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Aesthetic Multiplicity in Shakespeare's Sonnets ISSN 1923-1555[Print] Studies in Literature and Language ISSN 1923-1563[Online] Vol. 12, No. 3, 2016, pp. 1-7 www.cscanada.net DOI:10.3968/8231 www.cscanada.org Aesthetic Multiplicity in Shakespeare’s Sonnets MA Chunli[a],* [a]School of Foreign Languages, Zhongyuan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, China. INTRODUCTION * Corresponding author. Aesthetic multiplicity refers to artistic multi-layered meanings by means of choosing different images to Supported by Research Program of the National Social Sciences Fund (13CWW025). constitute different artistic conception. For the art of poetry, imagery is particularly important, as image itself Received 19 November 2015; accepted 20 February 2016 is a picture which is showed by words, and a poem Published online 26 March 2016 itself is perhaps an image which is composed of many kinds of images. The term “image” itself has been much Abstract broadened from the “imago” of Renaissance rhetoricians This article illustrates the aesthetic multiplicity of and now it is often used to include figurative language Shakespeare’s Sonnets by way of interpreting how the of almost any kind, description which appeals to the images in the Sonnets produce multi-layered meanings. physical senses, and even abstract ideas which are The image, whose essence consists not only in a fusion strikingly expressed. To be an “image”, it seems enough of affection with scenes, but more in creating “image that a phrase should impart to the reader a mental picture beyond image”, “ideas beyond speech”, is the soul of of some kind. The subject has been handled in a variety poetry. They are adopted to display the poet’s subjective of ways (Hankins, 1953, p.1). feelings and thoughts and to transform the abstract and Being the soul of poetry, image, through its terse intangible ideas into concrete and graphic pictures for rich diction, ushers readers into a vast imaginary space. implications and strong artistic appeal. This article argues Its essence consists not simply in a fusion of affection that the beauty of the image comes from its fuzziness and with scenes, but more in creating “image beyond indeterminacies, which leave enough space for readers to image”, “ideas beyond speech”. They are adopted to imagine. In the Sonnets, Shakespeare applies numerous display poet’s subjective feelings and thoughts and to images to enrich the poems’ connotation which could transform the abstract and intangible ideas into concrete arouse reader’s wild imagination, ponderings and even and graphic pictures for rich implications and strong arguments. The magic of the miraculous sonnets lies artistic appeal. Different readers may have different in these aesthetic factors and the consequent aesthetic interpretations and concretizations with regard to the effects, and lies in the never-ending illustration and the same image. Readers from different cultural background hidden charms. may exhibit still wider differences in their interpretations Key words: Aesthetic multiplicity; Image; The and concretizations of the indeterminacies of the same Sonnets; Shakespeare image. It is believed in this article that the beauty of the image comes from its fuzziness and indeterminacies, Ma, C. L. (2016). Aesthetic Multiplicity in Shakespeare’s which leave enough space for readers to imagine. The Sonnets. Studies in Literature and Language, 12(3), 1-7. Available use of imagery is only one of several factors in poetic from: http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/sll/article/view/8231 art, but it is a highly important aesthetic factor and our DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/8231 especial concern in this article. 1 Copyright © Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture Aesthetic Multiplicity in Shakespeare’s Sonnets AESTHETIC MULTIPLICITY IN THE head” and climbs the sky. The sun, he says, resembles strong youth in his middle age, but when “like feeble age, SONNETS he reeled from the day”, the watchers avert their eyes Shakespeare’s works are abundant in vivid images and from the level rays which in setting his throws athwart can evoke pictorial imagination. John Keats in one of his them. Finally, the witty couplet, with its quick bolthole letter says that, “One of the three Books I have with me pun (son), offers a last-minute escape from the doom of is Shakespeare’s Poems: I never found so many beauties solar analogy (by which a childless man would set, like in the sonnets —they seem to be full of fine things said the sun, and be found by onlookers to be of no social unintentionally — in the intensity of working out conceits” consequence). So the poet says to his friend, “So you too, (Herrnstein, 1965, p.5). The main body of Shakespeare’s fair youth, will be