describe her looks, but the overall structure of the sonnets are very similar. In both cases, each word in the two sonnets means something more than the word alone first implies.

Of Shakespeare’s collection of sonnets, a vast majority have been commonly established to be both written about and voiced to a beautiful, aristocratic young man often labeled the ‘Fair Youth’ — a seemingly polar opposite to the almost unsavoury, lower-class ‘Dark Lady’ assessed as the featured object of desire within the last 25 sonnets. Although some scholars such as Nelles (2009) neglect the prospect of two separate, distinct and truly gendered narratives, this concept must be considered in reference to the forms of love found between the two dichotomized narratives. While the love felt towards the Fair Youth seems to be more distanced and inactive compared to that within the explicitly physical Dark Lady sonnets, the frequent blurring

     The sonnet, being one of the most traditional and recognized forms of poetry, has been used and altered in many time periods by writers to convey different messages to the audience. The strict constraints of the form have often been used to parallel the subject in the poem. Many times, the first three quatrains introduce the subject and build on one another, showing progression in the poem. The final couplet brings closure to the poem by bringing the main ideas together. On other occasions, the couplet makes a statement of irony or refutes the main idea with a counter statement. It leaves the reader with a last impression of what the author is trying to say.

Sir Thomas Wyatt and Samuel Daniels have sonnets in which the speaker is attempting to define love. With one speaker stating his daily life and the other expressing the feeling through paradoxes, both ultimately end up with poems that are not conventionally good love poems. I allege that the reason they cannot effectively define love is that they do not truly understand it because their own egos blind them from it. The scope of both sonnets is restricted to simply the speakers’ focus and they spend all fourteen lines saying things of little consequence. Rather than getting across the point that they are in love, they are showing their disillusionment in regards to what love is because they are so self-centered and thus inadept at writing poetry. I aim to reveal that these sonnets reveal more about the speakers than about love through their choice of rhyme scheme, rhetorical devices, meter, and repetition.

For purposes that exist outside of the narratives, both Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the first eighteen sonnets of his published sequence are self-referential. This is evident as his sonnets explore the notion of preserving the subject’s beauty by establishing themselves as the primary method in which this may occur in order to win favour with a potential patron. On the other hand, A Midsummer Night’s Dream employs this technique in order to comment on the notion of classical love, achieved through allegory, meta-theatricality and the representation of love demonstrated by character relationships. With the intentions of currying a patron’s favour and making comment on the supposed fable of classical love, these works by Shakespeare are both self-referential and allegorical.

Depicting the reality of love, “Of Shakespeare’s Sonnets” contrasts the traditional idea of everlasting love with the actual experience of the speaker. Through personification, allusion, irony, imagery, and dialogue, the speaker initially portrays the idealistic view of love, but later rejects and mocks the belief in such love. The poem incorporates elements from both the Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnet, which emphasizes the traditional everlasting love and hints freedom of love by the unconventionality of mixing both forms.

The beginning of the 1500’s became an important time for the sonnet and early modern literature. Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard were the first to introduce the form to England by translating the sonnets of the overtly influential Italian poet Petrarch, giving a firm foundation for many others including that of William Shakespeare to expand and contrast. Consisting of fourteen lines, the sonnet follows a specific rhyme scheme and rhythm. Although seemingly compact, the sonnet is used by many to express both the thought and emotion of the poet, from this it is evident that although superficially short in structure, the poet is still able to elaborate to an extent that touches the reader making it sincere to the reader at first, however as we

William Shakespeare is recognized for being one of greatest poets of all time. His works are still popular to this day. Many of his works included extended metaphors and similes with rhetorical language and were rooted in the nature of love. Two of his poems that are rather alike, but also very contrastive are “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” and “My mistresses’ eyes are nothing like the sun.” They both contain a core theme of love or anti-love in some aspects. While these two poems are built around the same type of subject, their interpretations come across in separate ways. In contrast to Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” which is a serious love poem that contains imagery and metaphors, Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130” is more negative and humorous but contains imagery and similes.

William Shakespeare’s sonnets are considered the greatest of all love poems. The collection contains 154 poems portraying themes of love such as beauty, lust, and estrangement. First published in 1609, these works have remained a popular subject in the world of literature for centuries to come. “Shakespeare has completely dominated the English-speaking state over the last four hundred years.” When thinking of Shakespeare, his famous plays such Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet are usually the first to come to mind. However, very few people realize he was also one of the most significant writers of all time. “He [Shakespeare] was the most admired writer in the country by the time he was thirty and the owner of the grandest house in Stratford three years later” (Ashton 6).