The Perception Of Language In The Sonnets Of William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s 104th sonnet represents several meanings. It repeatedly tells the person being read to in the sonnet about his/her beauty, and how the time cannot affect it. Time typically changes one’s beauty, physically and/or internally, which does not apply to the person in the sonnet. Shakespeare writes with a lot of figurative language, and many symbolic words.

Millay and Shakespeare also make use of personification to further develop the theme each sonnet portrays. “Sonnet 30” personifies

Shakespeare's use of metaphors in this sonnet conveys his theme of the inescapable aging process. Shakespeare "establishes and extends a metaphor that illuminates the poem's central meaning" and compares the inevitability of old age to three different aspects of nature (Prather). Similarly all the metaphorical quatrains begin with either the phrase "thou mayest in me behold" or "In me

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet #55 is a Shakespearian sonnet. It contains three quatrains, or four line stanzas, and ends with a couplet. The poem is written in iambic pentameter William Shakespeare’s Sonnet #55 is a Shakespearian sonnet. It contains three quatrains, or four line stanzas, and ends with a couplet. The poem is written in iambic pentameter.

Shakespeare, in his procreation sonnets created a renewed sense of life into one man, whom was the center reason he wrote the seventeen sonnets. These pro life or procreation sonnets revolve around a central theme and a central argument of marrying, as well as the producing of new life. Shakespeare is able to create this central theme of marrying and production of new life through several well used literary elements. Allegory, parallelism and repetition, all used in the individual sonnets and the work put together as a whole to create the central theme of procreation and pro life.

       The sonnet, however, is not simply a fourteen-line poem having a prescribed rhyme scheme. Certainly most sonnets are fourteen-line poems, and most sonneteers do confine themselves to prescribed rhyme patterns (Bender and Squier xxii).

     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.

As quickly as the Shakespearean narrator shifts in stance, not only from quatrain to quatrain but from line to line, it becomes quite easy to fall into the hole of misinterpretation.  And thus, some popular sonnets are popular because of their misinterpretation.  Shakespeare's speeds ahead in his poetry while readers are left behind, totally oblivious, but still of the mind that they are following close behind.

Shakespearean sonnets, also known as Elizabethan sonnets, were sonnets that Shakespeare used quite often. Shakespearean sonnets (Elizabethan sonnets) consist of fourteen lines, has an iambic pentameter rhythm, and has three quatrains and one couplet. A quatrain is a type of stanza that consists of four lines. A couplet is two lines of a verse. The quatrains in Shakespearean sonnets have alternating end rhymes and the couplet is rhymed. Having end rhyme in a poem creates a rhyming pattern so the

Shakespeare sticks to the traditions of the 14-line poem strictly within 'Sonnet 116', as it is made up of fourteen lines in total, with each line consisting itself of ten syllables. The sonnet also follows a regular stress pattern.

This expression shows how Shakespeare believes love should see flaws but be able to overlook them. Shakespeare uses the form of an English sonnet, more commonly known as the Shakespearean sonnet, to communicate his thoughts. A Shakespearean sonnet "is organized into three quatrains and a couplet, which typically rhyme abab cdcd efef gg" (Meyer, p.917). Additionally, within these sonnet styles "the most pronounced break or turn comes with the concluding couplet" (Meyer, p.917).

English poet William Shakespeare is known for his astounding works around the world. Sonnets are beautifully constructed and rear lasting truths about the world we live in. All of Shakespeare’s sonnets are in the form of an English sonnet. He used this method so frequently that it has coined the term the Shakspearian sonnet. Shakespeare has written a collection of 154 sonnets’, the first 126 sonnets address a young man and the last, about a woman (About…). It is believed that Shakespeare was a bisexual; a lifestyle not accepted in that period. Three of his most popular works were chosen to exemplify the overall theme. Sonnets 18, 29 and 116 were chosen from the 154 others because they are a few of the most popular of his works in this form. The individual theme, tone through diction, and meaning of the poems will be analysed to prove Shakespeare’s works are about the idealized power of love and immortalizing the subject.

In the first line of the sonnet by Shakespeare, the speaker commences by conveying the unyielding aspect of “time”. “Time” is very crucial because it determines who are and it shapes you. Because “time” is “unfair” Shakespeare uses personification to portray its significance.

Some major changes occurred in the 14-15th century which effected people’s views on life. For instance, slowly modernism took over medievalism. New ideas appeared concerning politics, religion and science. What mostly effected the people was not the arrival of these ideas but the opposition of the new and old believes being present at the same time. A good example is the shift from Catholicism to Protestantism.

In the poem by W. Shakespeare mentions that his emotions about getting older by using nature as metaphor. The sonnet is written in iambic pentameter with a regular rhyme scheme, regular meter, and the structure consists of three quatrains and one couplet at the end. Both rhymes and images change throughout the poem. The form of the poem is related to the subject matter because in Shakespearean sonnet each 4 lines have different patterns, and these patterns have different images, in the last 2 lines, he approaches from a different perspective.