Sonnet 116
This sonnet attempts to define love, by telling both what it is and is not. In the first quatrain, the speaker says that love--"the marriage of true minds"--is perfect and unchanging; it does not "admit impediments," and it does not change when it find changes in the loved one.
Sonnet 18
On the surface, the poem is simply a statement of praise about the beauty of the beloved; summer tends to unpleasant extremes of windiness and heat, but the beloved is always mild and temperate. Summer is incidentally personified as the "eye of heaven" with its "gold complexion"; the imagery throughout is simple and unaffected, with the "darling buds of May" giving way to the "eternal summer", which the speaker promises the beloved. The language, too, is comparatively unadorned for the sonnets; it is not heavy with alliteration or assonance, and nearly every line is its own self-contained clause--almost every line ends with some punctuation, which effects a pause.
Sonnet 29
Sonnet 29 shows the poet at his most insecure and troubled. He feels unlucky, shamed, and fiercely jealous of those around him. What causes the poet's anguish will remain a mystery; as will the answer to whether the sonnets are autobiographical. However, an examination of Shakespeare’s life around the time he wrote Sonnet 29 reveals two traumatic events that may have shaped the theme of the sonnet.
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THERE IS A GARDEN IN HER FACE by THOMAS CAMPION
- Thomas Campion’s “There Is a Garden in Her Face” contains an extended metaphor comparing the features of a woman’s face to the features of a garden:
There is a garden in her face,
Where roses and white lilies grow,
A heavenly paradise is that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow.
There cherries grow, which none may buy
Till “Cherry ripe!”* themselves do cry.
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Thomas Lodge's Rosalind's Madrigal
- WANTON means unfaithful or promiscuous. So the "cruel sting" Rosalind feels is knowing that the man she loves is unfaithful to her.
But, like a BEE, he stays around when left free; if you try to hold onto him, he stings you and/or flies away.
To GAINSAY (from "say against") means to disagree, or refuse. Rosalind thinks of trying to trap him in some way, but -- "Alas! what hereby shall I win/ If he gainsay me?" -- she'd rather not take the risk that he'll just leave.
- it sounds like "he" was a younger lover, since the voice is talking down to him almost as if "he" were a child. Also, there is no clear indication, although it does refer to "sleep... pillow of my knee... of an intimate relationship. Therefore, it could refer to the conflict surrounding a prayed for relationship with a somewhat of a coquet.
good luck
2007-12-09 01:57:33
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answer #1
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answered by ari-pup 7
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2016-04-21 22:32:26
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answered by susie 3
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The squirrel holding a guitar and eating a cupcake put a curse on the mushroom.
2016-05-22 03:57:22
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answered by ? 3
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