Poem This poem is a loose, contemporary sonnet in the spirit of Shakespeare's Sonnet 73.
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That scattering is "poetry's extreme generosity" refracted line by line, stanza by stanza, sonnet by sonnet.
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I mean, I read books ... trilogies, and war volumes, sonnet upon sonnet upon sonnet, and I just kind of thought it'd be cool to [release music the way] books were released.
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I think of it not unlike a sonnet or something.
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Consider the sonnet "Salut," which addresses a gathering of poets.
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The exhibition was curated by Sonnet Kekilia Coggins and Kailani Polzak.
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Image courtesy of the artist Sonnet 75, 126 color chip collage.
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" As for Lazarus's sonnet, he said: "It's a piece of poetry.
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"Sula" was perfect in structure and tone — like a superb sonnet.
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"Sula" was perfect in structure and tone — like a superb sonnet.
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And if Story is becoming popular, is Sonnet next — or, perhaps, Villanelle?
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The abstract side became especially pronounced on 2015's dense, evocative Sonnet.
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Terrance Hayes's "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin" is great.
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The tenor Thomas Cooley opened with Britten's setting of Michelangelo's Sonnet XVI.
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We've also covered Shakespeare's Sonnet 27 and "Phenomenal Woman," by Maya Angelou.
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His mother's death he had commemorated in the magisterial sonnet cycle "Clearances" (1987).
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He has a lot committed to memory, and he'll just spout some sonnet.
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For her part, Scenters-Zapico sabotages both song and sonnet in one gesture.
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CNN's Evan Simko-Bednarski, Sonia Moghe and Sonnet Swire contributed to this report.
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There's a direct line between the sonnet and the body in Hayes's work.
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" Background reading: Ms. Harris said she wanted relevant policy, not "a beautiful sonnet.
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And her mom jeans — I could write an entire sonnet about those mom jeans.
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" Shakespeare told us, in Sonnet 118: "We sicken to shun sickness when we purge.
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Adding words of encouragement to immigrants, he also made a reference to Lazarus' sonnet.
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Still, as you mentioned, Emily, Logan pulls out his favorite sonnet in the end.
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She wrote the sonnet "A New Colossus," which is about the Statue of Liberty.
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Her sonnet, "The New Colossus," is inscribed on a plaque on the Statue of Liberty.
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He is the cleanup hitter of the English language, the sultan of sonnet and song.
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American poetry is in a sonnet surge; these poems join, as equals, the unruly chorus.
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Does this mean we'll be getting a Shakespeare sonnet every day for the foreseeable future?
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In his sonnet "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent," he contemplates his condition.
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The Sonnet box, packed with a video card an AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB video card.
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You could write a sonnet about the guitar tone on this beast, but I'll spare you.
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Google's DeepMind announced today that it was open sourcing Sonnet, its object-oriented neural network library.
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The companion sonnet ends on these lines: This is winter, which nonetheless brings its own delights.
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William Shakespeare: "Sonnet 29" John Milton: "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent" William Wordsworth: "The World Is Too Much With Us" Percy Bysshe Shelley: "England in 1819" John Keats: "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be" Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Sonnet XXIX" Emma Lazarus: "The New Colossus" Gerard Manley Hopkins: "No Worst, There Is None" Edna St. Vincent Millay: "Time Does Not Bring Relief" Robert Hayden: "Those Winter Sundays" Clive James: "Elementary Sonnet" Terrance Hayes: "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin" Susan Gubar, who has been dealing with ovarian cancer since 2008, is distinguished emerita professor of English at Indiana University.
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For Finlay, like the poet Arthur Rimbaud, who wrote the sonnet "Voyelles," language already existed as matter.
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" Coleman adapted the sonnet to the jazz methods of, as she put it, "progression, improvisation, mimicry, etc.
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The home purge show is now as rigorously structured as the hero's journey or a Petrarchan sonnet.
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Feel free to write a sonnet about Groove's interface or scream at Microsoft in the comments below.[Microsoft]
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"Assassin, you are a mystery / To me, I say to my reflection sometimes," Hayes writes in Sonnet 55.
