Sonnet 129 Figurative Language

“Sonnet 116” written by William Shakespeare is focusing on the strength and true power of love. Love is a feeling that sustainable to alterations, that take place at certain points in life, and love is even stronger than a breakup because separation cannot eliminate feelings. The writer makes use of metaphors expressing love as a feeling of mind not just heart as young readers may see it. To Shakespeare love is an immortal felling that is similar to a mark on a person’s life.

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.

Throughout this sonnet, he uses a dark type of humor to shine a light on the reality of what having homosexual desires in the 16th century was really like. Shakespeare uses gay semiotics and a persuasive tone to express his sexual desire and real world attachment to Henry Wriothesley. The gay semiotics in Sonnet 135 are generally portrayed through the word “will”

The message this sonnet sends rings true even in today’s more advanced society. Though times may be more advanced, the blinding power of pleasure over morality is still a massive issue. The world is extremely focused on what makes people feel good right here right now, and does not always acknowledge the consequences that could result in the future. Shakespeare throws out an exceedingly accurate description of how we often succumb to lust saying, “.... lust in action; and till action, lust Is perjur’d murderous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme, rude cruel, not to trust….” (Sonnet 129 Lines 1-4). A whole host of undesirable events and feelings occur from acts performed without thought of future consequence. Nothing good comes from these unwise decisions. Our world nowadays teaches coming generations that they should be inappropriate, ‘perfect looking’, and just like the magazines say. We teach men to look at women as objects created for their pleasure, and girls to think that they must look, act, and be like models to be perfect. Potential often goes to waste because self esteem is so low. Everyone is created beautiful, and we need to focus on that fact, not being just like society wants us to

In William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 35: No more be grieved at that which thou has done”, the poet addresses his unfaithful lover (who has committed a “sensual fault”). Because the poet cannot bear to resent his lover, he chooses to forgive him and justifies his lover’s offense. Through the use of legal diction, biblical language, and images of paralleled objects, the poet effectively conveys his predicament; by continually excusing his lover’s mistakes, he realizes that he is only doing harm to himself as a result. The poet includes a variety of paralleled objects in the opening of the poem (lines 2-4).

A common conception of William Shakespeare’s poetry entails complex language and hidden meanings. Shakespeare is famous for his ability to author a web of images that creates layers of interpretations and understandings. In Sonnet 138 however, Shakespeare is more direct in describing his relationship with his lover by avoiding imagery and metaphors, explaining to the reader that this seemingly unconventional relationship is indeed justified. Shakespeare constructs a persona of the speaker in a way that establishes a casual and

Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 129” features a speaker fraught with the disappointment in fulfilled lust. Such dissatisfaction is heightened in the couplet, with the final, hyperbolic insistence that, “All this the world knows; yet none knows well/ To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.” To best understand the finality, severity, and hyperbole in such a claim, the speaker’s attitudes towards the dichotomy between lust and sex must be examined. The opening, “Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame/ Is lust in action” (1-2) establishes that the speaker views sex, “lust in action”, as a waste of energy, an act that perpetually leads to shame. They then assert that the lust itself is “perjured” (3)—a break of a vow, a promise.

What humans call love is simply a chemical reaction that compels animals to mate. Various works of art, such as sonnets, explore this concept of love in a much more idealistic way. William Shakespeare is well known for his romantic poetry that delves into love using an excess of figurative language. Sonnet 116 and Sonnet 130, while drastically different in tone, both convey love as unchanging, genuine, and a feeling worth pursuing.

In the final six lines, the speaker comes to accept his loss of “talent” and that he does not need it to serve God. John Milton, in "Sonnet 19," creates tension and anxiety between the reader and "patience," between the first eight and last six lines of his poem by using diction and personification to convey the theme of servant hood.

Love and trust. Some people think these things are mutually exclusive. One cannot have trust without love and one cannot have love without trust. On this subject, the king of playwrights, (also known as Shakespeare) thinks otherwise. For the many of Shakespeare’s earlier sonnets, the speaker addressed the young man while later on he address the dark lady as his audience for the sonnets.

In the hands of a master such as Shakespeare, the conventions of the sonnet form are manipulated and transformed into something unique and originally emphasized. Both sonnets in one way or another subvert the conventions of the base Petrarchan sonnet; though they are about love, the traditional topic of sonnets, whilst in Sonnet 20 the object of desire is unattainable and there is no evidence of the level of affection being requited, the target is male, and the target of the poet's affections in Sonnet 130 is the poetic voice's current mistress. It also seems important to note that love in neither of these cases is of the generic youthful female Aryan stereotype, and

Sonnet 129 is about the sin of lust and the actions and feelings that correspond with it. The author tells a story of sorts, outlining the feelings one goes through before, during, and after indulging in lust. It tells of the urge before, the bliss during, and the regret and shame after. The author states that although men know the unhealthy cycle, they continue to take part in it. Underlying, however, is the speaker’s own struggles within lust. The speaker feels great religious guilt and shame for his sin. Moreover, the act of lust itself as well and his fear, and regret surrounding it, drive the speaker towards madness that he attempts to remedy by finding a logical solution to this human struggle.

“Sonnet 130” written by William Shakespeare, is one of his most well known poems and can be analyzed and broken apart in great depth. The poem is written in fourteen lines which makes it a sonnet. Like all of Shakespeare’s sonnets the meter is iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme for “Sonnet 130” is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. An overlaying theme for “Sonnet 130” is, “True love is based on how beautiful you find someone on the inside.” Shakespeare proves to have a great view on true love in this sonnet. He cares more about what’s on the inside rather than what’s on the outside. “Sonnet 130’s” theme can be proven by Shakespeare's use of poetic and literary devices, the tone and mood of the sonnet, and the motif of true love.

Sonnet 106,“When in the chronicle of wasted time,” begins with the first quatrain recounting the subjects, ladies and knights, that were used by chroniclers of the time in their writing. Similarly, the second quatrain describes the physical beauty being a focus for the poems of the writers before him which continues in the third quatrain, expressing the prosperity of the writers by giving credit to fate due to them lacking the essential skills. The speaker ends the sonnet with couplets articulating the present time of the speaker himself and how indescribable the beauty of his subject is. Beauty is a wide topic that is present in the sonnet, especially the aspect of physical beauty. The description between the subjects is compared without the right words to express the speaker's current subject. In William Shakespeare's “Sonnet 106: When in he chronicle of wasted time,” the speaker focuses on the irony of writing about physical beauty that cannot be captured in words.

Shakespeare, who wrote the sonnets in 1609, expresses his own feelings through his greatest work of literature. The theme of love in the poems reflect thoughts from the Renaissance period. Love is one of many components of Shakespeare’s life shown in the sonnets. Love can be defined in many ways other than a strong affection for a lover. In Shakespeare’s sonnets, the concept of love can be seen through many uncommon means such as the love of life before death in “Sonnet 73,” love in marriage in “Sonnet 116,” love through sexual desire in “Sonnet 129,” and love through nature in “Sonnet 130,” proving that love can be expressed through many different feelings and emotions.