LIVED DOMESTICITIES
Monday, October 22, 2012
Analysis of Sonnets, Shaquesha Smith
Let me not to the marriage of true minds By William Shakespeare
This sonnet is about marriage and love. How love/marriage isn't perfect as seen is line 6. The narrator is expressing what he believes what love is as seen in line 13. This sonnet is written is first person. I think the narrator is a man.
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why By Edna St. Vincent Millay
This sonnet is about someone reminiscing about their life during a rain storm as seen in lines 2-3. The person is reminiscing about past loves as seen in lines 6-7. Her (I assume it is a woman) memories about her youth and past loves makes her sad. I think the "lonely tree" is the woman is the and the birds are the men she can't keep. The sonnet is written in first person. I believe the narrator is a woman.
The first sonnet I read made me feel happy and excited about love. The first sonnet makes me hopeful that maybe love/marriage is different for everyone and it doesn't have to be bad. The second one is fulled with so much sorrow and sadness I just feel sad and cautious about love. The second sonnet doesn't leave you with any hope for the narrator to find or be in love.
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Nice readings of both sonnets. Do both poems present the same type of love? Does the imagery contribute to the way you reacted to the sonnets?
ReplyDeleteI think the first sonnet is about first loves and young love. The second sonnet is about a deeper kind of love that had time to grow. I think the imagery of the sonnets is a big part on how I reacted to them. The first sonnet uses words like; rosey, ocean, star. I think of light, easy living. In the second sonnet words like; midnight, ghost, winter, silent set a dark mood and it feels dark.
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