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I – 1550
Sir Thomas Wyatt
I Find no Peace

1.      A speaker is in love, but he is unable to rest. His love is dictated by the heart rather than the head.

2.      I find no peace, and all my war is done: – At the end of a war, everyone expects peace. But the speaker is unable to fine peace although his wars are done. The first contrast in the poem shows the speaker’s situation.

3.      I desire to perish – Throughout the poem, the narrator expresses list of opposed feelings, concepts. It shows how many feelings love can have. Those feelings might overwhelm him so much, that he could be considering suicide. We can see eariler on in the poem ‘nor die at my devise’.

4.      I love another, and thus I hate myself – Perhaps, the speaker feel that he cannot love this person and still love himself. The love is not practical or logical. It’s irrational.
I hate myself – I lost my confidence and peace of mind. The love causes this stir, and the joy of sadness.

5.      And my delight is causer of this srife – She seems to be the whole world for him. The lady may not know about his feelings, or maybe she has a husband. Probably, it is unrequited love.

II – 1550
Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey)
Love That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought

1.      ‘Reign, seat (in this context), captive, banner, coward, lord’ shows that the speaker is a soldier or knight. This is personification.

2.      Love, that doth reign and live within my thought,
And built his seat within my captive breast, – A speaker is in love, but he didn’t want to fall in love – it was stronger. He thinks about the love all the time. He cannot stop thinking of the love. He is a slave of the love.

3.      doth his banner rest – he blushes, he can not hide his face of love.

4.      But she that taught me love and suffer pain, – He is in love with woman who doesn’t love him.

5.      Her smiling grace converteth straight to ire – The lady who is loved by the speaker is pleasent, but she can get anger very quickly.

6.      And coward Love, then to the heart apace
Taketh his flight, where he doth lurk and plain,
His purpose lost, and dare not show his face. – Probably, the lady doesn’t know about his feelings. He is hiding that he fell in love with her.

7.      For my lord’s guilt – ‘My lord’ is the love, his beloved one. He is servant of the love. ‘Lord’ is the personification which shows that the speaker is a soldier or knight.

8.      Sweet is the death that taketh end by love. – It is sweet to die for love. Love costs him a lot, but he didn’t give up the love.

III – 1600
Edmund Spenser
Amoretti: Sonnet 1

1.      A speaker is in love. He wants her beloved lady to read and hold the poem.

2.      In the first four lines, the author compares himself to a book that is read by his love, Elizabeth.

3.      Which hold my life in their dead doing might, – Her hands could kill him or give him life (metaphorically speaking) by rejecting or accepting his poem, which would be like rejecting his poem.

4.      hold in loves soft bands, – His beloved hold his emotions. She is his captor and victor.

5.      And reade the sorrowes of my dying springht – If she reads the poem, she will discover the sorrows of his heart and dying spirit.

6.      She derived is – Spenser says that his beloved is his muse.

7.      When ye behold that Angels blessed looke,
My soules long lacked foode, my heavens blis. – Spenser tells was given a look by “Angel”, his starving soul is in heavenly bliss.

8.      Leaves, lines, and rymes, seeke her to please alone,
Whom if ye please, I care for other none. – The only purpose of the poem is to make the lady happy. He doesn’t care if other like the poem or not.

9.      The pages are lucky and happy, because she will be touching them.
The lines are lucky and happy, because her eyes will be focused on them.
Rhymes are lucky and happy, because she will read them.

10.  Leaves – pages of the book
lines – lines of the poem

IV – 1600
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 2

1.      When forty winters shall beseige thy brow, 
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field, – The young man maybe strong and healthy now, but in 40 years time he will wreck, destroy his good look with wrinkles.

2.      Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now, 
Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held: – There is metaphor
‘Proud livery’ – youth; beautiful clothes that young man can wear.
‘Tatter’d weed’ – clothes aren’t worth much.
When you are young everything is ok, you have fun, but when you get older, things are different.

3.      Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies, 
Where all the treasure of thy lusty days; – The poet tries to scare young man into marrying and having children and tries to show his future when he will be older.
‘treasure of thy lusty days’ – it’s about strength, beauty and happiness of being young.

4.      To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes, 
Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise. – The point is to make youth look so precious.

5.      How much more praise deserved thy beauty's use, 
If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine – The solution for getting older is to have a baby. Young man wasting his beauty not having a baby.

6.      Shall sum my count and make my old excuse,' 
Proving his beauty by succession thine! – His beauty is in his son. The son inherited your beauty.

7.      This were to be new made when thou art old, 
And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold. – Having children is the way to cheat death. You can look at your child and feel young again.

V – 1600
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 18

1.      An author says his beloved is more lovely, more beautiful and more even-tempered than summer.

2.      Summer is always too short, too hot, too windy – never perfect

3.      Everything connected with summer passes away, but the beauty of a lady does not. Because she is immortalised in this poem. Even death will not take her beauty away.

4.      Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade. – It may also imply that the person is decent, honest, and good, so the person earned a happy eternity outside of Death’s ‘shade’.

5.      As long as human exist and can read, the poem will live on and make her immortal. She will last forever.

VI – 1600
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 55

1.      No other beautiful or permanent monuments can outlive do this sonnet, which will be live longer and shine brighter.

2.      Monuments and statues can be destroy, but not his rhyme.

3.      Other human creations have to deal with time and violent war, but the poetry is immortal (it is compared to stone).

4.      The beloved will escape destruction. She will live inside the sonnet and inside minds of readers until the end of the world.

VII – 1600
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130

1.      Shakespeare showed in this poem more realistic view of love.

2.      The poem compares the mistress’s appearance to other things (the sun, coral, snow, wire, roses). In general his mistress is unlike the goddess.

3.      The poet concludes that he loves his beloved more than he could love a perfect maiden.

4.      His lady and his love are unique (the mistress isn’t as beautiful as nature and there is not false comparison)

VIII – 1600
William Shakespeare
Hamlet – act I, scene II

1.      Hamlet thinks about suicide for the first time, after unpleasent scene at Claudius and Gertrude’s court.

2.      His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! – He wishes that God had not made ‘self-slaughter’ a sin. Then he feels is not any option, because it’s forbidden by religion. Suicide seem to him as a some kind of alternative.

3.      unweeded garden – The world is corrupt place.

4.      He feel pain because of his father death, but marriage of his mother and his uncle is tremendous dissapointment. Probably it is the first time she disapointed him. He thought that she was almost perfect.

5.      she would hang on him,
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on: – He would do anything for her, and his mother was really devoted.

He talks what caused his pain.

6.      Frailty, thy name is woman! – Hamlet draw a conclusion with reference to all women. He generalises. He thinks all women have moral frailty.

7.      Than I to Hercules – There is no comparison between his father and Claudius.

8.      O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!– Gertruda married Claudius so fast, because she wanted to have a sex, and satisfied her desire. She didn’t do it for the crown.

IX – 1600
William Shakespeare
Hamlet – act II, scene II

1.      Had he the motive and the cue for passion
That I have? – Hamlet became ashamed of himself. He had a motive, but he didn’t act to revenge his father. He should have shown passion if an actor he can show such passion.

2.      O! vengeance! – It is turning point.

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