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What makes Shakespeare's Sonnet No 18 a good one?
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1.Sonnet is a lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of fourteen lines with a fixed form. There are three patterns of the sonnet: 1. The Italian sonnet 2. The Shakespearean sonnet 3. The Spenserian sonnet.
ReplyDelete2.This sonnet is a good one. Shakespeare here, used simile. He made a comparison between his beloved and a summer's day. He drew pictures of nature to make his beloved more beautiful than a summer's day. At the end he persuaded us that summer's beauty is not everlasting but the beauty of his beloved is eternal as long as his sonnets are alive.
1- What is a sonnet ? As Nael_hiijo said There are three patterns of the sonnet: 1. The Italian sonnet 2. The Shakespearean sonnet 3. The Spenserian sonnet.
ReplyDeletebut what we are concerned with here is the shakespearean one . It is also important to remember that a Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three quartrains (4-line stanza) and a couplet (2 lines).
2-What makes Shakespeare's Sonnet No 18 a good one? It takes time to appreciate Shakespeare's sonnets, both because of it's intricate sentence structure and elaborate pattern of sounds, imagery and ideas. After reading a sonnet once and vaguely understanding its meanings, you need to dwell on its image, sound/rhythm and logical pattern in order to find out its deeper meanings.And I think shakspearean sonnets are rich of that
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ReplyDeleteThe term "sonnet" derives from the Italian word "sonetto" .
ReplyDeleteIt is a poem consists of 14 lines beside all what Nael & Alaa had mentioned above.
What makes this sonnet a good one is the way that Shakespear used to describe his beloved.
He uses a natural image to describe a picture of the his beloved beauty.
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ReplyDeletethnks lanosh... but what do u meant by he uses a natural image to desribe a picture of his beloved beauty, would you explain it more plzzzzz
ReplyDeletewell, this sonnet _ which is consider as one of the most famous poems in English Literature_ is about two things:
ReplyDelete1. Summer's day.
2. The beauty of the poet's beloved.
He uses a natural image which is a summer day and comapre it with the beauty of his beloved.
Through his poem you can see how he lists some negative things about summer just to show the perfectibility of his beloved.
He also mentioned that some beautiful things may declines from their beauty or perfection by chance accidents, but this doesn't happen with his beloved...
i like it
ReplyDeleteSo long as men can breathe or eyes can see /
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.”
For as long as people can breathe and see, this sonnet will live on, and you (and your beauty) with it
Yes I love this part ..
ReplyDeleteAs long as Human live and breathe on earth with eyes that can see, this is how long these verses that carry all my love will remain.. So romantic.
I also love it when he says >>
ReplyDeleteAnd every fair from fair sometime declines
by chance or natures's changing course untrimm'd
I love how sure he is about his beloved's beauty. Although beautiful things sometimes declnes form their perfection by chance accidents, for example, a beautiful flower can be damaged in a few seconds by rough wind but he is sure that his beloved will remain beautiful no matter what.
Goodevening everybody
ReplyDeletefiret,There are three patterns of the sonnet:
1. The Italian sonnet
2. The Shakespearean sonnet
3. The Spenserian sonnet.
But here is the shakespearean sonnet,
I want to explain this poem,and i want from Dr 2 tell me if correct or fales,because i see it nice.
The poet compare his darling/sweet heart with summers day,which the sunshins falls on her eyes and makes acomplextion of gold and diamond ,which reselts fairy colour.
The poet refused the ending of summer because he lvoed the scene of her eyes ,also he refused the fact of death and he thinks that death shouldnt brag and wounders when it comes to him.
In the last 2 lines,he thinks that so long as he can breathe ahd his eyes see ,he should live that life completly till the end....
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Sonnets are very clear, short, focused projections of a major theme of life. It is an incredibly difficult task to create a masterpiece with such a rigid structure to follow. Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard brought the sonnet form into English poetry in the sixteenth century. They introduced some modifications into the Petrarchan form, choosing to use three quatrains and a couplet.
ReplyDeleteThe sonnet is one of the poetic forms that can be found in lyric poetry from Europe. The term "sonnet" derives from the Occitan word sonet and the Italian word sonetto, both meaning "little song". By the thirteenth century, it had come to signify a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure. The conventions associated with the sonnet have evolved over its history. The writers of sonnets are sometimes referred to as "sonneteers," although the term can be used derisively. One of the best-known sonnet writers is William Shakespeare, who wrote 154 of them. A Shakespearean, or English sonnet consists of 14 lines, each line contains ten syllables, and each line is written in iambic pentameter in which a pattern of a non-emphasized syllable followed by an emphasized syllable is repeated five times. The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG in which the last two lines are a rhyming couplet.
