Sonnet 43

Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets in his lifetime; the 56 sonnets being one of many. This sonnet in particular addresses a “fair youth”. Love is one of the major themes throughout the sonnets, as seen in Sonnets 1, 18, and 29, as well as many other works. Shakespeare is very well known in the literary community for his precise word choice, which often has deeper meaning than simply surface level. Throughout Sonnet 56, Shakespeare uses literary techniques such as comparison, personification, and symbolism to portray the meaning and emotion of love.

The readers can immediately relate to the romantic notion of sincere love. The overall tone in this poem is loving and it also has a religious feeling. She talks about her everlasting love and how she puts her trust for love into God’s hands. The mood of this poem is kind of a mix between positive and happy / negative and unhappy. She seems to be positive and happy about her everlasting love but at the came time she is unsure about what’s to

Discontent by Elizabeth Barrett Browning Explication The sonnet “Discontent” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning pinpoints two separate types of unhappiness, discontent led by a need to show unhappiness despite superficial subject matter, and a quiet pain that with time distances one from discontent and leads to submission to the will of God and the world. Browning examines these differences throughout the poem and emphasizes the meaninglessness of discontent and the distance brought by pain to show why the human race gravitates toward the superficial, until time forces a calm upon it.

A leading detractor from this theory, Daniel Nagin, believes that statistics of past deterrence and the death penalty should be overthrown. With Nagin’s high credential in being a Harvard scholar in Criminology overlooks many studies goes in to say that those several researchers who focus on past statistics should be ignored. Nagin claims, “The evidence does not exist to back them up” (10). Although, he may be correct in some extend, I can agree when he explains his answers. Nagin believes that due to being inconclusive on whether or not the death penalty is deterrent, it still increases crime and makes people skeptical about it still. No one really knows whether to agree or disagree with the capital punishment. Even so with Nagin’s opinion

In the World of Hunt, there was a region called UNNAMED_LAND. In UNNAMED LAND was a luscious field called UNNAMED_FIELD_24. The field had bright green grass, and the breeze there made you feel wonderful. There was a mountain to the north, where hunters went to hunt for mountain goats and to catch Toads. The birds chirped so beautifully that the sound made you want to fall asleep. The wafting smell of spring came around and it had a wonderful effect on the plants. In a small cement hut on the beautiful field, there was a Pixie named Onix who was a farmer and hunter. Onix was very poor, but he was humble and didn’t like to see people mad. When he and his son didn’t have enough money anymore, he decided

Firstly, sight, ‘hold it up to the light like a colour slide’. This suggests that even though a

How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barret Browning is an iconic and powerful love poem. The work is part of Sonnets from the Portuguese, a collection of poems that Elizabeth Browning wrote for her husband, poet Robert Browning. It is a passionate declaration of love from one who is in love, which had resonated with many generations of readers because of the rawness and relatability of its feelings.

In sonnet 95, the speaker depicts a paternal feeling while speaking to the addressee, where indeed the poet reminds his audience about way appearance can be so deceiving. The young man is relying on his good appearance to veil his sexual immorality. Being that he is handsome and attractive, people are reluctant to disapprove his behavior. In the first quadrant, the poet employs different stylistic devices, which include simile, as the young man is likened to a fragrant rose, and on the other hand, he is compared to a destructive worm, but all his dark side of life is hidden under his good looking and charming nature. What is important about this poem is the manner in which the speaker reminds the young man about his bad behavior and draws examples that makes him feel sorry about what he does behind his good-looking nature. By the use of diction, imagery, diction, images, metaphors and other figures of speech, such as tone of voice, allusions, syntax and structure of the speech, the speaker warns the young man against his sexual immorality, and reminds him that there are detrimental risks associated with his behavior if he does not change.

In the poem "Sonnet 43" Elizabeth Barrett Browning use the theme of love to express her love feelings about her husband Robert Browning. tone: Elizabeth express her love by saying "i love thee with a love i seemed to lose". Her love looks sincere,and she also express her love with figurative language.

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

     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.

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.

In modern times, youth and beauty is an image seen everywhere. For example, a Versace billboard, magazine ad, TV commercial, all of which displays images of beautiful people. But what happens when this beauty fades? Shakespeare in his 12th sonnet talks about his experience and fading beauty. The purpose of this poem is to encourage a young man to not lose his beauty to the ravages of time. In order to do this, one must reproduce so beauty will live.

For this response I will focus on Sonnets 1, 18, and 130. In Sonnet 1, I noticed how the themes of beauty and human life and introduced. Sonnet 1 starts off by saying that no one lives forever, and in order to keep the beauty, people need to have children. It then continues to say that some people are obsessed with their beauty and keep it for themselves. These people are encouraged to change their ways or less their beauty will start to fade and eventually disappear. I believe that Sonnet 1 is urging people to help the world by having children.

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.