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An Explanation of the Sonnet "On the Sonnet" by John Keats
… stated that he had been experimenting with the sonnet form in an attempt to improve it. "I have been endeavoring to discover a better sonnet stanza," he writes. "The legitimate does not suit the language over-well from the pouncing rhymes—the other appears too elegiac—and the couplet at the end …
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The Interpolated Sonnet in Western Literature
The sonnet is the best-known, oldest, and most popular lyric form in Western literature. Because of its venerable tradition, internal logic, and convenient length, it also occurs frequently as an interpolated poem. It may function as a lyric interlude or as an effective device, advancing the plot …
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Variation Within Uniformity: The English Romantic Sonnet
… is their use of the short and rule-bound sonnet form that enjoyed a reemergence during their time. Though stylized throughout its existence, the sonnet most often falls into a specific form with guidelines and rule. What makes the Romantic interest in this form noteworthy is that like the …
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The English sonnet from Wyatt to Milton
… host of their kind. This poetical form was the sonnet, -- translated from the Italian of Petrarch by Sir Thomas Wyatt, purified by the Earl of Surrey, exalted and made popular by Sidney, experimented with and sometimes tortured by more than a dozen of his contemporaries and followers, and filled …
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Desire and Agency in the Modern Women's Sonnet
… Renaissance to the postmodern age, have used the sonnet form both to critique and to re-envision the female experience, particularly in regard to the cultural value of love. In addition to its analysis of poetic form, this dissertation also engages a cultural/feminist critique based on an enduring …
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Variations on a Sonnet: A Play and Accompanying Analysis
… writing a play based on Shakespeare's sonnets, I toyed with the idea of dramatizing the poet's life as it is revealed in the sonnets. I had read the sonnets and imagined that it would not be terribly difficult to set some of them to prose scenes in which the amorphous jealousy, …
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Attitudes Toward the Mistress in Five Elizabethan Sonnet Sequences
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The English Sonnet as a Renaissance Form: Development and Disintegration
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'A divine centurie of spirituall sonnets': the religious sonnet in early modern England
… of a century-long tradition of religious sonneteering in early modern England. By accommodating a new understanding of the sonnet as genre rather than strictly as form, it proposes a way of thinking more subtly and flexibly about the ways in which we define ‘sonnethood’: that is, in terms …
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<i>The blackbird's sonnet</i> and other tales: Stories imagining an art-eco-mad ethic
<p>Writing about experiences as a white, middle-class Madwoman, this dissertation explores the intersections between Mad studies and EcoJustice education using an arts-based, specifically poetic inquiry and fiction-based research, and autoethnographic approach. Weaving together the creative and …
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Representation and visualization of genetic regulatory networks
We present a new framework, Sonnet, for the interactive visualization of large, complex biological models that are represented as graphs. Sonnet provides a flexible representation framework and graphical user interface for filtering and layout, allowing users to rapidly visualize different aspects …
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Textual-musical relationships in three choral works by Dominick Argento: Walden Pond, The Vision and Sonnet LXIV (In Memoriam 9/11/01)
… later choral works, Walden Pond, The Vision and Sonnet No. LXIV (In memoriam 9/11/01), exploring the musical elements of form, melody and harmony in order to better understand how Argento’s different approaches to the “matter” of text in each piece are reflected in the “manner” of his …
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HARLEM IN SHAKESPEARE AND SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM: THE SONNETS OF CLAUDE MCKAY, COUNTEE CULLEN, LANGSTON HUGHES, AND GWENDOLYN BROOKS
… of form and political critique within the sonnet form, and hopes to demonstrate that the sonnet can be used to effectively articulate the experience of racism, especially the Du Boisian concept of "double- consciousness," a sense of two-ness born of being both black and American. The …
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An analytic study of sonnets in Zulu
… of the Western poetic devices in the writing of sonnets in Zulu. In chapter one the aim of this study is clearly spelt out. We hope that at the end of the investigation, we shall come out with some suggestions and possibilities of a Zulu type of a sonnet, for, we feel that there was a reason for …
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"A comparative analysis of 18 settings of Petrarch's ""Tutto'l dipiango; e poi la notte, quando"""
… different musical settings of the Petrarch sonnet ""Tutto'l di piango; e poi la notte, quando."" These settings include two unattributed recitation formulas from the Rocco Rodio Anthology and the Bottegari Lutebook, thirteen polyphonic settings by two anonymous composers, Girolamo Scotto, …
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The monumental turn: metonymic synergy between the Statue of Liberty and 'The New Colussus"
… of Liberty and Emma Lazarus’ corresponding sonnet, “The New Colossus.” The research explores how these two forms of communication, one visual and one verbal, invite public perceptions that permit them both to retain their individuality as distinctive “artifacts,” each with their own history …
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Fulke Greville's Caelica: The Work of an Elizabethan
In 1633, Fulke Greville's sonnet sequence, Caelica, was posthumously published. In 109 sonnets of varying length, Greville addresses his poems to the woman of the title as well as to "Myra," "Cynthia," and "Gala." The names of these women were used, it seems, quite arbitrarily, and may possibly …
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Obscurity and the mythic quest for shape: a discussion and explication of Dylan Thomas' Altarwise by Owl-light
Dylan Thomas' obscure sonnet sequence, Altarwise by Owl-light, has "inspired more comment and caused more disagreement than anything else by Thomas." Reading the sequence is like experiencing a confused nightmare or dream vision, for the poem is curiously primitive and myth-like. Through the …
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