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Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day by William Shakespeare

Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in a small agricultural town in county Derry. In 1957 he went to Queen's University in Belfast where he studied literature. He returned to Queen's in 1965 as a lecturer. In 1972 Heaney moved to the Republic of Ireland because of the bitterness between Catholics and Protestants in the North. He taught at Carysfort College in Dublin from 1975 to 1980. He also taught at Harvard University, Massachusetts and Cambridge, England. His poetry is mainly concentrated upon his childhood years in Northern Ireland. The greatest achievement so far in his life is that he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995.

William Shakespeare is recognised the world over as being the greatest playwright, dramatists and writer of all time. He was born in 1564 and baptised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. He was the third of eight children and the eldest son. He apprenticed his father as a glove maker but because of declines in business it would no longer be commercially viable for him to take over his fathers business. In 1582 Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, who was the daugh

The last stanza again makes great use of imagery, "Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple." It also tells us that at this stage Heaney was beginning to accept his brother's death, which, I am sure, cannot be an easy task. "He lay in a four foot box as in his cot," this is a very touching line that tells us that Heaney is actually not angry but almost at peace, he has accepted the death of his brother. It is the last stanza that we find out also how he died, "the bumper knocked him clear." It isn't until the solitary line ending when we know how old the child was, "A four foot box, a foot for every year." It is the last line that would appeal to most people; the fact that the child killed was only four would affect many people's emotions.

ter of a local farmer, to whom he had a daughter in 1583 and twins, a boy and a girl, in 1585. The boy did not survive. By 1592 William Shakespeare had attained success as an actor and playwright in London. His Sonnets and poems, written between 1593 and 1609, also established him as a gifted and popular poet of the Renaissance.

Shakespeare's poetic efforts include a series of one hundred and fifty four Sonnets, in which he developed the Shakespearean sonnet as a new poetic form, arranged as three quatrains and a single rhyming couplet. The Sonnets describe the devotion of a character, which is often the poet himself, to a young lady in whom he is infatuated. The sonnet uses the rhyme scheme:

In this Poem, "Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?"; Shakespeare never fails to lose the interest of the reader. The simple, Shakespearean sonnet format of three quatrains and one rhyming couplet contributes to this fact. To me it's the romantic writing and the message within the poem, that internal beauty is immortal and somewhat priceless, which is still relevant to this day is what touches the hearts and plays with the emotions of today's reader. At first you may be forgiven for saying that this is just another love poem. It's not. The depth at which Shakespeare goes into it and the language that is used, at second glance is awe-inspiring. It has a deep meaning that really does hit home.

In the sixth stanza Heaney turns from a graphical image of death, "The corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses," and it's affects on people "Coughed out angry tearless sighs," to a peaceful and soothing image, almost the other side of death, "Snowdrops and candles soothed the bedside."

The poe

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Category: English