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- 41: A Word Is Worth a Thousand Pictures? - Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 and Keats' Grecian Urn
- ... the poets are preserving the beauty of the subjects, which are the young friend of Shakespeare and Keats' "Grecian Urn." Beginning with Sonnet 18, and continuing here and there throughout the first major grouping of sonnets, Shakespeare approaches the problem of mutability and the effects of time upon his beloved friend in a different fashion. Instead of addressing the problem of old age, he emphasises his friend's attributes: "Shall I ...
- 42: Romantic Sonnet
- ... and the struggles endured due to love, there was also emphasis placed on isolation, as seen in the emotions of Smith's speaker and also in the setting on the work. Nature, in many Romantic sonnets, is in direct parallel with the emotions being conveyed. Smith, for example, uses the water to aid the reader's comprehension of the speaker's state of mind. Included in this traditional natural setting is ...
- 43: How do Textual Features Combine To Convey a Theme of the Poem?
- ... is his reasoning for accepting the fact that he is blind. It is used to introduce the answer towards his questioning, and as a change or turning point within the sonnet. As in standard Petrarchian sonnets this change is in the 8-9 line, and a transition between problem and solution is achieved. The problem was whether or not he should continue to write. Yet, in line 8 the personification conveys ...
- 44: The Personification and Criticism of Death in John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud."
- ... Personification and Criticism of Death in John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud." "No poem of John Donne's is more widely read or more directly associated with Donne than the tenth of the Holy Sonnets, 'Death, be not proud.'" (Dr. Gerald McDaniel, lecture). In this sonnet, Donne personifies death in two ways, as rescuer and as punisher of even the most noble. Using these personifications, Donne turns the sting of ...
- 45: The Merchant of Venice: A Tragic Play
- ... English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare was the author of the most widely admired and influential body of literature by any individual in the history of Western civilization. His work consists of 36 plays, 154 sonnets, and 2 narrative poems. Knowledge of Shakespeare is derived from two sources: his works and those remains of legal and church records and contemporary allusions through which scholars can trace the external facts of his ...
- 46: Writing about Literature
- ... the reader with a refreshing outlook on love and beauty. He is enlightening the reader by showing that he, a famous writer and poet, is in love with this unconventional beauty. The conceits in the sonnets are merely ideas, things that were commonly believed or excepted in the Elizabethan Age. Shakespeare needed to find a way to express these ideas in words. He does this through a number of metaphors that ...
- 47: Francesco Petrarch
- ... masterpieces some of which were never finished. These two of these were, an epic of Scipio called Africa and a collection of classical heros titled De viris illustribus. Throughout his life he wrote many book, sonnets, Italian lyrics and, poetry. His inspirations may have come from the classical writers, Cicero, Virgo but also from a woman named Laura. Petrarch apparently was in love with this woman but his love was not ...
- 48: Thomas Hardy
- ... his early work. Johnson put Hardys poems in 6 categories to come up with some sort of organization. They were labeled as formal, narrative, satirical, philosophical, reflective, and love. His formal poetry consisted of sonnets, epigrams, and translation, these being more or less traditional. Narrative poetry was like telling a story and Hardy used topical anecdotes and past legends in ballad form to tell those stories. His satirical poems relied ...
- 49: John Keats
- ... apothecary (druggist) but never practiced his profession, deciding instead to be a poet. Early Works Keats had already written a translation of Vergil's Aeneid and some verse; his first published poems (1816) were the sonnets "Oh, Solitude if I with Thee Must Dwell" and "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." Both poems appeared in the Examiner, a literary periodical edited by the essayist and poet Leigh Hunt, one of ...
- 50: Francesco Petrarch
- ... masterpieces some of which were never finished. These two of these were, an epic of Scipio called Africa and a collection of classical heros titled De viris illustribus. Throughout his life he wrote many book, sonnets, Italian lyrics and, poetry. His inspirations may have come from the classical writers, Cicero, Virgo but also from a woman named Laura. Petrarch apparently was in love with this woman but his love was not ...
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