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

George Gascoigne’s poem “For That He Looked Not upon Her” discusses the misery of love by exploring speaker’s internal conflict between the his romantic desires and his fear of betrayal. After leaving a difficult relationship, the speaker refuses to look his former partner in the eye even though he is still deeply attracted to her. He justifies his action by explaining how his desire for her will only continue to bring him distress. The speaker uses the poem’s form and diction in order to establish a dismal yet cautious tone in the poem. Furthermore, through various instances of imagery, he reveals his fear of being deceived in the future. By employing these literary devices, Gascoigne highlights the theme of human desire and how it consequently leads to the speaker’s emotional suffering.

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

A common conception of William Shakespeare’s poetry entails complex language and hidden meanings. Shakespeare is famous for his ability to author a web of images that creates layers of interpretations and understandings. In Sonnet 138 however, Shakespeare is more direct in describing his relationship with his lover by avoiding imagery and metaphors, explaining to the reader that this seemingly unconventional relationship is indeed justified. Shakespeare constructs a persona of the speaker in a way that establishes a casual and

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

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!“

In Sonnet 138, the poet’s use of figurative language and diction help to communicate the idea that although lovers may tell small lies to each other, the best part about love is still trusting the other person. Through the use of metaphor, hyperbole, and personification (all figurative language), the author is able to communicate his theme. IFigurative language is used throughout the poem, for instance in the first line when the lover (the dark lady) swears she is “made of truth.” She isn’t literally made of truth, she’s exaggerating, but it helps her to solidate her statement and try to reassure the speaker that she’s telling the truth.

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.

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).

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

The couplet of this sonnet renews the speaker's wish for their love, urging her to "love well" which he must soon leave. But after the third quatrain, the speaker applauds his lover for having courage and adoration to remain faithful to him. The rhyme couplet suggests the unconditional love between the speaker and his

The title of the poem “My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun” suggests that the speaker is not in love with his ‘mistress’. However, this is not the case. Shakespeare uses figurative language by using criticizing hyperboles to mock the traditional love sonnet. Thus, showing not only that the ideal woman is not always a ‘goddess’, but mocking the way others write about love. Shakespeare proves that love can be written about and accomplished without the artificial and exuberant. The speaker’s tone is ironic, sarcastic, and comical turning the traditional conceit around using satire. The traditional iambic pentameter rhyming scheme of the sonnet makes the diction fall into place as relaxed, truthful, and with elegance in the easy flowing verse. In turn, making this sonnet one of parody and real love.

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.

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.

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.

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.