Shakespeare

William Shakespeare’s plays “Hamlet” and “Twelfth Night” are completely opposite plays. However, there are many connections that can be made between the two. Seeing as “Hamlet” is a dark tragedy and “Twelfth Night” is a romantic comedy, both seem to have romantic twists to them developed by the hindering of the truth of one’s appearance. These are shown through major themes, such as deceit through disguises, complex love triangles, and varying opinions of marriage.

as a part of the season which is known as spring; it can be assumed he means all life and all things are subject to the ravages of time. Mortality is all around us and with it the stages of all life and time pass. In terms of the opening lines, thought, youth and beauty are fleeting indeed.

The second stanza tells about a “glorious lamp of heaven”, the sun, running a race from sunup to sundown (Herrick 385). In the third stanza it talks about when people are youthful they think they have all the time to accomplish their goals but “times still succeed the former”, which simply means time

Sonnet 12 was written by William Shakespeare over 400 years ago and tells the story about how time takes everything away. Through observing a multimodal presentation of Sonnet 12, the spectator is provided with a reconstruction and entertaining way of understanding the language features, mood and messages in the poem. The deliberate choices of images, sounds and text put together captures the sonnet for a new generation of viewers.

The theme of new beginnings and the harness of the past in another natural setting is discussed again in the second stanza, but now with a focus on time. The visual image presented my the passage as the sun hesitating and losing its direction show allow the reader to observe the symbolism of the sun. The sun universally represents time, the rise and set of sun symbolizing the beginning and ending of each day, days leading into months, years, and lifetimes. The rise of the sun is a new beginning, but it "seems to hesitate," and "lose its/ incandescent aim." The new beginning brought on by the rising of the sun was held back and lost "in that second." Hope and the fresh start were halted by the sun, who was not ready to let time pass and continue. The passage concludes with an affirmation of the symbolism, that "the past is brighter yet" than the sun who could not pull the new start cleanly into the future.

The poem’s structure as a sonnet allows the speaker’s feelings of distrust and heartache to gradually manifest themselves as the poem’s plot progresses. Each quatrain develops and intensifies the speaker’s misery, giving the reader a deeper insight into his convoluted emotions. In the first quatrain, the speaker advises his former partner to not be surprised when she “see[s] him holding [his] louring head so low” (2). His refusal to look at her not only highlights his unhappiness but also establishes the gloomy tone of the poem. The speaker then uses the second and third quatrains to justify his remoteness; he explains how he feels betrayed by her and reveals how his distrust has led him

In the first quatrain, Shakespeare begins his meditation on the process of decay. He begins the poem with "I", which signals that Shakespeare will later give his own experience and account. The first object presented in this sonnet is a clock, which is to set the mood of the poem.

       The theme, in Sonnet 73, is the poet's aging. Each quatrain develops an image of lateness, of approaching extinction - of a season, of a day, and of a fire, but they also apply to a life (Abrams et al. 867). The poet compares his age to three images through the quatrains: autumn, the dying of the year (first quatrain); the dying of the fire (third quatrain). The first line draws a picture of himself, "in me," and in a certain time, "That time of year," of his life (surely, he is old now). We can see that the

The first four lines of the sonnet reflect the changing of seasons, and the oncoming of Fall:

The sonnet opens with vivid imagery of a fallen tree that blocks the journey of the protagonist. At first it may appear that the tree is there to permanently block the passage to the destination, when in fact it is “...to ask us who we think we are”. The example of personification demonstrates that this drawback is not just to prevent someone from travelling towards their destination, but to make them stop and consider if that is really where they want to end up. This idea can apply to everyone, as most people have probably experienced a time when all they needed to have a realization about who they are was an inconvenience.

In the first line of the sonnet by Shakespeare, the speaker commences by conveying the unyielding aspect of “time”. “Time” is very crucial because it determines who are and it shapes you. Because “time” is “unfair” Shakespeare uses personification to portray its significance.

The Shepherd believes that time strengthens love because the more time he was to spend with the Nymph the more love they would have for one another, “If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love”. He also thinks that time doesn’t exist in nature by believing that when you see all the beauties in nature you will forget how much time is going by, “By shallow rivers to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals”. Although, the Nymph believes that time will eventually reveal the truth because she knows that everything he is offering is not gonna last forever, “The rest complains of care to come”. Also, she believes that time is limited because life is short and you can’t enjoy it forever, “Time drives the flocks from field to fold”. They both have different viewpoints on time and what can happen in the time they have.

The first quatrain is already rife with metrical irregularities and each one serves to both mimic and enhance the content of the lines. The first two lines of the sonnet, “Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, // So do our minutes hasten to their end” draw an explicit comparison between the crashing waves beating against the shore and the approach of the end of one’s time (1-2). Rather than the traditional unstressed, stressed pattern of iambic pentameter, “Like as…” and “So do…” are trochaic feet, meaning that the form is inverted to stressed, unstressed syllables. By beginning these lines in the same way, the meter serves to draw an even further

In Sonnet XII, the narrator is speaking of time and life. He speaks of the time passing, trees decaying, youth, will eventually grow and die. He is speaking of how everything comes to an end. Its is very pessimistic as he knows that no matter what “Nothing gainst time's scythe can make defence.” Nothing can stop time, time will continue and life will come to an end, life will be short and eventually end like everything does. The narrator here sees life as a one time event and you can't prevent death. However you can “Save breed to brave him when he takes thee hence”. Although life is going to end, you can have children in a effort to continue your life, however this child is going to age and will not survive time, although it is an effort this is a hopeless cycle.

However, the writer in line twelve also refers to time as a leader, which reflects a tone of acceptance toward time and his fate. This tone is different from the tone at the beginning of the poem. The speaker has changed his tone and it seems as if this tone change has occurred because the speaker is considering how he believes his short time should be spent.