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The wildness of a sonnet, its "power to hurt" (Shakespeare), lies in how the uncontainable is provisionally delimited.
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Terrance Hayes has, with more than a bit of shade, created his own brand of hip-hop sonnet.
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Yet even when a wretched situation deteriorates in the miniature world of the sonnet, it speaks of change.
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When Shakespeare wrote in Sonnet 132, "Then will I swear beauty herself is black," he meant, actually, black.
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As a formal construction whose seams are visible, the sonnet often revels in its status as a material thing.
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The words of "Sonnet XII" belong to a poet-soldier writing in the first half of the Great War.
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Hayes's response was his most brilliant collection to date, "American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin," a consummate volume of 70 poems each titled "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin" followed by a "Sonnet Index" of first lines arranged into five additional sonnets — a formidable formal alibi, to be sure.
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Sonnet doesn't replace TensorFlow, it's simply a higher-level library that meshes well with DeepMind's internal best-practices for research.
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Inversely, it also means the machine intelligence community can more feasibly contribute back by employing Sonnet in their own work.
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Oh, I could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet, And of the girl I'm taking to the Easter Parade.
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Poem This sonnet slides (as if along "goose-down") over a prosody as rhythmic, natural and warm as a nod.
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So her having cultivated the sonnet — however freely interpreted that label might be in any given case — aroused my curiosity.
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They trade recitations of Sonnet 29—Branagh with a half-angry admission of love, McKellen with amused and flirtatious hauteur.
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Large in scope but small in size, the sonnet encapsulates infinitely malleable spirits within a finite frame, as we do.
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Eventually Oaken Sonnet made the news — damaged American military aircraft turning up unexpectedly at an airport in Uganda probably helped.
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As a bonus, Sonnet even includes a standard VESA mounting bracket, so people can hide the Puck behind a freestanding display.
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A sonnet, "Across from Clark Street Station," which mentions male influences on the author, seems more likely inspired by Bernadette Mayer.
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"You can't drive a sonnet by Shakespeare or a symphony by Beethoven," Mr. Seinfeld said of this car in the catalog.
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The sonnet clips its author's wings—and yet a wide sample of appetites and aversions, vices and virtues, sneaks into it.
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In a short film also titled "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin," released late last year, the poet dances.
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She described how she might teach students to experiment with their writing by contrasting English and Spanish versions of the sonnet.
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A dog mentioned in the "Spring" sonnet, for example, is represented by a barking sound made on the viola's lower strings.
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"I really believe that I could at this moment write a sonnet," she confessed, stirred by the beauty of the Berkshires.
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" He was more enthusiastic, however, about his favourite drink, describing it as "the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.
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The new project, called Sonnet Signatures, is an extension of Rougeux' Between The Words posters, which visualized the punctuation in classic literature.
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The company showed off a MacBook Pro attached to a black, toaster-sized Sonnet external GPU chassis, bringing VR development to macOS.
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Miranda, accepting best score for a musical, delivered a sonnet for his acceptance, done in the style of verse heard in "Hamilton".
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Nine sentences and 14 lines: an update from a tiny, unidentified village to the rear of the Western Front, and a sonnet.
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Since you already have to plug the Puck into your computer, it would be nice if Sonnet had included some additional USB ports.
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The same could be said of the sonnet itself, an artifact bearing the taint of patriarchy, another repository of problematic, but undeniable, beauty.
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Whether all is true here is irrelevant: just watching these two old hands lovingly quote Sonnet 29 together feels right enough for me.
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Those words were part of a sonnet called "The New Colossus," written by Emma Lazarus, and were inspired by her work with refugees.
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Living With Cancer Large in scope but small in size, the sonnet encapsulates infinitely malleable spirits within a finite frame, as we do.
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One sonnet from the book, "We Own the Alternative," is in the voice of a woman who acknowledges age but refuses to lament.
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One sonnet from the book, "We Own the Alternative," is in the voice of a woman who acknowledges age but refuses to lament.
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So I told him about Oaken Sonnet, a similarly botched mission that took place in 2013, and about why it still haunts me.
