Men are all about the chase until they find that one woman who knocks them off their feet. Until the day she walks into their lives, they enjoy being a bachelor; however, meeting that special someone changes their outlook on relationships. The single life they once loved starts to be less appealing. They begin to imagine settling down with their lover and creating a life together. Once they have decided this is what they want in their lives they want to let the world know how lucky they are. Writers have expressed their love and bragged about the beauty of their lovers for centuries. Shakespeare is a wonderful example of a man who beautifully described the woman he loved in his sonnets. Many current day writers do as well. Brad Paisley is another …show more content…
When Shakespeare wrote “My Mistress’ Eyes are nothing like the sun” he was describing all the things that she is not. He was being sarcastic and essentially poking fun at other poets of his time. They often described the women they loved to an extreme. He knew these descriptions weren’t true and wrote something that was true to him. He makes his point clear by writing, “If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun” (3 Shakespeare, My mistress’). Even though she is not as white as snow he still tells the world in one sentence how he really feels about her. He wrote, “And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare/As any she belied with false compare” (13-14 Shakespeare, My mistress’). Shakespeare knew that in reality, his love did not compare to some of the natural beauties of this world, but it did not make her any less beautiful to him. He found their love rare and that is all that …show more content…
It now hangs in a museum for everyone who walks by to view it. Brad Paisley is so thankful that he found the woman he loved he wrote another song about her. He sings, “Now there are men who make history/There are men who change the world/And there are men like me/That simply find the right girl” (1-3 The Mona Lisa). He is fully aware that he has found the woman for him and like Shakespeare he does not want to let that go. He goes on to sing: “It never fails, we walk in a room, Nobody sees me, they’re all lookin’ at you, I disappear but that’s fine with me, I feel the same way, you’re all I can see, Now they’ve written books about da Vinci’s muse, Now I know it wasn’t but it shoulda been you” (Paisley, The Mona Lisa). He wishes that she was the woman in the painting so everyone could see her beauty forever. Even though he did not paint a portrait of her he did write a song that would let the world know forever just how beautiful he found her to be. Whether this was his original plan or not he found a way to have the world know of her beauty for all eternity just like his fellow
Today, Mona Lisa is stored within the Louvre museum in France for public viewing. No matter the lucky visitors who have a chance to glance at Mona Lisa, or fans who enjoy themselves so much as to forget to leave, people will be attracted by her unique charm without exception. Legend says, staring at this picture, we will produce the Mona Lisa syndrome proposed by an Italian art historian Vezzosi Alessandro, referring to intoxicate from Mona Lisa’s smile, and her smile also becomes more and more mysterious. Countless mysteries hide in Mona Lisa. Although there are many people have made a research on her, it is now still murky.
The portrait depicts a young woman sitting down on a balcony with a rural landscape in the foreground. The name Mona Lisa translate to the phrase, “My lady Lisa.” The medium of the portrait was an oil paint inscribed on a poplar panel. Leonardo likely began the painting in 1503 and finished it around four years later. Although some historians believe, the painting was never finished despite its plethora of detail and specialization. The woman in the painting is unknown; some believe the woman is the female version of Leonardo da Vinci h...
also painted on wood. Years later, another artist made a reproduction of the Mona Lisa,
...uty which is impossible for any woman or man to match. Campion's poem reflects this impossible ideal that society inflicts on us. This woman in There is a Garden in Her Face could never really live up to the image that the speaker has created of her. The image is false, and so is his love because he is only focusing on her outward appearance. The speaker in Shakespeare's sonnet clearly is not in love with his mistress' looks. Everything about her is contrary to society's standards, but he understands the absurdity of these standards and rejects them. There is more to his mistress than meets the eye, and that is why he truly loves her.
William Shakespeare's sonnets deal with two very distinct individuals: the blond young man and the mysterious dark-haired woman. The young man is the focus of the earlier numbered sonnets while the latter ones deal primarily with the dark-haired woman. The character of the young man and a seductive mistress are brought together under passionate circumstances in Shakespeare's "Sonnet 42." The sexual prowess of the mistress entangles both Shakespeare and the young man in her web of flesh. This triangular sonnet brings out Shakespeare's affection for both individuals. His narcissistic ideal of delusional love for the young man is shown through diction and imagery, metrical variation and voice, contained in three quatrains and one couplet.
Holy Sonnet XV deals with the question of reciprocal love that runs throughout Donne’s religious poetry. The Sonnet is an address of the speaker’s mind to the speaker’s soul; it is a meditation on the Trinity and man’s relationship to God. The poem’s form and the multi-layered conflation throughout expound upon the nature of the Trinity. The theme of humility in reciprocal religious love or receiving and understanding God’s glory (as Donne understood it) runs throughout the poem. This allows the speaker’s soul to understand his own need for humility in order to love god fully. Donne uses the Sonnet form cunningly in this poem; the formal divisions of the Sonnet reflect the trinity, with three four-line sections, while the inner workings of the poem expound upon God’s love for mankind and the need for humility. The poem’s rhyme scheme is abba/abba/cddc/ee. This formally divides the poem into three four part sections that move from the spiritual to the physical downward through the Trinity, increasing tangibility with regard to the physical and allowing the speaker to achieve a closer relationship with God through Christ.
