Analyzes Countdown, a short film (7 minute) by Heinz Hoienig. Discusses the central theme of the film. Describes how Hoienig deals with space and time and compares the film to a Shakespearean sonnet.
Both sonnets share the same general idea: the immortalization of the beloved. Beauty is seen as something that will change as time passes by; even though it is something the speaker almost refuses to admit. Nonetheless, the speaker, in both sonnets, defies time and vows to keep his beloved's beauty alive and well, even if it's only through the existence of his lines.
William Shakespeare continually defied the conventions of courtly love in his writings. Two prime examples can be found in two of his 154 sonnets, Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130.
Examines William Shakespeare's love sonnets and discusses what effect they have had on the world. Describes how Shakespeare's language and dialog signifies a range of human emotions and conditions that are timeless and explain his broad appeal even today.
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?") enhances the idea of beauty higher then that of nature, making nature's seemingly flawless beauty seem dull compared to the beauty of the beloved. Shakespeare's use of similes, metaphors, and other devices reinforces the idea of beauty living on forever through the words of his poem.
"Sonnet 130," by William Shakespeare, is probably a mockery of love poems of his era which focus mainly on comparing the loved one to nature and heavenly characteristics. An example of such poems is "Epithalamion," by Edmund Spenser, which sticks to the conventionality of it's time.
Sonnet attempts to immortalize the beloved, but at the poem's completion, the subject is still an ambiguous figure. In essence, the poem itself is immortalized rather than the beloved.
William Shakespeare turns romanticism on its ear with his Sonnet 130, "My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun." Instead of extolling the beauty of the woman like most romantic poetry, he portays it realistically, instead focusing on the woman's personality as the reason she is wonderful.
Explains the similar and/or dissimilar conceptions of "love" in Millay's "I Being Born a Woman" and Shakespeare's "My Mistresses' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun".
