In the second quatrain, Shakespeare uses symbolism and imagery of an ever-fixed mark and a star to depict love’s resilience and strength when tasked to deal with obstacles symbolizing how true love cannot be moved. On line five of the secondhand quatrain, “ever-fixed mark” Shakespeare allows the reader to create some imagery as to what is fixed in place. This mark is like a lighthouse fixed in a position for everyone to see in dark and stormy times. The imagery created in regards to the fixed mark uses the creation of the lighthouse to show how it can withstand the obstacles even when beaten down like love. The symbolism of the north star in “ it is the star to every wand’ ring bark” is that it is supposed to represent love as if it was the …show more content…
Using personification Shakespeare tells the reader that love does not have any affiliation with time, unlike a jester in the medieval time period when stating “love’s not time’s fool” (Shakespeare 9). Advancing the non-relatable relationship with time, the use of imagery “though rosy lips and cheeks” allows the reader to gain the understanding that love will never fade in comparison to physical appearances as they age and change with time. This point is strengthened by Emily E. Stockard’s article “Patterns of Consolation in Shakespeare's Sonnets 1-126” stating that the “infidelity of love, simply declaring that true love exists and defined it as unchanging” (Stockard 24). Stockard is attempting to showcase to the reader that love unchangeable and will remain the same. The use of symbolism appears once again when the incorporation of a “bending sickle” describes time representing death due to this tool being used by the grim reaper. Due to time not having any relationship with love, death does not have any positive relationships with love as well. In contrast to the bending of the sickle, love is like an arrow because it is straight and true without having any defects to take it off course. When Shakespeare states “love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom” he is explaining how even death is imminent love does not change and will endure to the edge of death (Shakespeare
At the mention of the phrase, “love can transform a person,” most people reflect upon the happiness and blessings that come with finding one’s other half. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet broadens the spectrum of love’s possibilities as the play narrates the progressions of a doomed relationship toward death. Belonging to two rival families, the Montagues and the Capulets, Romeo and Juliet cultivate their forbidden love and marry in secret. After a string of misfortunes, including Romeo’s exile and Juliet’s arranged marriage with another man, the two lovers commit suicide, unable to imagine a life without one another. Through the use of oxymorons and hyperboles dotted throughout Romeo and Juliet’s interactions, Shakespeare communicates
The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short story originally published in the 1843 edition of The Pioneer. The story looks at the obsession people have with human perfection. The main characters in the story are Aylmer, the intelligent and well-known scientist, and his beautiful new wife Georgiana, whose only imperfection is the birthmark on her cheek. The symbols such as the birthmark itself used in Hawthorne’s story are not only used to represent objects, they are also used to depict the themes within the short story. The symbolic significance of the birthmark ties into the theme of human dissatisfaction with perfection. It is nature's will to set natural boundaries that prevent man from achieving perfection. In order to be human, you must have some type of flaws and imperfections.
Besides poison representing death, Shakespeare also uses images of death which symbolize sorrow. One example of such imagery involves the time when Romeo leaves the Capulet party and leaves Juliet behind. He uses images of a lifeless body and death to show the sorrow he feels when he is not with his beloved Juliet.
The powerful story of “The Birthmark” takes us back in the latter part of the 19th century
...been the concept of ‘Romeo and Juliet’. People in society know that Romeo and Juliet as ‘two people who had a forbidden love, and died as a result of one of them not wanting to live without each other. The structure of the entire story as a complete tragedy from the beginning to end really makes Romeo and Juliet's so called love overwhelming and even more heartbreaking because for the reason that the audience is completely aware of their brewing deaths. The journey of Romeo and Juliet is the compulsive cycle from intense love to powerful death. To conclude everything, it is shown through actions, words, and events that the theme that Shakespeare strongly portrayed in the story was death, because for the fact that it seemed that they thought that death was their only way for them to be together for eternity.
Love is ironic. It can take you anywhere in the world unexpectedly, and turn you into a person that you never were. However, love is also two-faced, having both a negative and positive view. It is what drives you to the point where you do not know who you are anymore. In Shakespeare's story, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare perceives love with the personalities and actions of the characters, Romeo and Juliet. Both Romeo and Juliet are characterized as immature and irrational due to their "love." In addition, both characters fail to realize the reality of life and go towards the path of adolescence. Even though Romeo and Juliet are doomed at the end of the journey of "love," their demise was caused by their rash and silly decisions because their belief of everlasting love blinds them from reality and shapes their lives into an unstoppable time bomb.
