by melaniewp | Jun 3, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Shakespeare
Which texts are you studying?Macbeth’Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires.’Othello’O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on.’Romeo and...
by melaniewp | Jun 3, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Shakespeare, Sonnets
A* Model Essays+ Sonnet 116 Analysis Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds (900 words)+ Sonnet 129 Analysis The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame and Sonnet 147 My Love is Like a Fever (1,500 words)Original Sonnet plus...
by melaniewp | Jun 3, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Shakespeare, Sonnet 129, Sonnet 147, Sonnets
Compare the ways in which Shakespeare presents attitudes to love in Sonnets 129 and Sonnet 147.The English Sonnet in the Shakespearean period typically takes love as its topic. Wyatt’s renditions of the famous Petrarchan modes are of love at a distance, where the...
by melaniewp | Jun 3, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Shakespeare, Sonnet 147, Sonnets
Ever had a love affair that didn’t go the way you wanted? If you’ve ever been obsessed, cheated on, felt like you couldn’t go on, then you might enjoy this. It’s one of the very last poems Shakespeare wrote to his lover, the Dark Lady of the...
by melaniewp | Jun 3, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Shakespeare, Sonnet 129, Sonnets, Whoso List to Hunt, Wyatt
Shakespeare wrote many famous love poems. Here’s one he wrote about lust, and Wyatt’s poem below, which may have inspired some of the imagery.The sonnet is below, with a translation.SONNET 129William ShakespeareThe expense of spirit in a waste of shameIs...
by melaniewp | Jun 2, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Petrarch, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, Wyatt
Are you a Petrarchan lover? Do you drip, swoon and melt at the sight of your lady who kills you with a look?A Petrarchan lover is melodramatic, self-consciously suffering and has given himself up to the power of his mistress. At the start of Romeo and Juliet, this is...
