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Sonnet 2. Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise. Proving his beauty by succession thine! And see thy blood warm when thou feel’st it cold. Sonnet 2 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence.
Context. Shakespeare's sonnets are considered a continuation of the sonnet tradition that swept through the Renaissance from Petrarch in 14th-century Italy and was finally introduced in 16th-century England by Thomas Wyatt and was given its rhyming metre and division into quatrains by Henry Howard. With few exceptions, Shakespeare's sonnets ...
The sonnet is a type of poem finding its origins in Italy around 1235 AD. While the early sonneteers experimented with patterns, Francesco Petrarca (anglicised as Petrarch) was one of the first to significantly solidify sonnet structure. The Italian or Petrarchan sonnet consists of two parts; an octave and a sestet.
t. e. The term sonnet derives from the Italian word sonetto (lit.'little song', from the Latin word sonus, lit.'sound'). It refers to a fixed verse poetic form, traditionally consisting of fourteen lines adhering to a set rhyming scheme. [ 1 ]
Sonnet 138 is a part of a series of poems written about Shakespeare's dark lady. They describe a woman who has dark hair and dark eyes. She diverges from the Petrarchan norm. "Golden locks" and "florid cheeks" were fashionable in that day, but Shakespeare's lady does not bear those traits. [8]
Sonnet 12. Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence. Sonnet 12 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence. In the sonnet, the poet goes through a series of images of mortality, such as a clock, a withering flower, a barren tree and ...
Sonnet 1. Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. And, tender churl, mak’st waste in niggarding. To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee. Sonnet 1 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a procreation sonnet within the Fair Youth sequence.
The Dark Lady is a woman described in Shakespeare's sonnets (sonnets 127–152), and so called because the poems make it clear that she has black wiry hair, and dark, " dun "-coloured skin. The description of the Dark Lady distinguishes itself from the Fair Youth sequence by being overtly sexual.