shakespeare's poetry
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shakespeare's poetry
Montavia Marion Core 3 English 1 Mrs. McKinney
sonnets
- Shakespeare left 154 sonnets published in 1609
- Many readers believe they reveal important parts about his life (Hamlet)
- Readers believe this could be a true story because it was so full of detail
- The sonnets in Hamlet were called Ophelia Sonnets or Letters to Ophelia
- ("William Shakespeare" I)
The story is hinted at, rather than told. It concerns Shakespeare’s feelings toward a young nobleman who wronged him by stealing the affections of a sweetheart and by transferring his friendship to another poet. In the end the young nobleman is forgiven.
Sonnets cont.
- "The 154 sonnets are conventionally divided "young man" sonnets (1-126)
- and the “dark lady” sonnets (127-152)..." ("William Shakespeare" I)
- The last two are often seen as the coda to the collection.
- ("William Shakespeare" I)
venus and adonis
- April 18 1593 is the registration date
- Narrative poem in six-line stanzas
- Dedicated to Shakespeare's Patron ("William Shakespeares Poems" I)
- Venus the goddess of love, admires a young man named Adonis
- he however does not return her affection. ("William Shakespeare" I)
The Rape of Lucrece
- May 9 1594, the poem was entered in the Hall Book of the Worshipful
- Company of Stationers
- The Rape of Lucrece is a narrative poem resembling a revenge tragedy.
- Time of plot 500 B.C.
- ("William Shakespeare Poems" I)
A lover's complaint
- The most neglected of the Poems of William Shakespeare
- First published in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe under the same cover as the Sonne
- ("William Shakespeare Poems" I)
- There was a young woman who was scorn and taken advantage of by a young man
- who didn't care for her like she cared for him. ("William Shakespeare" I)
the PHOENIX and the turtle
- Registered in 1601
- Appeared untitled as one of the Poetical Essays appended toRobert Chester's Love's Martyr
- ("William Shakespeare Poem" I)
- The poem tells about two lovers the Phoenix and the Turtledove who
- burned themselves to death in order to be forever joined in love. ("William
The passionate pilgrim
- Registered in 1599 ("William Shakespeare Poems" I)
- Poetry collection containing 20 poems, the title page to the second
- edition says "By. W. Shakespeare" but only 5 of the poems appear to be his
- 2 of the 5 were sonnets to later go to his 1609 collection ("William Shakesp
- The others were poems extracted from the play Love's Labour's Lost
