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This paper examines Shakespeare's use of the theme of time-as-destroyer, in three of the sonnets: No's 64, 65, and 73. Shakespeare's poetic techniques are analyzed in detail. Some of these include meter, alliteration, antithesis, syllogism, personification, ploce, and chiasmus. In order to demonstrate these different techniques, the author makes extensive comparisons between the three sonnets.

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"The poem is an apostrophe, addressed to the absent (or at least voiceless) lover. It says these things you may see in me: that I am aging, that I am like a setting sun, that I must soon die. But because you see this impermanence, this fading or deterioration, you only love me more. Now, impermanence has become a positive thing, fueling the love his beloved has for him.
"The imagery in this sonnet is gentler than that of the two others. There, we had raging, engulfing oceans, and battering days, and rocks and brass and hard, indomitable things. Now, the imagery is of yellowing leaves, and boughs that once had sweet singing birds on them. The giving over to inevitable death is not one raged against, but is a sweet thing like the setting of a sun. His late stage of life is being compared with fading light, and with night which is "death's second self that seals up all in rest." We are being eased into death here, being made to think of it as slumber."

Tags:alliteration, beauty, chiasmus, courtly, elizabethan, literature, love, personification, ploce, poetry, shakespeare, sonnets, theme, time, life, imagery, repetition, couplet, technique, contrast

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This paper focuses on the use of literary techniques such as scenic imagery, contradictions, and inspiring diction in these three different sonnets. In addition, it compares how these techniques are used differently in the three sonnets.

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""A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth." This quote by Percy Byshe Shelley, explains the definition of poetry. Poetry, in some cases, is written to express emotional messages. Poems in the form of sonnets often convey strong messages of love. To convey these messages, poets often use scenic imagery, contradictions, and inspiring diction."

Tags:literary, love, poetry, sonnets, techniques

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This paper performs a line by line close reading of Shakespeare's "Sonnet 138", examining the ways in which Shakespeare's careful use of language subtly adds layers of depth to the sonnet's meaning. The paper focuses its analysis on the themes of love, truth, lies, and self-deception the main themes of the sonnet.

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"In Sonnet 138, Shakespeare writes about the layers of deceit in a relationship between a man and a woman. The speaker and his lover each choose to believe the other's lies in order to remain secure about themselves. The speaker calmly explains his complex relationship with cynical wit and resignation, and without expressing a wish to change or improve the dynamic between himself and his lover. Shakespeare plays with words surrounding the central ideas of the poem such as belief, knowledge, truth, and simplicity, creating in them layers of meaning. Shakespeare also presents the reader with paradoxes and logic-plays. Each line builds on the last, so that every line of the sonnet adds new depth and complexity to the lovers' deceit. Also Shakespeare's language effectively conveys the speaker's tone and emotions through word choice and structure; Shakespeare communicates detachment and bitter humor on the part of the speaker, as well as a resigned and cynical outlook on love."

Tags:tone, paradox, lovers, tongue

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This paper explains the imagery and poetic tools of the sonnet, as well as its ideas and meanings. Those elements are examined against other interpretations of the sonnet, and the author finally concludes that despite the poems initial difficulties in its understanding, it remains applicable in today's society.

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This paper briefly offers a line by line analysis of this sonnet. It shows that Shakespeare?s "Sonnet 138" revolves around a narrator who takes a somewhat witty and sarcastic approach toward the necessary infidelities involved in his marriage.

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"The first line, "When my love swears that she is made of truth," opens with a clause, pushing the reader to find out what happens when she swears her honesty to him. The word "love" is not only in reference to his wife, but also to the fact that it is his love that is making him believe her, not her lies fooling him. The word "swears" also leads the reader to immediately question why the connotation seems so tense. The narrator then says, ?I do believe her, though I know she lies [emphasis added],? the word "do" connotes trying to convince himself of her faithfulness, fully knowing that it is not true. The word "lies" has two meanings here: the first that his wife is dishonest, and the second meaning that she lies with other men, adulterously."

Tags:adultry, marriage

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The essay explains the different aspects of romantic love through an explication of Sonnets 116, 130 and 138. According to the author, the three types of love are, respectively, real love, ideal love, and lying love. The poems emphasize different aspects of love, but all three kinds are required for love to stand the test of time.

