“To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.” All sonnets follow one form and style but it is the result of emotional pain, personal values, state of mind and rational actions that separate and differ one sonnet poem from another. Sonnets were first introduced to the world in Italy traditionally written as love poems. This particular style of poetry was invented in the early 12th century, by the head of the Sicilian school Giacomo Da Lentini. A sonnet is a lyrical poem of an Italian origin that consists of 14 lines that follows an particular iambic pentameter of 10 syllables per line, also following a specific rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef
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Sonneteers use many poetic devices to connect with their audience, mostly using devices that could create rhythm and devices that enhance the meaning behind the poem such as metaphors. For example a metaphor that was used in Shakespeare's Sonnet 73, “Death’s second self”, the poet invokes a series of metaphors to characterize various things one being the nature of what he perceives to be his old age. For example, “As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Which is soon extinguished by black night, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest”, Shakespeare portrays that after the sun sets towards the west, it is then wiped out by the black night. Shakespeare then uses the metaphor, “Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest”, to refer to how the image of death is then surrounded in rest. Shakespeare’s sonnet: Sonnet 73, contains a theme of the ravages of time on one person’s physical well being and the mental anguish associated with moving further away from youth and moving closer towards death. For example, the line “In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire, Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by”. Throughout these four lines, Shakespeare states how he is like the coal where youth doesn’t lie upon his ashes and is …show more content…
With enough analysation of many poems from different time periods, I have learn’t that throughout that time period sonnets were still based upon the same themes being love, and death or hate proving that the form of poetry itself has stayed the same being within the restrictions. Although, you could also see that even though the sonnets share and are based upon on main idea, a lot was still achieved through the poet’s chosen structure and theme of the
Sonneteers use many poetic devices to connect with their audience, mostly using devices that could create rhythm and devices that enhance the meaning behind the poem such as metaphors. For example a metaphor that was used in Shakespeare's Sonnet 73, “Death’s second self”, the poet invokes a series of metaphors to characterize various things one being the nature of what he perceives to be his old age. For example, “As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Which is soon extinguished by black night, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest”, Shakespeare portrays that after the sun sets towards the west, it is then wiped out by the black night. Shakespeare then uses the metaphor, “Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest”, to refer to how the image of death is then surrounded in rest. Shakespeare’s sonnet: Sonnet 73, contains a theme of the ravages of time on one person’s physical well being and the mental anguish associated with moving further away from youth and moving closer towards death. For example, the line “In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire, Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by”. Throughout these four lines, Shakespeare states how he is like the coal where youth doesn’t lie upon his ashes and is …show more content…
With enough analysation of many poems from different time periods, I have learn’t that throughout that time period sonnets were still based upon the same themes being love, and death or hate proving that the form of poetry itself has stayed the same being within the restrictions. Although, you could also see that even though the sonnets share and are based upon on main idea, a lot was still achieved through the poet’s chosen structure and theme of the