Comparing Sonnet 116 And George Herbert's Easter Wings And Whoso List To Hunt

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A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton. This is but one of Webster 's definitions of a poem. Using this definition of “poem,” this paper will compare and contrast three different poems written by three different poets; William Shakespeare 's Sonnets 116, George Herbert’s Easter Wings and Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Whoso List to Hunt. In the poem by William Shakespeare Sonnet 116, Shakespeare writes about marriage and two people deeply connected in mind and spirit. In Sonnet 116, Shakespeare writes about commitment within marriage by saying “Which alters when …show more content…

It speaks about not allowing anything to break the marital bond not even old age or sickness. The united couple must stand together and not allow their hearts to wander. In the beginning of the poem, the first question asked of the bride and groom is if there are any admitted impediment that would hinder or corrupt this union. Shakespeare even allows the reader to understand that he truly believes the words that he writes by stating, “If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved” (Sonnet 481). Shakespeare interjects his personal beliefs by telling the reader that if this poem is not true, then he was never was a writer, and that no man has ever …show more content…

Love as a hunt makes aides in understanding his assertion that he knows where love hides. In this passage of the poem Wyatt writes “HOSO list to hunt, I know where is and hind!”(Wyatt 75). Shakespeare thinks of love as something that two people share and that it is unbreakable and it can be seen in these lines, “Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom” (Sonnet 481). Even though both poets do not speak of love and relationships the same terms, one speaks of love in terms of a committed relationship and the other speaks of love as the pursuit of something you cannot have because it belongs to someone

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