are there examples of sonnets written by authors other than shakespear?
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Here is a link with an extensive list of other authors of sonnets:\n\nwww.sonnets.org/alpha.htm\n\nI hope this helps :)
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http://www.authorsden.com/categories/poetry.asp?alpha=a&catid=73
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play websites? i guess you'll find mostly shakespear stuffs though... y not make one urself?
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(This was actually a question on Yahooligans!)\n\nDear Earl,\nWhat types of poetry are there?\nNajee, Age 12 \n\nDear Najee,\nThere are so many types of poetry that I couldn't list them all! One of my favorites is the haiku, a Japanese poetry form that usually doesn't rhyme. Haikus are only 17 syllables and three lines long! Another short poem style is the cinquain, which is only five lines. One funny kind of rhyming poetry is the limerick. I bet you knew William Shakespeare wrote plays like Romeo and Juliet, but did you know he wrote poetry too? Shakespeare wrote many sonnets -- poems that are 14 lines with a precise rhyming pattern. Our poetry category has lots of poetry you can explore -- maybe you'll want to write your own! \n\nEarl
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The sonnet has a very specific structure.  It's divided into 2 parts: the octave (the first 8 lines) and the sestet (the last 6 lines).  Usually, the octave will ask or pose a question or problem and the sestet will answer the question asked in the octave.  In the case of "Composed upon Westminster Bridge", Wordsworth is providing a physical response to the view.  He is describing what he is actually seeing.  In the sestet, he is writing an emotional response to what he has seen in lines 1-8.  \n\nPoets are most effective when they use powerful imagery, descriptive language, and popular poetic devices.
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Pablo neruda wrote a lot of love sonnets. One of them has been quoted in Patch Addams. That would be Sonnet XVII and it goes:\n\nI don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz\nor arrow of carnations that propagate fire:\nI love you as certain dark things are loved,\nsecretly, between the shadow and the soul.\nI love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries\nhidden within itself the light of those flowers,\nand thanks to your love, darkly in my body\nlives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.\nI love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,\nI love you simply, without problems or pride:\nI love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving\nbut this, in which there is no I or you,\nso intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,\nso intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close.
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The following link lists all known published works by the classical poets. \n\nhttp://www.emule.com/poetry/?page=author_list \n\nMy favorite classic poets are:  Keats, Wadsworth-Longfellow, Wordsworth, Whitman, Chaucer, and Robert Frost.  And lets not forget the true word-smythe who crafted Beowulf. Wow!!! \n\nOf course, John Milton's "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained", contain some pretty serious food for thought.  And, Pushkin's "An Invocation" is absolutely moving.\n\nAs far as understandability, I'd go with any one of the Bronte sisters.  Their works should be pretty easily translatable into current day terms.  \n____________________________________________________________\n\n" An Invocation"  \nby Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin \n\nO if it's true that in the night, \nWhen rest the living in their havens \nAnd liquid rays of lunar light \nGlide down on tombstones from the heavens, \nO if it's true that still and bare \nAre then the graves until aurora -- \nI call the shade, I wait for Laura: \nTo me, my friend, appear, appear! \n\nBeloved shadow, come to me \nAs at our parting -- wintry, ashen \nIn your last minutes' agony; \nEmerge in any form or fashion: \nA distant star across the sphere, \nA gentle sound, a puff of air or \nThe most appalling wraith of terror, \nI care not how: appear, appear!.. \n\nI call you -- not to speak my scorn \nOf people whose ill-fated malice \nHas killed my friend, and not to learn \nThe secrets of the nether-palace, \nAnd not because a doubt may tear \nMy heart at times... but as I suffer, \nI want to say that still I love her, \nThat still I'm yours: appear, appear!
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refer to sparks notes.com. It will have notes on every play Shakespeare ever wrote, although he stole most of his ideas from me, Christopher Marlowe.
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This refers to the classic british writers whose work is considered important because of the influence it had on other writers and british society.\nThis great writers include\nChaucer- Canterbury tales\nShakespeare- plays\nMilton- paradise lost\nAusten- novels\nWordsworth- poetry\nDickens- novels\nBrontes- novels\nWilfred Owen- poetry\nand many others\nhope this helps
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Sonnet 18, "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summers Day" is a good starting place. If you like that passage, try "A Midsummer Night's Dream". \n\nhttp://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/midsummer/full.html\n\nBe warned. Shakespeare seemed to hide a lot in his writings. The Bard is bawdy.\n\nhttp://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1739819,00.html\n\nAlso, for an easier read that is full of wit, sarcasm and humor, try Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain. "Life On The Mississippi" is one of my favorite reads.
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http://www.poetrypoetry.com/Workshops/00-04/ParallelPoetry.html
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A number of poems contain the word impiety and deal with nature and God.  Among them:\n\nJohn Donne's "Holy Sonnet XI" ( http://www.netpoets.com/classic/poems/022034.htm )\n\nShakespeare's "Sonnet 067: Ah, Wherefore With Infection Should He Live" ( http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/433 )\n\nPope's (rather long) "Essay on Man" ( http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/pope-e1.html )\n\nWigglesworth "A Prayer Unto Christ the Judge of the World" (from Day of Doom) ( http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/eaw/poems/wiggtext.htm )\n\nI would direct you to Wigglesworth first, as it sounds like it may be closest to what you're looking for.
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There is some flexibility for titles of Literature as well as songs.  Unfortunately if an author sues and goes to court, there is a chance that the other author will have to change the title.  If it is a similar title from an ancient text, there isn't a claim for plagarism, because the original author is dead and can't claim infringement.
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One great example would be William Shakespear. He's written Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Also, there's that guy who wrote Huckle Berry Fin and Huck Everlasting.... What's his name again? Is it Tom Huck?
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You can find them a couple of places. Enjoy them, because they're amazing. All sources below are good. Enjoy reading his poems.
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They were always the same age, ever since Shakespear wrote the play. If you mean actors who played them, then check http://www.imdb.com
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You ever tried the classics like... Shakespeare  also  Edgar Allen Poe  is awesome\nI love William shakespeare's sonnets