Sonnet Essays

After reading both “King Lear” and Sonnet 35 by Shakespeare, it is evident that they share common themes. The theme of betrayal appears in both the play and the sonnet, as does the theme of reconciliation. Betrayal is to be

We were set to compare 2 war sonnets, which were “The Soldier (By Rupert Brooke) and A Dead Boche (By Robert Graves)”; these 2 poems are completely the opposite of each other including some wording, the structure etc. Here is

Rupert Brooke’s five sonnets, “Peace”, “Safety”, “The Rich Dead”, “The Dead” and “The Soldier”, known collectively as “1914”, were immensely popular during the First World War, his poems were reprinted, on average, every eight weeks of its duration. Brooke also

The poem “How Do I Love Thee?” from the Sonnets from the Portuguese XLIII is a Petrarchan sonnet of fourteen lines, consisting of an octave and a sestet. It was written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) in 1845 and was

Edwin Morgan’s Glasgow Sonnet No1 is an unconventional sonnet, which explores themes of poverty and urban decay. The deliberate use of ‘sonnet’ in the title is intended to mislead the reader, as the connotations of ‘sonnet’ include love, romance, joy

Love’s many contradicting forms are portrayed in two dramatically different sonnets, Sonnet 43 and Sonnet 29. Though both poems are written in Petrarchan sonnet form, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Edna St. Vincent Millay chronicle two contrasting marriages and their distinct

The Soldier is a sonnet in which Brooke glorifies England during the First World War. He speaks in the guise of an English soldier as he is leaving home to go to war. The poem represents the patriotic ideals that

Donne’s Holy Sonnet XIV “Batter My Heart Three Personed God” is his earnest plea to his Creator, the Three In One God, The Holy Trinity, Father Son and Holy Spirit, to deliver him from the clutches of evil Satan and

In this essay I am going to compare and contrast how Owen presents the horror of war. We are going to be looking at two of Wilfred Owen’s poems “Dulce et decorum est” and “Anthem for doomed youth” Two very

Shakespeare changed the nature of drama in England. Arriving in London in the last decade of the sixteenth century, Shakespeare began his play-writing career by adapting the forms of already-successful plays – plays about historical characters (both English and Roman),