Essays on Sonnet

Texts are cultural snapshots representing their era – they reflect and develop the values, ideas and attitudes of their context. Two texts, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s (EBB) suite of Petrarchan form sonnet’s “Sonnets from the Portuguese” and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s modernist novel “The Great Gatsby” explore the…

Shakespeare Sonnets The Shakespeare sonnets have been explained based on various theories. Some theories have agreed while others have disagreed on various issues regarding the Shakespeare sonnets. Various theories have agreed that Shakespeare sonnets constitute a preserved series of metrical, compact and weighty feelings and…

The poem makes me sympathize with the persona as I read it through. The statement, “Ice which is congealed with the senseless cold should kindle fire by wonderful device” makes a revelation how much the persona struggles but he is still never understood(Karen, 2017). This…

A Testament to True Love Elizabeth Barret Browning wrote “Sonnet 43” a tale of love that the author had felt for one person in the world, and uses many great elements to bring together the sonnet. It talks about the questions we ask ourselves about…

John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 14 shows a speaker pleading and demanding God to be more forceful in his ways to save him because His gentle ways aren’t effective anymore, and only dominating power and brute force will be able to save him from his sin….

Literature is a broad term with different definitions depending on personal understanding. It mostly refers to the written work be it novels, poetry, novellas, and speeches. The list is so broad for it has to include written interviews, comics and personal letters and this makes…