Shakespeare also incorporates illusion as a tool to make the reader connect the two love stories without having to explain the moral of Cupid. When he says that “love looks not with the eyes but with the mind; and therefore is the winged Cupid painted blind,” he is trying to say that love is more than just looks, but the connection between two people (240-241). Cupid is the universal symbol of love which leads the readers to understand the meaning of the speech; Helena has so much affection for
That means, the approaches of poet’s love remain the same. In one place, he portrays beauty as conveying a great responsibility in the sonnets addressed to the young man. The poet has experienced what he thinks of as "the marriage of true minds," also known as true love, that his love remains strong, and that he believes that it’s eternal. Nothing will stop their love, as in the symbols like all the ships, stars and stormy seas that fill the landscape of the poem and so on what can affect to their love. The poet is too much attracted with the young man’s beauty, though this indicates to something really bad behavior. But in another place, Shakespeare makes fun of the dark lady in sonnet 130. He explains that his lover, the dark lady, has wires for hair, bad breath, dull cleavage, a heavy step, pale lips and so on, but to him, real love is, the sonnet implies, begins when we accept our lovers for what they are as well as what they are not. But other critics may not agree with this and to them, beauty may define to something
Although I understand Shakespeare’s sonnet, and it does relate to me, I interpret his view of death in a different manner. In truth, death is inevitable, but I don’t wish to be consumed by the idea of it. Only through ever changing time can we create a deeper understanding of the world in which we live, and develop strength and compassion within ourselves and one another.
The love that a person has for someone is not the same for other people. They can look at their love through nature or just by their beauty. Shakespeare has the ability to explain his love for someone by using nature as a reference. Looking at two of Shakespeare’s sonnets 18 and 130 explore the differences and similarities between one another. In Sonnet 18 and 130, both show Shakespeare’s knowledge in developing his love and respect.
From the works of William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser it is clear that some similarities are apparent, however the two poets encompass different writing styles, as well as different topics that relate to each other in their own unique ways. In Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” and Spenser’s “Sonnet 75”, both poets speak of love in terms of feelings and actions by using different expressive views, allowing the similar topics to contain clear distinctions. Although Edmund Spenser’s “Sonnet 75” and William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” relate in the sense that love is genuine and everlasting, Spenser suggests love more optimistically, whereas Shakespeare focuses on expressing the beauty and stability of love.
...derstanding of time passed and time that remains allows one to become comfortable with such circumstances and express a love that must soon retire.The metaphors that represent the theme throughout the poem are similar in the way they all show the devastating and destructive factors of time. Further more, they provide a discourse surrounding the issue of mortality. With anticipation increasing from beginning to end, Shakespeare is able to demonstrate a level of comfort surrounding the inevitable. The continual imposition of death on life is a universal experience. Autumn turning into winter, day turning into night, and a flame diminishing entirely all illustrate this. The increase in intensity of associated color with metaphors mimics the intensity of the ending. As the end draws increasingly near, it becomes undeniable and provides the catalyst for the lesson of love.
Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, denying Time's harvest of love, contains 46 iambic, 15 spondaic, 6 pyrrhic, and 3 trochaic feet. Like the varying magnitudes of stars that distinguish the sky's constellations, infused with myths describing all degrees and types of love, the spondaic, trochaic, and pyrrhic substitutions create a pattern of meaning that can be inferred by the discerning eye and mind. Shakespeare emphasizes his denial of the effects of Time on love by accenting "not" in lines 1, 2, 9, and 11, and "no" in lines 5 and 14. The forceful spondees at the beginning and the regular iambic feet at the end of each quatrain progressively build the poet's passionate rejection of love's transience. Quatrains 1 and 3, declaring what love cannot be, enfold his definition of love in Quatrain 2. The spondee, "It is," draws attention to the word "star" and the poem's essential metaphor, equating love and the North Star, at the poem's heart in lines 7 and 8. This figure of speech implies that while one can feel the intensity of one's love, i.e. measur...
This poem speaks of a love that is truer than denoting a woman's physical perfection or her "angelic voice." As those traits are all ones that will fade with time, Shakespeare exclaims his true love by revealing her personality traits that caused his love. Shakespeare suggests that the eyes of the woman he loves are not twinkling like the sun: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" (1). Her hair is compared to a wire: "If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head" (3). These negative comparisons may sound almost unloving, however, Shakespeare proves that the mistress outdistances any goddess. This shows that the poet appreciates her human beauties unlike a Petrarchan sonnet that stresses a woman's cheek as red a rose or her face white as snow. Straying away from the dazzling rhetoric, this Shakespearean poem projects a humane and friendly impression and elicits laughter while expressing a truer love. A Petrarchan sonnet states that love must never change; this poem offers a more genuine expression of love by describing a natural woman.
The poem by Helen Ferries expresses what love can bring. In the first stanza Helen use the personification “there’s a wonderful gift that can give you a lift”, giving love human-like characteristics. Meaning that love can make you feel light and happy. She uses the cliché “it’s a blessing from heaven above” to anesthetizes readers instead of alerting them. Helen refer that love is something that is sacred and one should hold on to it and never let it go. To me it also means that God sent the right person that you were made for to you. Ferries compares love to a star because stars most of the time are drawn in a yellowish color. Yellow is the color of the sun which makes the reader believe that love gives you that warmth feeling of everything being okay. In the second stanza she uses a simile, “like a star in the