Examples Of Sonnet Poems
William Shakespeare Sonnet Poems William Shakespeare has wrote many plays, stories, and
poems in his lifetime. William Shakespeare lived for 52 years, and in his lifetime he wrote 38
plays, his series on Sonnet poems, and 5 other poems. He is the most popularly read author right
behind the Bible. The sonnets he wrote were always 14 lines, and they all have the same amount
of syllables. So, if you wanted, you can actually sing every single sonnet to a melody. The two
sonnets I chose have to do with expressing your own beauty and passing the beauty on. In Sonnet
1, Shakespeare wrote, From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty s rose might
never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear... Show more content
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You never expressed your own beauty, so no one but you and your grave will know your beauty.
The next sonnet I chose was Sonnet 11. Sonnet 11 starts out like this, As fast as thou shalt wane,
so fast thou grow st, In one of thine, from that which thou departest; And that fresh blood which
youngly thou bestow st, Thou mayst call thine when thou from youth convertest. The start of
this poem is saying, as fast as you will decline, you can also grow through one of your own
children. The youth or DNA that you pass on to a child, is you as a young child. You call that
child your own, because that was once you when you were younger. Herein lives wisdom,
beauty, and increase; Without this, folly, age, and cold decay. If all were minded so, the times
should cease, And threescore year would make the world away. Just like marriage, childbirth is
about good judgement, beauty, and reproduction. Without them, you will only have foolishness,
age, and the decay of death. If everyone was like you, the human race would end, and in sixty
years there would be no more world. Let those whom nature hath not made for store, Harsh,
featureless, and rude, barrenly perish. Look whom she best endowed, she gave the more, Which
bounteous gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish. So let the people who aren t good enough to
preserve the rough, ugly, and poor people, die childless. Mother
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