Sonnets

1. i prefer Shakespeare's iambic pentameter to Spencer's rhyming pattern.
2. Sonnet 18 (Shakespeare) Shakespeare compairs someone to nature in order to describe their beauty, but in the last two lines he states that nature is this persons beauty. There is no comparison, they are one in the same.
Sonnet 30 (Spencer) Spencer compairs his and another's love to flames, and ice. he uses this metaphor to show how we want what we can have.
3. Sonnet 15 (Shakespeare)
When I consider every thing that grows A
Holds in perfection but a little moment, B
That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows A
Whereon the stars in secret influence comment; B
When I perceive that men as plants increase, C
Cheered and cheque'd even by the self-same sky, D
Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease, C
And wear their brave state out of memory; D
Then the conceit of this inconstant stay E
Sets you most rich in youth before my sight, F
Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay, E
To change your day of youth to sullied night; F
And all in war with Time for love of you, G
As he takes from you, I engraft you new. G
In the first part of this poem, he says that the earth is really a large stage, in which we preform plays for the stars.
Perhaps in the second part he is trying to say that humans are part of the play in life, only more destructive.
The third part is about eventual death in human life.
and the fourth part is about how he will renew the life of his love, with love.

Sonnet 75 (Spencer)
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, A
But came the waves and washed it away: B
Again I wrote it with a second hand, A
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. B
Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay B
A mortal thing so to immortalize, C
For I myself shall like to this decay, B
And eek my name be wiped out likewise. C
Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise C
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: D
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize, C
And in the heavens write your glorious name. D
Where whenas Death shall all the world subdue, E
Out love shall live, and later life renew. E
In the first part Spencer writes a girls name in the sand and it is washed away, and again a second time.
In the second part she tells him that it is vain to try to immortalize her in this way, because she will die in time.
In the third part he tells her that she will live forever in his poem.
In the fourth part he tells her that they will live forever together as words on a page for future generations to read and "remember".

This is my sonnet about cigarettes

How can I live without my cigarette?
They keep me sane and free from homicide,
I’m not in jail, and that’s a benefit,
Though my lungs now contain some cyanide.
I have twenty cylindrical friends,
All that they need is some friendly fires,
Who are willing to sit and make amends,
Without speaking of setbacks and mires.
They make me feel like I am not alone,
Even though I am the one who gets burned,
Truly I am made of skin and bone,
They say that you will get what you have earned.
Cigarettes are smoked by the romancers,
It won’t matter, when we die of cancer.