Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Sonnets
I found sonnets to be a very interesting as a poetic form. Since sonnets only consist of 14 stanzas, poets must incorporate a lot of meaning in a few sentences. This makes sonnets a very rich form of poetry. At the same time sonnets are precise and the speaker does not bore the reader with long sentences and unending paragraphs. In the first eight lines of Shakespear's first sonnet the speaker discusses how beauty fades as the beautiful grow old and time passes. If the beautiful are only concerned with themselves and do not share their beauty with the wold through sex it will eventually die out. In the 11th line, the speaker says,"Within thine own bud buriest thy content". Within the context of the sonnet the bud could be interpreted to mean penis and its content is the sperm. Many Shakespearean sonnets contain similar words with dual meanings making them interesting to read since the reader can interpret it differently every time.
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i concur to the fact that shakespeare had quit obsure meanings in his sonnets. Thats what i wrote in my interpretation. Sonnets are really much more interesting to read than long dull poems. RANA! you are on the right track to the tree of knowledge. Pick the apple so you will aquire this privilege!! pick it rana! u are on the road to becoming a CRITICAL THINKER! keep up ur efforts
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