PART ONE: USING 450 WORDS, COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING Reflect on the concepts and theories you have researched and learned about over the course of the past several week. From the list provided below, choose one theory or concept that was
Any topic
The color black is used frequently in the dark lady sonnets to characterize the woman’s dark identity. What other instances of color symbolism appear in the sonnets? Find at least three examples of color symbolism and explain them. A: Shakespeare’s
Any topic
Several of the sonnets are rife with financial imagery. Find as many examples of this imagery as you can, and try to account for their distribution within the sonnets. A: Ask yourself: what does the poet wish to achieve by
Any topic
Several of the sonnets are rife with financial imagery. Find as many examples of this imagery as you can, and try to account for their distribution within the sonnets. A: Ask yourself: what does the poet wish to achieve by
Any topic
Discuss the theme of unfaithfulness in Shakespeare’s sonnets. A: Specific questions to consider here are: Who is being unfaithful to whom? How can one characterize the narrator’s reaction to his learning of his loves’ infidelity? And how is infidelity portrayed?
Any topic
Frequently throughout the sonnets the poet criticizes himself for his inadequacy. Find at least three examples of such self-criticism, and interrelate them in the context of the sonnets as a whole. A: The rival poet certainly inspires feelings of inadequacy,
Any topic
Critics are divided over whether Shakespeare’s sonnets really do contain expressions of homoerotic desire. What do you think? A: There is of course no right answer here, but any argument must again pay close heed to the particulars of the
Any topic
Frequently throughout the sonnets the poet criticizes himself for his inadequacy. Find at least three examples of such self-criticism, and interrelate them in the context of the sonnets as a whole. A: The rival poet certainly inspires feelings of inadequacy,
Any topic
Critics are divided over whether Shakespeare’s sonnets really do contain expressions of homoerotic desire. What do you think? A: There is of course no right answer here, but any argument must again pay close heed to the particulars of the
Any topic
Critics are divided over whether Shakespeare’s sonnets really do contain expressions of homoerotic desire. What do you think? A: There is of course no right answer here, but any argument must again pay close heed to the particulars of the