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Entrepreneur Whitney Lundeen from Palo Alto, California walked into the tank seeking $350,000 for a 103 percent stake in her clothing company, Sonnet James.
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Sonnet XII Global woman, waxy apple, record heat,thick smell of algae, burnt peat and sunset,what rich nitrogen opens between your native trees?
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" All of this also happens to Pierre; he makes his dazzling début as a literary heartthrob with a love sonnet called "The Tropical Summer.
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At dinner, Hudson casually mentioned that a distant grandmother on my mother's side was the first writer to publish a sonnet cycle in English.
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For him the excitement of the sonnet stems from its insistence on change: It must include a volta — a sudden turn, a new argument.
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In whatever way the stanzas of a sonnet are sliced and diced, till the very close (they say) our lives are spiced and spliced.
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In the sonnet "Sainte," Mallarmé describes St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music, as a "musician of the silence" in a stained-glass window.
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The first single from her album Divers, "Sapokanikan," references a painting by Titian, Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet "Ozymandias," and an old mayor of New York.
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Miranda, who began the sonnet with a heartfelt thanks to his wife, also spoke about the massacre on the red carpet prior to the show.
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This Official Hamilton Instagram account posted this photo captioned with the heartbreakingly beautiful sonnet for Orlando that Lin-Manuel Miranda recited in his acceptance speech.
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Back in the elevator, with the printout, the father did the very thing his son had asked him not to do: He read the sonnet.
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Mr. Pattis also asked about a screenshot that she had sent to Mr. Khan of a Shakespeare sonnet that seemed to imply a romantic interest.
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It also happens to be a sonnet, albeit unrhymed — still singing although turned on its head, with the six-line stanza followed by the octave.
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"It was almost like working within a received form, like a sonnet or a villanelle, to write into the context of the script," he said.
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FB: A bit like Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130," where his muse has black wire hair, and rancid breath, but he loves her none less for it.
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That said, the Apple-approved enclosure on the company's website is a Sonnet external GPU chassis with Thunderbolt 3 support and a 350-watt power supply.
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Ever since Kobe penned his sonnet to an orange leather orb back in November, every discussion of this NBA generation's saltiest player now veers into saccharine.
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You can see him plugging away at it, on scaffolding just under the ceiling, in a self-caricature drawn in the margin of a handwritten sonnet.
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But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering who he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about.
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From the new book: I lock you in an American sonnet that is part prison,Part panic closet, a little room in a house set aflame.
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Emma Lazarus, who wrote a sonnet in 1883 to raise money for the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, is again the talk of the town.
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It's a lo-fi song that sings the praises of what exactly she loves about the object of her affections, sounding not unlike a Shakespearean sonnet.
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Emma Lazarus wrote those lines as part of a sonnet, titled "The New Colossus," in 1883, in an effort to raise money for the statue's pedestal.
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And just last week, Sonnet released a more affordable external graphics box starting at $5603 with an AMD RX 560 GPU or $600 with a RX 570.
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It's easy to sound like you're penning a Shakespearan sonnet while listing all the reasons to love Grizz (Jake Mulhern), the breakout boy of Netflix's The Society.
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The Hamilton creator acknowledged the victims of Sunday morning's gay nightclub massacre in Orlando with a heartfelt sonnet he read while accepting the award for best score.
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The Deebot N2200S eventually gets there, of course, because even a bunch of monkeys with typewriters will pound out a Shakespearean sonnet on a long enough timeline.
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Complete with the carrier's signature ergonomic design, Nordstrom's new floral-focused pattern, called Sonnet, features a pretty navy-blue background covered with white flowers and green foliage.
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Clocking in at one line longer than a sonnet, Jenny Xie's poem takes us through those salad years with a list of trials overcome or succumbed to.
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If you've ever felt frustrated trying to uncover the literary purpose of a sestina or sonnet, don't fret: Each poem's unique structure directly feeds into its narrative.
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It's what makes the sonnet implicitly American, Hayes has said, with admiration and naked hope — the ability to change your mind, the willingness to change your course.
