About William Shakespeare

Also known as the "Bard of Avon," Shakespeare was an English poet and wrote plays famous 154 Sonnets and numerous highly successful oft quoted dramatic works. While he caused controversy, Shakespeare also earned praise and impacted the world in areas such as literature, culture, art, theatre, and film, which considered him one of the best English Language writers ever. For many centuries, there was alot of speculation surrounding the aspects of his life including his religious affiliation, sexual orientation, sources for collaborations, authorship and chronology of the plays and sonnets.

In his childhood years, William Shakespeare was the oldest of four sons to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden, whom he lived with on Henley Street. His father was a local businessman and was involved in municipal affairs such as Alderman and Bailiff, but a decline in the family's fortune in his later years had a major effect of William. On April 26, 1564, when he was an infant, William Shakespeare was baptised at the parish church in Avon Holy Trinity of Stratford.


Poetry Essays

The first poem I found was sonnet 18, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day." This sonnet is the most well known and loved out of all 154 sonnets. What this is talking about is the author describes a special someone or friend, whom he is well acquainted to.

The first thing he does is compare his friend to a summer's day by putting in perspective the standard of true beauty and the way it should be judged. And the way he judges the true beauty of his special friend is by putting it in a way of having life lasting memory. He, through this verse, believes that he will form a great bond with that special someone one day.

In comparison to this poem, there comes a time when a person finds someone that gives them the feeling that they would do anything for that person. And usually, with time, people form a great bond with one another. It doesn't necessarily have to involve love all the time. This could involve anyone through romance, friendship, companionship, social life, and personal life relationships.


The second sonnet I found was sonnet 116, which was "Let me not to marriage of true minds admit impediments." This sonnet talks about love in the most ideal kind of way in life. This piece gives the ideal praise of lovers able to spend the rest of their lives by entering a lifetime relationship through trust and understanding.

Shakespeare claims that we can figure out how love can be measured to a certain degree.  However, because love is considered a mystery, we can never fully know what the actual worth of what love could really be.  We can reaffirm the perfect nature of love and it can be unshakeable no matter what happens between that couple.

This piece reminds me of me and my girlfriend. Even though we may tease each other or have a couple fights, we are always able to talk about things, show how much we love each other, and most importantly give the honesty, love, respect, and care to one another.




The third essay I found is from our textbook, which is the first book of Paradise Lost. What this is basically about is that Satan decides to bring angels with him to Hell. He was brought to Hell because he decided to do horrible things like murder. And now, Satan tries to go back to invade Heaven.

But what Satan realizes is that he can't do it himself, so he brings his servants with him on his journey. However, when Satan gets to Heaven, he then realizes he can't win the battle physically, but he can mentally. Basically his mentality is to keep doing what he loves to do, which is to always do evil.  Even though he can't make angels in Heaven do evil things, he can still make people on Earth do horrible things, causing those people to go to Hell.

In comparison to this poem, in a certain way, it reminds me of my passion and heart to play football. This season was my first and only season on the Varsity Football squad. What I came to realize that not only was I playing the sport on a different level, but that the position that I played, every single player was double the size of me that I played against.




My fourth poem is William Shakespeare's fifteenth sonnet, "When I consider everything that grows." This sonnet was a part of a group, sonnets 15-19, that was defined as Shakespeare's "third stage." What he strived to do was to immoralize his dear friend in order to save him from ravages of all-consuming time.


There wasn't really a line that gave a clear underlying of the theme, besides line 13, of which it said "And all in war with time and love of you." However, there is a significant parrallel between sonnets 12 and 15. Despite the theme, for sonnet 12, being the necessity of procreation and slightly different from sonnet 15's theme, they are both very similar.