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Sonnet 73, one of the most famous of William Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, focuses on the theme of old age. The sonnet addresses the Fair Youth. Each of the three quatrains contains a metaphor: Autumn, the passing of a day, and the dying out of a fire. Each metaphor proposes a way the young man may see the poet. [2]
The same desperation has also been noted in "If Faithful Souls." (Sonnet VIII) [62] The first two lines of the poem "Spit In My face" (Sonnet XI) can be considered a "re-signing" (the rewriting and resigning) of the speaker’s intentions towards God, which he announced already in "As Due By Many Titles." [63]
The spoken prologue to the play, and the prologue to Act II are both written in sonnet form, and the first meeting of the star-crossed lovers is written as a sonnet woven into the dialogue. [ 46 ] 1598 – Love's Labour's Lost is published as a quarto; the play's title page suggests it is a revision of an earlier version.
Modern Love by George Meredith is a sequence of fifty 16-line sonnets about the failure of a marriage, an episodic verse narrative that has been described as "a novella in verse". [1] Earlier working titles for the sequence were "The Love-Match" and then "The Tragedy of Modern Love". [ 2 ]
A crown of sonnets or sonnet corona is a sequence of sonnets, usually addressed to one person, and/or concerned with a single theme.Each of the sonnets explores one aspect of the theme, and is linked to the preceding and succeeding sonnets by repeating the final line of the preceding sonnet as its first line.
Wordsworth was similarly welcoming of progress in the sonnet "Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways" (1833), seeing them as a sign of man's questing spirit, despite their intrusion upon "the loveliness of nature". [54] But while Wordsworth posed as friendly to modern technological advances, he was resistant to social change made in their name.
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A recording of the performance is available on Vimeo [120] and an analysis of it is included in Yasmin Arshad's book Imagining Cleopatra: Performing Gender and Power in Early Modern England. [ 121 ] Daniel is a significant supporting character in the novel Imperfect Alchemist , by Naomi Miller, a fictionalized account of Mary Sidney.