nothing as you age, unless you become images falls practically into two groups, those from nature the rising sun by having a son.” and those from indoor life and customs (Spurgeon, 1939, The seasons, to be sure, receive full attention. The p.44).1 Nature contains the life of the English country- image of seasons (spring, summer, autumn and winter) side, the weather and its changes, the seasons, the sky, connects with the theme of time closely, the poet resorts sunrise and dawn, the clouds, rain and wind, sunshine to four seasons’ different characteristics to praise his and shadow; the garden, flowers, trees, growth and decay, beloved friend’s beautiful appearance and to express his pruning and grafting, manuring and weeding; the sea and complicated feelings. The Sonnets are set within contexts ships, the river and its banks, weeds and grasses, pools of diurnal and seasonal change. We see the Sun in glory and water, animals, birds and insects, sport and games, of his rise and splendid in mid-career, but also reeling to especially snaring birds, hunting and hawking; these are his end so tragically that eyes are averted (7). Seasonal the things which chiefly occupy Shakespeare and remain change is continual before us. We are not allowed to forget in his mind. In his sonnets contain many kinds of images, how “never-resting Time leads summer on / To hideous but the nature imagery is dominant. winter, and confounds him there” (5). We watch “summer’s As Mr. Edward Hubler said, green all girded up in sheaves,” borne on the bier “with he [Shakespeare] saw nature precisely and was always able to white and bristly beard” (12). The future promises “winter” find the right words for her loveliness …. It is to the exercise storms, and the “barren rage of death’s eternal cold” (13). of this talent that the absence sonnets of widest fame owe their Such is our setting. renown. Two of them (“How Like a winter” and “From you I Summer is wholly desirable, but winter is “full of have been absent”) are remembered for passages of unobtrusive care” (56). The loved youth is like “the spring and foison melody and lines of easy grace. (Hubler, 1952, p.30) of the year” (53), sweet and perfect as “a summer’s day” In Sonnets 7, 29 and 33, early morning’s loveliness and (18). But, in his absence, “teeming autumn,” with all its plenitude are demonstrated well. The first two lines in “increase,” is a mockery, “For summer and his pleasures Sonnet 7, “Lo, in the orient when the gracious light, / Lifts wait on thee, / And, thou away, the very birds are mute” up his burning head,” lines 11 and 12 in Sonnet 29, “Like (97). Either that, or their songs forebode “winter.” Indeed, to the lark at break of day arising, / From sullen earth,” his absence makes it all a period of “freezings” and and the first quatrain in Sonnet 33, “Full many a glorious “December’s bareness” (97). The thought is elaborated morning have I seen, / Flatter the mountain tops with immediately: even “proud-pied April,” who injects youth sovereign eye, / Kissing with golden face the meadows into all nature, is now no better than winter (98). Thinking green, / Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy”.2 of their three years’ acquaintance, the poet writes in It is indeed clear that the spectacle of the rising sun Sonnet 104, “Three winters cold / Have from the forests seems ever peculiarly to inspire and delight Shakespeare. shook three summers’ pride, / Three beauteous springs to He connects it with youth and vigour, with strength, yellow autumn turn’d / In process of the seasons have I splendour, good cheer and renewal of life. While the sight seen, / Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn’d, / of the setting sun, on the other hand, depresses him; he Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green. / Ah, yet sees in it, not the glory of its colour, or rest and quiet, doth beauty, like a dial-hand, / Steal from his figure and or the promise of another day, but the end of things, old no pace perceiv’d….” There is a contrast between “fresh” age, and the approaching night. In Sonnet 7, Shakespeare and “green.” The beginning of this sonnet states “To me, pictures men adoring the sun when he “lifts up his burning fair friend, you never can be old,” but the doubt can be clearly sensed. However, miraculous his youth, the boy is part of nature and subjects to her laws. 1 In Shakespeare’s Imagery and What It Tells Us, Miss Caroline “Spring” appears 6 times (in Sonnets 53, 75, 97, 98, Spurgeon analyzes in a detailed way the Shakespeare’s imagery, and she classifies them into two groups: Nature imagery and indoor life 102 and 104); “autumn” 3 times (in Sonnets 53, 97 and and customs’ imagery. However, little analysis covers Shakespeare’s 104), Sonnet 73 does not mention “autumn”, but the Sonnets.
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