Comparative analysis of two extracts of shakespeare's writing: a sonnet, and a play.

COMPARITIVE ANALYSIS: Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 104' & an extract of blank verse from Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. The main similarity between the two pieces is quite simply love. However, Shakespeare aimed the sonnet at his male lover as a compliment to his youthful beauty, but the aim of the extract was to inform his audience that Lear is dying from a broken heart. This shows their main difference. Structurally, the two pieces reflect this difference. The tragic …

…IV;vii] when Lear wakes from sleep to envisage Cordelia as an angel). Comparison with nature in this extract is not used as it is in the sonnet. Here, it is used to highlight the injustice of Cordelia's death - whereas in the sonnet, it is used to portray how Shakespeare's lover's beauty has grown in the three years that he has known him, and also how Shakespeare's love for him has grown alongside it.