Sonnet Essays

We were set to compare 2 war sonnets, which were “The Soldier (By Rupert Brooke)

Rupert Brooke’s five sonnets, “Peace”, “Safety”, “The Rich Dead”, “The Dead” and “The Soldier”, known

The poem “How Do I Love Thee?” from the Sonnets from the Portuguese XLIII is

Edwin Morgan’s Glasgow Sonnet No1 is an unconventional sonnet, which explores themes of poverty and

Love’s many contradicting forms are portrayed in two dramatically different sonnets, Sonnet 43 and Sonnet

Donne’s Holy Sonnet XIV “Batter My Heart Three Personed God” is his earnest plea to

Shakespeare changed the nature of drama in England. Arriving in London in the last decade

Written in 1893 and published in the poet’s collection The Rose, ‘When You Are Old’

This essay concentrates on the portrayal of male heterosexual love within two sonnet sequences. I

Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded