Poetry Comparison (donne And Shakespeare)
From the beginning of time human kind has had the urge to communicate their feelings, emotions and thoughts whether it be in the form of speech, writing, dancing or singing. The complexity of man’s emotions forced him to express these feelings through writing. Poetry is the most common form of this expression. Brilliant poets such as John Donne and William Shakespeare expressed their thoughts and emotions in the form of sonnets. A sonnet is a lyrical form of poetry and is comprised of fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter. Their poetry is very similar in many ways but also have many contrasts’. This essay aims to compare and contrast the poems Holy Sonnet X by John Donne and William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73. Shakespeare wrote his sonnets between 1593 and 1597. This was a time of “courtly love” where poets described their beloved in a perfect way. The Pertrachan sonnet, comprising of fourteen lines with two sections, an octave (8 lines) and a sestet (6 lines), was at its peak. Shakespeare diverged from this style of sonnet in form and subject matter. He preferred to write his sonnets in what is called an English sonnet (Shakespearean), comprising of fourteen lines with two qua
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 articulates his thoughts on the metaphorical death of his youth and passion. The main aim of the poem is to encourage the young man, to which the sonnet is addressed to, make their love for each other stronger because their youth will not last long. This could be so because their loved may be based on physical appearance. Shakespeare uses the metaphor of yellow leaves to portray his physical appearance of going bald in the line ‘That time of year in thou mayst behold when yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang’. Shakespeare uses another metaphor of nature in the line ‘In thou seest the glowing of such fire that on the ashes of youth doth lie’ to convey his thoughts on his dying youth. This line talks about his youth being consumed by a fire inside of him and all that is left of his youth are ashes. k value to the reader compared with Shakespeare’s metaphors of nature. Donne and Shakespeare introduce their themes immediately in their sonnets. The first line of Donne’s Holy Sonnet X ‘Death be not proud, though some have called thee’ instantaneously belittles death and try’s to make the reader not fear death like others have. The first two lines of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 ‘ That time of year thou mayst in me behold, when yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang’ implies a time of year (autumn) when tree’s are fading and loosing their leaves, therefore implying the idea of ageing. Donne’s first line is far more abrupt than Shakespeare’s more gradual approach. Although the theme of both sonnets are expressed far more immediately than most
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