This sonnet demonstrates Shakespeare's great ability of playing with words. According to him a person is tongue-tied when he has either too much or too little to say. He illustrates his idea by giving an example of an unperfect actor who forgets his lines on stage and more curiously, some fierce thing whose heart is weakened by the weight of his own strength. This use of paradox adds intensity to the sonnet and lays the foundation for the following quatrain. The first quatrain is like the silence before a storm; the way it is presented suggests that there is more to come. The actor and the beast are summoned to serve only as analogues to Shakespeare's double-edged analytical presentation in quatrain 2 of love's agonized lack of words: So I, for fear of trust, forget to say The perfect ceremony of love's rite, And in mine own love's strength seem to decay, O'ercharged with burden of mine own love's might. The persona here compares him to the characters beckoned in Q1. In a passage such as this, the distance between the composing author and the fictive speaker almost vanishes, as it is very easy to imagine that Shakespeare, a master of expression, would tell himself that a perfect ceremony of love could be invented. Another aspect worthy of note is the way the phrase mine own love's has been used repeatedly; in line 7 the persona speaks of the decay of his love and in the very next line he speaks of its strength. This double stranglehold is an extremely interesting case, and is beautifully expressed here. The first and second quatrains can be coupled together as they basically portray the same idea. The sonnet therefore can be divided into two parts instead of four. An octet followed by a sestet. While the octet speaks of the persona's tongue-tiedness, the sestet is a plea to his beloved to understand the depth of his love. 'O, let my books be then the eloquence / And dumb presagers of my speaking breast ' the persona here wishes that his writing be the silent and truthful foreteller of all the love in his heart.
Shakespeare's Sonnet 98 has a 4-6-2-2 pattern. ... Shakespeare's Sonnet 98 is about "shadow and substance" Sonnets 53 and 101 are also about "shadow and substance" (Magill 2531). ... Sonnets 1-126 relate to a young man. ... Sonnet 98 is a simpler version of Sonnet 97. It is thought that maybe Sonnet 98 was written before Sonnet 97 (Vendler 418). ...
He continued to write prolifically and received the Shelley Memorial Award for poetry in 1944, the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship at Harvard for the academic year 1952-53, and the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1958. ... The "chimneys" are a sustained sonnet sequence that identifies the hypocrisy, narrow-mindedness, and stagnation Cummings saw in the society around im. ... W(ViVa) (1931) contains sonnets and other poems attacking conservative and uncreative thinking. ...
One can see that William Shakspere fits the profile of a businessman rather than a writer (Bethel 53). ... In Sonnet 73, which was written in the mid-1950s, the author writes about old age and the coming of death; at this time, Shakspere wasn't even thirty years old yet (Bethel 53). ...
As far as Gianetti declares it is so because of the dramatic nature of the medium (Gianetti, 2005: 53). ... In film, there are several layers of perspective and "each voice has its own 'tone', which is determined by the consciousness" (Harrington, 1973:53). ...
