Sonnet Assignment

Sonnet 1: Shakespeare's Sonnet

From fairest creatures we desire increase, (A)
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease, (A)
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, (B)
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, (C)
Making a famine where abundance lies, (B)
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. (C)
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament (D)
And only herald to the gaudy spring, (E)
Within thine own bud buriest thy content (D)
And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding. (E)
Pity the world, or else this glutton be, (F)
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.(F




Sonnet Modern Day Evils
By Dr. John Celes

What changes society has undergone! (A)
The modern evils are condemnable; (B)
Terrorism, bomb-cult that disable (B)
Progress and life of nations every morn! (A)

Riddled are people by bullets often; (C)
Persons are knifed in broad daylight ev’n now; (D)
Men and women with strapped-on bombs kill, Oh; (D)
Leaders assassinated by such men! (C)

Something is wrong basically today; (E)
These modern evils just paralyze life; (F)
Counter-measures are not enough anyway; (E)
Truly manmade have become death and strife. (F)

Human progress has led to more evils; (G)
To destroy lives and souls- roam these devils! (G)



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Similarity:
- Both of the poems are Sonnet poems
- Both have iambic pentameter
- 14 lines

Basically, the both of the poems, Sonnet 1 and "Modern Day Evils" are sonnet poems. This one is obvious. Additionally, since they are sonnet poems, they have an iambic pentameter with 14 lines each poem. Both of the poems use many figurative languages that catches the reader's attention. It also allows the author to communicate easily with the reader

Difference:
- The rhyme scheme of the two poems are totally different.
- Not only this, the basic theme or the idea the poem is based on is different. When Shakespeare's poem talks about hte beauty of the creatures, Dr. John Celes' poem talks about the evil.