sonnet lxv  EDMUND SPENSER?
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Please, quote (do you think we are encyclopedias?)!!!\n\nI think it's about the fear of loosing one's liberty in love.\nThe poet explains that it's not an issue (doubt is vaine), love doesn't mean a loss of liberty but another liberty (the one to bond).\nThe bird in its cage singing is a metaphor...\n\n\nNB: lxv is better in capitals since they are roman figures (LXV means 65)
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Let me see if I can break it down. I studied Shakespeare but I am not real familar with this sonnet.\n\nIn the old age black was not counted fair,\nOr if it were, it bore not beauty's name;\n(the color black was not considered something of beauty)\n\nBut now is black beauty's successive heir,\nAnd beauty slandered with a bastard shame:\n(not sure, successive heir would be like a son or daughter,\n beauty slandered - talked or gossiped about\n bastard shame - embarrassing)\n\nFor since each hand hath put on Nature's power, \nFairing the foul with Art's false borrowed face,\n(Each hand is showing its age\n The face will soon follow)\n\nSweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,\nBut is profaned, if not lives in disgrace.\n(Beauty has no real power, it alters, changes,\n Not sure of second line)\n\nTherefore my mistress' eyes are raven black,\nHer eyes so suited, and they mourners seem\n(My lover's eyes are black\n They seem suited for crying or sadness)\n\nAt such who, not born fair, no beauty lack,\nSland'ring creation with a false esteem:\n(Not born beautiful or lacking in beauty\n Taunting nature with an inner beauty)\n\nYet so they mourn becoming of their woe,\nThat every tongue says beauty should look so.\n(The beautiful people cry\n because the inner beauty is the more beautiful)\n\nOkay thats my interpetation of it.  Not saying I'm right with all of it, but I hope I helped you to understand it better.
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You'd do best to start simple. Eight lines, for instance, with either eight or ten syllables in each line. Make the last word in line 2 rhyme with the last word in line 4, and the last word in line 6 rhyme with th elast word in line 8. You don't have to make all the lines rhyme. You might want to try meter; if so, iambic is the easiest.\n\nLike singing, juggling, riding a bicycle no hands or baking a cake, it takes practice.\n\nFigure out what you like best about him - or just something you like about him - and set it to rhyme.\n\n"I love to take your hand in mine, as we\nWalk a-long life's trail; you are so strong and\nWarm, I feel pro-tec-ted in your grasp, I\nE'en like the feel of call-ous on your hand."\n\nI put "-" in to show syllables. "E'en" is a poetic contraction to make the last line come out 10 syllables. It means "Even". I didn't use much meter. The first eight syllables in the first line are iambic (soft-hard). Then it goes to pot. "as we" is two soft syllables in a row.\n\nThis one was what we in the writing trade call quick and dirty. Yours will vary. If he doesn't hold your hand when you walk together, or he doesn't have callouses, pick something else you like about him. It would probably be better to write a number of short ones about shared times or different things you like about him than to try to put all of your love in one long poem.\n\nThere are poems that don't rhyme or have meter. They are easier to write, but they aren't as good. They are like serving hamburger helper instead of rib steak.\n\nMeter means you have a pattern of soft and hard syllables. Most people prounounce "Even" with a strong "E" and a soft "ven", for instance. Iambic means you alternate soft and hard syllables, starting with a soft one. Some people say it is the natural form of English. Iambic pentameter is five of each in each line. Shakespeare used it a lot.
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It was probably Christopher Marlowe..just kidding. I have no idea. It is fun to speculate. I'm sure he probably borrowed from other playwrights as was customary in the Elizabethan era. I leave these matters for the Oxford scholars.
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Nice poem!!!! can I quote?
