Stylistic Devices In Sonnet 60

Throughout many of his 154 sonnets, William Shakespeare wrestled with complex ideas of life in the unstoppable stream of time and the brilliant loves which consume it. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 64 provides a potent synthesis of these ideas as he laments over human impermanence and time everlasting which displays his fear for his death and more significantly, the death of his lover which he perceives as the worst consequence of time’s perpetuity, thus expressing his love. Throughout the poem, Shakespeare explains how time is constantly moving forward by showing its ruinous outcomes and destructive power. Additionally, he reinforces the inescapability of time by citing the cyclical patterns of nature. Shakespeare uses these powerful and travailing

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.

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 Sonnets 1-126, Shakespeare is obsessed with finding a way to conquer time and preserve the youth’s beauty. He starts by discussing the idea that the youth should find a wife and have children, giving his beauty to his children. This idea is morphed into Shakespeare hoping that he can write the youth’s beauty into his sonnets, giving him eternal youth. Shakespeare has seen the effects of time within himself and wants to keep the youth from experiencing time’s consequences. Even though he is aware that he does not have control over time, he still tries to conquer it. In the later sonnets of this sequence, Shakespeare starts to unwillingly accept the idea that the progression of time is unstoppable. These sonnets seem to be his way of surrendering

Poets and authors alike evoke emotion and pictures from one single word. The imagery and thoughts put into the readers’ heads by these different writers are the base of one’s creativity and imagination while reading the author’s work of art. William Shakespeare is one of the most well-known poets of all time that is able to elicit these emotions from the reader to allow the reader to fully understand what Shakespeare is trying to accomplish with his poems. Shakespeare keeps his audience entertained with a whopping 154 sonnets, each having a different meaning and imagery associated with it. Sonnet 18, “[Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day]”, and Sonnet 55, “[Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments]”, are both one of Shakespeare’s most famous works. Shakespeare uses these sonnets to explore the powerful relationship between humanity, art, and time.

This poem dose not just show symbolism it also shows how dissections are all around us.All the things in this paper are all connected by how they are all about how they are all about choices and how they will all connect.This poem was written in 1916 and we still don’t know what the true meaning of the poem and we have so many theory about the

The word choice is interesting here – word “strove” (9) indicates that childhood is not as careless period of time, as it is usually imagined. The next place on their route is “the Fields of Gazing Grain” (11), which represent adulthood. Then they “passed the Setting Sun” – the old age. Although this whole quatrain describes leaving life as a process, it has a “warm” connotation, achieved by the word choice – the golden color of “Gazing Grain” (11) reminds fire and the “Setting Sun” (12) draws a picture of the last warm summer

In sonnet 95, the speaker depicts a paternal feeling while speaking to the addressee, where indeed the poet reminds his audience about way appearance can be so deceiving. The young man is relying on his good appearance to veil his sexual immorality. Being that he is handsome and attractive, people are reluctant to disapprove his behavior. In the first quadrant, the poet employs different stylistic devices, which include simile, as the young man is likened to a fragrant rose, and on the other hand, he is compared to a destructive worm, but all his dark side of life is hidden under his good looking and charming nature. What is important about this poem is the manner in which the speaker reminds the young man about his bad behavior and draws examples that makes him feel sorry about what he does behind his good-looking nature. By the use of diction, imagery, diction, images, metaphors and other figures of speech, such as tone of voice, allusions, syntax and structure of the speech, the speaker warns the young man against his sexual immorality, and reminds him that there are detrimental risks associated with his behavior if he does not change.

In the first quatrain of Sonnet 73, Shakespeare begins, “That time of year” (1) and uses the autumn of the year to allude metaphorically to old age. The corresponding “ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang” (3) places these metaphors in the past. Then, the second quatrain compresses life from a year down to a day. Now, Shakespeare accelerates the approach of death, depicting the advancing of age through the “twilight of such day” (5), and in the present time frame, the fading sunset (6) before the “black night” (7) of death comes. The third quatrain further compacts time down to the life span of a fire that lights and warms in the beginning and in short time, reduces to “glowing” (9) embers and in the imminent future, “Consumed with that [fuel] which it was nourished by” (10).

Through different types of readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 146, the reader is able to access the depth and difference in meaning among the alternate readings. The general reading of Sonnet 146 allows the reader to experience the inner-emotions are meaning behind the text, of the struggle and battle between the speakers soul and the earthly indulgences he immorally takes advantage of at the expense of his soul’s immortality. However the contextual reading presents are new argument to the sonnet, where it can be analysed differently to a general reading. In Shakespearean time sonnets were ultimately love poems, as Sonnet 146 appears to stand out from the rest as the speaker talks of his soul’s immortality and not of love. Although by understanding the context of the time the sonnet was written, scholars have come to understand, there may have been another meaning behind the sonnet, one referencing the speakers love for his mistress and how she is the centre of the sinfulness of earth, the speaker pities his lover as sees her morality and knows he must leave her, in order for his soul to be made merciful. Through the different readings of the text the reader is able to interpreted and understand how they present an alternative connotation.

            In the second quatrain, the speaker slows the poem down to take a look at what happens to youth. He or she places the focus on youth by using the word "nativity," and slowing is accomplished by using the word "crawls." The speaker reiterates the wave image's statement of the short-lived glories of life. When nativity has struggled (crawled) to maturity and has been "crowned" at last, time attacks and begins to destroy the youth with which it once favored a person. This is where the speaker sets up the image of time as an enemy.

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.

As opposed to the majority of Shakespeare’s sonnets in the series that are addressed to an unnamed young man, sonnet 60 deals largely with the relentless approach of time and its war against humanity rather than love. In this sonnet, the breaking of the poetic form expected of a sonnet is utilized to not only enhance the specific localized metaphors in the poem, but the overall thematic content as well. By taking the traditional iambic pentameter and presenting moments of disruption, this poem draws attention to the dramatization of Time’s march against humanity, and also to the ability of the writer of this poem who appears in the final couplet. In this paper, I intend to look specifically at the utilization of trochaic feet in order to examine the ways in which the manipulation of metrical devices can create meaning.

     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.

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