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Shakespeare's Sonnets Name Period SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS Who William Shakespeare is addressing in his 154 sonnets has been and continues to be debated. Some scholars even believe that the sonnets may not be a “true” sequence, meaning that they could have been written over many years and may be addressed to different men and women. Nevertheless, the widely accepted story is presented below. William Shakespeare (the poet and speaker in this sonnet sequence) begins with a set of 17 sonnets advising a beautiful, young man to marry and produce a child in the interest of preserving the family name and property, but even more in the interest of reproducing the young man’s remarkable beauty in his offspring. Sonnets 18-126 urge the poet’s love for the young man and claims that the young man’s beauty will be preserved in the very poems that we are now reading. These sonnets, which, in this supposed narrative, celebrate the poet’s love for the young man, include clusters of poems that seem to tell of such specific events as the young man’s mistreatment of the poet, the young man’s theft of the poet’s mistress, the appearance of “rival poets” who celebrate the young man and gain his favor, the poet’s separation from the young man through travel or through the young man’s indifference, and the poet’s infidelity to the young man. After those 109 poems, the sonnet sequence concludes with a third set (28 sonnets) to or about a woman who is presented as dark and treacherous and with whom the poet is sexually obsessed. Several of these sonnets seem also to involve the beautiful, young man, who is, according to this narrative, also enthralled by the “dark lady.” Recap: 1-17 addressed to young man urging young man to marry and reproduce 18-126 poet expresses his love for the young man, problems poet has with young man, “rival poets” 127-154 addressed to or about “dark lady” young man also seems to be involved with “dark lady” When reading the sonnets, do the following: SOAPS, TP-CASTT, DIDLS Identify who the speaker addresses. Verify the rhyme scheme. meter- Identify substitutions and how they are effective. problem Is there a turn? couplet- Does it solve the problem or just comment on it? Explain the solution or the commentary. Source: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Poems. Folger Shakespeare Library. 2006 Harris, H English IV Name Period Source: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Poems. Folger Shakespeare Library. 2006 Harris, H English IV Name Period SONNET 12 William Shakespeare When I do count the clock that tells the time And see the brave° day sunk in hideous night, splendid, glorious When I behold the violet past prime And sable curls all silvered o’er with white; 4 When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst° from heat did canopy the herd, not long ago And summer’s green all girded up in sheaves Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard; 8 Then of thy beauty do I question make That thou among the wastes of time must go, Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake And die as fast as they see others grow; 12 And nothing ’gainst Time’s scythe can make defense Save breed, to brave° him when he takes thee hence. defy SOAPS, TP-CASTT, DIDLS Identify who the speaker addresses. Verify the rhyme scheme. meter- Identify substitutions and how they are effective. problem Is there a turn? couplet- Does it solve the problem or just comment on it? Explain the solution or the commentary. Source: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Poems. Folger Shakespeare Library. 2006 Harris, H English IV Name Period SONNET 18 William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. 4 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his° gold complexion dimmed; the sun’s And every fair2 from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed. 8 But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st. 12 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. 2. fair: beautiful; can also mean “blond” or “fair-skinned,” depending on the context SOAPS, TP-CASTT, DIDLS Identify who the speaker addresses. Verify the rhyme scheme. meter- Identify substitutions and how they are effective. problem Is there a turn? couplet- Does it solve the problem or just comment on it? Explain the solution or the commentary. Source: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Poems. Folger Shakespeare Library. 2006 Harris, H English IV Name Period SONNET 29 William Shakespeare When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, 4 Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man’s art° and that man’s scope, learning, skill With what I most enjoy contented least; 8 Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply° I think on thee, and then my state, by chance Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen1 earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate; 12 For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. 1. sullen: dull-colored, gloomy SOAPS, TP-CASTT, DIDLS Identify who the speaker addresses. Verify the rhyme scheme. meter- Identify substitutions and how they are effective. problem Is there a turn? couplet- Does it solve the problem or just comment on it? Explain the solution or the commentary. Source: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Poems. Folger Shakespeare Library. 2006 Harris, H English IV Name Period SONNET 60 William Shakespeare Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end, Each changing place with that which goes before; In sequent toil1 all forwards do contend°. 4 strive Nativity°, once in the main of light, i.e., the newborn Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crowned, Crookèd eclipses ’gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound°. 8 destroy Time doth transfix° the flourish set on youth pierce through And delves the parallels° in beauty’s brow, wrinkles (literally, trenches) Feeds on the rarities of Nature’s truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow. 12 And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand. 1. in sequent toil: laboring one after another SOAPS, TP-CASTT, DIDLS Identify who the speaker addresses. Verify the rhyme scheme. meter- Identify substitutions and how they are effective. problem Is there a turn? couplet- Does it solve the problem or just comment on it? Explain the solution or the commentary. Source: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Poems. Folger Shakespeare Library. 2006 Harris, H English IV Name Period SONNET 116 William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds Or bends with the remover to remove. 4 O, no, it is an ever-fixèd mark° seamark (a lighthouse or beacon) That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star1 to every wand’ring bark2, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. 8 Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come; Love alters not with his° brief hours and weeks, Time’s But bears it out even to the edge of doom°. 12 Doomsday If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. 1. the star: Polaris 2. wand’ring bark: lost ship SOAPS, TP-CASTT, DIDLS Identify who the speaker addresses. Verify the rhyme scheme. meter- Identify substitutions and how they are effective. problem Is there a turn? couplet- Does it solve the problem or just comment on it? Explain the solution or the commentary. Source: Shakespeare’s Sonnets and Poems. Folger Shakespeare Library. 2006 Harris, H English IV Name Period SONNET 130 William Shakespeare My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white1, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires2, black wires grow on her head. 4 I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. 8 I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound. I grant I never saw a goddess go°; walk My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground. 12 And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she° belied° with false compare. woman; misrepresented 1. Proverbial: “As white as snow.” 2. The comparison of golden hair to golden wire (threads of beaten gold, used in embroidery and jewelry) dated back to the thirteenth century. SOAPS, TP-CASTT, DIDLS Identify who the speaker addresses. Verify the rhyme scheme. meter- Identify substitutions and how they are effective. problem Is there a turn? couplet- Does it solve the problem or just comment on it? Explain the solution or the commentary.
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