William Shakespeare 's Sonnet 52

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

-Every part of the sonnet holds a special, deep meaning, which is why it's imperative that each part is perfect.

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.

At the beginning of the sonnet the author starts the reflection about the purpose of life, and how adulthood change it. Analyzing the form of the first lines of the poem (AB) those seems liked as a continuity connection. Jarman

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.

“Sonnet 43” also grabs the reader’s attention with a question that is later answered. The use of the

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.

This essay will address how Shakespeare and Rossetti engage with the sonnet form, through Rossetti’s “A Sonnet” and Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 52”. Both poets arguably subvert the traditional Petrarchan sonnet genre, though in different ways. Rossetti’s ‘A Sonnet’ explores the sonnet as an art form rather than as a means of currency, as sonnets were seen to be at the time, and how if treated as a commodity, the value of a sonnet is diminished. Similarly, Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 52’ explores the connection between frequency and worth. However, ‘Sonnet 52’ adheres more closely to traditional sonnet form, as the prevalent theme is romance, and the idealisation of the “fair youth”. In contrast to Shakespeare’s adherence to the traditional romantic focus of sonnets, Rossetti subverts the genre by using “The Sonnet” as a metatextual device to explore his ideas around the form of a sonnet itself.

Sonnet means a small or little song or lyric. A Sonnet has 14 lines and written in iambic pentameter. An line has 10 syllables. It has own rhyme scheme. Sonnet 30 is one of the 154 sonnets which it was written by famous playwright Shakespeare , scholars agreed that was written between 1595 and 1600. This poem consist of 14 lines of iambic pentameter , and divided into three quatrain and a couplet . most of the Shakespeare’s sonnet in between 1_126 are talk about a fair young man , who described as a young man . Who display the male relationship between male and female. Though some people agree that is talk about male relationship more and homosexuality.

The lesson to be learned in this specific sonnet is the idea of the immortality of literature. The entire poem is masked by the idea of praise for the addressee. The language of the poem, the destructiveness, suggests the survivability of the poem itself. Shakespeare is using

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.

     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.

First we will take a look at a literal interpretation of Sonnet 67. This piece begins with a huntsman in pursuit. His stalked prey, a deer, has gotten away from him. He is tired and sick of

During the Renaissance period, most poets were writing love poems about their lovers/mistresses. The poets of this time often compared love to high, unrealistic, and unattainable beauty. Shakespeare, in his sonnet 18, continues the tradition of his time by comparing the speakers' love/mistress to the summer time of the year. It is during this time of the year that the flowers and the nature that surround them are at there peak for beauty. The theme of the poem is to show the speakers true interpretation of beauty. Beauties worst enemy is time and although beauty might fade it can still live on through a person's memory or words of a poem. The speaker realizes that beauty, like the subject of the poem, will remain perfect not in the

“Sonnet 55” was written by William Shakespeare and can be found in the textbook on page 892. Everyone wants to be remembered for something one way or another, and in Sonnet 55 Shakespeare alludes to this. The theme of immortality is evident throughout the entire sonnet, and Shakespeare does not stray away from it at all. Shakespeare’s tone in the first quatrain of this sonnet comes off as a bit arrogant, but it is necessary to get his point across. His tone then shifts to being negative, but quickly becomes much more uplifting from the third quatrain until the end of the sonnet. Imagery of decay and destruction are also used in this sonnet to support the points that Shakespeare wants to make.