Sonnet 30

Sonnet 43, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, is a classic love story written to explain how she feels about love. How Do I Love Thee, has a variety of interpretations, a multitude of symbols, follows an iambic pentameter, and tells the reader a story. Browning does all of this in a fourteen-line sonnet that she wrote for her beloved husband. To understand this, the reader has to make interpretations on their own.

In both sonnets the word "confound" is used to describe the actions of Time. This word in both sonnets express the destructive nature of Time. Also, in sonnet 64 there is a sonic pattern. 10 of the 14 lines end with a word that contains a long "a" sound for example: defaced, age, razed, rage, gain, main, state, decay, ruminate, and away. This repetition could symbolize that Time's effects are constant. The poem also ends with the word "lose" so this could mean Time's effects are constant until the thing it is effecting is lost. There is one subject per quatrain in sonnet 60. In quatrain one the subject is waves, quatrain two the subject is nativity, and in quatrain three the subject is Time. In sonnet 64 there is only one main subject and verb which is "I" and the verb is "Seen". However, in the couplet of sonnet 64 the subject is ambiguous. It could be the "thought" or "death" that is doing the action of weeping for something that it will

As a child, most children become infatuated with the newest Disney movie. Although Disney movies target children, watching them as an adult, we start to notice hidden messages and themes in our favorite childhood movies. A category of Disney packed with secret meanings is the Disney princess films. We watch in awe a young girl living, for the most part, the perfect fantasy life. She sings to animals, her hair is always perfectly in place, and there is always a prince to come and save her. In reality, there is much more to the princess persona than we realize. In 2014, Disney’s Frozen took the world by storm and became the highest grossing animated film ever. Frozen takes us on a magical journey with Princess Anna to find her sister, Princess Elsa, whose power to create ice has forever trapped their homeland, Arendelle, in eternal winter. Elsa is haunted by the memory of almost tragically killing her younger sister Anna because of her icy powers. Isolating herself from the world, Elsa dedicated her life to concealing her powers and learning to control them. The movie Frozen teaches the importance of social development among children.

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 makers of Frozen wanted to base their movie on this story but with a different and more of a “Disney” theme. Unlike in the story when Kai gets his heart frozen, Elsa, one of the main characters from Frozen, is born with her powers of snow and ice and accidentally freezes her sister Anna’s heart. Just like in the story, an act of true love can thaw a frozen heart; seeing what Elsa did to her sister she starts crying and apologies. Doing so she lets go of the fear that was controlling her from the beginning and accepts her and learns to control them. Frozen is a wonderful that teaches kids a lesson on that just because you are different that doesn’t mean that you have to lock yourself away and shut yourself from the world so you wont have to worry about the

In William Shakespeare’s 33rd Sonnet, the speaker remarks on the ultimate beauty of the sun and its continuous daily cycle. However, the sun is not completely unmarked as the occasional cloud shields the world from its glory. In Greek mythology, the sun was the ultimate ruler as legend says Helios would drive the sun everyday across the sky in his golden chariot. A similar myth is mirrored in Egyptian history as Ra, the sun god, was the ultimate ruler. The sun holds a vital place in the the human history of power and strength and is the keystone to all life. Although at first read, the speaker seems to be remarking on the sun’s eternal glory despite the occasional shielding cloud, in actuality, the speaker is drawing a parallel between his

By now, everybody knows the story of Elsa and Anna: they were two sisters born to the King and Queen, and Elsa has a big secret--she can turn anything she touches into ice. Anna and the rest of the world don’t know about her secret until Elsa loses control one day and puts her kingdom into eternal winter, Anna then has to find and save Elsa. The picture I chose was from a clip in the movie (entitled “Do you wanna build a snowman?”) and shows Elsa in her room covered which is covered in ice; and though it’s not shown, on the other side of the door that Elsa is leaning on, Anna is in the same dejected position. As

The lover is described as "more temperate" in line 2 and therefore less prone to vary between extremes.

This sonnet initially appealed to me because I really liked the metaphors and figurative language, later on, when I started to think about the deeper meaning of the sonnet, I was interested in how Shakespeare chose to convey his understanding of time’s relationship to humanity through the metaphors that initially drew me in. The central theme of the sonnet is how time gives the gift of life; however, as it moves forward and time takes back the gift of life no one is able to escape the ultimate end, which is death. Instead of using a singular central metaphor to express his ideas, Shakespeare changes time into a wave, a child and a killer, through similes, metaphors, and personification, to illustrate his interpretation of time’s effect on humanity.

Finley's breath caught in her throat, memory after memory of her senior year crashed into her mind. They all flickered in bright flashes behind her eyes. Her breathing became shallow, and her eyes fluttered fully closed as she tried to hold back the tears in her eyes.

Poetry has always been known as a beautiful form of art. However, the things that make the poems so stunning are the life experiences the poets go through. A woman named Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in Durham, England in 1806. She had a great interest in writing, and soon wrote her first poem in Greek when she was 12. When she was 38 she published a book of poetry titled Poems, which gained her a tremendous amount of fame, resulting in her becoming one of the most famous writers of England. This eventually caught the eye of a poet named Robert Browning. He wrote a letter to her, eventually leading to them falling in love. They were married on September 12,1846. Elizabeth died on June 29, 1861. In “Sonnet 43” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the author expresses many of her life experiences in it, making it very emotional. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s life experiences influenced her poetry by filling her poems with great love and sadness.

Truth and honesty are key elements to a good, healthy relationship. However, in Shakespeare's Sonnet 138, the key to a healthy relationship between the speaker and the Dark Lady is keeping up the lies they have constructed for one another. Through wordplay Shakespeare creates different levels of meaning, in doing this, he shows the nature of truth and flattery in relationships.

Shakespeare’s sonnet 60 expresses the inevitable end that comes with time and uses this dark truth to express his hopefulness that his poetry will carry his beloved’s beauty and worth into the future in some way so that it may never die. This love poem is, as all sonnets are, fourteen lines. Three quatrains form these fourteen lines, and each quatrain consists of two lines. Furthermore, the last two lines that follow these quatrains are known as the couplet. This sonnet has the rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, as most Shakespearean sonnets follow. In each of the three quatrains, Shakespeare discusses a different idea. In this particular sonnet, the idea is how time continues to pass on, causing everything to die. The couplet connects these ideas to one central theme, this theme being Shakespeare’s hope for the beauty of his beloved’s immortality through his poetry’s continuation into future times.

From the post-2000s to today, gender roles still remain as one of the big topics. Compared to society’s ideologies of women in 1930s, women are shown to be intelligent, active, and most importantly, independent. The portrayal of female characters with such characteristics is apparent in Disney’s contemporary film, Frozen (2013). The film portrays two female protagonists, Princess Anna and Queen Elsa. The theme of the film is family; the film starts out with childish, sisterly relationships, which then develops to closed off, rejected relationships due to Elsa’s fears on her power, and later with intimate, recovered family relationship between the two characters. In the film, both Elsa and Anna are depicted as independent characters. Elsa

     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.