There is a Thin Line Between Love and Lust.
In Shakespeare's sonnets the idea of love is a frequent topic. The love he normally speaks of is disclosing a sense of purity. However in sonnet 128 Shakespeare proclaims a pure love that can be viewed as promiscuous and lustful.
At first sight sonnet 128 seems to contain an unalloyed love and desire for someone else. Nothing in the sonnet seems to have a negative tone intently. Actually the words written are flattering. Yet the poet turns the flattering to lust when the compliments are more gratifying for his sexual desire than any love that may be present.
The sonnet is full of compliments of this sort. Ten of the fourteen lines that make up the sonnet are devoted to compliments. Except the compliments, instead of being gratifying are obsessive and sexual. "I envy those jacks that nimble leap to kiss the tender inward of thy hand" (128.5-6). He is addressing his wish to be the keys on the virginal she is playing exhibiting his over obsessiveness. The sexual desire found here is also evident in line 12 "Making dead wood more blessed than living lips". By finding the keys that touch her hand more blessed than his lips that stand alone the line simultaneously shows his vulgar want of the woman's body.
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"Since saucy jacks so happy are in this" (13). He is in a sense putting down her in a vulgar manner by telling the woman playing the instrument that her keys are irrelevant to the situation. As if she needs to quit the playing that she is enjoying doing and pay attention to him. Along with the obscene vulgar ness he displays an unfulfilled longing for the woman he feels the need to control and jealously of the keys that get the chance to touch her body. "Whilst my poor lips, which should that harvest reap, at the wood's boldness by the blushing stand" (128.
The most accepted date of their composition is between 1592 and 1598 . ... Shakespeare differentiates between two types of love in his sonnet sequence. ... It is often called the great sonnet on lust. ... Lust is depicted as a cruel thing. In the very last line there is a sharp contrast between heaven and hell, both applied to symbolize sexual intercourse. ...
He often used paradoxes or rather an oxymoron to show the contradiction between situations or objects. ... Donne however concocted his own form, not using the fourteen line, iambic pentameter model as the root of all sonnets. ... In the first quatrain, the speaker spends one line on each comparison between his mistress and something else (the sun, coral, snow, and wires--the one positive thing in the whole poem some part of his mistress is like. ... The direct link between the two is the "vivid immediacy" he shows towards the girl and God. ... "But Shakespeare ends the sonnet by proclaimi...
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). ... This line also has contemporary relevance to today as it still may occur in practice or in language. ... 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. ... We can compare this type of love to that in Sonnet 130. ...
Sonnet 29, lets us know whether the speaker tending to a man or a lady. ... In Sonnet 130, the references to such protests of perfection are undoubtedly show, yet they're there to delineate his mate is not as beautiful- a collection of dismissal of the sonnet structure and substance. In Sonnet 29, the speaker depicts his depression and his low self-esteem. ... He's oxymoronic and envy that he needs to be similar to other individuals, in the same way as "One more rich in trust " (line 5), and with unique feature, companion, intelligence, and have more hope when he prays but he doesn&...
Shakespeare's sonnet 23 embodies the speaker's intense but also restrained love due to his timidity and tizzy. ... Lines nine to twelve of Sonnet twenty three speak for him: "O! ... In line ten there is a phrase "dumb presagers " which is hard to be understood. ... Why does the speaker "plead for love"" and "look for recompense" in line eleven? ... In order to let the young man understand that deep silent love is the most sincere emotion, the speaker compares his love with the glib person's by using metonymy and repetition in line twelve. ...
The metaphor of nature is continued in the fifth line. ... "Then of thy beauty do I question make- this is reflective of the fact that youth and beauty both fade, but inner beauty and lust for life doesn't. ... The narrator is saying that his love is beautiful, but like all beautiful things, with time, will die. ... "Full many a glorious morning have I seen- is also a beautiful sonnet pertaining to nature and uses such technique as imagery and tone to put forth the idea that nature is not a stable entity, just like love which is alterable. ... Therefore the "disgrace- of line eight was br...
In William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, love seems to be demonstrated but the power of lust takes over. The protagonists named Romeo and Juliet who seem to be in love but in reality, they are misled by lust. ... Romeo and Juliet was not in love, their relationship was based on physical attraction and lust. ... This shows that their relationship is built on physical attraction and lust, not love. ... While it is true that this play is about love, it also appears that the attraction between the two protagonists have for each other is based more accurately on lust leading to ideal...
The absolute power of God is present in Sonnet XXIX in line twelve. " From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate" ; the phrase to me is taken as that the lark rises from sullen earth, and it also sings hymns which ascend up from earth to the gate's of heaven. ... Imagery is continuous through Sonnet XXIX. ... Towards the conclusion of the sonnet bliss begins to enter. "Haply I think on thee, and then my state ", the poet is at a sullen state up until this line. ... The closing optimistic assertion show that giving up is not an option and one must focus on what you have and not...
