Shakespeare wrote some exquisite sonnets during his life, some about time, some about love, and some about missing loved ones. Sonnet 116 and Sonnet 138 are both about love. The way they both portray love is similar in many ways. For instance the way literary devices are used and the way love is illustrated using vocabulary. I will prove this is true in the following paragraphs Shakespeare uses a large variety of metaphors and similes.
(Shmoop Editorial Team)Throughout the sonnet there is use of imagery, for example “It is the star” emphasizing that love will guide you. Through the duration of the sonnet love being permanent is exaggerated greatly. Shakespeare emphases how true love always preserves, despite any obstacles that may arise, “Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks”. Inferring from this, we can tell he is trying to get across that even if the circumstance or person changes, love never dies. Sonnet 116 uses repeated pairs of words, “love is not love”, “alters when alteration finds” suggesting it is to be like “couples” and to also further emphasize the theme of love in the sonnet.
The poet is slightly showing that this man was a normal human who had a great life, but then he threw away his knees as if one minute he had everything, the next with nothing. Wilfred Owen also simply uses sad phrases to show the tragedy and horror of war such as, 'How cold and late it is,' which is saying not only that the weather is cold and late as in dark, but Owen is saying that the man is now cold on the inside as he has nothing left with him which is quite depressing. Owen is also saying that is to late as well as he can't turn back and the rest of his life has gone. The poet has said what it was like for the man before
Later on in the chapter his conditions worsen upon Edmund awaiting his father's turn. Kipps singles himself out as one not to take part in the festivities and be a "old spoilsport". From here on Kipps is seen as a lone hero when wandering out into the outdoors, his senses being overdramatized heightens this. This lone heroic status recurs through the book, and even His desire to be alone sometimes is later contrasted when he thrives for the company to help him complete his business and is pleased of the company of Spider. This early isolation from his family prepares us for later on in the book when he will be truly alone.
Christmas Carol Essay In the play script 'Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens, the protagonist, Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man who is greedy and tightfisted, changes his attitude throughout the story after being visited by three spirits who teach him about kindness and generosity during the Christmas season. It is important to explore the states of mind that Scrooge endures to fully understand his personality before and after the visits of the spirits. To begin with, in the beginning of the story, Scrooge is a cold-hearted, tight-fisted and greedy man, who despises Christmas and all things which give people happiness. As shown in the play script "The cold within him freezes his old features, stiffens his gait, makes his eyes red, his thin lips blue" (page 2 line 22). This is shown when Scrooge rudely turns away two gentlemen who seek a donation from him to provide a Christmas dinner for the Poor.
The poem Anne Hathaway is a tribute to Shakespeare. It is written in the form of a sonnet – a traditional love poem. Duffy uses the character of Anne Hathaway to present a feeling of love. “The bed we loved in was a spinning world of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas where he would dive for pearls.” A deep feeling of love is conveyed metaphorically by comparing the couple’s bed to a romantic, fantasy world. All of the places mentioned are key settings for some of Shakespeare's most famous works, this shows how special Hathaway considers the couple's lovemaking.
Dickinson’s Because I could not stop for death and Dylan Thomas’s do not go gentle into that good night both demonstrate the nature of death, however Dickinson explores the appreciation for life and abruptness of death, while Thomas contends death by showing remorse for death. Lit elements. Dylan Thomas poetry was written when his father fell ill and was on the verge of death. Two phrases that are mentioned throughout the tercets are “rage rage against the dying of the light.” and “ do not go gentle into that good night”. They are both similar in meaning to fight against death.
A paper on a poem by John Keats that discuss psychological theories on dream interpretation and meanings. Insomniac Hallucinatory Speculation Once upon a time, there lived a man in Denmark quite divine. After his father slain, his mother he did chide. But an invisible culprit was not less to the eye, and so revenge and melancholy filled his life, until woe is all and he did die. Now on his gravestone rest these words wanting of wisdom in suicide.
To start off, Shakespeare compares his progressing age to the passing of a day in the second quatrain. His life is slowly fading away like the light of the sun “fadeth in the west” (6). Once the sun sets, it becomes dark and then it is time to sleep. But for Shakespeare, the “black night” (7) is the time when “death’s second self” (8) will come and take away his sleep, and ultimately extinguishing the last few minutes of his life. Secondly, the author metaphorically compares his aging body to autumn in the first quatrain: That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In both poems the writers are embracing death and are trying to say goodbye to their love ones. In Sonnet 71 we see it more accurately “Nay, if you read this line, remember not the hand that writ it; for I love you so that I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot if thinking on me then should make you woe”; as well we observe how the tone is because even though he is sad he is going to die he is more concern about his beloved, he doesn’t want her to suffer when he is gone. In Sonnet 73 we may think the writer is sad and is only trying to say goodbye, but in lines 13 and 14 _“ This is thou perceives, which makes thy love more strong. To love that well which _thou must leave ere long” there is a twist in which we may observe he is talking to his beloved and how their love is going to live forever. Shakespeare writes about the mortality of men in Sonnets 71 and 73.