Free Essay on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 65 :: Shakespeare Sonnet 65

Heres Shakespeares sonnet no. 65. Im going to (a) space it out and (b) make up in a running commentary that might be encouraging to suggest the kinds of reactions one might have in reading it. permit me know if this helps. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea nor=and not. A list . . . a slowly paced list. Of what changes of things? what scope? what do they have in common?. . . conviction is just beginning . . . But sad mortality oer-sways their power, Ah . . . none of them last. And unless they sure seem strong and gigantic-lasting. Is it true what he says? And anyway, so what? wherefore mention this? Sentence not yet reached its main clause . . . How with this fury shall beauty tie a plea, Aha heres the point the sad pathetic picture of beauty. Very general though. Does he mean any bad-tempered beauty? Hold a plea is nice a sort of legal image, no? Whose action is no stronger than a flower? beaut doesnt have much going for it to oppose time. Act ion seems to continue the legal metaphor. The image gets more particular(a)--a flower--though its still relatively general. Were almost conscious of the tone of the lamenting speaker, less so of any particular things hes naming. . . Poor pathetic beauty . . . Sentence has ended. Oh, how shall summers honey jot grasp outAgainst the wreckful siege of battering days, Fresh start new sentence. formula it again, more intensely. Its getting better, more specific. Lovely fresh sensuous orison in honey breath. Summer is a sweet-smelling person, a beloved presumably (youd hardly enjoy smelling the sweet breath of anyone else). Its breath can hardly hold out wonder what that marrow? Last long enough? A singer sustaining a long note or phrase needs breath that will hold out. And to hold out against a siege means to withstand a siege so now the summer has turned into a circumvent fortress or city. And the besieging enemy is using battering rams, and severe to wreck everything. Imager y note that were not totally visualizing summer as a person its a delicate suggestion that glides into the next image, that of the assail town. And we dont cast summer as a town, either. In fact visualize is too crude a term for what imagery this subtle does.