33rd Sonnet

Sonnet 43, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, is a classic love story written to explain how she feels about love. How Do I Love Thee, has a variety of interpretations, a multitude of symbols, follows an iambic pentameter, and tells the reader a story. Browning does all of this in a fourteen-line sonnet that she wrote for her beloved husband. To understand this, the reader has to make interpretations on their own.

Sonnet 30 brings to mind an image of a man reminiscing the experiences of his past. Soon after the setting shifts from silence to grief and regret for ventures never completed and desires never fulfilled. The fear of this is clearly visible in the poet’s present consciousness as he experiences and suffers an intense nostalgic pain for time he may no longer reclaim. The idea of this sonnet is expanded with the second quatrain. The poet further expands his pain reminiscing about people who had once walked in his life but never will. As he flips through memories, the pain of loss is once more relived. These sights that he refers to are friends who have given into death; and the emptiness of love makes reference to places, possessions, and events that can never be re-experienced. The third quatrain, although not contributing new content, increases the significance of the poem’s central idea. The act of remembering and recalling memories that once cause sorrow initiate the feeling to be reborn into the present rather than stay in the past. They become just as painful as they initially once were. Although the octet, first eight lines of the sonnet, develops the subject while the sestet, the last six lines, leads to a climax or in other words a solution, Shakespeare does not follow this traditional form. His first twelve lines of the sonnet introduce the poet’s

1. In the introductory clause of the sonnet, the speaker makes it clear that he envies those with “hope.” By this, the speaker means that he resents those who have a clear, bright future ahead of them, a future made possible by the qualities he goes on to describe. These qualities are friendships, skill in art, and power (lines 6-7), and the speaker makes it clear that he envies these people by explicitly stating that he desires what they have.

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (“Sonnet 18”) is one of Shakespeare’s most famous poems. It is the model English, or Shakespearean sonnet: it contains three quatrains and a finishing couplet.. The poem follows the traditional English sonnet form by having the octet introduce an idea or set up the poem, and the sestet beginning with a volta, or turn in perspective. In the octet of Sonnet 18, Shakespeare poses the question “Shall I compare the to a summer’s day” and basically begins to describe all the bad qualities of summer. He says it’s too windy, too short, too hot, and too cloudy. Eventually fall is going to come and take away all the beauty because of the changes nature brings. In the sestet, however, his tone changes as he begins to talk about his beloved’s “eternal summer” (Shakespeare line 9). This is where the turn takes place in the poem. Unlike the summer, their beauty will never fade. Not even death can stop their beauty for, according to Shakespeare, as long as people can read this poem, his lover’s beauty will continue to live. Shakespeare believes that his art is more powerful than any season and that in it beauty can be permanent.

Naturally, Shakespeare’s very first Sonnet deals with themes of procreation and immortality, literally and figuratively birthing his series of Sonnets. Ideas of Genesis, or the creation of the world, show strong traces throughout the poem and serve as the piece’s main focus according to literary critic Helen Vendler. The sonnet also deals with the logistics of beauty; we want the most beautiful people to have children, so their beauty will be preserved forever—when the parent dies, the child they leave behind will remind us of their own beauty. Shakespeare utilizes metaphors in his language to help promote this idea, for example the image of a bud, growing until it inevitably dies and diminishes. Unlike flowers, Shakespeare tells us here that we humans have the opportunity to keep this beauty everlasting. The very beginning of Shakespeare’s infamous series of sonnets, Sonnet 1 celebrates the beauty of procreation and offers a plea for humanity centered around our duty as humans to procreate and let our legacies live on, so our spirits can live vicariously through generations of our children.

In the first quatrain, Shakespeare begins his meditation on the process of decay. He begins the poem with "I", which signals that Shakespeare will later give his own experience and account. The first object presented in this sonnet is a clock, which is to set the mood of the poem.

The Shakespearean sonnet depicts a speaker, who can barely close his eyes and sleep. The reader understands the scene is at night, in the bed after a long day. The tone of the poem is sorrowful. Shakespeare wants to share the reader with sleeplessness, separation, and agony that the speaker faces day and night, because of his remoteness from a special person: “For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee.” The idea of love is delivered throughout the lines using contrasts: “Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night.” Here “shadow” means an image, the speaker compares seeing the image of his special person in the darkness to a jewel seen at night. The image

“How Do I Love Thee?” Subject – Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote Sonnet 43 before she married her husband Robert Browning in 1850. She wrote sonnet 43 to express her intense love and emotions, that she had for Robert. Sonnet 43 (“How Do I Love Thee?”) is one of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s most famous sonnets out of the 44 she wrote and published.

