Sonnets Polonaise II

The Concept of Love in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

The present paper probes into the concept of love revealed in the Dark Lady group in Shakespeare’s Sonnets. In these poems, the poet depicts a kind of obsession, bitter, hopeless and degenerating, which is totally different from that sweet and ennobling love Shakespeare always pursues in his early works. It is argued that the conflict between the ideal of love and the sensual obsession with the...

Rhetorical Replica (Badal Bilaqi) and Its Variants in Hafez’s Sonnets

One of the stylistic features of Hafez’s sonnets is the repetition of a part of the meaning of the first line in the second line. His knowledge of the rhetorical and semantic relations of vocabularies enabled him to repeat the meaning with the least verbal repetition. One of the ways that has helped him to achieve this goal is replicating the concepts in two parts of the couplet based on rhetor...

The ‘terrible Sonnets’ of Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Spirituality of Depression

EPRESSION IS A VERY LONELY DISEASE. Sufferers are unable to see beyond the blackness enclosing them, even if they are surrounded by loving friends and by a supportive family. It is difficult for them to talk to people who do not share their experience, and difficult for those others to understand how they feel. Although there is evidence that depression has been experienced since the earliest t...

Metrical Annotation of a Large Corpus of Spanish Sonnets: Representation, Scansion and Evaluation

In order to analyze metrical and semantics aspects of poetry in Spanish with computational techniques, we have developed a large corpus annotated with metrical information. In this paper we will present and discuss the development of this corpus: the formal representation of metrical patterns, the semi-automatic annotation process based on a new automatic scansion system, the main annotation pr...

'Thou single wilt prove none': Counting, Succession and Identity in Shakespeare's Sonnets