Wilson’s “Shakespeare’s Sugared Sonnets”, not necessarily because I agreed with them on all points, but because their points of view were the most interesting and profound. I found many good and apt secondary literary sources about this poem, the most useful books for my work on this paper proving to be Helen Vendler’s “The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets” and Katharine M. I will interpret this sonnet first by presenting an overview on its well-ordered form and structure, afterwards I will analyse in turn the metaphors to solve the raised questions. First he compares himself to a bare tree freezing in the cold, secondly to a day which will be devoured by the dark night, and finally to a fire going to be extinguished upon its own ashes.ĭid Shakespeare really believe he was going to die soon? Was he actually referring to his own death? What effect did he want to produce by saying so? Does he consider his situation equal with the situation of his metaphors which are all placed near death or the end? Or is this sonnet just advice to his young friend? Shakespeare takes on the role of an advisor, because he is the one who possesses more life experience, and he wants to pass on the knowledge that he has gained from the experiences in his life. In this sonnet Shakespeare advises his young friend to appreciate and even to love the time he has left in his life, because of the limitation death sets to it. For these reasons I was interested in interpreting sonnet 73. I chose this sonnet of the young man-friend group because of its theme, which every human being has to deal with. On the contrary, I want to go into detail on only sonnet 73. In my partly descriptive and partly argumentative paper I want to write neither about the English sonnet-form and its origins, the differences to the Italian style, nor about Shakespeare’s life.
His following sonnets refer to an unknown “Dark Woman”.
whose identity has not ever been made entirely clear. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young male friend with initials W.H. Included in these works are his 154 sonnets which were written between 15, and later published in 1609 by Thomas Thorpe. Shakespeare, the greatest English poet of all times, has created an unbelievable variety of works.
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