ReplyDeleteThe sonnet is a fourteen-line lyric poem in predominantly iambic pentameter, with a formal rhyme scheme.And there are three types of sonnet , first, the Shakespearean sonnet , second the Italian , third the Spenserian , and the best one is the Shakespearean sonnet.A Shakespearean, or English sonnet consists of 14 lines, each line contains ten syllables, and each line is written in iambic pentameter in which a pattern of a non-emphasized syllable followed by an emphasized syllable is repeated five times.The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG in which the last two lines are a rhyming couplet
ReplyDeleteSonnet:
ReplyDelete1*has 14 lines,usually about love-orginally.Italian.
2*has three types:1)Italian\Patrarchan{for an Italian poet Petrarch}2) English\Shakespearean.3)Spenserian(for the English poet,spenser.)
Shakesperean Sonnet,has three quatrains*present aproblem*(4lines each)and acouplet*present asolution*(two lines).
why Shakesperean sonnet is the good one. Ithink because it express personal feelings and themes, in particular the theme of love.
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ReplyDelete1_ Sonnets are poems of 14 lines done in an iambic pentameter style. There are three main styles of sonnet:
* Shakespearian
* Italian
* Spencerian
_ The style popularized by Shakespeare has this rhyming scheme:
abab cdcd efef gg
_The Italian is based on the works of Petrarch, who wrote in the fourteenth century. It uses the following scheme:
abbaabba cdecde (or cdcdcd)
_ Edmund Spencer popularized the final style of sonnet with this rhyme:
abab bcbc cdcd ee
2_ What makes Shakespeare's Sonnet No 18 a good one?
ReplyDeletemmmm I have to say Shakespeare really was a master of his art.Shakespeare’s best-known and finest poems reflects a favorite theme in the relationship of time, beauty and love.
Regardless of scholarly arguments as to whether he is speaking about poetry itself or his beloved, the poem is typical of the Elizabethan sonnet form and as the Shakespeare-Oxford Society says, “if you get Shakespeare wrong, you get the whole Elizabethan Age wrong.” This view further heightens the literary importance of the poet and the poem.
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Shakespeare’s eighteenth sonnet is, perhaps, one of the best-known sonnets contained in the English literary canon.
ReplyDeleteIt is a conventional Shakespearean sonnet that explores conventional themes in an original way.
With characteristic skill Shakespeare uses the sonnet to exalt poetry and his beloved.
Sonnet A fixed form of lyric poetry that consists of fourteen lines, usually written in iambic pentameter. There are two basic types of sonnets, the Italian and the English. The Italian sonnet, also known as the Petrarchan sonnet, is divided into an octave, which typically rhymes abbaabba, and a sestet, which may have varying rhyme schemes. Common rhyme patterns in the sestet are cdecde, cdcdcd, and cdccdc. Very often the octave presents a situation, attitude, or problem that the sestet comments upon or resolves, as in John Keats’s "On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer." The English sonnet, also known as the Shakespearean sonnet, is organized into three quatrains and a couplet, which typically rhyme abab cdcd efef gg. This rhyme scheme is more suited to English poetry because English has fewer rhyming words than Italian. English sonnets, because of their four-part organization, also have more flexibility with respect to where thematic breaks can occur. Frequently, however, the most pronounced break or turn comes with the concluding couplet, as in Shakespeare’s "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?"
ReplyDeletesonnet :
ReplyDeleteAlyric poem consisting of asingle stanza of fourteen lines with afixed from.
there are three patterns of the sonnet:
1. The Italian sonnet:It is also called the classical or the petrarch an sonnet which is named after the fourteen century Italian poet petrarch oriinally the term sonnet comes from the Italian word.
"sonnetto" which means little sound or voice.
The Italian sonnet consist of two parts A.an octave(8 lines)which consist of quatrains.(eatch quatrain consist of four lines rhyming abba abba ).
B.sestet (six lines).
2.The shakespearan sonnet.
3.The spenserian sonnet.
2_ What makes Shakespeare's Sonnet No 18 a good one?
ReplyDeleteThis sonnet is one of the most well known sonnet he wrote .It’s alove poem . This sonnet is very simple . I beleive that shakespear want this poem to show how beauty can be eternal.
This sonnet is atypical English or shakespearan sonnet it consist of three quatrains followed by acouplet and has the characteristic rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg.
