All 5 Uses of
sonnet
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Oddly enough he too draws for us an unhappy relation with the dark lady of the sonnets.†
Chpt 9 *
- That Portrait of Mr W. H. where he proves that the sonnets were written by a Willie Hughes, a man all hues.†
Chpt 9
- —Say that he is the spurned lover in the sonnets.†
Chpt 9
- The sugared sonnets follow Sidney's.†
Chpt 9
- He has revealed it in the sonnets where there is Will in overplus.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
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(sonnet) a poem consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme schemeeditor's notes: As an example, here is Shakespeare's 17th Sonnet:
Who will believe my verse in time to come,
If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb
Which hides your life and shows not half your parts.
If I could write the beauty of your eyes
And in fresh numbers number all your graces,
The age to come would say 'This poet lies:
Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'
So should my papers yellow'd with their age
Be scorn'd like old men of less truth than tongue,
And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage
And stretched meter of an antique song:
But were some child of yours alive that time,
You should live twice; in it and in my rhyme.