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A 3 page paper which examines specific scenes from each play to demonstrate how Shakespeare employed lyric poetry to achieve dramatic effect. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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been a student of the Petrarchan sonnet, he truly made the poetic style his own. Shakespeare rebelled against the literary conventions of his day and incorporated lyric poetry into
his dramatic works. He understood that nothing would be more memorable, provide more insightful periods of transition, or bring the action to a dramatic contrast quite like poetry.
For Shakespeare, lyric poetry could masterfully convey anything from romantic passion to disillusionment with a beauty, strength, and eloquence that freezes those moments forever in time. Three examples of
Shakespearean lyric poetry at its finest can be found in the tragedies of Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, and King Richard the Second. From the very beginning of Romeo
and Juliet, with the wistful reference to "a pair of star-crossd lovers" (6) in The Prologue, Shakespeare makes it clear he is going to approach the ill-fated romance of the
teenaged lovers from feuding families from a delicate poetic approach. It is "the first meeting of the lovers... [that] constitutes the climax (Stamm 2). Shakespeare understood that this
scene would serve as a springboard for the rest of the play, and that audiences had to feel this love was not mere lust, but sacred and precious. Therefore,
he constructed a poetic dialogue that would "provide this decisive encounter with a very special kind of dramatic life, molding the first exchange of his young lovers into the form
of a sonnet" (Stamm 2): "Rom. If I profane with my unworthiest hand / This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: / My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
/ To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. Jul. Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, / Which mannerly devotion shows in this; / For saints
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