Essay about analysis of Edmund Spenser's sonnet 67

Shakespeare's Sonnet #73, published in 1609, is written in the Shakespearean or English sonnet style. It consists of three quatrains and one couplet at the end, written in iambic pentameters. Each quatrain has its own rhyme scheme, rhyming in alternating lines. The couplet summarizes the preceding twelve lines. Sonnet 73 appears to contain multiple parallels to death and the person speaking in the poem gives the impression that he is near death and reflecting back upon life.

In many ways, Shakespeare’s use of the sonnet form is richer and more complex than this relatively simple division into parts might imply. Not only is his sequence largely occupied with subverting the traditional themes of love sonnets—the traditional love poems in praise of beauty and worth, for instance, are written to a man, while the love poems to a woman are almost all as bitter and negative as Sonnet 147—he also combines formal patterns with daring and innovation. Many of his sonnets in the sequence, for instance, impose the thematic pattern of a Petrarchan sonnet onto the formal pattern of a Shakespearean sonnet, so that while there are still three quatrains and a couplet, the first two quatrains might ask a single question, which the third quatrain and the couplet will answer. As you read through Shakespeare’s sequence, think about the ways Shakespeare’s themes are affected by and tailored to the sonnet form. Be especially alert to complexities such as the juxtaposition of Petrarchan and Shakespearean patterns. How might such a juxtaposition combination deepen and enrich Shakespeare’s

"Idea: Sonnet 61" by Michael Drayton is a fourteen line Petrarchan sonnet that dramatizes the conflicting emotions that arise from an intimate relationship coming to an abrupt end. After analyzing and doing several closer readings, I learned that "Idea: Sonnet 61" is actually about the poet’s own conflicting emotions and feelings from a harsh break up. However, it was no ordinary and flippant relationship. It was a serious relationship that involved great amounts of passion that came to a sudden abrupt end. It was a relationship that had a great amount of importance to the poet, whether he is talking about his first wife or even his first love. I believe I confidently can determine and come to the conclusion that this

     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.

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet #55 is a Shakespearian sonnet. It contains three quatrains, or four line stanzas, and ends with a couplet. The poem is written in iambic pentameter William Shakespeare’s Sonnet #55 is a Shakespearian sonnet. It contains three quatrains, or four line stanzas, and ends with a couplet. The poem is written

As he describes these escapades, he says “The vain travail hath wearied me so sore” (Wyatt, 3). This reinforces the theme by showing how much long he has been fighting to get her. Later on, the narrator is once again lamenting his impossible quest: “Since in a net I seek to hold the wind” (Wyatt, 8). By giving us this statement, it shows how fruitless the speaker’s hopes are. This theme is also prominent in Spenser’s “Sonnet 67”. As the narrator describes his love life he says, “Seeing the game from him escaped away” (Spenser, 2) showing how unobtainable this woman truly is. Later on the speaker supports the theme again, by saying “So, after long pursuit and vain assay” (Spenser, 5). On the speaker’s journey, he has attempted to get his girl, but each time it never works. These two poems are quite similar as they both have the same theme.

The very first sonnet introduces the young very handsome man that the speaker is obsessed with throughout the sonnets, in a homoerotic way. In sonnet four, we learn that not only is the speaker in love with him, but the man himself is in love with himself. “The fair lord seems not only obsessed with his own beauty, but also immoderately selfish with it - at least in the eyes of the poet. The selfishness of the fair lord with respect to his beauty is alluded to elsewhere in the procreation sequence, e.g., "Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend / Upon thyself thy beauty's legacy?" (sonnet 4)” (Blake,para.3). Sonnet three expresses even more about how the speaker feels about the young man. In sonnet three, the speaker tries to explain to him that his good looks will not +-always last forever when the speaker ask “Or who is he so fond will be the tomb / Of his self-love, to stop posterity?" Here, "fond" means "foolish"(Blake, para.5). Sonnet three is more the speaker attempting to convince the young man to understand that his beauty will not last forever due to the fact that we all age and die eventually. In this protest, the speaker says that he should consider having a child that will resemble his beauty. Even when the young man is old, he can look up to his child and see his beauty and be prideful about it (Blake). Greed can blind people from seeing what the most important things life has to offer. A person can be prideful about who they are, but still need to stay humble about it. Also, do not be greedy, or take things for granted for some things do not always last

The structure of the first line sets the tone for the octave. Bishop begins in media ras with ‘Caught’ (l. 1) but immediately undercuts that momentum with an em dash. This structure manifests the instability of the poem which is then picked up by words such as ‘level’ (l. 2), ‘wobbling and wavering’ (l. 5), ‘bevel’ (l. 11), and ‘wherever’ (l. 13). This is just the first example of structure reinforcing meaning in ‘Sonnet’

The couplet of this sonnet renews the speaker's wish for their love, urging her to "love well" which he must soon leave. But after the third quatrain, the speaker applauds his lover for having courage and adoration to remain faithful to him. The rhyme couplet suggests the unconditional love between the speaker and his

Sonnet 20 is one of the most important poems within all 154 sonnets because many people believe that Shakespeare is actually expressing his homosexuality which was looked down upon and so he expressed it in a way in which it was difficult to fully comprehend. He also used “he” for the first half of the sonnets and then went on to say “she” to have us believe he was in fact talking about a woman. Analyzing the sonnet line by line, it appears that he is talking about a woman who is beautiful but can also change for she took the shape of a man even though she was intended to be a woman, and by adding one extra thing, nature has defeated him and because nature added that one thing, it prohibits the poet to love the young man, because he was meant for the pleasure of a woman and not another man.

has the gentle heart of a woman but is not inconsistent as is the way

       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

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.

So the lover, the poet, treats the loved object, the young man, as he would himself. The loved object serves as a substitute for some unattained ideal. In the case of the sonnets, the ideal is love. Being in love allows the poet to have what he wants but could not acquire before and serves as a means of satisfying his self-love.

the first of the two lines he uses the word ‘mark’ which means buoy to