Essays on Sonnet

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was a remarkable piece of poetry written by T.S. Elliot that had an amazing sense of imagery and romanticism that is unparalleled to most of it’s time. Even though the lyrical style brought much to the table the…

​In this sonnet, Poem 18, ‘Will I Contrast Thee with a Late spring’s Day’, composed by William Shakespeare in the year 1609, my underlying contemplations were exceptionally confounding. I picked this specific piece since it was composed by Shakespeare, not realizing how muddled it is…

With the commencement so called dark lady sonnets there’s a marked difference of tone from that of peaceful reflection on a love that has been very close to eternised, to a rather disturbed story of passion that’s occasionally becomes near anger and rage. The opening…

The theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 93 is the question of how a person can have different intents than the outward appearance shows, specifically intents of infidelity. The speaker begins by asking longingly if they should continue living with the assumption that their partner is faithful…

Everyone at some point in their life has been in the position to give or receive love which leads us to this fundamental question, what is love? There are about four different types of love: Eros love, which is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as…

Shakespeare’s “That time of year thou may’st in me behold” is a lyrical poem written in Shakespearean sonnet style. It has fourteen lines divided into three quatrains and a couplet, each having its own rhyme scheme of ABAB, rhyming in alternative lines. Shakespeare’s speaker uses…

Shakespeare is a one of, if not the, most well-known poet of all time. His sonnets are masterpieces, and I think sonnet 116 is one of his best written pieces. Shakespeare’s main purpose in this poem is to tell about true love and how love…

The poem “Sonnet 29” was written by William Shakespeare in 1609, and then “From Amoretti-Sonnet 75” was written by Edmund Spenser in 1595. In this essay, I interpret how Shakespeare and Spenser illustrate the meaning of love from “Sonnet 29” and “From Amoretti-Sonnet 75” that…

In ‘Sonnet 29.’ William Shakespeare makes an unreliable and distressed speaker who is considering aspects of his life and acknowledges he is envious of the people around him. The tone shifts to respecting and blissful when he understands that despite the fact that he isn’t…

In Sonnet 8, Shakespeare associates music with resounding accord and harmony, offering up a metaphorical parallel to the marital union of a household. The crux of the poem is the author urging his audience, presumably a young man, to settle down, marry, and have a…

A prominent image presented throughout Shakespeare’s earlier sonnets is the image of a ‘fair youth’; an unnamed muse who appears in some of his best writing. The doting descriptions and use of lyrical language lead many critics to hypothesize Shakespeare’s homosexual tendencies through the desires…

Shakespeare has explored the concept of time throughout his life, whether within his plays or in sonnets. In Shakespeare’s Sonnets, three sonnets that stand out, in particular, are sonnets 12, 19 and 60. Each show perhaps, how individuals handle the passing of time and where…

In Romeo and Juliet there is different types of hate. Shakespeare literature is still relevant today because we continue to see the effect of hate and the lack of freedom in the united states such as immigrants that have been kicked out or can’t live…

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130, also known as “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”, mocks the conventions of the splashy and ornate, and most times gallant, sonnets in its authentic portrayal of his lover. Sonnet 130 deconstructs the idea of desirable beauty, which was…

In “Sonnet 7” in Astrophil and Stella, by Sir Philip Sidney the main points Sidney talks about in the entire poem is praising Stella’s eyes and how Astrophil has feelings for Stella but describes how they will never be together. In the first few lines…