


As Fred Hasson (2013) suggests “The metaphors are choppy, jumping quickly.Ī sonnet is a 14-line poem that rhymes in a particular pattern. Although the use of transition between multiple metaphors has often been critiqued. William Shakespeare's ' Sonnet 146' reads as an internal monologue, fundamentally the protagonist is addressing himself. Love is not love ccept, agree that there are Let me not to the marriage of true minds this suggests a union that is non-physical, Platonic and idealisticĪdmit impediments. He has written 150 sonnets and many plays and poems. Shakespeare’s Sonnets 18 and 116 William Shakespeare is often regarded as the greatest writer of the English Language. Shakespeare is asserting that Sonnet 18 could quite as easily be about the woman's comparison. Because Shakespeare asks if he should make this comparison implies that it is arbitrary. Sonnet 18 begins with the narrator asking if he should compare the subject, which we will assume is a woman, to a summer's day. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. His surviving works consist of plays, sonnets, and long narrative poems. Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in literary history. ‘Valentine’ is a contemporary poem while ‘ Sonnet 130’ was written about 400 years ago. In the following essay I will be comparing two poems, ‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy and ‘ Sonnet 130’ by William Shakespeare.