Shakespeare's My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun Many authors compose sonnets about women whom they loved. Most of these authors embellish their women's physical characteristics by comparing them to natural wonders that we, as humans, find beautiful. Shakespeare's "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun" contradicts this idea, by stating that his mistress lacks most of the qualities other men wrongly praise their women for possessing. Shakespeare presents to one that true love recognizes imperfections and feels devotion regardless of flaws, while satirically expressing his personal thoughts on Petrarchan sonnets. Through the use of comparisons, the English sonnet and an anti-Petrarchan approach, he creatively gets his point across.
These are just a select few. He is considered one of the greatest artist of all time. Throughout his lifespan Leonardo created some of the world’s most recognized, admired, and famous artworks including: “The Mona Lisa,” and “The Last Supper.” He created over 50 artworks and manuscripts. Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper,” painted while he was in Milan, from around 1495 to 1498. A tempera and oil mural on plaster, “The Last Supper” was created for the refectory of the city’s Monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Also known as “The Cenacle,” this work measures about 15 by 29 feet and is the artist’s only surviving fresco. “The Last Supper,” depicts the Passover dinner during which Jesus Christ addresses the Apostles and says, “One of you shall betray me.” One of the painting’s stellar features is each Apostle’s distinct emotive expression and body language. Its composition, in which Jesus is centered among yet isolated from the Apostles, has influenced generations of painters. Created somewhere between 1503-1506, the “Mona Lisa” is one of the greatest works of art to this date. The “Mona Lisa” is worldly famous for its enticing smile and mysteries that lie within the piece of art. The Mona Lisa is a representation of Da Vinci’s passion for art, his new discoveries, and willingness to try things new. When looking at the Mona Lisa, an immense part of its popularity came from the fact that the painting
Othello is a brilliant work brought forth to us by the one and only William Shakespeare. This work has been highly regarded for centuries; however how has it remained so popular and relevant after such a long amount of time? That is because Shakespeare incorporates many timeless issues such as racism, love, betrayal and jealousy. The real question though is which one of these issues played the biggest role in keeping this play relevant throughout the course of time? I believe that it is the most classic theme ever to develop in writing, love. Love plays a huge role in the play Othello and helps crystalize this plays immortality.
There is a defining complication in the sonnet. “This centers on the ambiguity of the term “mistress” which could refer to a husband’s wife, or, as the Oxford English Dictionary suggests, could also mean “[a] woman loved and courted by a man; a female sweetheart” or “[a]woman other than his wife with whom a man has a long-lasting sexual relationship” (Gregory, 2). The poem does not specify if “my love” refers to the speaker’s mistress or to the speaker’s love, his feelings. Shakespeare could be implying that his feelings and his love, are equally as sacred as the supposed love of other lovers that his mistress wrongly compares him
On July 2nd, 2015, I took a trip the Salvador Dali Museum in Saint Petersburg where they showcased the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit, which included numerous amounts of work that he did over his entire lifespan. Ranging all the way from the Mona Lisa to the Last Supper, Leonardo had a very unique style of portraying his painting, as well as being extremely talented with his blends and bending of multiple colors. Not only was he apart of the famous Renaissance painters who changed the way we looked at Italy, but he was also an extremely intelligent and talented man who has greatly influenced artwork for hundreds of years and will continue for many more generations.
In Elizabeth Browning’s poem ‘Sonnet 43’, Browning explores the concept of love through her sonnet in a first person narrative, revealing the intense love she feels for her beloved, a love which she does not posses in a materialistic manner, rather she takes it as a eternal feeling, which she values dearly, through listing the different ways she loves her beloved.
Shakespeare's Exploration in Sonnet 2 of the Themes of Age and Beauty. Look closely at the effects of language, imagery and handling of the sonnet form. Comment on ways in which the poem’s methods and concerns are characteristics of other Shakespeare sonnets you have studied. The second of Shakespeare’s sonnets conveys an argument the poet is. making somewhat implicitly to a subject whose identity is hazy and unknown to the reader, even in retrospect.
Leonardo is one of the few people who has the ability to make these qualities seem so perfect under his hands. His artworks are by far the most popular pieces of art that are in museums to this day. Recently a popular painting “Salvator Mundi”, painted between 1490-1500, has been placed up for auction and is estimated that the painting will sale for at least $100 million. This is just one of 16 surviving paintings that have made it through the years and it’s not even the most popular one. The Mona Lisa is the most popular painting by anyone to this very day. It was painted in the year 1503 and is famous for multiple reasons. One being that da Vinci didn’t just paint this ordinarily, but in a technique called sfumato and it was painted in atmospheric perspective as seen in the background. The technique sfumato is the blending of oil paints to blur the lines between colors. Atmospheric perspective was a new painting style where things far away in paintings looked blurry and this style was used in the background of the Mona Lisa. The word mysterious is associated with this painting and others that have come from his works. The smile that is presented in the Mona Lisa is somewhat puzzling in its own way and the person depicted in the painting is still not 100% known to experts to this day. The eyes that are on the Mona Lisa seem to watch and follow you when you look at the painting. One of the weird myths that
People often want to ensure that they are loved and often demand to know why they are loved. When one is asked a question like "Why do you love me?" one should think about how to answer for a good while. If a man responds to this question by picking specific attributes of a woman, such as her face or figure, she will usually be dissatisfied with his answer. Indeed, loving a woman because of her physical beauty is not the true love described by Shakespeare. In the sonnet, Shakespeare shows a deeper love that is beyond that of physical attraction. To discover the reasons of why two people love each other, they have to go beyond the physical attributes that they favor, and see the person in the aspect of the personal sense.