With the spirit and inner meaning of Shakspere's growth arid life, could ever have been conceived toīe other than what they are, the records of his own loves and fears. The great question is, do Shakspere's Sonnets speak his own heart and thoughts or not? And were it not for the fact that many critics really deserving the name of Shakespeare students, and not Shakespeare fools, have held the Sonnets to be merely dramatic, I could not have conceived that poems so intensely and evidently autobiographic and self-revealing, poems so one The Earl of Southampton: Shakespeare's PatronĪlchemy and Astrology in Shakespeare's DayĪre Shakespeare's Sonnets Autobiographical?Īre all the Sonnets addressed to two Persons? King James I of England: Shakespeare's Patron Stratford School Days: What Did Shakespeare Read? Save what is had or must from you be took.
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Sometime all full with feasting on your sight Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground Īnd for the peace of you I hold such strifeĪs 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found ĭoubting the filching age will steal his treasure, So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Save what is had, or must from you be took.Shakespeare Sonnet 75 - So are you to my thoughts as food to life Sometime all full with feasting on your sight, Then bettered that the world may see my pleasure Or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground Īnd for the peace of you I hold such strife,Īs ‘twixt a miser and his wealth is found.ĭoubting the filching age will steal his treasure As we all struggle with the passionate highs and lows of love, Shakespeare reminds us that we are not alone on this roller coaster. Shakespeare closes his poem with an antithesis, “ Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, Or gluttoning on all, or all away.” Once more, Shakespeare emphasizes the emotional extremes that he experiences because of his love for the Youth. The hyperbolic use of “feasting” and “starved” stresses the extraordinary intensity of Shakespeare’s emotions. Yet after a while, he desperately needs to see the Youth again. For example, “ Sometime all full with feasting on your sight, And by and by clean starvèd for a look.” In these two lines, Shakespeare acknowledges that he sometimes loses interest in the Youth. Shakespeare also employs hyperbole in the sonnet. Like a miser who hoards his possessions, Shakespeare enjoys possessing the Youth, but also fears losing him to others.
Finally, Shakespeare compares himself to a miser in lines 3-6. As rain showers provide favorable conditions and the necessary nutrients required for life to grow, so too does the Youth breed thoughts and life in Shakespeare’s mind. The second simile directly follows the first in line 2, “ Or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.” In this simile, Shakespeare compares the Youth to an aspect of ‘mother nature’. This highlights the critical importance of the Youth to Shakespeare, even suggesting that the Youth is necessary to sustain life itself. Line 1 contains the first, “ So are you to my thoughts as food to life.” In this simile, Shakespeare compares the Youth to essential nourishment.
Through simile, hyperbole, and antithesis, Shakespeare examines his contrasting feelings for the Youth. In Sonnet 75, William Shakespeare writes about his love for the Fair Youth, an unknown young man who is the object of Shakespeare’s affection.
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