The paper explores the symbolic meanings of roses in Shakespeare’s sonnets. In Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, therose imagery is placed in a dominant position among all the other flower imagery. In general, rose is one ...
There is special intertextuality between Shakespeare’s sonnet 115&116,each of which contributes to make up a complete mosaic of the speaker’s passionate but philosophical process of rumination on the relationship be...
Shakespeare ‘s sonnet 116 is one of the most famous sonnet for its high praise for true love and it is also seen as an expression of Shakespeare’s love attitude. This article takes sonnet 116 as an example to show t...
The paper introduces the tradition of English sonnets, and explores how Shakespeare inherits the tradition and developshis own distinctiveness in his sonnets.
In the Sonnet 12 by Shakespeare,metaphors are used many times,but the source domains of those metaphors are not very clear so that readers have to make an analysis about it.The one in source domain often share some ch...