Our minutes pass, and time destroys everything that it once made beautiful. But my poetry will survive, praising you. I am so sick and tired of things as they are, that I am looking forward to death — except that in dying I would leave my loved one alone. Let your mourning for me be short. I would rather you forget me, even when you read my poem, than be unhappy, for which you might be mocked. I am in the winter and sunset of my life, an old, fading fire.
But seeing me like this might make your love for me even stronger. Concluding that this would only strengthen their love. He acknowledges the superiority of the rival poet. He and his rival are compared to two different kinds of ships. Farewell, you are too precious for me to keep, and I was mistaken in your love. The poet relinquishes his claim on the young man.
If you are going to leave me, do it quickly. Do it while things are going badly for me that way my other misfortunes will dwindle by comparison. He spurns what others enjoy, because he invests everything in his beloved, who can thus deprive him of everything. Some apparently admirable people have a natural power over others and over themselves, but this might eventually turn nasty.
A meditation in the third person, an essay in miniature. The gift of beauty carries with it an obligation to behave virtuously. The best final couplet of all the sonnets. Being away from you feels like winter, and even though it is summer and autumn, the best of the year is always where you are. When I read the poetry of the past, praising the most beautiful people, I realise that they were really describing you, but could never do so adequately — nor can we.
True minds in love know that love never changes but lasts forever, and, if I am wrong, I have never written anything, nor been in love. To be possessed by lust wastes vital energy which, being acted upon, promises heaven, but only leads to a hell of guilt. My mistress is nothing like any of the false comparisons usually drawn in love poems, and is therefore more special than any woman about whom such false claims are made. A meditation about a mistress. The traditional forms of beauty celebrated in love poetry are unnecessary to provoke desire.
My loved one and I both know we are lying to each other, she about her faithfulness, I about my age, but our lies help our relationship to function. A meditation about a male and a female for whom the poet feels contrasting love. The good and bad Angel sonnet. I am sick from loving you, but want to remain so, even though I know it is fatal, and is turning me mad. He is in the grip of a mania, Love is a disease. He has been abandoned by reason. And I know you are not what you pretend to be.
A shivering final couplet. For explanatory notes and paraphrases of all Shakespeare's sonnets, see All the Sonnets of Shakespeare ed. A sonnet is a form of verse with these main characteristics: One stanza of 14 lines Usually written in iambic pentameter Structured in three quatrains each with their own ABAB rhyme schemes and a final couplet The final rhyming couplet often sums up or gives a surprising twist. They may be addressed to a series of different people.
William Herbert - refused to marry Elizabeth Carey, granddaughter of the Lord Chamberlain, the patron of the company Shakespeare worked for.
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I do like the sonnet, though. However, the boldness of the promise seems to have been somewhat warranted. After all, we are still reading the sonnet, and the beloved is still remembered, at least a little, by being featured in it.
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