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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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this will help ; \nhttp://search.sparknotes.com/?query=+Othello&x=14&y=11
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Shakespeare is known primarily for verse in iambic pentameter: ie sonnets. Iambic pentameter is a series of five pairs of unstresses/stressed syllables: u / u / u / u / u / . The Shakespearean sonnet is 14 lines of ip following this rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg. Typically the first 12 lines develop the thought, the last two resolve/conclude the poem. The monologues and soliloguies that are taken from his plays are usually also in ip. He is also known from a number of lyric songs in his plays. These are usually pastoral, sometimes comic.\n\nMilton is known for his 2 major epics, Paridise Lost and Paradise Regained. His epics are noted for their extended metaphor and convoluted sentence structure. He also wrote a number of sonnets, but in the Petrarchan model: abba cddc efeefe--conflict generally presented in first 8, resolution in last 6. \n\nThat's all I've got at the moment. Helpful?
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a sonnet is a poem with no more than 14 lines if i'm not mistaken
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You can find a template to use here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet\n\nTo have an original sonnet, however, you need to do the work yourself.  Active learning and passive learning are worlds apart.  Please do not join the ranks of millions of people who expect a comfortable life without having to put forth effort!
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Not sure, but you could check out my poems on my yahoo 360 \n\nand post a comment and vote for your favourite!!\n\nOh ok..try the links below as well!!\n\nGood Luck\n\nJimmy
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MLA Formating can be found here:\nhttp://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/\n\nBeowulf can be found here:\nhttp://www.library.unr.edu/subjects/guides/beowulf.html\nhttp://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/beowulf
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Here is a poem about english, I'm not sure if its the right one I think this might not be it because I know of another one but can't recall what its about, but this one's worth a try! Hope I'm right!\n\nhttp://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/stuff/english-pronunciation.html\n\nor this one\n\nhttp://www.rocksforkids.com/FabFours/spelling.htm
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http://www.online-literature.com/wordsworth/514/
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Try this...\n\n\nhttp://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=differences+of+mary+sidney+herbert%27s+dedicatory+poem+and+shakespeare%27s+sonnet+30&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
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http://www.eliteskills.com/poetry/improving_poetry.php
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LONDON (Reuters) - A 400-year-old painting previously believed to be that of a woman has been found to portray the male patron and friend of William Shakespeare, its owner said on Tuesday. \n\n\n  \nThe picture of the Earl of Southampton, featuring a figure with long, black curly hair, pursed red lips, an earring and a slender right hand, has prompted speculation in British media that Shakespeare was gay. \n\n"He is wearing perfectly fashionable male attire of the day, but the earring and the hair are effeminate and unusual for the 1590s," the painting's owner Alec Cobbe told Reuters. \n\nHe said that his family had assumed for centuries that the picture was of a Lady Norton. \n\nBut after discovering links between his own family and the Southamptons and a striking resemblance between the portrait and other representations of the 3rd Earl of Southampton, Cobbe was convinced that it is Shakespeare's friend and frequent host. \n\nScholars have long argued that Southampton was the handsome young man in his late teens to whom an early sequence of Shakespeare's sonnets was addressed. \n\nThe painting is dated to around 1590, when Shakespeare was writing early sonnets including one to the "master-mistress of my passion." \n\n"It certainly illustrates that sonnet (number 20) very vividly. We are looking at the subject of the sonnet, I'm sure," said Cobbe. \n\nAlastair Laing, the National Trust's adviser on art, first suggested to Cobbe that the picture was of a male. \n\n"I was cataloguing this collection and realized that this was a young man with long hair, which one or two dandies of the time affected in this manner," he told Reuters. \n\nHe is also convinced that the picture is of Southampton, although he argued that the man was not necessarily affecting a female appearance, as a modern observer may assume. \n\n"This is a man but he is not a cross-dresser," Laing said. \n\n"He is not wearing lipstick -- some pigments just stand the passage of time better than others, giving this appearance. It is dangerous to assume anything about this man's character from this portrait." \n\nBritish newspapers have played up the significance of the discovery (news - web sites), with the mass circulation tabloid Sun headlining its story "Shakesqueer." \n\nBut even if the discovery of the portrait is much ado about nothing, it has proved effective publicity for the painting, which is now on show at Cobbe's stately home at Hatchlands Park in southern England.