You can tell Will is familiar with this type of “southie” talk. When he critiques his painting, he knows Will is full of it. Will is being analytical of Shaun’s inner issues only because they are similar and he picks up on this. When he disrespects his wife and Shaun puts is hand around Will’s throat, he speaks familiarity to Will and causes him to in a sense to respect the hierarchy of Shaun over him. Shaun knows there is some truth to what Will said about the painting.
In this sonnet, William Shakespeare talks about a loved one, who he compares to things that are, suppose to be beautiful. His comparison gives the reader a good idea on what his lover looks like. The real side of his lover and not what is usually stated in sonnets about a loved one. What he is trying say is that love doesn’t have to be excessive and extravagant, it’s the simple things that the heart truly beats for. He realizes that his mistress is not perfect but despite this he is able to accept her for who she is, and come to love her.
Shakespeare’s mood in Sonnet 30 is of personal confession while his treatment of love is a tool to forget pains in the narrator’s life. Edmund Waller’s mood in Song is of affection and the treatment of love is expressed through the man’s affection towards the woman. In Sonnet 30, the writer’s tone is one of personal confession, through which he gives the reader a glance into his own contemplations of inner grief and sorrow. The couplet tie is “friend”, which acts as the element that sways the tone of the sonnet. In the first quatrain, the author writes of how his pleasant thoughts are interrupted by negative memories of the past, namely, the lack of what he sought.
There is evidence of Hamlet’s overall state of mind in the play in act two scene two. In this scene, Hamlet is actually being honest and admits what he is feelings. He admits to his distress by describing how majestic and beautiful Denmark and man are yet he cannot appreciate it (II.ii.316-34). An example of how Hamlet’s body language shows his sanity is demonstrated to the reader in Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet, when towards the
Aristotle in his poetics singled him out as being the right kind of protagonist because he inspires the right combination of pity and fear. “This is the sort of man who is not pre-eminentus virtuous and just and yet it is through no badness or villainy of his own that he falls into the misfortune but rather through some flaw in him. This paper seeks to comment and discuss the character of Oedipus by what he say about himself and by the words of other characters which reveal him in the play. Oedipus has many
In the play Twelfth Night the topic “love” is widely mentioned through out the play. “Love” can be considered as the most important theme of this play. All the characters in this play deal with some sort of love. Even though the play Twelfth Night has a happy ending, at some parts of the play, some characters do feel that love causes pain. There are three kinds of love that William Shakespeare uses in this play: true love, friendship, and self love.
Character summary and analysis of Romeo The name Romeo has become nearly synonymous with “lover”, due to his experiences in Romeo and Juliet. The power of Romeo’s love, however, often obscures a clear vision of Romeo’s character, which is actually far more complex. In fact, Romeo’s relation to love isn’t that simple. At the beginning of the play, Romeo is in love with Rosaline, claiming her paragon of women, and is miserable at her indifference towards him. Romeo is a great reader of love poetry, and from the beginning we could see that his portrayal of love for Rosaline seemed that he was trying to act out what he had read about.
To him, both are tender of heart but submissive to the will of importunate men, this forces them into uncharacteristic vices. Gertrud and Ophelia both desire to be something other than what they are. They both receive Hamlet’s exhortations to begin repentance by abstaining from pleasure. Gertrude and Ophelia are tender of heart, motivated by love and a desire for quiet familial harmony among the members of their courtly society in Elsinore. Another similarity between Ophelia and Gertrud is that they both possess a submissive nature.
While the poetic devices and techniques used by Shakespeare creates secondary themes of physical appearance, women, femininity, literature and writing, the main overarching theme of his sonnets is love, be that for the dark lady or the young man. Shakespeare uses powerful imagery in Sonnet 130 to portray the object of his affection in a negative light, even though the concluding couplet betrays his true feelings for the dark woman despite this imagery (Leonard). The images used in this sonnet were very powerful and relevant to a largely European audience, of the 16th and 17th
Contentment: Escaping Materialism Oliver Wendell Holmes gives an intriguing illustration of humble living in “Contentment.” The speaker uses metaphor to trivialize the status symbols that people strive to acquire. Alliteration is effectively used to place emphasis on items that the speaker considers luxurious. In each stanza, Holmes uses elaborate visual imagery to engage readers and highlight the materialistic desires of individuals. The speaker clearly states his appreciation for modest living and his displeasure with a life aimed at acquiring material possessions. Metaphor, alliteration, imagery and tone are the devices that make this poem successful.