Comparing William Blake and William Wordsworth

Sonnet 18 In Sonnet 18, William Shakespe atomic number 18 begins by considering what metaphorical comparisons would best reflect the young musical composition, in fact a true convention of Renaissance metrical compositions is to compare beauty and youth with aspects of nature. In the prototypic and in the second stanza he develops the idea of pass in the fore more or less stanza (the introductory part) he wants to compare the young while to a summertime day, but he also says that the man is more sightly and more be intimately than a summer day in fact, he knows, summer gage be very short and the weather is changeable sometimes its too hot and sometimes the sun has vaporiseed, but he cant be obscured.Then the poet adds that it is also true that, like a real summer, the young mans youth pass on not last forever, because it is how nature goes (its temporary). The third stanza starts with an adversative, here the poet concentrates in the mans beauty and he says that his bea uty wont disappear not even death can take his beauty, because in rhyme the poet is able to preserve the idea of beauty and youth. It is something like a foretell in the realism of the poem, the youngs man beauty will never die, but it will go on growing in the minds of readers Shakespeare wishes to preserve the young mans beauty against the effects of time.The poem carries the meaning of an Italian orPetrarchan Sonnet (Petrarchan sonnets typically discuss the love and beauty of a beloved). The theme is the transience of beauty, the poet tries to immortalize the young mans beauty through his own poetry. Sonnet one hundred thirty This is a sonnet written for a dark lady, in which Shakespeare criticizes the ideali chatter tendency of the most Elizabethan love poetry to compare the beloved with nature. Sonnet 130 is clearly a parody of the pompous love sonnet, made popular by Petrarch.In describing his dark lady, he is careful to emphasise how little she corresponds to the conven tional idea of beauty of his time in fact from the sonnet we can understand that the woman is not beautiful she doesnt have softening hair, instead she has got black wire hair, she doesnt have brilliant eye and red lips , she has dark skin (breasts), moreover he cant see the colour of the roses in her cheeks and her breath cant be compared to perfume, her voice is not as pleasant as music and she doesnt walk like a goddess.For him, however, the fact that she is not conventionally beautiful is an indication of her natural beauty what fascinates the poet in his lady are the things that kick in her unique in his eyes, these things make her rare in a world in which the women have to correspond to an ideal notion of beauty. So Shakespeare ends the sonnet by proclaiming his love for his mistress, so he does finally embrace the perfect theme in Petrarchs sonnets total and consuming love.Romeo and Juliet (balcony scene) After seeing Juliet at the Capulets house during the feast, Romeo se cretly return to see her again Romeo, cloak-and-dagger amongst the shadows outside Capulets house, sees Juliet in the balcony Juliet, believing that she is alone, professes her love for Romeo and her pro shew ruefulness that he is a Montague. Romeo reveals himself and the lovers speak to each other.Romeo is very poetic when he speaks about Juliet, he is a platonic lover, in fact he describes Juliet as a perfect woman (he idealizes Juliet) he says Juliet is the sun and the moon around is jealous, her eyes are far more brighter than the sun, they are so brighter that the birds sing all the time. He describes her using some of the conventions of courtly love and Neo-Platonism found in sonnets of the time.Instead Juliet, even if she has the passion, goes right into the problem, which is the name she is more realistic and shes worried because Romeo shouldnt be there and if someone sees him he could die. The high-and-mighty image in Romeo and Juliet is light Romeo associates Juliet wi th sunlight and stars and the light emanating from angels. Shakespeares works are written in Early Modern English the language utilize by Romeo and Juliet, particularly Romeo, is often lyrical.