However, Shakespeare boldly countered this traditional style, as evidenced by this very sonnet. Instead, the speaker remains confident that he can glorify his lover without exaggerated and unrealistic metaphors, that their love is both honest and unparalleled. Shakespeare makes sure to cover all conventional imagery like the heavens, nature, seasons, music, and classical allusions, but mocks them to realistically depict his lover.
Although atypical in the treatment of the subject matter, this sonnet demonstrates what is now known as the Shakespearean sonnet: the three quatrains and singular couplet follow the ababcdcdefefgg rhyme scheme. 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.
This creates the effect of an expanding and developing argument, and neatly prevents the poem—which does, after all, rely on a single kind of joke for its first twelve lines—from becoming stagnant. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. Themes Motifs Symbols. Suggested Essay Topics. The conclusion will bring form and content together and verify the working hypothesis of this term paper.
In the second part of this chapter, the content of the poem, with special attention to the concept of beauty in the context of the history of the traditional love sonnet, will be analysed. There is no occurrence of forms of address or personal pronouns referring to the second person singular or plural. The relationship between the speaker and the subject matter can be analysed by looking at the choice of words in the poem. Next, the external form, the rhyme scheme and the metre of the poem will be analysed.
Sonnet consists of 14 lines. It is a traditional English love sonnet, which is divided into three quatrains and a concluding heroic couplet in the end. The poem consists of external rhymes. Its rhyme scheme has the form abab cdcd efef gg. In the three quatrains, alternate rhymes are used. The heroic couplet consists of a rhyming couplet. The metre used in Sonnet is an iambic pentameter. As well as the external form of Sonnet , it is typical for the traditional English love sonnet.
In summary, it can be said that the form of the sonnet corresponds in every way to the traditional form of the English love sonnet. Next to the communicative situation and the structure of a poem, the rhetorical devices are to be analysed.
In Sonnet , it is striking that Shakespeare uses many similes and much imagery. In line 2, Shakespeare uses again a simile, pointing out that her lips are not as red as coral. Next, Shakespeare includes the image of white snow. The white colour traditionally symbolizes purity and innocence.
The image implicates that the mistress is the opposite of being innocent and pure. The next images are expanded to two lines.
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