Write two 11-sentence body paragraphs which develop two specific devices to develop the message of the poem. Use line numbers for citation. 300 words.
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Sarah
11/10/2014 04:30:35 pm
Sonnet 42 by Petrarch is full of the images of springtime, the theme is overall nature and loved ones.
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Spencer B
11/11/2014 06:54:34 pm
Sonnet 71
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Jesse T
11/12/2014 03:53:01 am
Sonnet 30
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Vlad K
11/12/2014 08:14:38 pm
In Sonnet 29 by Shakespeare, it is filled with Diction, metaphors, and Imagery. The message of the sonnet is to know that God is always listening to you and will always be there for you.
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Brandon F
11/12/2014 10:17:37 pm
Sonnet 30 by William Shakespeare has the image of people mourning over the death of people. The theme that I found seem to be about that people should stop grieving over the dead and move on with their lives. At the beginning of the sonnet he talks about him remembering about of things in the past and how he misses them. He comes up with “I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, and with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste” (lines 2-4) to say how he wishes he could have done a lot of things he didn’t. He also seems to be sad when he says “For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night”(line 6) which sounded to me like they were still alive. He seems to also be grieving about something when he says “Then can I grieve at grievances fore gone”(Line 9) which is probably his friends. When I read through the poem though I can’t really tell who is suppose to grieving over who. What I got from “And heavily from woe to woe tell o’er”(Line 10) is that every time he thinks about the past he goes through woes back to back. Whether he is a ghost or not does not matter cause it could be still true. The last thing he says in the sonnet is “But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.”(Line 13-14) which to me sounded like it meant don’t worry about it and feel better about it or if I think about my friend I’ll be alright. Either way this sonnet was interesting to say the least.
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#FearTheBeard
11/13/2014 05:35:55 am
The first line in the third quatrain of the sonnet shows the main theme of the poem. Here, Shakespeare is saying that the youth of the subject will never fade, that they will never grow old. The rhyme scheme is ABABCDCDEFEFGG. Each line of the sonnet has an iambic pentameter. In the poem they're three quatrains and one couplet, The first quatrain explains how the author and the woman's time with him is short no matter how long they are together. The second quatrain explains how the woman's beauty makes the sun darken and makes nature look wild. He says in the third quatrain that her beauty is forever and it shall never fade away even in death. The last two lines talk about how the woman says that she will live as long as this poem lives. The first sentence of the poem “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” there is a comma connecting "May" and "and summer". The reason for this is to connect the two thoughts without disregarding the first one. He’s saying that she is lovelier than the other seasons. The majority of the poem is a run on structured sentence. This affects the tone and mood of the poem because the run on sentence makes the sonnet feel happy and lovey dovey. If the poem had short fragments it would have felt like a serious strict poem. The commas also add pauses to the poem causing its tone to be happy.
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Darel M
11/13/2014 04:27:07 pm
Sonnet 71 mainly incorporates the use of imagery in order to present the whole theme and message of the poem. The images Shakespeare use have very morbid meanings that bring with it a mournful and sad tone. For example, Shakespeare’s poem says “hear the surly sullen bell” (Line 2). This involves our sense of hearing to imagine a bell at a funeral or at a ceremony to commemorate the loss of a loved one. Another good example of imagery used is: “From this vile world with vilest worms to dwell.” (Line 4). Here, he uses a negative view of the world to give a feeling of what will happen to him when he is buried. This is probably the most morbid use of imagery in the poem and it also shows the speaker's view of the world.
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Maurie
11/13/2014 05:25:13 pm
Sonnet 18, by William Shakespeare, is about him overcoming his life during the closing of his theatres and his poetry. Shakespeare uses extensive metaphors to complete his idea. Sonnet 18, also most commonly known as “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” (line 1) is also the first line of the sonnet. Shakespeare is coming a summer’s day to his life. He starts by naming some odd characteristics of summer; “rough winds do shake the darling buds of May” (Line 3). He uses the metaphors to connect that summer is beautiful, but it will always come to an end; “and summer’s lease hath all too short a date” (line 4). To what he is comparing summer to, he says that it is not only more beautiful, “thou art more lovely and more temperate,” (line 2) but also that its beauty will never end, “but they eternal summer shall not fade” (Line 9). In that quote, which is also the turn of the sonnet, Shakespeare uses the word summer to represent his comparison, saying that the summer within his life shall never fade. In the last couplet, “so long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee,” (line13-14) Shakespeare uses the metaphor of breathing and the living meaning of the sonnet, to say that as long as men live, this sonnet will live. His meaningful picture of metaphors creates his theme. The theme shifts from how life usually turns with the seasons, but that his will always be as beautiful like the season of summer.
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Gizem B
11/16/2014 06:33:18 am
Sonnet 130, by Shakespeare, is about the true beauty of a person. Shakespeare uses lots of metaphors to express that outside beauty doesn't matter no matter how "ugly" they are. "If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head"(line 4).With lots of exaggerations Shakespeare first talks about his love's ugliness. "I have seen roses damasked, red and white, but no such roses see I in her cheeks; and in some perfumes is there more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; my mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground" (line 5-12). From comparing her hair to black wires to even "insulting and mocking" his love, Shakespeare tries to show that you shouldn't judge people by the way they look.
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Tatiana
11/21/2014 03:30:15 am
Sonnet 116-
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