![]() The sonnet will open for the writer’s creativity within these strict rules, like a sport for poets who wants to excel and show off their word craft. The sonnet may present the poet’s view on certain aspects of life, the world, himself – but most often the sonnet is about love. Many of Shakespeare’s sonnets look like passionate love letters to a lady he is in love with, while others are a sort of dialogue with a friend. Scholars have ever since wanted to find out the autobiographical background of Shakespeare’s sonnets, but so far no one has succeeded in any identification of the characters. His first collection of sonnets was published in 1609 (probably without Shakespeare’s approval) and tells the tale of a romantic narrator who conveys his love to a lady or renders his reflections of different aspects of life. Some of them may seem like poetic finger exercises and a bit monotone in their rigorous style. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,Īnd every fair from fair sometime declines,īy chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,Īnd summer’s lease hath all too short a date: But still, Shakespeare’s sonnets clearly demonstrate his poetic skills and his immaculate way with words. So long lives this and this gives life to thee. The John Madden film “Shakespeare in Love”,from 1998, is an interesting story about Shakespeare’s work as a young playwright and how Shakespeare may have been inspired to write Sonnet 18. The film plot is purely fictional, but gives a credible presentation of how young Will was infused by love for the beautiful lady Viola, and wrote her secret declarations of love. ![]() The film is also a documentation of the writing conditons of a playwright at the time. It was much like an industrial process, where the owner of the theatre was waiting impatiently for another success, and the playwright had to deliver. The film has references to elements from Shakespeare’s plays, such as the protagonist in disguise, which was a common Shakespearian effect. In addition, the affair between William and lady Viola bears a clear resemblance to another famous Shakespearian couple – Romeo and Juliet. The film casts a line of prominent actors, such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Ben Affleck, and Judy Dench as Queen Elisabeth I. Highly recommended.PoetiX is a completion in computer-generated sonnet writing. The rules for this competition are as for DigiLit, but for sonnets. While, there are many forms of sonnet, for the purposes of the prize we are considering only “traditional” sonnets: fourteen line poems, in iambic pentameter, in either “Shakesperean” or “Petrarchan” form. The former is further characterized by an “abab cdcd efef gg” rhyme scheme, and the latter as an octet of rhyme scheme “abba abba” followed by a sestet with no fixed form. To read more about the sonnet form, see:,, and. Here is a sonnet from Marjan's prize-winning work (that Joe Palca read at DAX on May 18th after generating it with the prompt "wave"): Or maybe going through the wave equation. Entries must be submitted via the competition Web site by 11:59PM UTC, April 15, 2016.A contemporary computer should be able to run the code and generate a sonnet in “Shakesperean” or “Petrarchan” form of 14 lines (as per the form) within 24 hours using less than 16GB of RAM and less than 50GB of disk space.We will run entries using x86-compatible CPUs. Preferred platforms are Apple OSX 10.10, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, or Microsoft Windows 8.1 or 10.x. The algorithm/software should respond to a noun or noun phrase “prompt” (e.g., “hat”, “car keys”, “wedding”, “sorrow”, “violin case”) and be capable of producing an effectively unlimited number of original sonnets.Īll libraries must be statically linked, and an executable “RunMe” provided.
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