Romanic poems and sonnets are the types of literature that attract me the most. ... Sonnet 116 completely entices me. ... My next interpretation of Sonnet 116 is that it attempts to define love. ... He mentions of two of the biggest, most intangible forces in human nature, love and time. ... Shakespeare uses the sonnet to fully describe love, and is able to powerfully to add certainty to his point....
In "Sonnet 20," Shakespeare grapples with paradoxes, centering his poem on a man both masculine and feminine, powerful and powerless-the impossible object of a homosexual love that should not be. Through images of eyes and wealth veiled in double meanings, penned in the freeing and restricting form of a sonnet, we find that the subject's dual nature endows him with great power, yet the greatness of this power is what ultimately limits him. ... Although his dual nature endows him this advantage, the tragedy is that he cannot act upon the power given to him because of his sexuali...
Nature Imagery SYMBOL ANALYSIS There's a lot of nature in this poem. ... Nature is endowed with English-ness here, as it will be again soon. Line 4: The speaker imagines himself as a part of nature, a pile of "dust concealed" in the earth. ... Dust is a metaphor for the speaker's relationship to nature and for the fact that he may soon be dead. ... ANALYSIS FORM AND METER A Sonnet In Your Bonnet What we've got here, gang, is a sonnet. ...
Similarly in Sonnet 12, Shakespeare's use of poetic devices is used in conjunction with the actual words to enhance the idea of the passage of time. ... Shakespeare uses imagery to parallel the themes of the passage of time and nature by combining the two and using the idea of day and night to represent a natural clock. ... Now again through the use of imagery and figurative language the author seeks to parallel the theme of the passage of time to the themes of nature and human youth. ... These lines seek to link together the themes of nature and human youth to the main theme of the passa...