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"In Sonnet 116, Shakespeare makes several claims about ideal love. As described in this poem, ideal love is permanent. If someone is truly in love with another, his love will never end. Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,/ But bears it out even to the edge of doom (ln. 10-11). This love, according to Shakespeare will never wither away or be broken down by any obstacle (ln. 6). Nothing can stand in the way of this feeling, true and strong. Ideal love will also never change, even as the possessors do. As they change, they will still love each other just as strongly, or even more so (ln. 2-3). This is the most important and most difficult aspect of reaching ideal love. Though many believe they have achieved it, they fall short as they come to realize that as they learn more about each other, they drift apart."

Tags:lies, beauty, false, comparison, flattery

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By using Thomas Wyatt's sonnet, "Whoso List to Hunt" and Shakespeare's Sonnets 18 and 130, this essay demonstrates how the Petrarchan sonnet form has been employed, adapted and subverted by these two poets. This paper analyzes the structural conventions of the sonnet and illustrates Wyatt's attempt to adopt Petrarchan conventions whilst highlighting how Shakespeare re-invents them. The paper also examines the different ways in which the conceit, blazons and Petrarchan content were employed and subverted by Shakespeare in sonnets 8 and 130.

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"By using Thomas Wyatt's sonnet Whoso List to Hunt and Shakespeare's Sonnets 18 and 130, this essay will attempt to demonstrate how the Petrarchan sonnet form has been employed, adapted and subverted by these two poets. The structural conventions of the sonnet will firstly be considered, illustrating Wyatt's attempt to adopt Petrarchan conventions whilst highlighting how Shakespeare re-invents them. The different ways in which the conceit, blazons and Petrarchan content were employed and subverted by Shakespeare will then be examined through a comparison of Sonnet 8 and 130."

Tags:poetry, structural conventions, canzoniere

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This paper examines how Shakespeare's work changed substantially through his career and how change wasn't always for the best. It briefly outlines the chronology of Shakespeare's work and discuss some of the similarities and continuities as well as the changes evident in the texts of "Cymbeline" and the "Sonnets" compared with his other works such as A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Richard II". It also considers the contemporary influences that may have informed these changes as well as critical reception and performance histories that bring us to the current state of popularity of these works.

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"Critical reception of Cymbeline has been mixed, which has inevitably affected the popularity of the play. Many early critics such as Samuel Johnson writing in the eighteenth century focused on its lack of classical form and Hawkins and Garrick produced modified versions of Cymbeline to encompass classical ideals. Nineteenth century reception was on the whole more sympathetic, particularly to the character of Innogen who found favor with the Romantics and Victorians. One notable critic writing at the time of women's suffrage was George Bernard Shaw who condemned its "artificialities" and declared Innogen an "idiotic paragon of virtue" (quoted in Brown and Johnson, 2000, p. 10). Shaw also criticized the play's complicated denouement and entirely rewrote it for his production in 1936."

Tags:shaw, samuel, johnson

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This paper looks at "Sonnet 116" by William Shakespeare discussing how form, as well as language and other aspects of style, contribute to the intensity of expression.

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"Shakespeare explicitly sets out his argument and the principal theme of constant true love in the opening line of the sonnet, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds / Admit impediments". The vehement nature of this strong lead is contrasted with the negativity of "not" and the ambiguous element introduced by the word "admit" as if the poet himself is aware of the impediments of true love but refuses to admit to them. The poet makes direct reference to the Christian marriage ceremony with the word "impediments" which is ironic when we consider that this sonnet is addressing the poet's male lover. "

Tags:language, expression, love

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This paper examines the first of Shakespeare's sonnets. It explains the technical aspects of the sonnet and also its major themes and concepts. The first part paper focuses on explaining the sonnet in order to make it more readily understandable. It shows how Shakespeare crafted the idea that it is a tragedy if the beauty of the world is not perpetuated through reproduction. The second part of the paper follows-on from the first part and offers an in-depth analysis of the sonnet. It looks closely at the tone of the sonnet, cultural influences and the concept of profusion.

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"Indeed, there are a multitude of other Biblical and cultural references in sonnet 1 that are very important in allowing us to understand the poem effectively. In the second-from-last line, we see a reference to gluttony one of the seven deadly sins. There is also an allusion to Isaiah [32.5]. In Shakespeare's medieval culture, the rose of beauty was an often-quoted symbol. Similarly, the central concept of the sonnet (i.e. the dynastic obligation to produce heirs) was heavily rooted in medieval culture. Shakespeare so immerses us, the reader, in such cultural references that one wonders whether he is really intending to make a political point in this sonnet rather than just generally musing over a young man's inability to procreate."

Tags:bible, profusion, shakespeare, sonnet