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Sonnet
Poems that often follow iambic pentameter, the format has evolved over the centuries. Shakespeare is one of the most famous, along with John Milton and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Also done in Italian and French, they typically rhyme and have a specific pattern of emphasis on the lines.
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What is the most popular shakespeare sonnet?
Probably no. 18: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day."
Who did Shakespeare dedicate his 154 sonnets to?
Here's your answer: "Shakespeare addresses Sonnets 1 through 126 to an unidentified young man with outstanding physical and intellectual attributes. The first 17 of these urge the young man to marry so that he can pass on his superior qualities to a child, thereby allowing future generations to enjoy and appreciate these qualities when the child becomes a man. In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare alters his viewpoint, saying his own poetry may be all that is necessary to immortalize the young man and his qualities.
.......In Sonnets 127 through 154, Shakespeare devotes most of his attention to addressing a mysterious "dark lady"-a sensuous, irresistible woman of questionable morals who captivates the poet. References to the dark lady also appear in previous sonnets (35, 40, 41, 42), in which Shakespeare reproaches the young man for an apparent liaison with the dark lady. The first two lines of Sonnet 41 chide the young man for "those petty wrongs that liberty commits / when I am sometime absent from thy heart," a reference to the young man's wrongful wooing of the dark lady. The last two lines, the rhyming couplet, further impugn the young man for using his good looks to attract the dark lady. In Sonnet 42, the poet charges, "thou dost love her, because thou knowst I love her." "
They were dedicated to Mr. W.H., except nobody is really sure who that is. A prime contender is Henry Wriothesley the Earl of Southampton, except of course that he is really Mr. H.W.
What is William Shakespeare's most famous sonnet?
Sonnet 18- Shall I Compare Thee to A Summer's Day?
These four are also some of Shakespeare's most popular sonnets
Sonnet 029 - When in disgrace with fortune
Sonnet 116 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Sonnet 126 - O thou my lovely boy
Sonnet 130 - My Mistress' eyes
What are the mistress' hairs are likened to in Shakespeare's Sonnet 130?
The line is, "If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head."
What is Eric Jens Petersen's view on Patriotism in his story Who Called You Here?
Eric Jens Petersen explores the complexities of patriotism in his story "Who Called You Here." He raises questions about blind loyalty to one's country and suggests that true patriotism involves critical reflection and a willingness to confront uncomfortable truths about one's nation. By depicting characters who grapple with conflicting loyalties and moral dilemmas, Petersen encourages readers to reconsider simplistic notions of patriotism.
What subject did Shakespeare's sonnets usually deal with?
The largest single group of Shakespeare's sonnets are the Fair Youth sonnets. The poems in that group are addressed to a young man who seems to be a close friend of Shakespeare's. The core message is that Shakespeare is telling his friend that although today he is young and handsome, one day he will be old and faded: he needs to get married and have children now, so that his beauty will be preserved for future generatiions.
You could say that the theme of this main group (and of many of the other sonnets) is Love and Death. But it would be better to explain the idea more clearly, as I did in the previous paragraph.
What is the motif of Shakespeare's sonnet 153?
Fire. He uses the word three times in the poem: "love-kinding fire" (l. 3), "holy fire" (l. 5), and "new fire" (l. 14). He also uses the word "brand" ( a flaming torch) in lines 2 and 8, and "heat" in line 6 which continue the motif. Interestingly, the following sonnet uses the same motif, the same allegory, and the same key words.
How many plays and how many sonnets did shakespeare write?
One hundred and fifty-four sonnets were contained in the omnibus Shake-speare's Sonnets published in 1609. Thirty-six plays were in the First Folio collection of 1623, but not included in this collection was Pericles (published in 1609) and The Two Noble Kinsmen (co-written with John Fletcher and published in 1634).
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What are the four subjects of Shakespeare's sonnets?
Love, Betrayal, Women, and Mutton. (The last one was a wild guess....)
What are the differences between Shakespeare sonnet and petrarchan sonnet?
The difference is in their structure - both have fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, but they are organized in different ways.
A Petrarchan (also called an "Italian") sonnet, is composed of an octave (eight lines) followed by a sestet (six lines). The rhyme scheme of the octave is typically abbaabba (this is easy in Italian because so many words end in suffixes like "-ello" or "-etto").
The octave sets up the problem of the sonnet, which might be something like the brevity of a lifetime or the transience of beauty. The sestet has its own rhyme scheme, and there are several acceptable patterns (cdcdcd, cdecde, to name a couple). The sestet resolves the problem set up in the octave - if the problem is the transience of beauty, perhaps the solution is that the person's beauty will live on in the poem. The change in tone between the octave and the sestet is called a turn, or a "volta."
The Shakespearean (also called an "English") sonnet is composed of four quatrains (of four lines each) and a concluding couplet (two lines). The rhyme scheme is as follows: abab cdcd efef gg. Each quatrain serves to develop an element or a facet of the problem.
For example, a sonnet about the transience of beauty might have one quatrain about the beloved's charms, one comparing her to the seasons, and one about how she will eventually die. The couplet solves the problem of the quatrains, just as the sestet solves the problem of the octave in Petrarchan sonnet. The volta traditionally occurs between the third quatrain and the couplet. Because you have to solve the problem in two lines, the couplet tends to be particularly witty and significant.
What is Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola's birthday?
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola was born on October 1, 1507.
How are Shakespearean sonnets organized?
Shakespeare's sonnets are organized numerically, usually identified with a Roman numeral, starting with I and ending with CLIV. The reason for the assignment of a particular numeral to a particular sonnet is not always clear, although it appears that sometimes groups of sonnets with a similar theme or topic are kept together, suggesting that the editor or someone made an effort to organize them. People have a tendency to assume that the order is chronological, although there is no evidence whatsoever that this is the case.
What is the rhyme scheme of Sonnet 43?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet 43, known more commonly by its first line "How do I love Thee? / Let me cound the ways" follows an abba abba cdcdcd rhyme scheme.
What are the personifications in sonnet 55?
"Not marble, nor the gilded monuments . . . shall outlive". Marble and monuments aren't alive and cannot outlive anything. "Wasteful war shall statues overturn." Again, war isn't a person and cannot push over statues.
This is how you look for personifications: you look at the verbs and see if they make sense literally with their subject. If they don't make literal sense, the subject is being personified.
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Is there alliteration in shakespeare sonnet 73?
Nothing spectacular. "Thou mayst in me", "by and by black night" and "Death's second self" are all alliterative. The last is probably the best example.
What are the examples of transience used in sonnet 18?
"A summer's day" or "the darling buds of May". Flowers were a favourite symbol for transient beauty for Shakespeare. See, "for women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour." in Twelfth Night II,4.
What is the pattern of Shakespeare's sonnets?
Nearly all of the poems are constructed as fourteen lines, most of which are composed of rhythmic sentences of ten syllables under the following rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefgg.
The poems are arranged into two sections in an order which suggests an underlying story involving a poet, his aristocratic friend/patron and their relationships.
The short poems in the first published edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets are numbered 1-154. There are separate sonnets within certain of his plays and he may well have penned others which have not survived.
