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The generalization for vampires has been displayed in films and literature for hundreds of years. The stereotypical versions of vampires are that they have long fangs, sleep in coffins during the day, and suck the blood out of humans. Both novels contradict those stereotypes in different ways. To understand the diversity of the vampires described in both novels, one must examine the characteristics that the vampires display and the meaning and purpose behind them. David D. Gilmore’s book “Monsters” analyzes monsters and other mythical creatures. Gilmore describes why humanity invented the idea of

For years, the vampire has been a mysterious creature. We have all been infatuated with the appeal of immortality and distinctiveness that vampires possess. Many writers have visualized what vampires are supposed to look like and how they act. The common description of a vampire is terror, violence, viciousness, and fear. Nina Auerbach, writes that “There is no such creature as ‘The Vampire’; there are only vampires” (Saler 218). This statement recognizes that vampires differ tremendously in behavior, motivation, and culture. Because vampires are a fictional character, depending on the writer, the vampire will be different, even if they are all influenced by one image.

In this sonnet, Shakespeare employs the use of the Elizabethan sonnet style to juxtapose social and emotional wealth. The structure of the sonnet is comprised of fourteen lines which make up three quatrains and a couplet. The first quatrain has the rhyme scheme “abab”, while the second and third quatrains have the rhyme scheme “cdcd” and “ebeb”. The final couplet has the rhyming scheme “ff”. It is

As we can see in sonnet 18, there are ten syllables in each line and five ‘feet’. The ‘feet’ form the patterns of (X /).

A sonnet contains fourteen lines; each line with five iambic feet or ten syllables. The rhyme scheme follows one of two different

     The sonnet, being one of the most traditional and recognized forms of poetry, has been used and altered in many time periods by writers to convey different messages to the audience. The strict constraints of the form have often been used to parallel the subject in the poem. Many times, the first three quatrains introduce the subject and build on one another, showing progression in the poem. The final couplet brings closure to the poem by bringing the main ideas together. On other occasions, the couplet makes a statement of irony or refutes the main idea with a counter statement. It leaves the reader with a last impression of what the author is trying to say.

He enlarged the function of the sonnet to political and moral criticism and this has been followed by later poets.  Finally the sonnet came to be used for any subject which a short, concentrated lyric would afford to evolve. Hence, we have Wordsworth’s  ‘Composed Upon Westminister Bridge’, Keat’s ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’, Shelley’s ‘England in 1819’,  Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’  and so many memorable sonnets by so many famous poets. Longfellow, Jones Very, G. H. Boker, and E. A. Robinson are generally appreciated for writing some of the best sonnets in America. William Ellery Leonard, Elinor Wylie, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and W. H. Auden have done distinguished work in the sonnet and the sonnet sequence in this century.Already, the sonnet form has taken a unique position in the literary field. But the question inevitably comes is that why has it proved so popular? Perhaps ,though minute in extent, it has immense elasticity: it can have room for story elements; it can stage a brief dramatic scene; it can present a series of philosophical reflections; it can survey a vast variety of reflections, understandings and moods within a tightly organized

A sonnet refers to a poetic form which originated in Italy. There are two kinds: the Petrarchan (Italian) and the Shakespearean (English). Both kinds still consist of fourteen lines written in iambic pentameters – unstressed, then stressed syllables. The Italian form began with Francesco Petrarca. The Shakespearean form began with Thomas Wyatt and Earl of Surrey (Shelley, 2015).

A Shakespearean sonnet contains fourteen lines, structured with three quatrains, each containing four lines, and ending with a rhyming couplet written usually dominated by an iambic pentameter, which consists of ten syllables divided into five pairs, the iambs, with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one. Anthem for doomed youth corresponds to the structure of the Shakespearean sonnet. Another structural element usually included in a Shakespearean sonnet is the rhyming scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, with Anthem for doomed youth’s only deviation being the EFFE. As Wilfred Owen’s poem contains the required elements of the Shakespearean sonnet, it can evidently be said it should be placed in the genre.

Over a hundred sonnets written by William Shakespeare consistently contain crisp creative words in a fourteen line pattern. The patterns of lines are broken down into three quatrains of four lines a piece followed by a rhymed couplet. These sonnets all have the same meter, first eight lines describing a problem followed by the four lines of response.

First we will start with a sonnet. Let’s start by talking about just what a sonnet is. “Before Shakespeare’s day, the word “sonnet” meant simply “little song,” i.e., a short lyric poem” (poetry.about.com, 2010). By the 1200’s, the sonnet had come to be known as a form of poetry that is comprised of 14 lines.

In a sense, the speaker’s intention to immortalize his lover through his poetry validates his lover’s accusation that he is vain.His boasts about his ability to create such lasting fame for her reveals his grand opinion of his skill as a poet. Despite this vanity, however, the final lines of the poem make clear the depth of his love and his belief that the feelings they share will live on after death. Spenserian Sonnet : Spenser, through the poems in Amoretti and Epithalamion, developed a style of sonnet that incorporated the use of an interlocking rhyme scheme; this became known as the Spenserian sonnet. In such a rhyme scheme, the rhyming words at the end of each line (or end rhymes) form a pattern in which each section of the poem is linked with the following section through the repetition of the rhyming words. When discussing rhyme schemes, lines are assigned a letter in order to show the repetition of the rhyme. The Spenserian sonnet rhyme scheme is: abab bcbc cdcd ee. (All lines with an ‘‘a’’ designation rhyme with one another, all lines with a ‘‘b’’designation rhyme with one another and feature an end rhyme different from the ‘‘a’’ lines, and so on.) ‫مهم‬ The effect of this rhyme scheme is a structuring of the poem into three quatrains (a section of a poem consisting of four lines of verse) and a couplet (a section consisting of two lines of verse). This physical Structure relates to the poem’s meaning. The first quatrain describes the speaker’s actions on the

Shakespeare’s sonnets are intensely personal and are records of his hopes and fears, love and friendships, infatuations and disillusions that in turn acquire a universal quality through their intensity.

The two main group of sonnets (1-126 and 127-154) discover a number of parallels, some of which are merely conventional and commonplace. In two of the sonnets (46 &

On the next chapter, it talks about the renaissance and about sonnets and about how they are 14 lines long and and ten syllables per line too. The Petrarchan sonnets are the most popular type and its divided into 2 parts and one part is 8 and the other part is 6 lines. And it says how the poem turns itself into a shape of a square which is why the title of this chapter is called “if its square, It’s a sonnet”.