The poem carries the meaning of an Italian of petrarchan sonnet in the sonnet the poet compares his beloved to the summer season and argues that his beloved is better.
he makes a comparison between his beloved beauty and
ReplyDeletethe pretty of summer day but after that , he deny this comparison because the summer is
unsteady season and then he arrive to the point that his beloved
break time limits , because he mention her pretty in his poem and the people will read it to the end of life
What is a sonnet ? a lyric poem of fixed form :fourteen lines of iambic pentameter rhymed and organised according to several intricate schemes . The fourteen lines can be divided variously into a mixture of octave (eight lines) and SESTET ( six lines ) or three QUATRAINS (of four lines each ) and a couplet . In general the ideas developed in a sonnet accord loosely with these divisions, which are marked by rhyme . Three patterns predominated: (1) The petrarchan sonnet :octave and sestet ,rhymed abbaabba ,cdecde (or cdcdcd ) . (2) Spenserian : three quatrains and a couplet, rhymed abab , bcbc , cdcd , ee. (3) Shakespearian : similarly divided , but rhymed abab , cdcd , efef , gg .
ReplyDeleteAs an example of the sonnet form here is Wordsworth's sonnet "Upon Westminster Bridge, Sep.3,1802" (1807) .
I like the thing that he is so proud and sure about the beauty of his beloved .. sometimes you become speechless when you read such a magnificent work ,honestly saying !! and here we're talking about one of the best… if not the best! Shakespeare .
ReplyDeleteI may steal nael's words when he said " At the end he persuaded us that summer's beauty is not everlasting but the beauty of his beloved is eternal as long as his sonnets are alive." Absolutely true ..
nothing else to add .
Shakespeare's Sonnets is considered as the famous sonnet in English literature.He described his beloved.It includes a lot of comparisons. He for example , compare his beloved with summer's day "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" and so on .Sonnet 18 is the first poem in the sonnets not to explicitly encourage the young man to have children
ReplyDeleteThe sonnet: is one of the poetic forms that can be found in lyric poetry from Europe. The term "sonnet" derives from the Occitan word sonnet and the Italian word sonnetto, both meaning "little song".and it consisting of a single stanza of fourteen lines with a fixed form.
ReplyDelete* There are three patterns of the sonnet:
1. The Italian sonnet
2. The Shakespearean sonnet
3. The Spenserian sonnet
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2_ What makes Shakespeare's Sonnet No 18 a good one?
Shakespeare introduces the main point of the sonnet in the first two lines of Stanza 1: that "his beloved" radiance is greater than the sun's.
He then devotes the second two lines of Stanza 1 and all of Stanza 2 to the inferior qualities of the sun.
In Stanza 3, he says "his beloved" brilliance will never fade because Sonnet XVIII will keep it alive, then sums up his thoughts in the ending couplet.
The rhyme scheme is as follows:
First stanza (quatrain): ABAB
Second stanza (quatrain): CDCD
Third stanza (quatrain): EFEF
Couplet: GG.
I love this sonnet for it carries a wonderful musicality when talking about his eternal love to his beloved ...
ReplyDeletesonnet is apoeam of 14 lines with afixed form in the petrarchan sonnet the firsst eightlines have arhyme scheme of abbaabba and the next six lines rhyme cdecde.the shakespearean sonnet is in iambic pentametre and ends with acouplet the rhyme are abab cdcd efef gg or abba cddc effe gg
ReplyDeletein my opinion,this poem is one of the most famous masterpieces of english literture.shakespeare compared between his poem and his beloved to that beauty and started to show how both of them are better than the summer day.shakespear said that his poem , love and beauty of his beloved will remain for eternity while summer,s day will not. finally i like this poem very much and i prefer this poem more than the snowy.
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ReplyDeleteThe Sonnet :
ReplyDeleteSonnet means a small sound or small song in medieval Italian. Sonnets were devised in Italy by Petrarch in the 15th century, and this stylized from of poem quickly spread to France and Britain. A sonnet is a lyric poem of 14 rhyming lines of equal length: iambic pentameters in English, alexandrines in French, hendeca syllables in Italian.
In addition to a number of fixed rhyme schemes, the sonnet is characterized by a change in mood - a dramatic "turning point.
The English sonnet (also called the Shakespearean sonnet, as it was Shakespeare who popularized the form in English) comprises three quatrains and a final couplet, rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. The Spenserian sonnet, a variant introduced by the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser, links the three quatrains by rhyme, in the sequence ababbabccdcdee. In either form, the ‘turn’ is in the final couplet, which may sometimes achieve the neatness of an epigram.
What make it really good the sonnet No.18 is that Shakespeare whas direct and in the same time clearifies his idea.Also, he consider simplicity in his descriptions which proves that sonnet 18 is simple and straight forward with no distraction to reader.
What is a Sonnet? Sonnets are poems of 14 lines done in an iambic pentameter style. There are three main styles of sonnet
ReplyDeleteShakespearian
Italian
Spencerian
The style popularized by Shakespeare has this rhyming scheme:
abab cdcd efef gg
The Italian is based on the works of Petrarch, who wrote in the fourteenth century. It uses the following scheme:
abbaabba cdecde (or cdcdcd)
Edmund Spencer popularized the final style of sonnet with this rhyme:
abab bcbc cdcd ee