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    Sonnet 18 (also known as "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day") is one of the best-known of the 154 sonnets written by English poet and playwright William...
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    Sonnets—also known as the Divine Meditations or Divine Sonnets—are a series of nineteen poems by the English poet John Donne (1572–1631). The sonnets...
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    wrote sonnets on a variety of themes. When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were...
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  • The term sonnet refers to a fixed verse poetic form, traditionally consisting of fourteen lines adhering to a set rhyming scheme. It derives from the Italian...
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    Lady" figure in his sonnets. Some scholars have argued he was bisexual, based on analysis of the sonnets; many, including Sonnet 18, are love poems addressed...
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    William Shakespeare (category Sonneteers)
    extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship...
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  • First Words "The darling buds of May", a quote from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 The Darling Buds This disambiguation page lists articles associated with...
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  • describing his love for Rosaline as "bright smoke, cold fire, sick health". In Sonnet 18 the speaker offers an extended metaphor which compares his love to Summer...
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  • Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy in April 1655. Also known as Milton’s “Sonnet 18,” “On the Late Massacre at Piedmont” has been described by the famous...
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    Sonnet 15 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It forms a diptych with Sonnet 16, as Sonnet 16 starts...
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  • aired in 1991 and 1992. The title is from the third line of Shakespeare's sonnet 18. The Larkin family live on a farm in rural England, in the county of Kent...
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  • Shakespearean sonnets often employ rhyming couplets at the end to emphasize the theme. Take one of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets, Sonnet 18, for example...
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    modelling, or moulded or cast. Sonnet 18 Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare part of the Fair Youth sequence of sonnets. Problems playing this file? See...
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  • The procreation sonnets are Shakespeare's sonnets numbers 1 through 17. Although Sonnet 15 does not directly refer to procreation, the single-minded urgings...
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  • from Kent. The title of the book is a quote from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more...
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    compares with them, and that he read them daily. In Venus (2006), he recites Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"). O'Toole wrote two memoirs...
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    Nightingale" * Sonnet IV, "To the Moon" Sonnet V, "To the South Downs" * Sonnet VI, "To Hope" Sonnet VII, "On the Departure of the Nightingale" * Sonnet VIII,...
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  • 3366/j.ctt1g09vqj.10. Rustici, C (1997). "Sonnet Writing and Experiential Learning". College Teaching. 45 (1): 16–18. doi:10.1080/87567559709596180. JSTOR 27558810...
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  • released in March 2024, consists of three models: Haiku optimized for speed, Sonnet balancing capabilities and performance, and Opus designed for complex reasoning...
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    free dictionary. Rose Queen Peaches and cream (Wiktionary definition) Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) Yamato nadeshiko List of people...
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    The sonnets of Petrarch and Shakespeare represent, in the history of this major poetic form, the two most significant developments in terms of technical...
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  • "Ulysses") Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18) (Although, it could be argued that this line in fact reads: Shall I compare...
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    of his sonnets, which have a "turn" in mood or thought at line 9, (the beginning of the third quatrain (See: Sonnets 29, 18) the mood of Sonnet 66 does...
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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge 48, and Percy Bysshe Shelley 18. But in the opinion of Lord Byron sonnets were “the most puling, petrifying, stupidly platonic...
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    of May – a title taken in turn, from the third line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May". Influenced by the catchy...
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  • Dark Lady (Shakespeare) (category Sonnets by William Shakespeare)
    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...
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    Ozymandias (category Sonnets)
    "Ozymandias" (/ˌɒzɪˈmændiəs/ OZ-im-AN-dee-əs) is a sonnet written by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was first published in the 11 January...
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    Sonnet 141 A reading of Sonnet 141 Problems playing this file? See media help. Sonnet 141 is the informal name given to the 141st of William Shakespeare's...
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    Sonnet 71 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the...
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    Sonnet 21 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare and is part of the Fair Youth sequence. Like Sonnet 130...
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