Use Of Diction, Imagery, And Structure In Shakespeare's Sonnet 93

However while Sonnet 18 begins by comparing his love to that of a

We can see loneliness and grief reflected in the poem because the woman talks about hardships. It is a sad poem; she feels lonely and vulnerable because she is no longer in touch with her lord. This woman should deal with her grief, face it, and move forward to make her life better. In The Wife’s Lament, the woman longs for companionship from her husband.

Shakespeare’s 98th sonnet is a beautiful presentation of platonic love and missing a beloved friend. Sonnet 98 is wonderfully put together with artistic patterns of imagery, such as the description of the flowers, diction, which creates a tone of youth and longing for the presence of a loved one, This sonnet is one in the fair youth sequence, which are sonnets where the speaker writes about his love for a young man, and the second of three sonnets mentioning his beloveds absence. The imagery in sonnet 98 is vivid and colorful and gives the reader feelings of youth and deep admiration for the young man addressed in the Fair Youth sequence of Shakespeare's sonnets.

His face was low; his voice was melancholy and his eyes looked as hurt as I, but his lips… Oh his lips – they were pulling at the corners, and he may have been resisting, but his lips said words that she proclaimed. “Liar” and suddenly the corners tugged down as his eyes looked as if they had faced the storms of an angry god many times over. Laughing she continued, for she had faced the wrath of those worse than any god many a time “You didn’t even love me to begin with!“

Finally, the couplet provides an overall conclusion of the preceding lines and gives a definite ending to the poem. The speaker depicts the story of himself and his lover in the first three quatrains with curt language that allow less of the reader’s personal imagination than do imagery and metaphors. This serves to simplify the powerful role of structure, allowing the speaker to fully pull the reader into the sonnet and clearly focus on the characters and the overall message.

The sonnet sequences of Shakespeare and Wroth present two variant perspectives of falling in love, each illustrated as affection through their poetics. Though they lean on each other, Shakespeare’s features a more masculine representation of desire and Wroth’s, a more feminine. To generalize their differences: how Shakespeare grounds his sonnets—with more physicality—Wroth matches with an intangible aspect; where he harshens, she remains reserved; where he personalizes, she makes general. What’s altogether valuable to their comparison is the idea that the addressee of each of the series is for the most part a male figure, as opposed to the typical fashion of having a woman as a subject. Their treatment of these subjects, too, defines their

Written by William Shakespeare and published in 1609, Sonnet XVIII is a poem that highlights the comparison between humans and the natural world, which, not only speaks to a beloved but also the society as the broader audience. The speaker presents a rhetorical question that is aimed at comparing the beloved to a summer day and makes an immediate assumption that the beloved is lovelier. As the poem progresses, the speaker attempts to highlight the significant differences between the two by trying to diminish nature over man but ends up concluding that the two have similarities whose fate can only get determined by time. The poem explicitly utilizes its themes, a setting that personifies nature, figurative language, and a compelling optimistic

Despite this lie, the speaker still loves her. Another example of figurative language in this sonnet is

Throughout the sonnet the author obviously is an older man than the younger woman that he is dating. The younger woman talks to the speaker with lies. Even though that the speaker knows that they are lies he believes them anyway. Throughout the sonnet

The speaker thus feels as if he has been betrayed, and as a result, he is melancholic. The author’s point of view in stanza 2 allows us to see that the man is portrayed as the weaker individual. The speaker says, “Therewithall sweetly did me kiss / And softly said, ‘Dear heart, how like you this?’”(Lines 13-14). The woman treats him kindly, yet refers to him as an animal. He is clearly displayed as the subordinate one in the relationship, as opposed to the speaker’s belief that women are dependent on him (lines 5-6).

There is something about life that the speaker knows is beautiful. He very much wants, more than anything it seems, to see the beauty of each moment. He describes a beautiful scene of nature, exclaiming that “I hear, I hear, with joy I hear!” (line 51). The repetition of “hear” and the knowledge that this is what the speaker desires makes it seem that he is forcing it. And immediately afterwards there is this reversal: “But-…speak of something that is gone” (line 54). It seems that he is always going to be aware that he has fallen from his original, glorious state. He grieves his inability to remain in that pure, brilliant being. He recognizes that there is nothing to do about this, as “The Youth…still is nature’s priest” (line 73).

I chose to admire “Shakespearean Sonnet”, because I enjoy reading Shakespeare although sometimes I have a difficult time understanding it. I find the poem to be unique, just by the way it was coordinated together. It basically is lines from each of Shakespeare’s famous plays of all time. The lines from the well-known plays was combined to form a sonnet of 14 lines using the ababa format. Throughout the poem you can find the use of a couplet in a couple of the poem’s lines.. It is very well written and excellent in ways like how it describes each of the plays in the lines of the sonnet, to the imagery, tone, and theme of the poem. The use of alliteration for example, in line 2, “Boy meets girl while feuding families fight,” is a description

Sonnets are known for its rigid format and being the hoard of poets’ flowery love confessions and tormenting heartache. While most poets generally stick to that cliche topic of love and the traditional English or Petrarchan structures, sonnets are not defined by these archetypal features. Both Shakespeare’s “My mistress’ eyes are…” and Collins’s “Sonnet” satirically defy those typical sonnets. However both poems differ, as Shakespeare follows the standard English sonnet style and parodies the classic subject of love to show how ridiculous and idealistic love sonnets can be; while Collins on the other hand, breaks free from those stern sonnet rules to joke about the strictness of sonnet structures to define typical sonnet rules.

In his time, William Shakespeare, wrote 154 sonnets that chronicled, what most believe, to be his interaction with two people for whom he wrote sonnets in exchange for money, or perhaps for a loved one. The first sections of sonnets are believed to be written to the Earl of Southampton, Henry Wriothesley. The other half is believed to be written for a mysterious woman, known as “The Dark Lady”. These sonnets talk about many things: beauty, forgiveness, brevity of life, etc, in order to express and show his love and desire for his beloved, to whom these sonnets are addressed to. Through his use of dramatic imagery, allusions, and antithesis Shakespeare’s sonnet 109 suggests that despite unfaithfulness, love is a unifying bond that can never truly be broken.

A lot of William Shakespeare’s imagery was used to describe love and how the affected the different relationships. In Sonnet 106, “ Then in blazon of sweet beauty’s best of hand, of foot, of lip, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express’d even such a beauty as you master now.” (Shakespeare 275). In this quote, Shakespeare goes into detail about how this one particular girl has an unique beauty. Ha also explains how he has never seen such a beauty like hers. Shakespeare also says in Sonnet 116, “ Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, bends with the remover to remove.”(Shakespeare 276). The first sentence of the quote is basically explaining that not all marriages of relationships come easy, they all have obstacles. The second of the quote is explaining that love doesn’t changed when something in the relationship changes, it will stay the say no matter what. Shakespeare is known for imagery in terms of explaining love and relationships, it is very well represented in a lot of his sonnets.