Shakespeare Sonnet 29 Tone

While the woman may outwardly profess her desire for her sexual partner, the dispassionate diction and detached tone within the sonnet suggest otherwise. For, in acknowledging her lover’s close proximity, she states that she is “urged”

One way the poets explore the idea of love and loss is through the use of language. Christina rossetti starts her poem of with the use of the word “remember”, which evokes the sense that she will be gone and gives her lover the instructions to have her in mind when she is gone which highlights the loss that is occurring between the lovers. The use of the word “remember” creates a sense that an eternal loss is taking place between the lovers as it seems like she will become a past memory which her lover will only “remember.” the word “remember” also runs , like a refrain, throughout the sonnet through the use of repetition and seems as if the power decreases throughout the poem which portrays an image as if the voice and memory of the speaker is fading from life, further portraying the idea of loss that is occurring between the lovers.the repetition of the word “remember” also allows the reader to pay close attention to

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.

In life people sometimes face different tribulations that bring them down such as being judged for their physical appearance or even the way they are. Writers in literature who are known to write about romantic things sometimes use this as a way to create things to write about. In sonnet 130, Shakespeare helps us understand that even though his wife has different flaws he still loves her for who she is as a person. Shakespeare uses a critical and judgmental tone to show that even though he compares his mistress to all of these things he still loves her even though her physical appearance isn’t the best.

Shakespeare examines love in two different ways in Sonnets 116 and 130. In the first, love is treated in its most ideal form as an uncompromising force (indeed, as the greatest force in the universe); in the latter sonnet, Shakespeare treats love from a more practical aspect: it is viewed simply and realistically without ornament. Yet both sonnets are justifiable in and of themselves, for neither misrepresents love or speaks of it slightingly. Indeed, Shakespeare illustrates two qualities of love in the two sonnets: its potential and its objectivity. This paper will compare and contrast the two sonnets by Shakespeare and show how they represent two different attitudes to love.

“Love is not love which alters when it alternation finds, or bends with the remover to remove” (Shakespeare 2-4). The speaker in this poem makes it very clear that love remains continuous, even when we become old and when we run into any challenges. Everyone has their definition of love, and this sonnet suggests an optimistic take on it. Love never dies, even when someone tries to destroy it. Instead of being something that simply comes and goes, love is eternal.

A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines that rhyme in a particular pattern. William Shakespeare’s sonnets were the only non-dramatic poetry that he wrote. Shakespeare used sonnets within some of his plays, but his sonnets are best known as a series of one hundred and fifty-four poems. The series of one hundred and fifty-four poems tell a story about a young aristocrat and a mysterious mistress. Many people have analyzed and contemplated about the significance of these “lovers”. After analysis of the content of both the “young man” sonnets and the “dark lady sonnets”, it is clear that the poet, Shakespeare, has a great love for the young man and only lusts after his mistress.

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Sonnet IV” follows many of the conventions of the traditional Petrarchan sonnet. It follows the traditional rhyming scheme and octet, sestet structure. However it challenges the conventions of the typical subject of the Italian sonnet, unrequited love. In the octet at the beginning of the poem Millay uses images that give a sense of transience and in the ending sestet of the sonnet she contrasts the sense of impermanence given earlier with the idea that the speaker cannot forget the smiles and words of their ex-lover. This contrast between permanence and transience illustrates Millay’s interest in a fugacious relationship with everlasting memories. After further analysis of Millay’s highly structured rhyming scheme which puts emphasis on the last words of each line. She uses these words to further express her interest in exploring impermanent relationships by using words that are associated with an end or death.

