I am sick from loving you, but want to remain so, even though I know it is fatal, and is turning me mad. He is in the grip of a mania, Love is a disease. He has been abandoned by reason. And I know you are not what you pretend to be. A shivering final couplet.
For explanatory notes and paraphrases of all Shakespeare's sonnets, see All the Sonnets of Shakespeare ed. A sonnet is a form of verse with these main characteristics: One stanza of 14 lines Usually written in iambic pentameter Structured in three quatrains each with their own ABAB rhyme schemes and a final couplet The final rhyming couplet often sums up or gives a surprising twist.
They may be addressed to a series of different people. William Herbert - refused to marry Elizabeth Carey, granddaughter of the Lord Chamberlain, the patron of the company Shakespeare worked for. His initials fit to the dedication of the book to 'Mr WH'.
He has the correct initials, just reversed - perhaps to conceal his identity. No one knows the identity of the 'Dark Lady' but possible candidates include: Mary Fitton - maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth, and the mistress of William Herbert. Emilia was also a member of the Venetian Bassano family, who were musicians at court.
Possibly the Dark Lady is an amalgam of many different women. Sonnet 2 'When forty winters shall besiege thy brow' When you become old, you should be able to show that you have a successor to your beauty — but only if you beget a child.
More usual as an argument made by a man to a woman, as part of his seduction. Sonnet 12 'When do I count the clock that tells the time' The number of hours in the day.
Everything dies, so the only way to survive is to have children. Sonnet 17 'Who will believe my verse in time to come' The last of the poems encouraging procreation - perhaps for the 17th birthday of William Herbert. Sonnet 23 'As an unperfect actor on the stage' Sometimes I lose the ability to express my love, but realise it is there — in the silence of what I have already written.
Sonnet 27 'Weary with toil, I haste me to me bed' I cannot sleep, even though I go to bed exhausted, because my mind sees you in the darkness. Sonnet 30 'When to the sessions of sweet silent thought' In solitude, the poet takes stock of his failures. Sonnet 34 'Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day' Why did you betray me?
Sonnet 44 If the dull substance of my flesh were thought Continuing the theme of absence, the poet wishes his body could move with the same agility as his thoughts. Nothing will outlive my rhyme and the way it immortalises you, until you yourself are resurrected from the dead Sonnet 57 'Being your slave what should I do but tend' Listen - I am entirely subservient to you in both my thoughts and my deeds, but I am aware that you may be fooling around.
Sonnet 60 'Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore' The inevitable process of maturity and decay can only be counteracted by my verse. A meditation on the power of poetry to transcend time. Sonnet 71 'No longer mourn for me when I am dead' Let your mourning for me be short.
A plea for oblivion. Sonnet 73 'That time of year thou mayst in me behold' I am in the winter and sunset of my life, an old, fading fire. Sonnet 87 'Farewell! Sonnet 90 'Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now' If you are going to leave me, do it quickly. Sonnet 94 'They that have power to hurt and will do none' Some apparently admirable people have a natural power over others and over themselves, but this might eventually turn nasty.
The first of three related sonnets about absence. Sonnet 'When in the chronicle of wasted time' When I read the poetry of the past, praising the most beautiful people, I realise that they were really describing you, but could never do so adequately — nor can we. Sonnet 'The expense of spirit in a waste of shame' To be possessed by lust wastes vital energy which, being acted upon, promises heaven, but only leads to a hell of guilt.
An almost breathless meditation on the feelings and consequences of lust. Sonnet 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun' My mistress is nothing like any of the false comparisons usually drawn in love poems, and is therefore more special than any woman about whom such false claims are made.
Sonnet 'When my love swears that she is made of truth' My loved one and I both know we are lying to each other, she about her faithfulness, I about my age, but our lies help our relationship to function. Log in. Conditions and Diseases. William Shakespeare.
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