Free Essays On Shakespeares Sonnet 5 :: Sonnet essays

Analysis of Sonnet 5   Those hours that with gentle work did frame The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell Will coquet the tyrants to the very same, And that un pretty which fairly doth excel For never-resting time leads summer on To hideous winter and confounds him there, Sap checkd with frost, and lusty leaves quite gone, Beauty oersnowd and bareness everyplace Then were not summers distillation left A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass, Beautys effect with knockout were bereft, Nor ir nor no memorialisation what it was. but flowers distilld, though they with winter meet, Leese but their show their substance still lives sweet.     This sonnet is fairly easy to read and understand, but there are a hardly a(prenominal) subtle ways Shakespeare makes it more interesting. First, the which in line 4 seems to mean that, but a pun arises when read aloud allowing witch to be replaced. This is definitley an choice when referring to Those hours, signific ant of time, as seeing time as a witch. Shakespeare does not hold time in such high regard, and therefore we get a slightly altered reading of line 4 and that unfair witch hastens your increasing age by fair means. In this reading, time is both fair and unfair, much recieved as a child getting his deserved punishment. 5-6 Never-resting time always forces summer into winter, where summer is unhappily detained 7-8 Where,the sap is encroached with frost, and the leaves of the tree have vanished, beauty being overly-covered and barren everywhere. 9-12 At that time summer was remembered through perfumes, (but) beautys effect the scent was subsided through the perfumes the scent is there, but the aesthetics are gone, and there was no remembrance what it really was.