Classic to Modern English Literature

"Sonnet 106" called as "When in the Chronicle of Wasted time" written by the greatest English poet and the "bard of avon", William Shakespeare. The poem was first published in 1609 in a quarto. This sonnet is part of the Fair Youth sequence, a series of poems that are addressed to an unknown young man. The sonnet goes on to explore the idea that the poet's verses can defy the passage of time and preserve the beauty and love of the subject for all eternity. It's a reflection on the enduring power of poetry. Shakespeare's sonnet contains fourteen lines with Iambic Pentameter. In the first, second and third quatrain, the poem follows ABAB CDCD EFEF, and the final rhyming couplet shows GG rhyme-scheme. The poem five syllables, because it has ten feet. It also shows "Love and Loss", "Power and Corruption", "Life and Death", and "Freedom and Oppression."  Shakespeare's sonnets were granted by Thomas Thrope

From his 154 sonnets, William Shakespeare wrote, "As an unperfect actor on the stage" also known as "Sonnet 23". The Renaissance poetry was published in 1609 by an English publisher, Thomas Thrope. While coursing the poem, the narrator compares himself to an imperfect actor on a stage who forgets his lines. He laments his inability to adequately express his love for the beloved through poetry. He feels that like an actor, he struggles to perform convincingly. Contextually, the poem includes, "love, time, beauty, and the passage of life." American literary critic, Helen Hennessy Vendler writes that in sonnet 23, "the (inevitable) distance between composing author and fictive speaker narrows to the vanishing point."  Shakespeare 's sonnetic poem "As an unperfect actor on the stage" contains fourteen lines with Iambic Pentameter. It implies ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme-scheme. The poem has three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet. This