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William Shakespeare: Sonnets (Shakespearen sonnets (Almost all the love…
William Shakespeare: Sonnets
Shakespeare sonnets
There is no natural imagery, no wooing sonnets.
She has dark skin, no morality and she is sexually attractive.
She is not beautiful, she is referred to as the bay of every man.
A young man first, than a so-called dark lady.
He had not only one idealized love object but two ones.
They were published in 1609.
He wrote his sonnets in 1597.
Shakespeare wrote his sonnets at the end od the sonnet era.
Shakespearen sonnets
Almost all the love poems to a woman are bitter and negative.
He also combines formal patterns with daring and innovation.
The traditional love poems in praise of beauty and worth, for instance, are written to a man.
In many of his sonnets, the first two quatrains might ask a single question, which the third quatrain and the couplet will answer.
His sequence is largely occupied with subverting the traditional themes of love sonnets.
In many ways, Shakespeare’s use of the sonnet form is richer and more complex than this relatively simple division into parts might imply.
The couplet offers either a summary or a new take on the preceding images or ideas.
The Shakespearean sonnet is often used to develop a sequence of metaphors or ideas, one in each quatrain.
The fourth part is called the couplet, and is rhymed GG.
The first three parts are each four lines long, and are known as quatrains, rhymed ABAB CDCD EFEF.
Sonnet 75
Thus the joyousness of the opening of the sonnet is changed into the crooked freneticism of passion and unquenchable desire, from which there seems to be no immediate escape.
Nothing seems to satisfy him, and between the two extremes of satiety and starvation he finds no middle way.
Either he sees his beloved all the time, or he is all too aware of his absence.
The praise is more than slightly tinged by the overarching metaphor, which likens his behaviour to the paranoic and extreme behaviour of a miser.
It begins with the praise of his beloved.
Sonnet 130
It turns the scene upside down, the speaker loves her and finds her absolutely unique.
It is realistic, deep love even with the disadvantages.
There are shallow, empty metaphors and negative comparison in the quatrains.
It is often said that the praise of his mistress is so negative that the reader is left with the impression that she is almost unlovable.
Before Shakespeare, people idealized the woman.
The poet satirises the tradition of comparing one's beloved to all things beautiful under the sun, and to things divine and immortal as well.
Although the octet makes many negative comparisons, the sestet makes one believe that the sound of her voice is sweeter than any music, and that she far outdistances any goddess in her merely human beauties and her mortal approachability.
Petrarchan sonnet
For example, the octave may ask a question to which the sestet offers an answer.
The octave and the sestet are usually contrasted in some key way.
The sestet occupies the remaining six lines of the poem, and typically follows a rhyme scheme of CDCDCD, or CDECDE.
The octave is eight lines long, and typically follows a rhyme scheme of ABBA ABBA, or ABBA CDDC.
The Petrarchan sonnet is divided into two main parts, called the octave and the sestet.