Nature To Love Ones In Shakespeare's "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun" And "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?"
.... does not know what the answer is
from the title or whether it is fair to compare nature to her. However, as the
reader read through the poem he gets an answer from the poet. Just the thought
whether his loved one is worth being compared to nature gives away the poet's
assumption that nature is superior to humankind.
Throughout all the poem "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun",
Shakespeare shows how nature is better than his loved one by comparing nature
and his mistress. He shows all the great things of nature and all the faults of
humans. For instance, he shows how colorful and lovely the colors of the roses
are but his .....
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Comparison Of Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 And Sonnet 116
.... now going to ruin.
In Sonnet 116, love is seen as the North Star, the fixed point of
guidance to ships lost upon the endless sea of the world. It is the point of
reference and repose in this stormy, troubled world, "an ever-fixed mark That
looks on tempests and is never shaken;..."
He personifies the coming of the end of his life as night, which is
described as "Death's second self" in sonnet 73. However, in Sonnet 116 death
appears in the guise of the grim reaper, Father Time, who mows down all of our
youth, but still cannot conquer love- "Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips
and cheeks within his bending sickle's compas .....
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Shakespeare's Sonnet 19
.... Time in
other than a destructive capacity--in its cycLical change of seasons, some Time
does "make glad" with blooming sweets. So the lover changes his epithet from
devouring to swift-footed, certainly more neutral in tone. For now the lover
makes his most assertive command: "But I forbid thee one most heinous crime. n
The final quatrain finds the lover ordering Time to stay its antic "antique
pen" from aging or marring his love. It is a heinous crime to carve and draw
lines on youth and beauty. ere the Lover no Longer speaks with forceful
pLosives; his speech, for all the appearance of imperative command, sounds more
Like a plea .....
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Shakespeare's Sonnet Number 126: Critique
.... in such a state he “
troubles” heaven with his “bootless” or useless cries. But as the poet has made
clear heaven turns a deaf ear and no response is forthcoming. Again he becomes
introspective and curses his fate. This first quatrain has given us an image of
a grown man “down and out” if you will, who is accepting no responsibility for
his life's station.
By the second quatrain the poet has taken to wishing he were more hopeful.
He wants to be more popular with his peers and he desires the literary skill, “
art”, and intellectual prowess, “scope”, of other men. It is almost humorous to
think that Shakespeare, at one tim .....
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Millay Vs Cummings
.... to enjoy life and stop being so
serious.
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Criticism Of "The Sick Rose"
.... the context of flower,
and flower only in the context of worm" (41). After Riffaterre's reading and in
terpretation of the poem, he concludes that "The Sick Rose" is composed of
"polarized polarities" (44) which convey the central object of the poem, the
actual phrase, "the sick rose" (44). He asserts that "because the text provides
all the elements necessary to our identifying these verbal artifacts, we do not
have to resort to traditions or symbols found outside the text" (44). Thus, "The
Sick Rose" is a self-sufficient text.
Hazard Adams takes a different approach to reading "The Sick Rose" than
most critics by caution .....
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"Dover Bitch": Mockery Of Victorian Values In "Dover Beach"
.... call of their husband. Hecht reinforces his
Ideas of change by taking Arnold's "...the cliffs of England stand, glimmering
and vast" and transforms the Victorian idea of women into "...cliffs of England
crumbling away behind them,". This supports the idea that Hecht is aware of the
changes that are happening and he is envious of the way things used to be.
In short, Hecht uses the Victorian values shown in Arnold's "Dover Beach" as a
comparison to the changes of values of his time. Hecht brings reality to
Arnold's romantic poem. But in reality, Hecht is displaying his views and
concerns about changes that have occurred in the val .....
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The Fish By Elizabeth Bishop: Gone Fishin'
.... depict a personal image of the fish.
She uses the familiar "wallpaper" comparison because it is something the
readers can relate to their own lives. Also the "ancient wallpaper" analogy can
refer to the fish's age. Although faded and aged he withstood the test of time,
like the wallp aper. Bishop uses highly descriptive words like "speckled" and
"infested" to create an even clearer mental picture. The word "terrible" is
used to describe oxygen, and this is ironic because oxygen is usually beneficial,
but in the case of the fish it is detrimental. The use of "terrible" allows
the reader to visualize the fish gasping for brea .....
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Ballad Of Birmingham
.... reader to make a mental picture of one
specific march in Birmingham (Hunter 17). But, you know as well as I, that with
peace marches and rallies comes violence and hostility. This is exactly what the
little girls mother is afraid of, this is why she will not let her go to the
march. It also seems weird that her mother is so sure that going to church,
instead of going to the march, will be the best thing for her. (Hunter 19-20).
Typically, a church is to be a very safe and sacred place where no-one would
imagine a bombing or any other type of violence to happen. What is ironic about
this is that going to church turns out to be the w .....
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