As with the structure of the Petrarchan sonnet, that of the Shakespearean sonnet influences the kinds of ideas that will be developed in it. For example, the three quatrains may be used to present three parallel images, with the couplet used to tie them together or to interpret their significance. Or the quatrains can offer three points in an argument, with the couplet serving to drive home the conclusion
Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.
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 dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest 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.
Sonnet 147
My love is as a fever, longing still
For that which longer nurseth the disease,
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
Th' uncertain sickly appetite to please.
My reason, the physician to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
Hath left me, and I desperate now approve
Desire is death, which physic did except.
Past cure I am, now reason is past care,
And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;
My thoughts and my discourse as mad men's are,
At random from the truth vainly expressed.
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
Directions: Please choose a sonnet by Shakespeare (see link below). Cut and paste it into your post, and analyze it using the terminology we learned in class (see "The Poetry Cheat Sheet" - October 26th post). Most importantly, include a detailed personal analysis of the poem in your post.
Suhani Karki
ReplyDeleteMine eye and heart are at a mortal war,
How to divide the conquest of thy sight;
Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,
My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.
My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie,
A closet never pierced with crystal eyes,
But the defendant doth that plea deny,
And says in him thy fair appearance lies.
To 'cide this title is impannelled
A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart;
And by their verdict is determined
The clear eye's moiety, and the dear heart's part:
As thus: mine eye's due is thine outward part,
And my heart's right, thine inward love of heart.
The Shakespeare sonnet I chose was XLVI. This sonnet is an Iambic pentameter it has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. The structure of this sonnet is: 1st Quatrain (four lines), 2nd Quatrain, a turn, 3rd Quatrain, then a Couplet (2 lines). The tone of the speaker of the sonnet is miserable and depressed. There is a lot of repetition throughout the sonnet words such as heart and eyes are some examples. The diction is the same as the repetition (heart and eyes). The Syntax of the stanzas is an: abab, cdcd, ef stanza — the sentences within the poem change at the ‘turn’ where the speaker starts to wrap up his ideas. This whole sonnet is imagery, and they specifically use a lot of sight imagery. The sounds in this poem have a lot of ending words with ‘e’ to make the reader feel a sense of rhythm and repetition. There are some indirect metaphors and similes in this sonnet that compares something to something else such as, “A closet never pierced with crystal eyes” this quote doesn't directly compare a closet to crystal eyes. There is no irony in this sonnet. There aren’t any Allusions in this sonnet (this poem refers to the present time and not the past). The rhymes are mostly similar and have a recognizable pattern to the sonnet.
This poem reflects a person whose eye and heart cannot seem to agree on things. This ‘mans’ heart wants emotional affection, but his eye wants physical beauty. His eye sees physical beauty, but his heart wants to focus on beauty from the inside which makes this ‘man’ confused and this is why his eyes and heart are at mortal war. Later on in the poem, the speaker indirectly states that his eyes have the right to look at her appearance and his heart has the right to love her.
Shruthi Saravanan
ReplyDelete104
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 turned,
In process of the seasons have I seen,
Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burned,
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 perceived;
So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,
Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceived:
For fear of which, hear this thou age unbred:
Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead.
The overall tone of this sonnet seems to be romantic, he is expressing how he feels about her, her beauty and how much he loves it. There is an obvious repetition in this sonnet, he uses the word beauty more than once and also added many words which had a similar meaning to beauty. Though this keeps the sonnet on the positive side while it speaks about the beauty of the person they love. The sonnet has a regular structure of a sonnet (a, b, a, b, c, d, c, d, e, f, e, f, g, g). There are quite a few sensory languages put into this, especially when describing the seasons and the lover, “Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burned”, “Three winters cold” and “So your sweet hue”. There are also some visible metaphors and similes such as “Have from the forests shook three summers' pride” which is a metaphor.
This sonnet talks about a person they seem to love, and how their beauty sweeps them off their feet. They mention how their beauty still stays even trough any type of weather or problem “Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green”. They say how their beauty stayed with them and is the same since the very first time he laid his eyes on her “o me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd”. At the end of that sonnet, he also mentions how beauty was already dead till she was born/existed.
Celia Hoffman
ReplyDeleteXVIII.
