To Dorothy Sonnet 130 Analysis

Shakespeare examines love in two different ways in Sonnets 116 and 130. In the first, love is treated in its most ideal form as an uncompromising force (indeed, as the greatest force in the universe); in the latter sonnet, Shakespeare treats love from a more practical aspect: it is viewed simply and realistically without ornament. Yet both sonnets are justifiable in and of themselves, for neither misrepresents love or speaks of it slightingly. Indeed, Shakespeare illustrates two qualities of love in the two sonnets: its potential and its objectivity. This paper will compare and contrast the two sonnets by Shakespeare and show how they represent two different attitudes to love.

In "Sonnet 73", the speaker uses a series of metaphors to characterize what he perceives to be the nature of his old age. This poem is not simply a procession of interchangeable metaphors; it is the story of the speaker slowly coming to grips with the finality of his age and his impermanence in time.

“To my Dear and Loving Husband” written by Anne Bradstreet, is the story of a woman admiring love for her husband. On the other hand, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” written by William Shakespeare, is the story of the love a man feels for an imperfect woman. Although the two poems are about love, they interpret it in different ways through rhythmic structure, and emotional expression. “To my Dear and Loving Husband” has an impeccable rhythmic alignment. It starts with repeating “if ever” three times in the first three lines.

the first of the two lines he uses the word ‘mark’ which means buoy to

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" within the first four lines: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun/ Coral is far more red than her lips red/ If snow be white, why then her breast are dun/ If hairs be wires grow on her

William Shakespeare's 18 Sonnet, more popularly known as the "Shall I Compare Thee" sonnet, is about a lover who is speaking to his beloved. Most sonnets serve this same function; to profess love from the sonneteer to some individual whom he loves. In these poems, the lover always uses the most amazing adjectives to describe the woman, or sometimes the man, that he loves. The poet describes every component of his beloved, such as her hair and her lips and her eyes. Although not a sonnet, Robert Burns' poem has the same function; it is a love poem from the unnamed narrator to the

Sonnet 130 was written during the 1600’s. Many poets during this time stylised their lover or whomst ever they were writing about as divine and perfect in everyway. Sonnet 130 is considered by many to make a mockery of this. This sonnet compares the speaker's lover to a number of other beauties, and never in the lover's favor. In the first

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” The famous opening line of Shakespeare’s eighteenth sonnet still resounds in today’s educational setting. Little do many students know that William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets; all of them in the same format. Going through many of Shakespeare’s sonnets, a recurring theme of forbidden and secret love appeared. In his Sonnet 152, Shakespeare desperately pleads with an unknown love about their hidden love and how it affects their surroundings. Often Shakespeare was accused of making fun of other poets and authors of his time period, however this sonnet may have had a correlation with his complicated love life at the time.

Donne even goes so far as to command God to destroy the person he has

Speaking of “My Mistress’s Eyes are Nothing like the Sun,” today when one hears the word “mistress,” it does not sound like a good thing, but to Shakespeare, he prefers “mistress” as his darling. The poet dramatically talks about his unappealing mistress. The sonnet uses amusing descriptions, such as ridiculous comparisons, for example: “Coral is far more than her lip’s red; / If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; / If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head” (lines 2-4). Coral is such a beautiful and classy red color, typical women love to wear red, like supermodels’ and celebrities’ lipstick color,

Out of all the readings assigned in the first four weeks of the semester I selected to write my midterm paper on Sonnet 18, by William Shakespeare, not only because I have admired Shakespeare’s works since I was in high school, but also because this particular sonnet appealed to be the most interesting poem we have read till now during this semester. Sonnet 18 is abundant with imagery and metaphors, but ultimately what sets it apart from the rest of the sonnets is its simplicity and the amount of affection shown by Shakespeare which granted this work as a worthy piece of literature for me to write my midterm assignment on. The theme of this sonnet is focused virtuously by Shakespeare’s love for his beloved mistress. The predominant theme of perseverance in antimony to goodness advocates that sonnet 18 is primarily a love poem. Consequently the purpose of this poem appears primarily to be an appraisal of his beloved mistress’ beauty with a mutual representation of beauty, a fine summer’s season. However, Shakespeare turns it up a notch in this sonnet by providing a practical analysis of the conventions of love poetry in him doing so, not only does he expose the defects of the love poetry through the appraisal but he also suggests the qualities of it by assigning the idea of his endless love, and the capability of verses to preserve both beauty and love within itself.

(Intro) Love is a constant theme explored in English Literature and can be presented through a variety of connotations, such as romantic, sexual and possessive. The poems Sonnet 116, La Belle Dame Sans Merci and My Last Duchess all portray these notions. Sonnet 116 presents a real, romantic and everlasting love, as the poem explores the meaning of love in its most ideal form. This is reflected in Shakespeare’s other sonnet, Sonnet 18, in which the simplicity of the poem emphasises love in its most perfect form; pure and unbreakable. It is also interesting to note that he often writes using a sonnet structure as this is one frequently associated with the conceit of romantic love. The poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci is undoubtedly an example of the effects of lust, which is similar to To His Coy Mistress, in which the theme of lust is certainly present, as the speaker desperately tries to tempt his mistress into the act of sex, through a persuasive argument. Robert Browning’s poems My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover, are both alike in being dramatic monologues, portraying the possessive nature of love and the idea of submission, as the cynical speakers of both poems are describing their former loved ones, who, in both cases, are suggested to be dead.

Sonnet 6 is notable for the ingenious multiplying of conceits and especially for the concluding pun on a legal will in the final couplet: "Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair / To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir." Here, as earlier in the sonnet, the poet juxtaposes the themes of narcissism and death, as well as procreation. "Self-willed" echoes line 4's "self-killed," and the worms that destroy the young man's dead body will be his only heirs should he die without begetting a child which shows the theme of death. The whole sonnet is about trying to persuade the man to have a baby hence the theme if procreation. And lastly, the man is being selfish in wanting to die without passing on his beauty.

Some of the most renowned sonneteers express their love for another person in terms of the magnitude of that person’s beauty, especially during the Elizabethan era. But, the most powerful form of love is loving someone for who they are instead of what they look like. Loving someone for love’s sake allows love to last a lifetime because love is true and the truth does not change. This differs from loving someone for physical features in which both the love of looks and the beauty fade with time. While in the moment it may be charming to be characterized by eternal beauty, as William Shakespeare does in Sonnet 18, being loved for the real feeling of being loved is more lovely where true love does not fade like the love for physical features. The truth of true love is evident in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 14 where she insinuates that the failure to love someone for only love’s sake reveals the love as being superficial. True love should be something that is not only contained in human nature or characteristics but should be something beyond humanity that is eternal. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 14 dismisses the love of physical features that William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 prides on in order to illustrate that true love is unearthly, unchanging, and eternal.

Love is a common and frequent topic in the works of Renaissance poets, who followed the Petrarchan tradition of celebrating love to an unattainable beautiful mistress: up to William Shakespeare, all male sonneteers were structuring their poems around the image of a fair wealthy court lady. Shakespeare does not adapt his works to the established standard, but adjusts the very standard to his own needs, or as Sasha Roberts puts it, the poet writes against tradition (172). Basically, in his sonnets, William Shakespeare revolutionises the unwritten rules of the Petrarchan ideal of sonnet writing by modifying the category of love objects. This essay will focus on three major directions of this modification and will illustrate them on the basis of