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Lake sonnets
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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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John Donne's "Songs and Sonnets" as Poetic Essays
… determine whether or not John Donne's "Songs and Sonnets" may be considered within the realm of the essay; that is, are they essays in poetry? To give validity to this question we must first offer the evidence upon which the question is based. We began with this problem in this chapter in our …
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Center, periphery, and frontier – Tang Qi’s 1946 Chinese sonnets
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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IlluSonnet: Using Generative AI to Create Illustrations for Sonnets
… users generate images that illustrated the sonnets well and that the process of creating and seeing imagery alongside the poem helped users understand the sonnets in a new light. We conclude by discussing how IlluSonnet can be used to further facilitate a deeper connection between both art …
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Not (Just) Donne: Alchemical Transmutation as Immortality in Shakespeare’s Sonnets
<p>Shakespeare, in his sonnets, employs alchemical references in the sonnets that ultimately fail, in order to show how fruitless it is to pursue immortality. The poet urges the fair friend, who himself is like the self-consuming ouroboros, to father a child that will continue his legacy and allow …
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Renaissance vertical reading from vers rapporté to Shakespeare's Sonnets
In her analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Helen Vendler points out Shakespeare's systematic repetition of keywords and reiteration of meaningful words in the couplet, which she calls couplet ties. This thesis seeks to frame Vendler's discovery by considering its literary context. Shakespeare's …
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An Analytical Study of The Holy Sonnets of John Donne by Benjamin Britten
… Benjamin Britten used in setting The Holy Sonnets of John Donne. This study also shows the ways in which these techniques serve to bring out the full meaning of the text.
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'A divine centurie of spirituall sonnets': the religious sonnet in early modern England
… in Herbert; the conversionary trajectory of sonnets in Donne; and mathematical and eschatological thinking in Milton. While each of the case studies that comprise this thesis is organised around a distinct element of sonnet practice which each of the four chapters that follows shows acutely …
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The will of the people: Comedy and the comic persona in Shakespeare's sonnets
… this claim, the study explicates five sonnets, numbers 104, 91, 138, 143, and 130. For social and literary context, the study relies on two seminal works, a sociological treatise examining the play element in culture by Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens, and a critical treatise examining …
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A Multi-Level Stylistic Analysis of the Sonnets of Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz
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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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HARLEM IN SHAKESPEARE AND SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM: THE SONNETS OF CLAUDE MCKAY, COUNTEE CULLEN, LANGSTON HUGHES, AND GWENDOLYN BROOKS
… Brooks. The formal and social characteristics of sonnets by African-Americans function synergistically: the way that the octave and the sestet respond to each other in a single poem is also similar to the "call-and- response" movement of African American oral culture. Its tendency to mix two …
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Obscurity and the mythic quest for shape: a discussion and explication of Dylan Thomas' Altarwise by Owl-light
… repeatedly employs the term "shape" in the sonnets in a context of questioning, of trying to determine what the correct shape is. In addition, the poem is filled with suggestions of processes by which man tries to order experience and to determine the true shape and, thus, the true meaning …
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I Shall But Love Thee Better After Death: A Rediscovery of Eleanor Everest Freer’s Sonnets from the Portuguese, Op. 22 (1910)
… on Freer’s magnum opus: a forty-four song cycle Sonnets from the Portuguese (1910). Freer is still the only composer to have ever set and published all forty-four poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s masterwork of English poetics, yet this work remains mostly unknown. The initial chapter of this …
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All This the World Well Knows: a symphonic cantata in Sonnets and Proverbs for mixed chorus, four solo voices, and orchestra
… together texts from Shakespeare's Dark Lady sonnets and from the King James Bible's book of Proverbs in a loose narrative of love, betrayal, and reconciliation. The composition's pitch material includes microtonality that arises from the just intonation of sonorities derived from the harmonic …
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"The conceit of this inconstant stay": Shakespeare's Philosophical Conquest of Time Through Personification
<p>Throughout the procreation sonnets and those numerous sonnets that promise immortality through verse for Shakespeare's beloved young man, the poet personifies time as an agent of relentlessly destructive change. Yet Shakespeare's approach to the personification of time, as well as his reactions …
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Fulke Greville's Caelica: The Work of an Elizabethan
… 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 have been interchangeable with one …
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