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 dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
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.
I picked one of Shakespeare’s most famous poems, Sonnet XVIII. The tone of the poem is the feeling of love. The speaker is writing about his love for his loved one and how it relates to his love for summer. There isn’t a lot if repetition in the poem. The author uses many positive words like lovely and darling as he describes summer and his love one. The poem does have structure, the pattern stays pretty constant throughout. There is a lot of imagery in the poem, when the author says “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May”, you can feel and hear the wind he is describing. There is a lot rhyming in the poem, there is only one slant rhyme in the poem. There are a lot of metaphors and similes used in the poem like, “But thy eternal summer shall not fade” and “Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” There isn’t any irony in this poem, the author constantly talks about his love. There is no allusion in the poem. There is a lot of rhythm, every other line rhymes and there is a lot of flow. I think this sonnet is very, very romantic. The author is comparing his loved one to a beautiful summers day. He says his love is eternal and ends the poem by saying his love will stay strong as long as men breathe and eyes can see.
Dowol Lee
ReplyDeleteSonnet 14
Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck;
And yet methinks I have Astronomy,
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality;
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell,
Pointing to each his thunder, rain and wind,
Or say with princes if it shall go well
By oft predict that I in heaven find:
But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
And, constant stars, in them I read such art
As truth and beauty shall together thrive,
If from thyself, to store thou wouldst convert;
Or else of thee this I prognosticate:
Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.
The tone of this Sonnet is very mystical and wise. It is not straightforward and sends the message in a different way. It does not use repetition at all. It uses astronomy by including stars and weather He uses an old english vernacular,“dearths”,”methinks”, and “thee” are some examples. The poem does rhyme on every other stanza, but there are some slant rhymes.
Dylan Brenner
ReplyDeleteSonnet 62
Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye
And all my soul, and all my every part;
And for this sin there is no remedy,
It is so grounded inward in my heart.
Methinks no face so gracious is as mine,
No shape so true, no truth of such account;
And for myself mine own worth do define,
As I all other in all worths surmount.
But when my glass shows me myself indeed
Beated and chopp'd with tanned antiquity,
Mine own self-love quite contrary I read;
Self so self-loving were iniquity.
'Tis thee, myself, that for myself I praise,
Painting my age with beauty of thy days.
The sonnet I chose was sonnet 62. The tone of this poem is the feeling of love and the feeling of sadness. I think it’s both of those but mostly the feeling of sadness because it says “And for this sin there is no remedy,”. This means there is no treatment for the sin. There is some repetition, the speaker talks about self-love a lot showing how important it is. Again, the author repeats some words like self-love. The poem doesn’t really have a structure. There is a lot of imagery in this poem, they use mostly sight imagery. There is some rhyme, but mostly repetition with the word self-love. There wasn’t many metaphors/similes or imagery in the poem. There is no allusion in the poem. There is some rhyme and rhythm to the poem. Some of the lines flow nicely. This sonnet has three quatrains and one couplet. This poem shows how love can really express your feeling and differences between you and someone. Love can really split people apart.
Robbie Mahlebjian
ReplyDeleteLet me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
This sonnet is commentating on the feeling to love someone and the affect it has. The poet is talking about how much time love last's which he says "Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom." He says love lasts forever.
(Sonnet 24)
ReplyDeleteJacob moore
ReplyDeleteSonnet 6
Then let not winter's ragged hand deface,
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled:
Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place
With beauty's treasure ere it be self-killed.
That use is not forbidden usury,
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thyself to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;
Ten times thyself were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten times refigured thee:
Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart,
Leaving thee living in posterity?
Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair
To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.
The tone is serious in this sonnet because it is telling you to have a child before you forget what being a child feels like. The repetition in the sonnet is being happy because in the sonnet it talks about being happy twice and I think it because it wants us to be happy for our kids to be happy. The Diction in this poem is the use of the word “Then” because the word is asking a question to the reader of the sonnet for example “Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart”. The sounds in the sonnet are in every other sentence the last word rhymes with the other last word in the next sentence for example “In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled” and “With beauty's treasure ere it be self-killed.” the last word in the sentences rhyme. The rhythm in this sonnet plays along with the sounds in the sonnet and how the words rhyme
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
ReplyDeleteAdmit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.
