Elements of Shakespeare : An Analysis

There are many elements in Shakespeare's sonnets life, selfishness, dreariness but the most important on of all is love. The way he describes love in his sonnets is very sensual, kind of like infatuation. He also uses elements of nature to describe the beauty of the woman or women in his sonnets. In sonnet 19 the speaker states “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” (Shakespeare Lines 1-2) He is comparing a woman to a summers day which is commonly presumed as beautiful, bright, delightful and then they state that she is more lovelier and more mild than than a summers day. Throughout the sonnet the speaker is basically saying that summer itself does not last long enough and that her eternal summer will not fade , and she will not lose her beauty with time. She will be forever beautiful to him and no dark clouds, rainy days, will make him lose sight of her beauty. In sonnet 15 the speaker says “When I perceive that men as plants increase, Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky, Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease, and wear theur brave state out of memory.” (Shakespeare lines 5-8) What the speaker is saying in these lines is, when he observes that men grow like plants he realizes they are encouraged and raised by the same sky, wallowing in their youthful demenior and then declining when they are at their height, then they vanish until their glory is no longer remembered.

Shakespeare also uses some religious elements in his sonnets. In sonnet 29 the speaker cries “ I all alone beweep my outcast state, and trouble deaf heav'n with my bootless cries.” (Shakespeare lines 2-3) He is saying when he is alone he cries to himself and to God with useless cries. He in a sense bel...

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...ords back to writing he could then see if writing itself has gotten better or worse as the world has revolved. He also is stating that he is sure writers of the past have glorified worst subjects than the present writer.

Shakespeare's sonnets covered a wide variety of subjects and included similar content throughout some of the sonnets. Shakespeare is a man that had many confusing relationships whether they were real or fantasized about, they were all complicated some how. He also brings different types of hardships and life trials into light and turns the bad situation back to good. His sonnets reveal parts of himself that he would never come out and tell you in a conversation, you had to read it, and when you read it you have to be captivated by it some how and you have to feel what he felt in order to understand the true meaning of what he is writing about.