What is the central theme of the work? Answer: Instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her. At the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. So instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her. 3.
They both explore the theme of love or rather painful love. the poet revels the link between the two poems’s through a verity of techniques which is done very effectively but also shows the difference between the obsessive love in “Havisham” and the possessive love of “Valentine”. The pain of love is evident from the beginning in both poems. “Carol Ann Duffy” uses the tone in the first couple of stanzas to show the unorthodox nature of the love. “Not a day since then I haven’t whished him dead”-Havisham This is very effective as the aggressive tone shows “Havisham” has been rejected and her love is causing her pain.
Both poems generally give a positive overview of love; both poets suggest that love is never ending and can battle through bad situations. Shakespeare’s sonnet takes the form of argument, talking about the unchanging and eternal qualities of love whilst Browning’s sonnet is like a direct poem to her husband discussing the nature of her love for him. Shakespeare starts the poem with the imperative “let me not to the marriage of true minds” which sets the tone and exploration of true love. Browning also starts with the imperative “how do I love thee? Let me count the ways!” She starts the poem with how suggesting that we can say that we love someone but we can never define the nature of true love.
He talks about kissing with lips touching and he is comparing that to a pair of hands joined together like somebody is praying. The religious use shows that Romeo and Juliet’s love is holy so it is pure. Therefore, it is true. Also, he is admiring her beauty which is another sign of true love and back in history when this was preformed as a play, men usually acted out women’s part as well as men’s as women weren’t allowed to act. After the soliloquy, Both Romeo and Juliet do a sonnet to each
Roxanne is a very attractive woman who is looking for someone to love her for who she is and not just because of her looks. At first she meets Christian and begins to develop a crush on him. Christian asked Cyrano to write letters to her because he can't write poetry well. Cyrano, being the good friend he is, writes letters for Christian and Roxanne falls in love with him, not knowing that Christian is not even writing them. This makes Cyrano upset because he doesn't want someone else taking credit for his poetry that he means towards Roxanne.
Benefits is defined as” something that is advantageous or good; an advantage” This is how we usually think of love. We do not think of love as a cost, which is “the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything.” Different forms of love are experienced in Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet feel romantic love for each other. Juliet, unaware that Romeo is underneath her balcony, says “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.” Juliet is asking Romeo to deny his family to love her.
Shakespeare echoes key thematic topics by the production of a series of lies that form intro deception at crucial moments. When Hero and Ursula exit and leave Beatrice alone, Beatrice declares, “…Benedick, love on; I will requite thee, taming my wild heart to thy loving hand” (III. i. 117-118). Beatrice expresses her acceptance of Benedick’s love but does not realize the love inside Beatrice exists artificially.
Sonnet 130 Shakespeare is very famous for his tragedies, but he is also much known for his hundreds of sonnets he has written. In this essay I will analyze and interpret the Shakespearean “Sonnet 130” and focus on the humorous devices in the poem. The humorous devices in the sonnet makes us laugh, but why? A Shakespearean sonnet has its own special structure. The Shakespearean sonnet is also called an English sonnet.
In this sonnet, he describes his mistress as flawed, but in the last lines of the sonnet, he declares that he loves her regardless of these flaws. One reason readers would find “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun” more enjoyable than “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” is through it unusual tone, which appeals to readers due to its odd, comical manner. Shakespeare uses a demeaning, mocking tone in “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun” for instance, when he depicts her cheeks to be dull and colorless in: “I have seen roses damasked red and white But no such roses see I in her cheeks” (5-6) This style of tone is unusual for love sonnets considering most poets tend to embellish their subjects’ beauty; to which he adds at the end of his sonnet, “belied with false compare” (14) ridiculing those poets that lie or exaggerate their subjects’ appearance. Some readers may find this interesting seeing how in “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” he describes his subjects’
Also the themes of these two poems are the same. The difference between “Sonnet 130” and “Sonnet 132” is that in “Sonnet 130”, Shakespeare is describing how beautiful she is by comparing her to objects of nature, while in “Sonnet 132”, he is doing the same but he is not comparing her to objects of nature, and the fact that the mistress does not have any feelings for him either. (Felicia Jean Steele pg 1). “Sonnet 130” and “Sonnet 132” both talk about and describe the love of his mistress or “The Dark Lady”. In “Sonnet 130”, he compares the lady’s walk to a goddesses’ walk.