I chose sonnet 116, in this sonnet Skakespeare comments on love, saying if the love changes or fades, it was never love in the first place, and that love is eternal. I dont agree with this because that would mean that almost no one has ever loved.
Luke Newton
Olivia Dionisio
ReplyDeleteSonnet 6
Then let not winter's ragged hand deface,
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled:
Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place
With beauty's treasure ere it be self-killed.
That use is not forbidden usury,
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thyself to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;
Ten times thyself were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten times refigured thee:
Then what could death do if thou shouldst depart,
Leaving thee living in posterity?
Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair
To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.
In this sonnet he says that everyone should breed before they forget what its like to be a kid because that way they will be able to live this happiness twice because they get to see their kids do the same stuff they did.
Hanna Saad
ReplyDeleteSo is it not with me as with that Muse,
Stirred by a painted beauty to his verse,
Who heaven itself for ornament doth use
And every fair with his fair doth rehearse,
Making a couplement of proud compare
With sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems,
With April's first-born flowers, and all things rare,
That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.
O! let me, true in love, but truly write,
And then believe me, my love is as fair
As any mother's child, though not so bright
As those gold candles fixed in heaven's air:
Let them say more that like of hearsay well;
I will not praise that purpose not to sell.
She is talking about her newborn child. She will love it and care for but she will never "Praise to sell" or mistreat it.
Sean Curtis
ReplyDeleteSo is it not with me as with that Muse,
Stirred by a painted beauty to his verse,
Who heaven itself for ornament doth use
And every fair with his fair doth rehearse,
Making a couplement of proud compare
With sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems,
With April's first-born flowers, and all things rare,
That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.
O! let me, true in love, but truly write,
And then believe me, my love is as fair
As any mother's child, though not so bright
As those gold candles fixed in heaven's air:
Let them say more that like of hearsay well;
I will not praise that purpose not to sell.
This sonnet is talking about her newborn child. It describes how She will love it and care for it with all of her might and never mistreat or abuse it.
Griffin Littlewood
ReplyDeleteLike as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Nativity, once in the main of light,
Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd,
Crooked eclipses 'gainst his glory fight,
And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,
Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:
And yet to times in hope, my verse shall stand
Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.
The sonnet begins with a setting at the beach where they are reflecting on something in there life. I notice much writing through the sonnet. The poem also is only one stanza. The rhyming is also shown through the abab cdcd efef format which is very specific for a shakespearean sonnet. He had a specific outline for his work that always used by him. This method was used throughout history in shakespearean sonnets and continues to be used today.
In this reflection they talk about the truth of life or the fight that you have during life. He talks about the youth how it is transfixed and how it is unparalleled. He talks about how time is a gift and that you should savor your time alive. Also that you should praise thy worth although life is cruel. He is saying to live life to the fullest although it will treat you bad some days.
UnknownNovember 25, 2018 at 1:18 PM
ReplyDeleteDowol Lee
Sonnet 14
Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck;
And yet methinks I have Astronomy,
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality;
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell,
Pointing to each his thunder, rain and wind,
Or say with princes if it shall go well
By oft predict that I in heaven find:
But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
And, constant stars, in them I read such art
As truth and beauty shall together thrive,
If from thyself, to store thou wouldst convert;
Or else of thee this I prognosticate:
Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.
The tone of this Sonnet is very confident. It is not straight forward but it sends the message in a special way. It doesn't use repetition. It uses astronomy by including stars and weather he uses an old English dearths,methinks, and thee are some examples. The poem does rhyme on every other stanza, but there are some slant rhymes aswell.
sorry i accentally posted again because i thought i didnt do it
DeleteMichael DiCenzo
ReplyDeleteNot from the stars do I my judgement pluck;
And yet methinks I have Astronomy,
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality;
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell,
Pointing to each his thunder, rain and wind,
Or say with princes if it shall go well
By oft predict that I in heaven find:
But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,
And, constant stars, in them I read such art
As truth and beauty shall together thrive,
If from thyself, to store thou wouldst convert;
Or else of thee this I prognosticate:
Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.
