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 | Apr 25, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Ozymandias, Poetry, Romantics, Shelley, Sonnets
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...
by melaniewp | Mar 30, 2013 | A-Level, Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Literature, Love, Model Essays, Poetry, Shakespeare, Sonnets
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...
