Sonnet
Sonnet XXXIII, or Sonnet 33, by William Shakespeare, is part of the young man cycle. This sonnet discusses the young man's fleeting love, and the main theme is clouded love. The sonnet shows the sun being obscured by clouds just as the man's love is taken away from the author. Shakespeare discusses nature imagery, personifying certain elements of nature. Through structure and metaphor, William Shakespeare shows not only the beauty of the sun, but its parallel to love.The structure of the poem is divided up into an octave and a sextet. The octave is made up of two quatrains, and the sextet is a quatrain and a couplet. The first quatrain is made up of lines 1-4. "Full many a glorious morning have I seen, flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye. Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy." These four lines give a description of the sun shining on the mountains, meadows, and streams. The sun is the eye of the morning, personifying it in the semblance of a person. The second quatrain is made up lin
In conclusion, through structure, metaphor, juxtaposition, and tone, William Shakespeare shows not only the beauty of the sun, but its parallel to love. This sonnet comes at this point in the sequence because it forms a mini-play. Sonnet 33, 34, and 35 make a sequence: the betrayal, repentance, and forgiveness. A metaphor is one thing that is conceived as representing another, a symbol. Although the entire sonnet is a metaphor, a few lines are noticeable. In the line "...Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye." (2) Using "sovereign" to describe the "eye" symbolized the sun as the ruler of nature, watching over the entire world. "With ugly rack on his celestial face." This symbolizes that when a shadow is cast upon the sun, a shadow is cast upon the love the man has for the author. As the cloud passes over the sun, love is withdrawn, because the sun is a metaphor for the sun. It is bright, blazing, and sets for periods of time, just as love needs time to work things out. The author is in a cloud of despair because of the cloud that covere
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Approximate Word count = 713
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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