The tone of this Sonnet is very confident. It is not straight forward but it sends the message in a special way. It doesn't use repetition. It uses astronomy by including stars and weather he uses an old English dearths,methinks, and thee are some examples. The poem does rhyme on every other stanza, but there are some slant rhymes aswell.
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
ReplyDeleteThat thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content,
And, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding:
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.
I didn't really understand this sonnet at first but then I realized what it meant. It is talking about the world that we live in and all the things that we do not notice. Anthony Dimuzio
Xingyun Pan
ReplyDeleteSonnet CLIV (154)
The little Love-god lying once asleep,
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vowed chaste life to keep
Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand
The fairest votary took up that fire
Which many legions of true hearts had warmed;
And so the General of hot desire
Was, sleeping, by a virgin hand disarmed.
This brand she quenched in a cool well by,
Which from Love's fire took heat perpetual,
Growing a bath and healthful remedy,
For men diseased; but I, my mistress' thrall,
Came there for cure and this by that I prove,
Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.
The sonnet I’ve chose is the last sonnet from Shakespeare. The tone of this sonnet is romantic. Shakespeare use fire to represent love, the fire had been stole by a votary and been put into the cool water , the fire heat up the water and became a spring which can cure all kinds of disease. The word “love” has repeat a lot in the poem because the sonnet is mainly about love and a lot of sonnets from Shakespeare is praising love. The structure of this sonnet is orderly, (abab cdcd efef gg) it is written in Quatrain. Although the last word in line 9 and line 11 doesn’t sound similar but they both end in letter “y”.
I think what Shakespeare wanted to explain in this sonnet is that love is faithful and powerful. Although there will be some people wanted to disturb it but true love will not stop by anything.
Nick Entner
ReplyDeleteSonnet 12
When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls, all silvered o'er with white;
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
And summer's green all girded up in sheaves,
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,
Then of thy beauty do I question make,
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake
And die as fast as they see others grow;
And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence
Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
This sonnet has a somewhat weird rhyme scheme. Some of the word rhyme but some of them don't. This sonnet is very odd. This sonnet talks about the growth of animals and how they grow and develop and then they died. The sonnet talks about growth and how thing will always go but they will always die or fall of in the end. This is will happen to all things in the end.
Yasmiin Ali
ReplyDeleteXLIII.(43)
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
For all the day they view things unrespected;
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
And darkly bright, are bright in dark directed.
Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow's form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light
When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!
How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!
All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
The Shakespearean Sonnet that I chose was XLIII. This sonnet is about the absence of a particular person. The tone is dreamy, hopeful, and wishful. The protagonist talks about how without the shadow there is no hope in the person being there. The author often repeats the same words such as night, day, and see. He also uses the same idea that in the day you can see everything, but during the night you cant and its sort of like a dream. The Syntax of the stanzas is an: abab, cdcd, efef, aa stanza, which also includes the rhyme at the end of each line. The author first talks about dreams, then about shadows and the dark, then talks about sight and then goes back to the idea of dreams. This sonnet uses a lot of imagery about shadows, and what you can and can't see at night.
Anthony Dimuzio
ReplyDeleteLoss
Winifred M. Letts, 1882 - 1972
In losing you I lost my sun and moon
And all the stars that blessed my lonely night.
I lost the hope of Spring, the joy of June,
The Autumn’s peace, the Winter’s firelight.
I lost the zest of living, the sweet sense
Expectant of your step, your smile, your kiss;
I lost all hope and fear and keen suspense
For this cold calm, sans agony, sans bliss.
I lost the rainbow’s gold, the silver key
That gave me freedom of my town of dreams;
I lost the path that leads to Faërie
By beechen glades and heron-haunted streams.
I lost the master word, dear love, the clue
That threads the maze of life when I lost you.
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 dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest 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.
I am comparing the sonnet loss and sonnet 18. These poems are alike because they are comparing a person to seasons and objects. In the sonnet loss they are writing about a loved one that has passed away and are comparing their emotions to seasons. “I lost the hope of Spring, the joy of June, The Autumn’s peace, the Winter’s firelight.” In the sonnet, sonnet 18 they are comparing their love for somebody to a summer's day. “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”