Sonnet 1 deals with the juxtaposition of elements and its duality in life. The reference of Theocritus, a bucolic poet, sets the duality that characterizes Sonnet 1. “The sweet, sad years (10)” and “To bear a gift for mortals, old and young” (5), or even as expressed by Theocritus, “As much as apples sweet the damson crude/Excel; the blooming spring the winter rude” (Idyll XII) sets the oxymoronic feature of elements that represent birth and death and their joy and sorrow through life time. This may be a reflection of the desolation experienced by the Industrial Revolution. Indeed the speaker has a pessimistic view of life that creates the tone of the poem, “the melancholy years (8),” that makes her conclude at the end that it was Death the one who meets her. The juxtaposition of Death and Love plays as a final brings some light to the poem and makes the reader feel that there is actually hope after all the miseries one can encounter.
Feeling of separation are the ones encounter in Sonnet 28. A love that cannot be accomplished produces great sorrow and desperation. The love in the poem has printed the fantasy of lovers that enjoy even the touch of hands, “Once, as a friend: this fixed a day in spring/To come and touch my hand” (6-9). The issue remains in the fact that even though love one of the greatest motives of literature, music, and art in general, it produces the dimmest gloom of the soul. Contrary to Sonnet 1, in which love appears to be as the hope and happiness in life, here love is the source of misery because the absent of the lover produces quivering in people’s live. Anybody who has being in love can actually testify the pain of being away of the lover. Besides this, the fact that the feeling of these two lovers has to be kept in secret increases her affliction. Love is a topic that can be analyzed form different positions. Human beings, in general, look for some kind of love; however, the speaker demonstrates that to succeed in this quest may bring dejection to one’s life.
Sonnets 1, 43, and 28 play as a sequence in the love of the speaker. In Sonnet 1, the speaker is alone diving on the uncertainty of life when Love knocks at the door. In Sonnet 23 the separation of the lover and the uncertainty of encountering again produces the deepest sorrow in her soul. However, Sonnet 43, that can be placed in the middle of the other two sonnets. This is the blooming of love, when promises and hope take people to the “ideal Grace (4)” in an impulse of passion. Sonnet 43 utters a passionate love that presents several comparisons in an attempt to transmit the magnitude of the love she is experiencing. Even after death, she states that with God blessing she could love him. The paradox here is that all these similes are vague and only provide an idea of her intensity of love. Love is selfish in the sense that only the person who is in love experiences it. The lover is just an object that raises the love n the heart of the person in love. The speaker states that she loves her lover in all different stages of life, “With my lost saints–I love thee with the/ breath, / Smiles, tears, of all my life!” This attitude of loving someone with great passion and engaging oneself in promises remains as an immature state of love because stating that she will love him more after death denotes an illusion beyond this life. However, if this were or not an illusion, the majority of people witness a story of being in love in such a way in which the senses get disturbed. What increase the passion of this love are the spiritual allusions throughout the poem, that places her love in a higher level of love, “For the ends of Being and Ideal Grace” that can be interpreted as an allusion to God, or as the spiritual communion between two persons.
SºNnEt 1
ResponderEliminarSonnet 1 deals with the juxtaposition of elements and its duality in life. The reference of Theocritus, a bucolic poet, sets the duality that characterizes Sonnet 1. “The sweet, sad years (10)” and “To bear a gift for mortals, old and young” (5), or even as expressed by Theocritus, “As much as apples sweet the damson crude/Excel; the blooming spring the winter rude” (Idyll XII) sets the oxymoronic feature of elements that represent birth and death and their joy and sorrow through life time. This may be a reflection of the desolation experienced by the Industrial Revolution. Indeed the speaker has a pessimistic view of life that creates the tone of the poem, “the melancholy years (8),” that makes her conclude at the end that it was Death the one who meets her. The juxtaposition of Death and Love plays as a final brings some light to the poem and makes the reader feel that there is actually hope after all the miseries one can encounter.
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ResponderEliminarFeeling of separation are the ones encounter in Sonnet 28. A love that cannot be accomplished produces great sorrow and desperation. The love in the poem has printed the fantasy of lovers that enjoy even the touch of hands, “Once, as a friend: this fixed a day in spring/To come and touch my hand” (6-9). The issue remains in the fact that even though love one of the greatest motives of literature, music, and art in general, it produces the dimmest gloom of the soul. Contrary to Sonnet 1, in which love appears to be as the hope and happiness in life, here love is the source of misery because the absent of the lover produces quivering in people’s live. Anybody who has being in love can actually testify the pain of being away of the lover. Besides this, the fact that the feeling of these two lovers has to be kept in secret increases her affliction. Love is a topic that can be analyzed form different positions. Human beings, in general, look for some kind of love; however, the speaker demonstrates that to succeed in this quest may bring dejection to one’s life.
Sonnets 1, 43, and 28 play as a sequence in the love of the speaker. In Sonnet 1, the speaker is alone diving on the uncertainty of life when Love knocks at the door. In Sonnet 23 the separation of the lover and the uncertainty of encountering again produces the deepest sorrow in her soul. However, Sonnet 43, that can be placed in the middle of the other two sonnets. This is the blooming of love, when promises and hope take people to the “ideal Grace (4)” in an impulse of passion. Sonnet 43 utters a passionate love that presents several comparisons in an attempt to transmit the magnitude of the love she is experiencing. Even after death, she states that with God blessing she could love him. The paradox here is that all these similes are vague and only provide an idea of her intensity of love. Love is selfish in the sense that only the person who is in love experiences it. The lover is just an object that raises the love n the heart of the person in love. The speaker states that she loves her lover in all different stages of life, “With my lost saints–I love thee with the/ breath, / Smiles, tears, of all my life!” This attitude of loving someone with great passion and engaging oneself in promises remains as an immature state of love because stating that she will love him more after death denotes an illusion beyond this life. However, if this were or not an illusion, the majority of people witness a story of being in love in such a way in which the senses get disturbed. What increase the passion of this love are the spiritual allusions throughout the poem, that places her love in a higher level of love, “For the ends of Being and Ideal Grace” that can be interpreted as an allusion to God, or as the spiritual communion between two persons.
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