Category: Sonnets
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Poetry for GCSE and IGCSE English Literature Exam and Controlled Assessment
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 Translation + Sonnet 129 The Expense of Spirit + Sonnet 147 My Love is Like a Fever Background for…
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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.…
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets of Lust not Love: Sonnet 129 The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame and ‘Whoso List to Hunt’ by Thomas 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 129 William ShakespeareThe expense of spirit in a waste of shameIs lust in action; and till [until] action, lust Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of…
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Analysis of Ozymandias: “Look on My Works Ye Mighty and Despair”
What do we learn about the character of Ozymandias in this poem? Shelley’s sonnet shows us the great ‘antique’ emperor ‘Ozymandias’ from three different points of view: that of the ‘travellor’, the ‘sculptor’ and the ruler himself, whom we encounter in direct speech in his own words. We encounter Ozymandias gradually, stressing the physical and…
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Analysis of Sonnet 116, Let Me Not To The Marriage of True Minds IGCSE Edexcel, GCSE AQA Poetry Anthology
Sonnet 116Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O no! it is an ever-fixed mark (5)That looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be…