Sonnets
Sonnets have been around for a very long time, since poets such as E. E. Cummings to Frost and Auden to William Shakespeare to so many others. In modern times Shakespeare’s work is more popular to the education system yet students still read very few. Without background knowledge or with little information about literacy it is very easy to tell that sonnets are constricting, they emphasize the difficultness within the writing. Sonnets follow the typical abab cdcd efef gg rhyme scheme. The last word of the line must rhyme with the following line.
In William Shakespeare ‘Sonnet 73’ the beginning of the poem talks about the beauty of the seasons changing,
“Bare ruin’d choirs where late the sweet birds sang.” (Shakespeare)
He talks about the seasons changing and it’s becoming colder outside, birds aren’t singing like they used to. Everything was good in the town until the seasons changed.
When the sonnet switched to the cd cd part of the scheme, the tone and mood of the play shifted. Instead of talking about singing birds, it mentions death and darkness.
“In me thou seest the glowing of such fire/ That on the ashes of his youth doth lie” (Shakespeare)
Shakespeare then switches to talking about the death of someone’s youth, that because the seasons change along follows this darkness that creates a bad energy, wreaking havoc on some lives.
The inevitable changing of the season, which is looked as at such a positive and beautiful thing, is now no longer looked forward to because of the less desired events that come afterwards.
