Sonnet VI Michael Drayton’s sonnet number six describes a setting of the world where many women paint the streets. Drayton in line 1 explains that these women are “paltry, foolish, painted things” describing them as meager or of no importance where as they try to by foolishly painting themselves with make-up like children playing adults for a day. These women surround coaches on the streets soon to be forgotten due to the fact that no poet has ever written about them in a sense that gives a person literary immortality. While viewing these women, Drayton begins to fight what he originally stated by writing about them saying “I to thee eternity shall,” in line 5. This is a very humble and romantic thing to do; give literary immortality to the
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Except in this piece, Drayton mixes the two together in a strange way. While describing the age of ripeness of his love in the tree of life, Drayton also expresses what seems to his own frail mortality. In line 1 he states “There’s nothing grieves me but that age should haste,” which states that he hopes that the aging process should slow down instead of speeding up for him and his love. In line 2 he states “That in my days, I may not see the old!” which leads me to believe that his age is not as youthful as it once was since he may not be able to see her grow old. Afterwards, in lines 3-4 Drayton describes that her two sparkling eyes are place on his descripted as “two loopholes”. These loopholes view her beauty as it is and as it once was throughout lines 5-7 stating such things as her “lovely arched ivory-polished Brow” that is now covered in wrinkles, and her “dainty hair” that has become curled and crisped in her age. Her hair Drayton goes on to compare to the moss upon an aged tree in the world, this description is one that can describe fertility in her past since many seeds can be planted when it comes to the apple of one’s eye. The nature comparisons continue on in line 9 where he says her cheeks are furnished with roses but are also sunken and leaned. Where her beauty was once highly seen, it is not hidden beneath her features that only he can see …show more content…
The only one that stands completely separate of the three is sonnet number fifty due to its morbid nature and deathly description of love. Sonnet number six has a very pleasant manner of speaking about immortality through the glimpse of women on the street who receive unknown immortality by a poem. This is contrasted by Drayton’s description of his aging lover in sonnet number eight by stating that she is aging and may be spited by the fact that he wrote about her beauty compared to her now olden features in a humorous method. The best by far is the one that sticks out the most in my eyes, sonnet fifty. The sonnet is dark and continues on the idea that love is a disease, a mental and physical disease (if one takes in the concept of heartbreak). It works best in the way that it is fully serious, unlike sonnet number eight and more thoughtful than the scatterbrained sonnet number six about many women, with its concept that many are stricken with the disease of
Except in this piece, Drayton mixes the two together in a strange way. While describing the age of ripeness of his love in the tree of life, Drayton also expresses what seems to his own frail mortality. In line 1 he states “There’s nothing grieves me but that age should haste,” which states that he hopes that the aging process should slow down instead of speeding up for him and his love. In line 2 he states “That in my days, I may not see the old!” which leads me to believe that his age is not as youthful as it once was since he may not be able to see her grow old. Afterwards, in lines 3-4 Drayton describes that her two sparkling eyes are place on his descripted as “two loopholes”. These loopholes view her beauty as it is and as it once was throughout lines 5-7 stating such things as her “lovely arched ivory-polished Brow” that is now covered in wrinkles, and her “dainty hair” that has become curled and crisped in her age. Her hair Drayton goes on to compare to the moss upon an aged tree in the world, this description is one that can describe fertility in her past since many seeds can be planted when it comes to the apple of one’s eye. The nature comparisons continue on in line 9 where he says her cheeks are furnished with roses but are also sunken and leaned. Where her beauty was once highly seen, it is not hidden beneath her features that only he can see …show more content…
The only one that stands completely separate of the three is sonnet number fifty due to its morbid nature and deathly description of love. Sonnet number six has a very pleasant manner of speaking about immortality through the glimpse of women on the street who receive unknown immortality by a poem. This is contrasted by Drayton’s description of his aging lover in sonnet number eight by stating that she is aging and may be spited by the fact that he wrote about her beauty compared to her now olden features in a humorous method. The best by far is the one that sticks out the most in my eyes, sonnet fifty. The sonnet is dark and continues on the idea that love is a disease, a mental and physical disease (if one takes in the concept of heartbreak). It works best in the way that it is fully serious, unlike sonnet number eight and more thoughtful than the scatterbrained sonnet number six about many women, with its concept that many are stricken with the disease of