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We won't require it to be a certain form, so you can write a sonnet, haiku, cinquain (a type of five-line poem) — or whatever you like.
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In addition to Lin-Manuel Miranda's moving, tear-choked sonnet about the victims during his win for Best Score of a Musical, two veteran actors paid tribute.
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Living, burning poetry already seemed traduced when it was plucked from the air and written down, forced into rhymes and sonnet forms; his was demotic and free-flowing.
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Inscribed on its base is a sonnet by Emma Lazarus, which includes the famous lines "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free".
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Chalamet's voluminous sleeves under his sleek, velvet vest make him look like a dapper young Shakespeare ready to write a sonnet about Ronan's fitted, masculine blazer and neckerchief.
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She's the sort of buttery tyrant who chides her girls for not offering her a seat and orders one to recite a sonnet while another rubs her feet.
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Lowell would graft parts of it onto "The Dolphin," a sonnet sequence that he published in 1973, chronicling the unresolved tumult of his relations with Hardwick and Blackwood.
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Consider the sonnet "Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd'hui," whose first version probably dates from the late eighteen-sixties, when Mallarmé was in his mid-twenties.
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The native New Yorker of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish descent penned the sonnet for an auction raising funds for Lady Liberty's pedestal and her words are enshrined on a plaque.
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Stasiuk, a tall, slender man in his late fifties, began by reciting in Polish the opening lines of "The Akkerman Steppes," a romantic sonnet that describes the Crimean landscape.
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An age in which a poet-politician was at home with the great Lin-Manuel Miranda, who was himself at home with the sonnet form in an acceptance speech.
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Click here to view original GIFAll photos & GIFs: Andrew Liszewski/GizmodoHave you ever fantasized about having the weather read to you every morning like it was a beautiful Shakespearean sonnet?
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But if you dig a little deeper, there are smaller manufacturers like Sonnet that have been crafting eGPUs for years, but without the hype you get from bigger computer brands.
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" Wanting to "explore creating incredibly short experimental films as a challenge" for himself, the restrictions set around Foster's 59 installation have created what he's come to call "visual sonnet-making.
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So he wrote a sonnet instead, addressing his love for his wife, Vanessa Nadal, as well as the shooting massacre that left 50 people dead early Sunday in Orlando, Fla.
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Write Zombie Poetry Read about some anthologies of poetry that explore a coming zombie apocalypse, and have students create their own undead-inspired verse, whether via limerick, haiku, or sonnet.
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" When the sonnet was added, the poet James Russell Lowell said it gave the statue "a raison d'être which it wanted before quite as much as it wants a pedestal.
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The director of the creative writing program at Emory University, Brown also showcases a new form he invented: the "duplex," which borrows from the ghazal, the sonnet and the blues.
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Given his ability to wield a sword as smoothly as a sonnet, it's no surprise he's been involved with some of the most beautiful women in the world, currently, Katy Perry.
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After winning for "Hamilton's" score, Miranda's sonnet for his wife and the victims killed hours earlier at the Pulse nightclub shooting reminded viewers that love is love (is love is love).
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According to the star's stylists, Nina and Clare Hallworth, the custom black silk faille gown was inspired by the "Sonnet" dress from Christian Dior's Autumn/Winter Haute Couture collection from 1952.
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New York (CNN)It was Lin-Manuel Miranda's night, and the heartfelt, original sonnet he used as an acceptance speech wowed the crowd at the 70th annual Tony Awards Sunday night.
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But the statue was not initially met with widespread popularity in the U.S. due to its cost, and some have argued that Lazarus' sonnet, "The New Colossus," imbued it with meaning.
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It's both a nod to the sonnet and to the age of her female protagonist, a biracial "nerd-jock" struggling to fit in as she navigates the bewildering flux of adolescence.
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"Ozymandias," perhaps the most famous sonnet Percy Bysshe Shelley ever penned, was written in 1817, as the remains of the famous statue were slowly transported from the Middle East to England.
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Miranda's emotional acceptance speech for Best Score for a Musical was a sonnet referencing his love for the theater, his love for his wife, and his sorrow over the Orlando shootings.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda tearfully acknowledged the victims of Sunday morning's nightclub massacre in Orlando with a heartfelt sonnet he read while accepting the award for best score for his smash hit Hamilton.
