This poem is included in Yeats’ collection The Tower, published in 1928. ‘Leda and the Swan’ is one of William Butler Yeats most popular, mythology-based poems. Leda and the Swan by William Butler Yeats He wants nothing more than to win Stella’s heart and thinks that if she reads his writing then perhaps she will come to love or at least pity him. Sonnet 1 starts out the sequence an depicts a speaker who desires to share his love with his beloved through writing. This sonnet is one of 108 that are included in Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella. People do not need to have perfume breath to deserve love. His love might be not outrageously beautiful, but that doesn’t make her less important or loveable to him. Her lips are dull, her breasts aren’t white enough and she walks on the ground. The listener doesn’t have any similarities to the natural items he points out. The comparisons do not progress exactly as a reader might expect. In this very popular sonnet, the speaker compares his lover to other beautiful things. Sonnet 130: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun by William Shakespeare The poem concludes sadly with no hope for the future, she says she once knew summer, but that “in me [it[ sings no more.” In the present, she is brought into a depression. She has lost some of her memories, or the sensations from experiences. The speaker describes “what” her lips have kissed, “why” they kissed, and “where” they kissed. ‘What My Lips Have Kissed, and Where and Why’ is a poem told from the perspective of a speaker who cannot remember the lovers of her past, only the happy state she must once have inhabited. What My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Whyby Edna St. But, luckily for the listener, their beauty is. The summer is temporary, it isn’t going to last. The most important part of the poem comes at the end where a real distinction is drawn between the listener and a perfect, warm sunny day. They are “more lovely and more temperate.” This very famous sonnet has one of the most memorable lines in the world of English- language poetry: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” The speaker explains in the next lines that the intended listener is better than even the best parts of summer. Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? by William Shakespeare 9 Sonnet 14: If Thou Must Love Me by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.7 Sonnet 19: On His Blindness by John Milton.6 Holy Sonnet 10: Death be not Proud by John Donne.5 Leda and the Swan by William Butler Yeats.3 Sonnet 130: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun by William Shakespeare.2 What My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why by Edna St.1 Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? by William Shakespeare.
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