Analysis Of Sonnet 5

Shakespeare, one of the greatest English authors whose literature arose in the late sixteenth century early seventeenth century was widely known and considered as “the greatest dramatist of all time.” He is mostly praised for his works that include the ever so popular Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth, but most importantly for his creation of the 154 Sonnets which is a compilation of 154 fourteen lined poems that follow a strict rhyme scheme. I have come to a conclusion as I have read and analyzed the first ten sonnets written by Shakespeare that all ten sonnets have a reoccurring theme in which the author addressed to a young selfish man. He is addressing the young man in order to encourage and urge him into getting married and starting his own family so that his beauty can live on through his children and be passed down from generation to generation even after he grows old and wrinkly and passes away. In Shakespeare’s fist sonnet Shakespeare kind of sets the tone and theme of time, immortality, selfishness, and of breeding. He

Throughout certain lines in sonnet five, the reader can infer how the man was unable to escape times grasp. As time passes by the man finds that the face he was once had that was admired by many will eventually vanish like the flowers in winter. He uses an analogy of people creating flower scented perfumes to remember the smell of the flowers in winter, without the perfume he believes people would have forgotten the scent that filled the air in the past summers, he compares the flower scented perfume in winter as people creating children to remind and console them during their old age of their youth, if he was childless he would have nothing to remind him of his youth. And just as people could attain the smell of flowers he could attain his youth by bearing a child. This ties down to the themes of selfishness, time, immortality, and