Essays about: "sonnets"

Found 2 essays containing the word sonnets.

  1. 1. Metaphors of Time : Mortality and Transience in Shakespeare's Sonnets

    University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Johanna Rehn; [2009]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This essay is about metaphors of time, mortality and transience in William Shakespeare’ssonnets. Exploring these metaphors, I examine sonnets nr. 60, 64 and 65 more closely, since Ithink they are particularly representative as regards the metaphors of time. READ MORE

  3. 2. Breaking the Conventions : Shakespeare, the Fair Young Man and the Dark Lady

    University essay from Engelska

    Author : Artyom Kulagin; [2006]
    Keywords : Shakespeare Sonnets;

    Abstract : The aim of this essay is to show how Shakespeare’s sonnets violated and reversed the conventional ideas in terms of beauty and idealisation. Furthermore, I will examine the way Shakespeare presented his beloved woman as an absolute opposite of the one created by Petrarch, and how he shifted all the divine metaphors from a woman to a fair young man, creating a new object of praise and admiration. READ MORE