The Renaissance was an era in which the cultures of the arts flourished. Various poets such as William Shakespeare, Philip Sidney and Thomas Watt, made works of arts that are still talked about to this very day. One art in particular, the sonnet, was a literary art form that gave beautiful poems a rich and powerful expressions for the readers to interpret. Many of these sonnets would be formed into sequences. A sequence in which a collection of sonnets formed to create some kind of unified work by a poet to convey a theme. There was one poet who could do this best than any other and that was the genius that is known as William Shakespeare and his sonnet sequence of sonnets 12,15,18, and 19, depicting life and romance. Shakespeare and his
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Especially on line 12, the author makes it clear as he writes the sonnet, the beauty of his lover shall be embedded in it for all time. The couplet on line 13 and 14 proves further of how the author intends to preserve the poem, “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see/So long live this, and this gives life to thee.” (13-14) which as long as people are able to read and breathe, the magnificent beauty of his lover shall live on forever through his …show more content…
However, “Sonnet XII” displays some of Shakespeare’s work involving procreation for another. Although in this sonnet, it is a little tricky to follow and intentionally uses verbiage that can possible confuse the reader in the exploration of its truest meaning. But it does complement the theme being presented. At times people are found to fell a sense of mortality or shortness of ones’ existence. Even Shakespeare himself, is all but immune to this thought. Looking over some of the most prominent lines in this sonnet, line 3 and 4 represent the feeling of young that all too readily turns to old at some point “When I behold the violet past prime, /And sable curls, all sliver’d o’er with white;” (3-4), and must turn to marriage in an attempt to stave off death and into immortality. Although this could be an attempt by the author to sway his younger readers to give up the life of being single and to settle down and get married, which of course, means to
Especially on line 12, the author makes it clear as he writes the sonnet, the beauty of his lover shall be embedded in it for all time. The couplet on line 13 and 14 proves further of how the author intends to preserve the poem, “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see/So long live this, and this gives life to thee.” (13-14) which as long as people are able to read and breathe, the magnificent beauty of his lover shall live on forever through his …show more content…
However, “Sonnet XII” displays some of Shakespeare’s work involving procreation for another. Although in this sonnet, it is a little tricky to follow and intentionally uses verbiage that can possible confuse the reader in the exploration of its truest meaning. But it does complement the theme being presented. At times people are found to fell a sense of mortality or shortness of ones’ existence. Even Shakespeare himself, is all but immune to this thought. Looking over some of the most prominent lines in this sonnet, line 3 and 4 represent the feeling of young that all too readily turns to old at some point “When I behold the violet past prime, /And sable curls, all sliver’d o’er with white;” (3-4), and must turn to marriage in an attempt to stave off death and into immortality. Although this could be an attempt by the author to sway his younger readers to give up the life of being single and to settle down and get married, which of course, means to