Comparing William Blake and William Wordsworth

Sonnet 18 In Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare begins by considering what metaphorical comparisons would vanquish reflect the young man, in fact a typical convention of Renaissance poems is to comparability beauty and youth with aspects of nature. In the first and in the fleck stanza he develops the idea of summer in the first stanza (the introductory part) he wants to compare the young man to a summer day, but he overly says that the man is more beautiful and more lovely than a summer day in fact, he knows, summer can be very(prenominal) pithy and the weather is changeable sometimes its too hot and sometimes the sunbathe has disappeared, but he cant be obscured.Then the poet adds that it is also uncoiled that, like a real summer, the young mans youth will 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 beauty wont disappear not even death can take his beauty, because in numbers the poet is able to preserve the idea of beauty and youth. It is something like a promise in the world of the poem, the youngs man beauty will neer 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 by dint of his own poetry. Sonnet 130 This is a sonnet written for a dark lady, in which Shakespeare criticizes the idealising tendency of the most Elizabethan love poetry to compare the beloved with nature. Sonnet 130 is clearly a parody of the conventional love sonnet, made popular by Petrarch.In describing his dark lady, he is careful to underline how little she corresponds to the conventional idea of beauty of his time in fact from the sonnet we can understand that the woman is not beautiful she doesnt put one over soft hair, instead she has got black wire hair, she doesnt have brilliant eyes 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 toss 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 make 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 fundamental theme in Petrarchs sonnets total and consuming love.Romeo and Juliet (balcony scene) After seeing Juliet at the Capulets house during the feast, Romeo secretly amends to see her again Romeo, hidden 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 piece sorrow 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 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 dominating mental picture in Romeo and Juliet is light Romeo associates Juliet with sunlight and stars and the light emanating from angels. Shakespeares wor ks are written in Early Modern English the language used by Romeo and Juliet, in particular Romeo, is often lyrical.