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So even though the team has curated a bunch of quotations themselves to populate the app, you're more likely to find quotes about scaling a startup than lines from a Shakespearean sonnet.
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Just as the sonnet, derived from the Italian "sonetto" for "little song," can contain, in its courtly way, immensities of experience and feeling — so does the body, until the point of breaking.
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In the sonnet of the iced-in swan, the translators insert a mention of the myth of Leda and the Swan, which is not irrelevant but is also absent from the original.
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This is a candidate who will, come hell or high water, keep laying down epic poetry in an age when people can barely muster up the attention span to get through a sonnet.
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This 35-minute piece, unusually scored for seven instruments, including guitar and mandolin, includes as one of its seven movements a setting of Petrarch's Sonnet No. 217, translated into German, for bass-baritone.
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" More straightforward is the move from solemnity to joy that marks the combination of Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 ("When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes") with "Lucky to Be Me," from "On the Town.
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In addition, the poems of this section are all 14 lines, evoking the sonnet form, which has connotations of authority, rule, and dictated structure—ingredients that, when mixed just right, result in tyrannical systems.
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The title itself comes from a sonnet by Gerard Manley Hopkins, a Victorian poet of God-in-Nature, which asserts that each created thing has an individual self, "that being indoors each one dwells".
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Sometimes, of course, the claims of art are genuinely at odds with the claims of human kindness, and an artist really does have to choose between, as it were, his sonnet and his mother.
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On Saturday, the legendary stage and screen actor — who was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for over 15 years — shared a video of himself reciting an old classic: Shakespeare's Sonnet 116. pic.twitter.
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In 22018, Sonnet Ehlers, a former blood transfusion technician in South Africa, rose to international prominence when she announced plans to distribute the Rape-aXe, a barbed "anti-rape condom," during the World Cup.
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Donald Trump's top immigration official tried his hand at poetry Tuesday, revamping "The New Colossus"—the Emma Lazarus sonnet immortalized inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty—to fit the administration's nativist policies.
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No pigeons are going to shit on them, or, rather, when the pigeons do shit on a particular copy it doesn't matter; nobody is going to leave the only Sonnet 55 in a car.
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As the 36-year-old 'Hamilton' creator and star read a sonnet he wrote for his wife, Vanessa Nadal, he fought back tears to address the Orlando massacre that killed 50 people earlier that morning.
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At once requiem and reclamation, the play takes its blistering title from a celebrated Sorley sonnet, written in rending acknowledgment of the ranks of the dead among whom the poet would soon take his place.
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Sonnet BioTherapeutics, a Princeton, N.J.-based cancer drug developer, agreed to go public via a reverse merger with Chanticleer Holdings (Nasdaq: BURG), a Charlotte-based owner and operator of Hooters restaurants and various burger chains.
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It plans to spin off its restaurant assets into a separate company owned by current shareholders, with Sonnet paying $6 million for a 96% stake in the public listing that will be re-tickered SONN.
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The nickname — symbolizing the United States as a nation of immigrants — was imagined by the poet Emma Lazarus, who in 1883 wrote the sonnet "The New Colossus" to raise money to create the statue's pedestal.
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The sonnet, an Italian contrivance adapted by the poets of the English Renaissance, was handed down to twentieth-century writers like Robert Lowell and Gwendolyn Brooks and self-consciously Americanized—its gait loosened, its politics sharpened.
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A sonnet is addressed to an indifferent object of passion; even if the actual lover warms up, the sonneteer can't become too easily complacent—a dark lady suddenly sunny produces no one's idea of a poem.
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The texts he recites — including Shelley's "Ozymandias," the story of Cain and Abel, Shakespeare's Sonnet 29, the Gettysburg Address — are perhaps included to deliver some sly commentary on brutality, mutability or the vanity of human ambition.
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As expected, Hamilton also won Best Book and Score, giving composer and star Lin-Manuel Miranda a chance to deliver an emotional acceptance speech, in the form of a sonnet, that honored the Orlando shooting victims.
