The final major similarity is the use of nature in the poems, specifically summer and fall seasons. The quote above shows the use of summer in sonnet 18 and the explanation of the changing leaves, and change in the sun’s appearance in the sky in sonnet 73 shows the usage of the seasons to aid his metaphor of age in his poetry. In Shakespeare's sonnet 18, the speaker starts by asking rhetorically, "Would it do justice to your beauty if I compared you to a summer's day?" Then he answers his own question by saying, "No, because you are more beautiful than that." Then the poem devotes several lines to detailing the ways in which the beauty of summer is not perfect and doesn't last.
In this sonnet Shakespeare does mention rough times, however, even though sometimes there are rough times in life, love and friendship will conquer all. “Sonnet 116” is about love in its most pure form. This sonnet is praising the joy of lovers who have come together freely, and enter into a relationship based on trust, love and understanding (An Analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116.) “Sonnet 116” addresses the meaning of marriage and how it is the most pure thing in the world and if two people are in love then why should they not be married. Much like “Sonnet 18” this sonnet is about love, however, a deeper, purer love.
Natoshia A. Smith English Comp 2 Ms.Crump 9:30-10:45 "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds"(Sonnet 116) by William Shakespeare Vs. the modern song "Still" by Tamia Everyone has a different definition of love. The poem "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds" by William Shakespeare, and the song "Still" by Tamia offers an optimistic take on it. Love in both works is seen as a truly powerful, unstoppable force of nature. This idealized view of love is timeless, and still relevant to culture in our fast paced twenty first century world. The similarities of both works is the theme of Marriage, and true love.
He didn’t want to compare the subject to someone else, instead a lovely summer days is a great thing to compare with. As Shakespeare opened the sonnet with a question, he began to answer the question in line two. “Thou art more lovely and more temperate” (Shakespeare 2). In this line, temperate was used as a synonym and pun. There are two meanings of the word “temperate”.
(Shmoop Editorial Team)Throughout the sonnet there is use of imagery, for example “It is the star” emphasizing that love will guide you. Through the duration of the sonnet love being permanent is exaggerated greatly. Shakespeare emphases how true love always preserves, despite any obstacles that may arise, “Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks”. Inferring from this, we can tell he is trying to get across that even if the circumstance or person changes, love never dies. Sonnet 116 uses repeated pairs of words, “love is not love”, “alters when alteration finds” suggesting it is to be like “couples” and to also further emphasize the theme of love in the sonnet.
He uses persuasion at the start of the poem, but then starts charming his mistress by saying he’ll love her once they have sexual intercourse. One of the most obvious similarities between both poems are that they both have a male narrator. Both poems are also similar as they both contain lines about death. In Sonnet 116, Shakespeare is saying that if its true love what someone is going through then they shall love someone even until they die. “but bears it out even to the edge of doom” He is really saying, that no matter what happens through life, you shall love that person unconditionally even when they die.
Compare the presentation of the poems’ subjects in sonnets 18 and 130. One way Shakespeare presents the subject on the sonnet is the use of nature. Sonnet 18 is all about how the subject is ‘more lovely’ than even the most beautiful of things – ‘a summer’s day’. The subject is compared to nature in a different way, but still in a good light. ‘By chance or by nature’s changing course untrimm’d; / But thy eternal summer shall not fade’, this basically means that summer will come to an end but their beauty will not.
1 SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS (PARTIAL LISTING) & ANALYSIS XVIII (18) Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. This is one of the most famous of all the sonnets, justifiably so. But it would be a mistake to take it entirely in isolation, for it links in with so many of the other sonnets through the themes of the descriptive power of verse; the ability of the poet to depict the fair youth adequately, or not; and the immortality conveyed through being hymned in these 'eternal lines'. It is noticeable that here the poet is full of confidence that his verse will live as long as there are people drawing breath upon the earth, whereas later he apologises for his poor wit and his humble lines which are inadequate to encompass all the youth's excellence.
Both poems generally give a positive overview of love; both poets suggest that love is never ending and can battle through bad situations. Shakespeare’s sonnet takes the form of argument, talking about the unchanging and eternal qualities of love whilst Browning’s sonnet is like a direct poem to her husband discussing the nature of her love for him. Shakespeare starts the poem with the imperative “let me not to the marriage of true minds” which sets the tone and exploration of true love. Browning also starts with the imperative “how do I love thee? Let me count the ways!” She starts the poem with how suggesting that we can say that we love someone but we can never define the nature of true love.
.Shakespeare’s Love Sonnets Readers would find, that in comparing and contrasting two of William Shakespeare’s famous 1609 sonnets: “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” and “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun,” one would find that both sonnets express his sincere affections in a delightful manner most readers would enjoy; however, most readers would find “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun” more enjoyable. Both Shakespearean sonnets allude to the theme of love and beauty through use of metaphors to nature. Shakespeare’s conventional Shakespearean sonnet “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” is an ode, which uses a sincere tone which alludes to the mortality of his subjects’ beauty. In contrast, another sonnet of his, “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun” is another ode, of which uses a mocking tone, parodying the conventional style of love sonnets. In this sonnet, he describes his mistress as flawed, but in the last lines of the sonnet, he declares that he loves her regardless of these flaws.