Analysis of Sonnets Imagery
By: Gore • July 5, 2012 • Essay • 481 Words (2 Pages) • 1,571 Views
Writing Workshop: Analysis of a Sonnet's Imagery
Analysis of a Sonnet's Imagery
William Shakespeare has the words of psalms and proverbs, and the most charming
Words a reader could ever read. His sonnets are passionate, intense, and emotional, but
The fact still is true that love is the whole theme. However, the understandings to
Shakespeare's personal experiences are written down in his sonnets, there it states his
imagination and understanding of the human heart.
The most detected state expressed in Shakespeare sonnet 29 is he describing his life
as being gloomy and a poor outcast he is among the man who have the skill and company
from friends, so in that he despises his himself, for not having more hope in him.
Shakespeare prays and weeps to the Heavens but lets it clear that his prayers are not
reaching the heavens or they are just being unheard. In all this you think it's too sad and
gloomy for a man to be degrading himself, but in the end he tells of how sweet this love is.
Then this love reminds Shakespeare that happiness is not found in wealth or riches, and
changing state with kings will not make his life more wonderful but only a pure love will.
Love is a treasure unseen.
The intense happiness expressed in Shakespeare's sonnet 106 turns the mind
around again, still he sits there putting himself down, belittling himself for not having the
worthiness to praise the fair lord's beauty. The chronicles of times before are pointing out
to Shakespeare that although he has many advantage over them by having fair beauty to
look upon, rather than to just imagine as he might be in the future, he still puts
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