Throughout the novel Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses many diverse techniques through the two main characters Romeo and Juliet to portray the development of their personalities. This can primarily be seen in Juliet’s two soliloquies; one full of love, passion, and innocence while the other shows Juliet as a more mature, decisive but also anguished individual. This is achieved through the use of diction, imagery, pace, and tone. These techniques also affect the theme of tragedy in the play as it gives the reader a sense of mood changes from seeing Juliet as a light-hearted and naïve girl to a bitter and despairing young adult. In both soliloquies, the structures are somewhat similar.
Shakespeare’s use of wordplay influenced his works during the Elizabethan Era. Shakespeare used wordplay by using a lot of puns to lighten the mood, double entendre to convey multiple meanings with a single stroke of his pen, assonance, alliteration and consonance to keep the audience engaged by varying the rhythm of a scene. In “Romeo and Juliet,” Shakespeare utilizes Mercutio to deliver a series of wordplays. In Act 3 Scene 1, Mercutio said, “No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world.
Rossetti's best-known work, Goblin Market and Other Poems, was published in 1862. The collection established Rossetti as a significant voice in Victorian poetry. The Prince's Progress and Other Poems, appeared in 1866 followed by Sing-Song, a collection of verse for children, in 1872 (with illustrations by Arthur Hughes). By the 1880s, recurrent bouts of Graves' disease, a thyroid disorder, made Rossetti an invalid, and ended her attempts to work as a governess. While the illness restricted her social life, she continued to write poems, Rossetti also wrote religious prose works, such as "Seek and Find" (1879), "Called to Be Saints" (1881) and The Face of the Deep (1892).
"The Human Comedy" was the title given by Balzac to his copious fictions, casting them as the secular reply to Dante's "Divine Comedy". While Balzac sought the comprehensive scope of the "Divine Comedy", his title indicates the secular, worldly concerns of the realist novelist. "The Human Comedy" was published in 16 volumes between 1842 and 1846 by Dubochet, Furne, Hetzel and Paulin. The supplementary 17th volume appeared in 1847 containing "Cousin Bette" and "Cousin Pons". Modern editions are based on the author's corrected copy of the Furne edition.
Latin Project- Pyramus and Thisbe: Their Last Hour The original story of Pyramus and Thisbe was a poem written by Ovid in his book Metamorphoses. Pyramus and Thisbe is a lot like the story of Romeo and Juliet in that it consists of a story of two passionate or even “star-crossed” young lovers from parents who forbid their love. It is in fact said that Shakespeare based his famous play on Pyramus and Thisbe. Our story takes place in the nation of Babylonia where Pyramus and Thisbe, whom like many other characters in classical literature had qualities beyond normal human standards, theirs was their unmatched beauty and their reputation as the most handsome and most beautiful young man and woman in Babylonia. They quickly fell in deep passionate love but despite the love they shared their parents didn’t approve; They forbade the two to marry or as much as see each other.
According to The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Poetry, Shakespeare’s poetry has “set the benchmark for achievement in artistic expression” (ed. Cheney 2007, p.2) due to his “mastery of poetry’s idiom and form” (ed. Cheney 2007, p.2). Shakespeare, in his love sonnets, has re-written classical Petrarchan conventions of a discourse of love to create his own format of sonnet poetry. Shakespeare’s sonnets eighteen to one hundred and twenty six – the central sonnets of the compilation- give a discourse on homoerotic desire and love, a deviance from the introductory section’s homosocial discourse between the patron and poet.
How does Shakespeare make this act 1 scene 5 dramatically effective? Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play written by William Shakespeare in 1589. The play is made dramatically effective through the playwright’s use of contrast. There are two contrasting themes, these are love “star- crossed loves” and hate “ancient grudge”. Before Romeo and Juliet meet, the audience is only aware that he is a Montague and that she is a Capulet.
Spanish poetry was heavily influenced by Spanish and Portuguese poets; one masterpiece that came out of this time was Luis de Camões’ epic, Os Lusíadas. “There were two main poetic schools after the mid-1500s-the Castilian school of Salamanca and the Andalusian school of Seville. Poets of both schools wrote in the style of the Italian poet Petrarch (Encyclopedia 759).” Spanish poetry seemed very important to learn. During the 1500s there were poets called mystics who sought a union of the heart with God and a well known one was Saint John. Saint Teresa of Avila was an author who wrote mystical literature, and two similar writers are Fray Luis de Grenada and Fray Luis de León.
Following the definition of the word elegy, iambic tetrameter almost gives this poem a song-ish feel. As in many poem’s, the author used end rhyme, where the last word in each line rhyme’s but specifically used a Shakespearean sonnet form of writing this poem where the rhyming pattern goes AABBA CDCDD EFEFGG; this is not exactly the layout for a Shakespearean sonnet but it is very similar. When
Analyses of Sonnet 75 Sonnet 75 is taken from Edmund Spenser’s poem Amoretti which was published in 1595. The poem has been fragmented into 89 short sonnets that combined make up the whole of the poem. The name Amoretti itself means “little notes” or “little cupids.” This poem is said to have been written on Spenser’s love affair and eventual marriage to Elizabeth Boyle, his second wife. In this essay , I will analyses sonnet 75 by mentioning the rhyme , and the poetic literary devices which are used by Edmund to give the sonnet a wholesome structure . The whole sonnet reeks of the use of imagery.