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Shakespeare as a poet - Coggle Diagram
Shakespeare as a poet
national poet of england - known as the bard of stratford avon or the bard of avon or simply "The bard"
dedicated his first poetic work - venus and adoinis (1593) to in his own words "the first heir of my invention", to his patron. the earl of southampton - henry wriothesely
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george saintsbury referring to shakespeare as a poet - all three larger pieces - the rape of lucerece and venus and adonis and the sonnets - in personal fashion than the scheme of his drama - concerned w love
venus and adonis
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lyrical flow made composers choose "bid me discourse" and " to here the gentle lark"for settling them into "song measures"
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sonnets
154 sonnets - the first 126 sonnets are addressed to henry wriothesely and the earl of penbroke- william habert
the next 26 sonnets are addressed to a dark and wanton lady who betrays the poet for "guilded and wayword youth"
rhyme scheme - abab, cdcd, efef and gg
three quatrains and a concluding couplet -called the shakesperean or the english sonnet - different from the patrarchan sonnet