But in spider' the voice betrays itself, and in fat' and white' the dimpled creature appears less charming. ... A white heal-all' suggests purity and safety, though the color echoes the white of the swollen spider. ... And with A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth, more oblique joking is resumed in images of springtime freshness ( snow drop, flower-like, we hear). ... link the ingredients of this witches' broth in insidious confusions (white=blight=right(rite)=height=night). Notice too the surprising and apt use of the many double and triple stresses on succ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Her breasts are compared to the snow not only because of their lack of sunlight, but because of the many poets who's mistresses and ladies have breasts as perfect as a goddess's. ... Such things asIf snow be white, her breasts are dun? ...

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Using Petrarch's conventional method, Shakespeare's poem would have stated that "My mistress' eyes are like the sun; her lips are as red as coral; her cheeks are like roses'; her breasts are white as snow, her voice is like music; she is a goddess."" ... Hopkins includes a variation of white and blue colors of the sky, the streaked hide of a cow, and the patches of contrasting color on a trout. ...

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The majority of the 152 Sonnets Shakespeare wrote focus on love. Shakespeare wrote poems of admiration as well as poems of suffering because of love and separation. Shakespeare often used metaphors in his descriptions. Sonnet 18 is a poem of admiration and glorification of Shakespeare's lover. Son...

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• Grade Level: High School

Hamlet In the play Hamlet a crime is commited by a brother against his own blood. This crime is a central event of the play that two main characters each reflect upon in their own manner. Shakespeare uses many tools including tone and syntax to reveal how each character feels about the event. ...

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• Grade Level: High School