Two Masterful Sonnets of Detail
In “Sonnet 33” and Sonnet “144”, Shakespeare presented a masterful skill of using specific detail to represent his pieces. Even though Shakespeare writes plays for theatre purposes, he “makes the Sonnets themselves his living art.”(Edsmon and Wells) In “Sonnet 144”, Shakespeare uses dark phrases to describe about his two different loves and how they interact with each other while in”Sonnet 33”, Shakespeare describes something that is more beautiful than anything that he has ever seen. In his sonnets, Shakespeare uses rhyme scheme, metaphor, and imagery to make readers understand his themes and specific details of the sonnets. By using rhyme scheme, Shakespeare structures his quatrains to have a rhyming sound …show more content…
In Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 33,” he used “sovereign eye” (Line 2) to prove that he had the ability to verify what true beauty was when he described the morning and landscape. Basically, in the beginning of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 33”, he uses a lot of metaphor to describe the landscape that he sees. Another example is when he said “gliding pale streams” (4) and “heavenly alchemy” (4). In these metaphors, he describes the streams in the landscape to be “heavenly” as if it came from Mount Olympus itself. Shakespeare also compares the sky to have a “celestial face” (6) which expresses that the morning sky was extremely bright like a star in the sky. In the beginning of the “Sonnet 144”, Shakespeare uses metaphor to describe two different types of spirits that are always around him. In “Sonnet 144”, Shakespeare talks about a “spirit” being a “worser spirit.” (Line 4) So, this explains that one of the spirits that is around him is a devious “spirit.” He also describes it in another specific detail by stating its color to be “coloured ill.” (4) The “evil” spirit that Shakespeare talks about it mentioned many times in this Sonnet since he thinks says it is overruling the other. He talks about it again by calling it his “female evil.” (5) Shakespeare also tells us how the spirit tries to transform the other spirit into a dreadful one by persuading it with its “foul pride.” (8) “Shakespeare’s …show more content…
Since Shakespeare wanted people to think or visualize what he thinks, using imagery was a good way to do that to also keep people constantly thinking and somewhat entertained. In this sonnet, Shakespeare established “a correspondence between imperfect nature.” (Farby) Before describing a certain someone in the “Sonnet 33”, Shakespeare first describes the “glorious morning” (Line 1) which he used as one of the most beautiful things he seen. He also uses it to have a common image that everyone’s seen. Shakespeare mainly starts off with this specific imagery to set out the scheme for imagery in this sonnet. To describe how beautiful the landscape is in the beautiful morning, he adds that the land was “meadows green” (4) with “pale streams.” (4) Shakespeare describes the land to be extremely green with beautiful rivers running through it almost making people thinking that he was looking at a valley. People can probably visualize it as a valley when Shakespeare says that the morning brings out the “mountain tops” (2). But not everything was beautiful with the morning according to Shakespeare since a “basest cloud” (5) had interfered with the beauty of the morning. In “Sonnet 144”, Shakespeare clearly presents a image of “two spirits” (Line2) in the second line. The two “spirits” that Shakespeare presents in the beginning of “Sonnet 144” were the keystones