William Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare
By Robin Horne
Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Theme: Immortal Beauty
Comparable to The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lines 10-12 say that he won't lose his beauty and he'll never die because he will live on in this sonnet. Similar to how Dorian Gray lived on through the painting.
Summer is a metaphor for life, and the way that summer is caprice and eventually fades is symbolic for how people change and grow old
Shift in line 9 from describing how people change and grow old to describing how the friend of the speaker will never wither
Comparable to The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lines 10-12 say that he won't lose his beauty and he'll never die because he will live on in this sonnet. Similar to how Dorian Gray lived on through the painting.
Summer is a metaphor for life, and the way that summer is caprice and eventually fades is symbolic for how people change and grow old
Shift in line 9 from describing how people change and grow old to describing how the friend of the speaker will never wither
Sonnet 104
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were, when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold
Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd
In process of the seasons have I seen,
Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,
Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
Ah! yet doth beauty, like a dial-hand,
Steal from his figure and no pace perceiv'd;
So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,
Hath motion and mine eye may be deceiv'd:
For fear of which, hear this, thou age unbred;
Ere you were born, was beauty's summer dead.
Theme: immortal beauty
repetition of the number 3 and the seasons: emphasizes the large lapse in time and how they're still "green" (young and beautiful) despite the large lapse in time. Though their image will change with time, it will never fade in the speaker's eyes
repetition of the number 3 and the seasons: emphasizes the large lapse in time and how they're still "green" (young and beautiful) despite the large lapse in time. Though their image will change with time, it will never fade in the speaker's eyes
Sonnet 65
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But sad mortality o'er-sways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out
Against the wreckful siege of battering days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?
O fearful meditation! where, alack,
Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid?
Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?
Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?
O, none, unless this miracle have might,
That in black ink my love may still shine bright.
Theme: immortal beauty
Juxtaposition: dramatic contrast between the strong forces of nature and the frail strength of beauty ( " no stronger than a flower" and "wreckful siege of battering days" line 4 and line 6)
Nothing is capable of resisting time and nature except for this sonnet through which your beauty will live on through eternity
Juxtaposition: dramatic contrast between the strong forces of nature and the frail strength of beauty ( " no stronger than a flower" and "wreckful siege of battering days" line 4 and line 6)
Nothing is capable of resisting time and nature except for this sonnet through which your beauty will live on through eternity
Sources Cited
- Shakespeare, William. Sonnet 18. Ed. Amanda Mabillard. Shakespeare Online. 12 Nov. 2008.
- Shakespeare, William. Sonnet 104. Ed. Amanda Mabillard. Shakespeare Online. 8 Dec. 2012.
- "No Fear Shakespeare." SparkNotes. SparkNotes, n.d. Web. 05 Sept. 2016.
Sources Cited part 2
- Shakespeare, William. Sonnet 65. Ed. Amanda Mabillard. Shakespeare Online. 10 Dec. 2009.
- "No Fear Shakespeare." SparkNotes. SparkNotes, n.d. Web. 05 Sept. 2016
