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Essay / Elements of Shakespeare: An Analysis - 959
There are many elements in Shakespeare's sonnets: life, selfishness, sadness, but the most important of all is love. The way he describes love in his sonnets is very sensual, almost like infatuation. He also uses elements of nature to describe the beauty of the woman(s) in his sonnets. In sonnet 19, the speaker states, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? You are more beautiful and more temperate. (Shakespeare Lines 1-2) He compares a woman to a summer's day which is commonly presumed to be beautiful, bright, delicious, and then they declare that she is more beautiful and sweeter than a summer's day. Throughout the sonnet, the speaker is essentially saying that summer itself does not last long enough and that her eternal summer will not fade and she will not lose her beauty with time. She will always be beautiful to him and no black cloud, no rainy day, will make him lose sight of her beauty. In sonnet 15, the speaker says: "When I perceive that men, like plants, grow, cheered and curbed even by the same sky, boast in their youthful sap, diminish in height and bear their courageous state out of memory. » (Shakespeare lines 5-8) What the speaker is saying in these lines is that when he observes that men grow like plants, he realizes that they are encouraged and nurtured by the same heaven, wallowing in their youth and then declining when they are at their height, then they fade away until their glory is no longer remembered. Shakespeare also uses some religious elements in his sonnets. In sonnet 29, the speaker cries: “I mourn all alone my outcast state and I disturb the dull sky with my useless cries. » (Shakespeare lines 2-3) He says that when he is alone, he cries to himself and to God with useless cries. In a sense, in the middle of the paper, returning to the writing, he could then see whether the writing itself got better or worse as the world turned. He also states that he is sure that writers of the past have glorified worse subjects than the current writer. Shakespeare's sonnets covered a wide variety of topics and included similar content in some of the sonnets. Shakespeare is a man who had many confusing relationships, whether real or fantasy, they were all complicated in one way or another. It also highlights different types of difficulties and trials of life and turns the bad situation into a good one. His sonnets reveal parts of himself that he would never tell you in conversation, you had to read it, and when you read it you had to be captivated by it in some way and you had to feel what he felt to be able to understand the true meaning of what he wrote.