Student Essays from Yeditepe English Literature

Clemente By Onur Saatçıoğlu      He then uttered what he ought to have uttered all along, his Act of Contrition, while I leaned towards his side of the confessional to show my sincere interest. The paper-like curtains separating us would not prevent me from seeing his white, silk armor with gold embroidery, partially covered with a crimson stole. As I was trying to raise my aged eyes back to where they should be, I could not but help think about how much I detested this so-called house-dress. It made my stomach ache and it did not only do that but also made me want to vomit in an uncontrolled manner. A sudden silence filled the wooden box, when I realized it was my turn to talk, to repeat what I have been repeating for the past forty years,      “I absolve you of your sins in the name of the Father and Son and the Holy Spirit.”      My rusty voice, which had been worn out since last week’s cold weather, caused an unpleasant contradiction with his, for he, although slow, spoke most peac

Renaissance Poets and Their Depiction of Love and the Beauty of Women by Zehra Senem Nurel      The Renaissance period is an age that involves many different styles of art. During the reign of Elizabeth I, art and literature were immensely assorted. Queen Elizabeth herself was deeply interested in theatre and poetry. For that reason, the contemporaries of that age tried to create various types of genres. When it comes to poetry, we can see the two definite types of sonnets: the Italian or Petrarchan sonnet and the English or Shakespearean sonnet. Since both Petrarch and Shakespeare gave new ways to poem writing, the styles are named after them. Thanks to these great poets, the genre of sonnet became highly popular during the Renaissance. The genre of the sonnet that Petrarch made popular during the early Renaissance became even more widespread with Shakespeare’s different meter techniques.  Focusing on the English sonnet, we understand that Shakespeare was actually ahead of his time. I