In poems there are 3 more popular theme concepts that writers used to express a point. These three themes being Love, Death, and Time. The theme Love can be interpreted in various ways and can be linked to Time and Death. For example, the love for time and how important it is to a specific person/thing or how love can lead to death of someone or something. Around the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century men usually wrote poems dealing with love between two people. These two people either loving each other or how their love has disappeared. Within these poems writers sometimes uses aspects of nature or the world to drive their point. William Shakespeare was a master at incorporating love in his sonnets. I will discuss the theme concept of Love in "Sonnet 18", "Sonnet 116", and "Sonnet 109." .
In the "Sonnet 18" the speaker uses love in a sense of a person describing the long lasting beauty in another person, perhaps their significant other. The speaker uses descriptions of nature and images in order to show the beauty of this particular person. In the first quatrain he begins his comparison between this person and nature by comparing them to a summer day. In the second line, "Thou art lovely and more temperate", he is saying that this person is lovelier and gentler than a summer day (Shakespeare). A summer day usually has the implications of something being beautiful and fitting. He continues on to talk about certain features of a typical summer day. "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines and often is his gold complexion dimmed;" (Shakespeare). This quote explains how nature is not always perfect by saying the sun is sometimes too hot and often times the clouds cover to sky causing that gold complexion to be dimmed. He later explains that this person beauty will never go away, characterized as them being an "eternal summer" (Shakespeare).
The majority of the 152 Sonnets Shakespeare wrote focus on love. Shakespeare wrote poems of admiration as well as poems of suffering because of love and separation. ... Sonnet 130 was written for Shakespeare's "Dark Lady". ... Shakespeare loves her just as she is and doesn't think there is anyone else like her. ... Sonnet 18 is similar to many love poems because it is flattering. ...
"In Elizabethan England--the era during which Shakespeare's sonnets were written--the sonnet was the form of choice for lyric poets, particularly lyric poets seeking to engage with traditional themes of love and romance" (Spark Notes, Shakespeare). ... "But Shakespeare ends the sonnet by proclaiming his love for his mistress despite her lack of adornment, so he does finally embrace the fundamental theme in Petrarch's sonnets -- total and consuming love." ... According to Shakespeare, love is more profound than the materialistic, romantic poems his era seems to imply. The theme of ...
Shakespeare's sonnet 23 embodies the speaker's intense but also restrained love due to his timidity and tizzy. By using metonymy, repetition and choosing effective diction, Shakespeare expresses his deep but silent love to the young man in the poem which make readers resonate with such a complex emotion. ... Lines nine to twelve of Sonnet twenty three speak for him: "O! ... It also implies that it is the poet who writes the sonnet that is far more worthy and his emotion is more profound. ... Indeed, true love never speaks....
In the first two lines in sonnet 130 Shakespeare talks about a woman. ... In the lines nine and ten Shakespeare tells how he loves to hear his woman speak but yet music has a more pleasing sound. ... In the last two lines of sonnet 130 Shakespeare concludes his sonnet. He says that he thinks his love is rare. ... No matter how ugly she is Shakespeare still loves her with all his heart and that will never change....
The abstract theme of love is explored in Sonnet 43 and 18, written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Shakespeare respectively, through a range of metaphors, alliteration and repetition. ... Both the poems, Sonnet 43 and Sonnet 18, express love in distinctive ways, Browning begins the octave of the sonnet with a question, "how do I love thee," giving the reader an indication of her intense love that is further elaborated by a three dimensional "depth and breadth and height" limit. ... On the contrary, Sonnet 18 composes of colons, semi-colons and full stops that sev...
Throughout this essay, I will be focusing on how love is presented through in Shakespeare's: Romeo and Juliet and how love is presented through a series of sonnets (18, 130 and 134). ... A sonnet is commonly used, especially with Shakespeare, to talk about love within the story. ... This can be compared to Sonnet 134 by Thomas Wyatt and how he uses oxymoron to show love and its difficulties. ... Shakespeare, when talking about love and how Romeo feels about it at that particular time also uses personification. ... We can compare this type of love to that in Sonnet 130. ...
William Shakespeare was an outstanding English playwright and a poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare is greatly known as the best dramatist ever. ... Sonnet 29, lets us know whether the speaker tending to a man or a lady. ... In Sonnet 29, the speaker depicts his depression and his low self-esteem. ... Furthermore, Sonnet 116 discuss the unchangeable nature of love, and that it's not focused around appearances or the change of things. ...
Shakespeare often uses love as a major theme in his writing. ... In Sonnets 18, 116, and 130 Shakespeare uses a pure and good love as a major theme. ... Sonnet 116 uses the night sky to define love, while sonnet 130 uses many splendids of nature to compare love. ... Shakespeare's lasting image of this star of love allows him to use nature in moderation while still heavily impacting the entire meaning of the sonnet. In sonnets 18 and 116 Shakespeare uses nature to tell what love is like or what love is better than. ...
The majority of the 152 Sonnets Shakespeare wrote focus on love. Shakespeare wrote poems of admiration as well as poems of suffering because of love and separation. ... Sonnet 130 was written for Shakespeare's "Dark Lady". ... Shakespeare loves her just as she is and doesn't think there is anyone else like her. ... Sonnet 18 is similar to many love poems because it is flattering. ...
