Sonnet 29 By William Shakespeare

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.

So the lover, the poet, treats the loved object, the young man, as he would himself. The loved object serves as a substitute for some unattained ideal. In the case of the sonnets, the ideal is love. Being in love allows the poet to have what he wants but could not acquire before and serves as a means of satisfying his self-love.

The Shakespearian English sonnet is the rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, eded, gg. The sonnet seems to be addressed to a young lover. The theme is something we love is going to be gone soon. That is, the person appreciates something or love someone more than it is fading, or even more when it's actually gone.

In 2010 Billy Collins writes Sonnet, a piece of literary work I consider to be the antihero of sonnets. Collins ironically follows neither the constructs of a Shakespearean nor Petrarchan Sonnet throughout. He also creatively breathes new life into a strict art form while rejecting the historical rules a sonnet must follow in this work. Upon further review of Sonnet, it becomes clear that this deliberate rule breaking is a skilled nod & side-step to historic norms and a promotion of a new age of creativity in the making of a sonnet.

Sidney spends the first half of the sonnet framing desire as an unforgiving and incessant evil. He writes, “Band of all evils, cradle of causeless care; Thou web of will, whose end is never wrought” (3-4). Using words like ‘band,’ ‘cradle,’ and ‘web,’ the speaker’s feeling of entanglement within desire is evidenced. Sidney’s use of alliteration furthers this idea

“Sonnet 18” may be the most famous lyric poem in English. Among Shakespeare’s works, only lines such as “To be or not to be” and “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” are better-known. On the surface, this poem is a statement of praise about the beauty of the speaker’s love interest, but when you look closely you can see how the speaker is actually praising himself for his skills. This is also Shakespeare’s first poem in the sonnets that doesn’t explicitly encourage having children. The procreation sequence of the first seventeen sonnets ended with the speaker’s realization that the they might not need children to preserve beauty, but he could also live “in my rhyme” as he says in Sonnet 17. Sonnet 18 is the first poem in which the speaker first attempts to preserve the beauty for all time, and is also a perfect example of classic Shakespearean style of writing and usage of metaphors. This poem uses several different metaphors, personification, multiple themes, and follows a traditional form to get across the point to the reader that the speaker is a well skilled and masterful poet.

In sonnet 29 the speaker is very unsatisfied with his life. He complains that life has not been kind to him in the slightest. He shares with the reader that he is broke, not good-looking, doesn't have any friends and finally that he feels hopeless. Sitters himself to be an outcast and that he is all alone in his world. The perspectives of our speaker are shown to not be straight and that he's not looking at everything from the full picture.

In “Sonnet 55” emphasize of the poem is on the inherent effect that time and war will have on the world in which Shakespeare lives; not the beloved. When people look back upon this poem for meaning the things that stick out are the images that Shakespeare would have dealt with in his own life. It is known that Shakespeare, as a poet, would have been closer to any destruction or disease than any nobles. This makes the sonnet more about painting a mental picture of the surroundings and not any beloved. Moreover in the last four lines of the sonnet many people feel Shakespeare gives hope for the beloved; this is a misread as these lines are treated to refer to fans.

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 explores the inner mentality of the speaker as he reflects on his hopeless state of depression to eventually realize that there is something more important than monetary wealth and social status. The speaker is introspective and reflective in order to convey his epiphany of the importance of intangible things. Throughout the sonnet, meaning is achieved through the use of rhythmic structure, changing tone, and imagery. In the first quatrain, iambic pentameter creates an introductory rhythm to present the speaker in a depressed state.

Two hundred years had passed between the sonnets of Petrarch and the reign of Queen Elizabeth. As a form and structure for poetic life, the sonnet had grown hard. Fourteen lines of rhymed iambic pentameter remained pregnant with possibilities and vitality, but must the sense turn after the octave and resolve in the sestet? Love remained in some ways inexpressible without this basic verse form, but something wasn’t right. Too many rose red lips and too much snow white skin belonging to unattainable lovers did not communicate the prevailing amorous imagination. The conventions were a little too conventional. The metaphors were gone somewhat stale.

The theme of Shakespeare’s 29th sonnet is how he feels like a social outcast and is depressed. But when he thinks of a certain person’s love, he feels happy, and it takes him

To begin with, the speaker in “Sonnet 29” speaks of tragedies in his life and the lack

Shakespeare’s sonnet 60 expresses the inevitable end that comes with time and uses this dark truth to express his hopefulness that his poetry will carry his beloved’s beauty and worth into the future in some way so that it may never die. This love poem is, as all sonnets are, fourteen lines. Three quatrains form these fourteen lines, and each quatrain consists of two lines. Furthermore, the last two lines that follow these quatrains are known as the couplet. This sonnet has the rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, as most Shakespearean sonnets follow. In each of the three quatrains, Shakespeare discusses a different idea. In this particular sonnet, the idea is how time continues to pass on, causing everything to die. The couplet connects these ideas to one central theme, this theme being Shakespeare’s hope for the beauty of his beloved’s immortality through his poetry’s continuation into future times.

Written by one of the greatest poets of all time, Sonnet 144 is among one of William Shakespeare 's most popular poems. To understand the meaning of this poem it is important to read the complete sequence of Shakespeare 's sonnets. Sonnets 1-126 are addressed to Shakespeare 's admired friend, a young man superior in social station and sonnets 127-152 are about his mistress, a dark lady, who charms the young man into an affair (POWERPOINT). Although the complete sequence of sonnets were not published until 1609, many of his sonnets circulated privately among his friends. Without Shakespeare 's autorization, in 1599, sonnets 138 and 144, amongst others were published in William Jaggard 's collection of miscllany, The Passionatte Pilgrim(597). In sonnet 144 he describes the battle between good and evil and the relationship he shares with the youth and the dark lady. The trappings of desire is the overarching theme of this specific sonnet and is written in aimbic pentameter. It follows the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg. The arguement proceeds by quatrains with a summarizing heroic couplet at the end.

     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.