Is true love an unattainable ideal? Do we all have a soul mate? Is love just an exchange of lies for the purpose of flattery? These questions, and countless others, regarding love have been pondered by philosophers and pop music stars alike for hundreds of years. William Shakespeare examines these questions from two vantage points in “Sonnet 116” and “Sonnet 138.” Firstly, in “Sonnet 116”, Shakespeare analyzes love in a rhetorical manner, meaning that he is not discussing a specific relationship of his, but theorizing on the concept of love as a whole, in abstract terms. Conversely, in “Sonnet 138”, Shakespeare analyzes love in a specific manner. He looks inward to inspect a relationship between him and a woman, also known as The Dark Lady, and paints a much different picture of love than in “Sonnet 116”, in specific terms. In William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116” and “Sonnet 138”, Shakespeare analyzes love in abstract and specific terms; concluding that abstract love relies on affection, does not change or age, and is built upon a solid foundation of truth, while specific love, on the other hand, relies on lust, actively ignores change and aging, and revolves around deception. These two sonnets paint entirely adverse portraits of love in order to emphasize the dichotomy between the poet’s expectations of love, and the reality which does not live up to the poet’s expectations.

The world has many if not endless methods and techniques for demonstrating those specially dear a form of affection. However, the display of the complex understanding of Shakespeare, which to the opinion I lack to the fullest, in the 130th Sonnet, Sonnet 130, demonstrates the speaker’s affection through the development of a complicated attitude through his use of certain writing attributes. Anyhow, sonnet 130 expresses the speakers affection by portraying the real person that he loves and stating that he does not need no fancy gibberish to express his love. This sonnet begins with a generalization of an ugly women or so it seems to divert from the ordinary or tradition vision of beauty creating a direct tone in the speaker.

Many people can sympathize with feeling lacking or unfulfilled in at least one aspect of their life, whether it be love, grades, appearance, or they simply just do not feel as if they could ever possibly live up to the larger than life expectations thrown on them by society. These areas where one may feel inadequate have the ability to severely damages ones’ self esteem, causing them emotional stress, or even to become depressed. In William Shakespeare’s 29th sonnet, “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,” the poet uses figurative language to describe the unpleasant emotions he feels due to his inadequacy in various endeavors and, finally, the love that eventually corrects the sorrow.

In William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 27, conflicting language and images are used to convey a theme of distance between lovers. Over the course of the poem, the speaker is restlessly awake in bed imagining his beloved in a “journey in [his] head”. Even though the speaker is exhaustedly “weary with toil”, he cannot fall asleep as his thoughts are consumed by the shadow of his lover. The speaker uses a somber tone to lament how the separation between him and his beloved keeps him awake all throughout the night. This central theme of reminiscing about a distant lover is conveyed by the contrasting language and images in the poem.

This sonnet serves to invoke a strong sense of realism in love, arguing that as strong an intensity of emotion as may be held, may be held, without the need for delusions of grandeur, taking the view that trying to reconcile two essentially different and diverse things as equal is to do true justice to neither. The beloved in this case thus represents more the need for a character developed to challenge stereotype than an actual real-life woman,

     The sonnet, being one of the most traditional and recognized forms of poetry, has been used and altered in many time periods by writers to convey different messages to the audience. The strict constraints of the form have often been used to parallel the subject in the poem. Many times, the first three quatrains introduce the subject and build on one another, showing progression in the poem. The final couplet brings closure to the poem by bringing the main ideas together. On other occasions, the couplet makes a statement of irony or refutes the main idea with a counter statement. It leaves the reader with a last impression of what the author is trying to say.

Although “during much of his lifetime Shakespeare was better known and more admired as a poet than as a playwright,” (Nelles, Par.1) one can argue that William Shakespeare is one of the most brilliant and fascinating British poets, not only of his time, but also to this day. His work is everlasting and promising. Hence, we are still talking about him and discussing his work in the 21st century. His poems leave the reader inspired and wanting more. The techniques he used for his poems and sonnets are abstract and authoritative, while giving something simple more meaning. Sonnet 29 is one of many of Shakespeare’s sonnets published in 1609, which illustrates a common man’s trouble within himself. This sonnet emphasizes the need for a person to understand that although one will always see the next person doing better than them, it is crucial for one to contain happiness and strength towards one 's own goals and aspirations. Sonnet 116 is another of Shakespeare’s sonnets that emphasizes that love is eternal no matter what the circumstances might be. This essay will compare the similarities and differences of the two sonnets and examine what the two sonnets share.