In Sonnet Number 130, “My Mistress’s Eyes Are Nothing like the Sun” by William Shakespeare, the speaker compares his mistress to conventionally beautiful phenomenons such as the sun, coral and snow. However, he does so in a non-complementary way. To me, it seems that the speaker is going out of […]
Week 3 Discussion
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I chose the poem from Shakespeare “shall i compare thee to a summers day”. In the first line “shall i compare thee to a summer day” sounds exactly like it sounds like . But in the second line “thou are more lovely and more temperate it seems to me that […]
I chose the poem How Do I Love Thee? How Do I Love Thee? How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal […]
I chose to write about “How I Love Thee” by Elizabeth Barret Browning. In this love poem of “How I Love Thee”, Browning goes into every depth to show how much she loves thee. She starts off her poem by expressing that there are multiple ways in which she loves […]
“How Do I Love You Thee?” (Browning line 1) is what this poem is based on. Using literary techniques, the speaker releases the powerful emotions hidden behind the ink. Each word is written with dedication. “How I Love You thee” is undoubtedly a love sonnet written for Barrett Browning’s husband […]
I chose to “complete” Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet How Do I Love Thee. I had to read this sonnet a few times over and over again before I was really able to make sense of it. In “How to Read a Poem”, Edward Hirsch says, “This act of completion begins […]
In the article “How to Read a Poem” from the Poets.org website, the poet William Carlos Williams, in acknowledging the challenges of reading poetry, writes that a reader must “complete” what the poet has begun. With specific reference to one of this week’s poems, explain how you “completed” what the […]
In the article “How to Read a Poem” from the Poets.org website, the poet William Carlos Williams, in acknowledging the challenges of reading poetry, writes that a reader must “complete” what the poet has begun. With specific reference to one of this week’s poems, explain how you “completed” what the […]
