Shakespearean sonnet examples by students

Specifically, in 65, the word ' still' in the last line has spooky overtones of the stillness of death, harking back to Shakespeare is not one for simple readings, and there are two huge ironies.ДЇirst, there is the omnipresence of death shadowing the love. So long lives this and this gives life to thee. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, Shakespeare reaches a similar, and stronger, conclusion on the preservative power of poetry in sonnet 18, when he says, of the '. That is, he is not sure it would be ' this miracle' if it really works. In this poem, Shakespeare is just a little tentative about the power of poetry to preserve love, declaring. That in black ink my love may still shine bright. Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back? Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid? Nor gates of steel so strong but Time decays? O! how shall summer's honey breath hold out,ДЄgainst the wrackful siege of battering days, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, Meagan English as 'My Love' from SONNET 65 In this film, the usual context is ignored, and 'My Love' is taken to be a young woman. However, nothing in the sonnet itself identifies the speaker or the subject in any way. (Note: In the context of all the sonnets, #65 would usually be taken as about an older man talking about a younger man or boy. In fact it is beauty and love that become immortal through art and poetry. ' Eventually, no matter what, ' Time decays.' The material things, even the most solid - ' rocks impregnable' and ' gates of steel' - are fragile.

The question Shakespeare asks, ' How in this rage can beauty hold a plea?' seemed to me to suggest that Shakespeare's discussion of the fragility of beauty would make an appropriate film for this theme.ДЄ study of the poem, however, reveals that it is not beauty that is fragile. For Quick Flick's theme, Fragile, several months ago, I chose to make a film of Sonnet 65.

Shakespearean sonnet examples by students