In the second quatrain, Shakespeare vivifies true love to make it pictorial through simile. He first describes love as an ever-fixèd mark keeping standing firm in the storm of tempests. Then he compares love to star, giving guidance to “every wandering bark”. And both worth is too high to be calculated. While in the third quatrain, personification is applied to portray love’s connotation.
Moreover, Shakespeare presents love as a nurturing and guiding influence. He writes "It is an ever fixed mark / That looks on tempests and is never shaken", thus likening love to a celestial presence, connoting guidance and goodness. Indeed, by using the metaphor of a "star to every wandering bark", the image of a star adds to the notion of a guiding presence, adding the idea that it gives light, and therefore hope and joy. Comparing a romantic relationship to a "wandering bark" and "tempests" shows Shakespeare's acknowledgement that relationships are not perfect and without their troubles, suggesting that exterior influences can steer them off course. The wholesomeness of love is also developed in the colour imagery of "rosy lips and cheeks", which suggest youth, beauty and
Although simply written, this poem allows the reader to understand what real romantic love is. It is unchanging, unfading, never ending and is flawless. The courtly love, of Shakespeare’s time, was based upon the same ethics as the code of chivalry that was practiced during this time. C. S. Lewis wrote of courtly love in his book The Allegory of Love, saying that it was a, “"love of a highly specialized sort, whose characteristics may be enumerated as Humility, Courtesy, Adultery, and the Religion of Love" (p. 2). Just as knights pledged an oath to their King for a lifetime of servitude, the consort of courtly love also pledges their love for a lifetime to the object of their affection
The reader can relate to these symptoms and the text could compel emotions relating to love from the reader. This constant reference to feelings and stereotypes in correlation to love emphasises the romanticism of the experience of first love. When John Clare states ‘My heart has left its dwelling place and can return no more’ he is directly presenting the experience of first love as a life-changing
Shakespeare is trying to make us understand that Juliet shines, that she is the center of attention. Romeo is explaining how Juliet is beautiful like an angel and that she makes everything better. Shakespeare second use of figurative language is personification and it reveals
Act II, Scene ii, Lines 2-24(pg.82-84), Romeo watches Juliet appear on the balcony. In this passage, Romeo reveals himself as a romantic poet, who desires love and can fall in love swiftly. He engages with heaven and stars, while comparing them to Juliet in his speech. This reveals that he follows a religion and believes in God. He is also wise, which is shown in his very poetic way of expressing his feelings to Juliet, who stands above him on the balcony.
Peace by Rupert Brooke What attitudes to war does the poem have and how is it written? 'Peace' By Rupert Brooke is a sonnet written at the beginning of the first world war. The poem's attitude to war is clear; it is very positive and patriotic. The whole poem has a celebratory tone even from the first line, where Brooke talks about how his generation is lucky to have the opportunity to fight in the first world war, and ultimately to protect England. (This to him is the ultimate honour, and he believes that the men of England should protect their country at all costs, even if it should result in death.)
Love, romance, and emotion. All are consistently present throughout the story of Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare does a good job of portraying several types of love in Romeo and Juliet. Not only is the love between Romeo and Juliet shown, but the love within families, like brotherly love and parental love, is shown. First off, friendly love is shown in Romeo and Juliet.
But Shakespeare ends the sonnet by proclaiming his love for his mistress despite her lack of adornment, so he does finally embrace the fundamental theme in Petrarch's sonnets: total and consuming love. The rhetorical structure of Sonnet 130 is important to its effect. In the first quatrain, the speaker spends one line on each comparison between his mistress and something else (the sun, coral, snow, and wires—the one positive thing in the whole poem some part of his mistress is like. In the second and third quatrains, he expands the descriptions to occupy two lines each, so that roses/cheeks, perfume/breath, music/voice, and goddess/mistress each receive a pair of prevents the poem—which does, after all, rely on a single kind of joke for its first twelve lines—from becoming stagnant. Focus: Shakespeare begins his poem to the dark lady with no compliments about the dark lady.
Loyalty is a word that most of us have learned throughout our lifetime. Loyalty is something that we devote ourselves to in terms of friendships, family, religions and so on. The term loyalty certainly prevailed in the poem entitled “The Wanderer” which was written during the Anglo-Saxon period, and can also be seen in Shakespeare’s early modern play “King Lear”. Both of these texts strongly demonstrate a strong sense of loyalty among their characters. The character of Kent in ‘’King Lear’’ highly demonstrates his sense of loyalty to his friends and especially to his king.