In the poem "Sonnet 43" Elizabeth Barrett Browning uses the theme of love to express her feelings about her husband, Robert Browning. In this poem she is trying to portray the unreal feeling of love by measuring how much her love means to her. Also, she expresses all the diverse ways of loving someone In "Sonnet 43" she repeats "I love thee" multiple times. This is to enforce her already existing knowledge on the strength of her love, and all she feel is what she love. Also, by repeating it she is enforcing it on her readers that she loves him and it is impossible to change that. Also, she implies no gender in her poem which is good because this poem is not read to one specific gender, it's read to all. When she mentions her childhood's faith,

The original poem was by John Donne also referred to as Holy Sonnet 7. The speaker calls for the Christian Judgment Day to take place, and then realizes that he's still a sinner, and changes his mind. By the end of the poem, he's ready to stick the proverbial bun back in the oven for a few more years, or maybe a few thousand, until he has cleansed his soul.Donne's "Holy Sonnets" are famous both for their perfection of the sonnet form and for the way they mix heartfelt religious feelings with mischievous wit. Donne was an Englishman who lived in the first part of the 17th century.The "Holy Sonnets" were published in 1633, two years after Donne's death.

Truth and honesty are key elements to a good, healthy relationship. However, in Shakespeare's Sonnet 138, the key to a healthy relationship between the speaker and the Dark Lady is keeping up the lies they have constructed for one another. Through wordplay Shakespeare creates different levels of meaning, in doing this, he shows the nature of truth and flattery in relationships.

The sonnet “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent” by John Milton was written between 1608-1674 in England. The English poet John Milton was a Puritan in England who eventually became completely blind. In the sonnet the first eight lines, or the octave, the tone is concerned, frustration, and desperate because his incapability of serving God successfully; while the last six lines, the sestet, switches to a resolved and hopeful tone. The theme of the sonnet is finding meaning in the world or in the sonnet “They also serve who only stand and wait” (14).

Shakespeare uses two powerful metaphors in line five and in line six to compare the summer's imperfections to the perfection of the beloved. In line five he uses a metaphor "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines" to describe that in the summer the sun gets to hot and this is yet another imperfection of a summer day which the beloved is superior to. Although some may compare there beloveds eyes with the glow or beauty of "the eye of heaven" here the speaker has chosen to claim the opposite saying that the sun is inferior to his beloved in that her eyes are more beautiful. In line six of the poem the idea of the sun being imperfect is further enhanced by phrase "gold complexion dimmed" this is implying that the sun is imperfect in that it is not always hot enough. Here the speaker implies that the beloved is flawless in that her complexion is never changed, remaining "gold" like. Nature that surrounds us is beautiful, the trees, ocean, and the wild life, and although the speaker makes a point to disfigure the view of nature the intention of the poet is to reinforce the beauty of the beloved.

In Sonnet 7 (“Lo, in the orient, when the gracious light..”), one out of the 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet, William Shakespeare, focuses on the burden of beauty and how human life can be compared to the passage of the sun rising and setting. Throughout the whole poem, the advice is given to the young man, to follow the sun and its direction. This sonnet is written in iambic pentameter, consists of three quatrains and ends with a couplet while following the rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. The poet 's way of using poetic and literary devices such as rhythm, alliteration, and caesuras strengthens the poem’s argument that the sun and man must coexist to live on and that the only way for the youth to ensure their

William Shakespeare’s use of words also created a vivid imagery. “Sonnet 18” sets of an imagery of a beautiful summer day. Stanzas three, five and six add on to the beautiful imagery. Stanza three portrays an image of a warm wind shaking buds on a bush or tree. Stanza five creates the image of sunrise beaming down as if they were sent straight from heaven. Last but not least stanza six,”and often his gold complexion dimmed.” The male shakespeare admires beauty would be often hidden or dulled, giving the image of clouds covering the sun dimming its beams.