I have read one or two Shakespearean sonnets previously and I remember disliking them as I felt that their language was too complex and their structure was too awkward. So I wasn’t very happy to hear that we will be studying them during the coming few weeks. However, I surprisingly enjoyed reading sonnets 1 and 2 in class and therefore my views towards Shakespearean sonnets have changed... positively, of course.
The structure, in my opinion, is not limited at all... The poet, carefully choosing his/her every word, may express a lot in just 14 lines (however, analyzing and decoding the poet's message will be more difficult for the reader). Shakespeare’s sonnets, for example, are very concise yet packed with themes, imagery, figurative language, symbolism, etc. An example of a metaphor used in his Sonnet 2 is “And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field” where “deep trenches” are wrinkles caused by aging.
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i completely agree. sonnets can seem very complex at first but after reading them twice or thirty times they become interesting since you start unraveling some of the hidden meanings.
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