Sharing Feelings In The Sonnets Essay Research

Sharing Feelings In The Sonnets Essay, Research Paper

Shakespeare, as well as writing

many famous plays is also noted for his sonnets. A sonnet is traditionally a

fourteen-line poem, Shakespeare mostly wrote his sonnets about love. It was

traditional during the Elizabethan age, for gentlemen to write love sonnets

about their lover and give it to her. It was the way men used to woe women they

liked. Shakespeare wrote one hundred and

fifty four sonnets and due to the number and their consistent quality, his

particular style became known as .the Shakespearean sonnet form... A Shakespearean sonnet has fourteen lines,

broken down into three quatrains and ending with a rhyming couplet. In each quatrain a different

subject is discussed and described, the subject is then changed at the start of

each new quatrain. A Shakespearean sonnet has the

rhyming pattern ABABCDCDEFEFGG. For example in .Shall compare thee., the first

quatrain shows this rhyming pattern, it is at the beginning so is the ABAB

part..Shall I compare

thee to a Summers day. Thou art more

lovely and more temperate: Rough windes do

shake the darling buds of Maie, And Sommers lease

hath all too short a date: The rhyming couplet, i.e. GG,

often finishes a Shakespearean sonnet, for example the last two lines of .Let

me not.. This type of ending often ends the poem with a satis factory

conclusion, as below illustrates..If this be error

and upon me proved, I never writ, nor

man ever loved.. This essay will explore and

explain how Shakespeare expressed his feelings about love and eternity through

his sonnets. Two of Shakespeare.s most famous sonnets will be used to

illustrate the findings. These will be .Shall I compare thee.... Sonnet

XVII (18) and .Let me not. sonnet CXVI (116). .Shall I Compare thee... is

probably Shakespeare.s most famous sonnet. The sonnet is written by Shakespeare

about and to a woman he loves. In the sonnet he describes the beauty of the

woman and he debates whether or not to compare her to a summer.s day. .Shall I compare thee to a Summers day.. The poem opens with the question

above and follows with two quatrains debating whether she is as lovely as the

summertime. These lines express the feelings he has for the woman and show how

beautiful he thinks his lover is. Shakespeare wants to compare the

woman to a perfect summers day, where it is warm, sunny, gentle and fair. However he finds fault with his

comparison. The summer.s day is found to be less than perfect. In lines 2,3 and 4 he compliments

the woman by saying that her beauty is more perfect than the beauty of a

summer.s day, as her beauty is more .temperate. than an English summer.

An English summer is often windy and short..Thou art more

temperate: Rough windes do

shake the darling buds of Maie, And Sommers lease

hath all too short a date:. With the beginning of the second

quatrain he describes how the sun in the summertime is less than perfect. He

uses a metaphor to describe the sun; he calls it .the eye of heaven.. Shakespeare tells of how the sun

can be too hot in the summer and its light can be dimmed by clouds and overcast

weather..Sometimes too hot the eye of Heaven shines. And often his gold

complexion dim.d, In Line 6 he uses personification

to describe the sun. Shakespeare refers to the sun as .he., giving the sun

human qualities. The sun.s colour and light is referred to as a .gold

complexion.. This is also personification, as complexion is a word used to

describe a humans. skin. Shakespeare writes that summer

can be beautiful but at some point it declines from its previous beauty and

perfection..And fair from fair some-time declines,.After complementing his

sweetheart by contrasting her beauty with summer.s flaws, he suggests that she

is more beautiful than a summer.s day, as she will not lose her beauty or

perfection. This compliment is backed up by

Shakespeare saying that her perfection and the love he has for her will live on

through death and never fade, like a summer.s day does. This is due to this

sonnet. Shakespeare is saying in the last

two lines, that, as long as people are alive, these verses will live on

celebrating her beauty and the love he has for her..So long as men

can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this

and this gives life to thee...Shall I compare thee...

shows how strong Shakespeare.s feelings were for his lover. His emotions really

come over through his disguised and obvious compliments and contrasts. He

thinks she is beautiful and, unlike a summer.s day, her perfection will not

fade, as this very sonnet is written to illustrate and capture the woman.s

beauty and the love he has for her. . .Let me not... is another

sonnet written by Shakespeare. This sonnet is not praising a loved one, it is

written to teach people about love. In fact the content

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