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Sonnet XVII I don't love you as if you were rare earth metals, diamonds,or reserves of crude oil that propagate war:I love you as one loves most vulnerable things,urgently, between the habitat and its loss.
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Sonnet Stanfill, a Smith graduate who is the curator of 20th-century and contemporary fashion at the V & A and who has spoken at Smith at various symposiums on dress, was initially skeptical of the collection's worth.
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Scarry unfolds intertextual references in the two men's works and notes that the letters of Constable's name are sometimes embedded in Shakespeare's lines (as in Sonnet 18: "So LONg as mEn CAn BReaTHe, or EYes caN see").
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The failures of Oaken Sonnet and later in Niger defied core military principles: that commanders who send troops on dangerous missions must thoughtfully evaluate the risks and be fully prepared to support their forces on the ground.
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One of the earliest copies of the collected poems, its gold-leafed pages bear impossibly intricate illustrations by the calligrapher Shaykh Mahmud Pir Budaqi alongside Hafez's ghazals, sonnet-like verses that intertwine ideas of love, longing, and loss.
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It's impossible not to think of them as resembling Shakespearian sonnets, but they're not sonnets, and not only because they lack regular meter or more than occasional rhyme; more importantly, they are not discursive in a sonnet-like manner.
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"Senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing here is promised — not one day," Lin-Manuel Miranda, the author and star of "Hamilton," declared, emotionally reciting a sonnet he had written as he accepted the Tony for best score.
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If the mystery genre does not abide much reality, it should be recalled that no Shakespearean tragedy or sonnet—no work of art in which the constraints of form are exacting—is likely to withstand the bracing winds of common sense.
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" Next, Hass moves on to a section on form, beginning with blank verse (think of Shakespeare), followed by a lengthy explanation and history of the sonnet, "the one durable, widely used form in English poetry in the last 500 years.
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" Belos always manages to find heart and humor when things are their worst, even if it's encased meats malaise on "Corn Dog Sonnet No. 7" or the punk chorus sing-along, "I don't care about anything as much I used to" on "Overbite.
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Here, from a report in the Daily Beast , is the bot responding to one of Turing's original questions: I nterrogator : In the first line of a sonnet which reads 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day,' wouldn't 'a spring day' be better?
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" In the concluding couplet of Scenters-Zapico's sonnet, where rhyming is required, she quotes those lyrics but buries their rhyme inside the final line, severing the connection between longing and loneliness: "A la lima y al limón, tú no tienes / quien te quiera.
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He embeds lines of poetry in journalistic essays like a rogue reporter; conversely, he'll forge a sonnet or rhymed tercets out of reported language, as he does in poems that incorporate the testimony of Tony Lagouranis, who witnessed the torture at Abu Ghraib.
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Morgan Jenness was there, clutching a makeshift torch and reciting Emma Lazarus's sonnet "The New Colossus," which is inscribed on Lady Liberty's pedestal: Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
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I'm'a be— Typical of the sonnet crown sequence, each poem begins with a word or words drawn from the last line of the preceding poem, setting up a remarkable series of responses between two people whose relationship exists within work, labor, and unbearable constriction.
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"Both of these rooms reflect on the ways histories are constructed and told, in particular at different times in the past here at Williams," Assistant Professor of Art Kailani Polzak, who co-curated the exhibit with WCMA's Deputy Director Sonnet Kekilia Coggins, told me.
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Whatever it is, a quatrain is insufficient to contain it, and, as the dyer's hand in Shakespeare's Sonnet CXI is "subdued / To what it works in," Young's is submitted across the stanza break, coloring what comes next, in line 5: This fabric called HERE.
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In a last-ditch effort to raise the money before the statue arrived, a Pedestal Fund auction was set up and it was for this event that Emma Lazarus wrote the sonnet that would utterly recast the meaning of a statue she had never seen.
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But watching a good one still feels slightly like hanging out with the best sonnet writer in the age of beat poetry: You get why they're so into the form they've chosen but the explosion of freedom on another stage feels so much more vital.
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