Category: Sonnet 147
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Compare Love in Two Sonnets 129 and 147 for GCSE Controlled Assessment
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 mistress is heavily idealised in an almost spiritual longing. So how…
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Sonnet 147 My Love is Like a Fever: Shakespeare’s Sonnets of Lust not Love for GCSE
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 Sonnets. The sonnet is below, with a translation.…