Argumentative Technique in William Shakespeare's Sonnet No 116 #criticalanalysis #ardhendude
Channel: AD's English Literature
Date: 2022-02-17

Argumentative Technique in William Shakespeare's Sonnet No 116
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What techniques does Shakespeare use in Sonnet 116?
What is the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116?
What is the style of Sonnet 116?
What are the major elements of Sonnet 116?
#adsenglishliterature #Englishclass #poetryanalysis #criticalappreciation Here is a video lecture on William Shakespeare's Sonnet No 116 (Let me not to the marriage of true minds..) :Argumentative Technique.  You can take it as critical appreciation too.  Sequence of 154 sonnets by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare were written between 1595 and 1599 after the Earl of Southampton became his patron. The sonnet genre was at its height by that time. The tradition of sonnet writing form was extensively  followed by Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney,  Spencer , and Shakespeare too followed it. Shakespearean sonnets however differed from those of other predecessors in that it had three decasyllabic quatrains each rhyming alternatively and a rhyming couplet at the end -rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg. The core theme of this sonnet is tug of war between the transcience and permanence. You can read this lecture under the following chapters:

00:00 Introduction
00 :43 Shakespearean Sonnet Sequence
05:59 Transcience and Permanence
07:04 A Proposition
09:55 Love in a Straight Forword Manner
12:43 Love vs Time
17:04 Conclusion

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