Essay: Analysis of Sonnet 95 :: Sonnet essays

Analysis of Sonnet 95   How sweet and lovely dost thou draw off the shame Which, like a sackker in the fragrant rose, Doth tell the beauty of thy budding discover Oh, in what sweets dost thou thy sins enclose That natural language that tells the story of thy days, Making lascivious comments on thy sport, Cannot dispraise but in a kind of praise. Naming thy expose , blesses an ill calculate. Oh what a sign beget those vices got Which for thy habitation chose out thee, Where beautys veil doth cover every sop up And all things turns to fair that eyes can see Take heed, serious heart, of this large privelege The hardest knife ill used doth lose his edge.   foremost Quatrain   First of all, spot can mean two things to discover and also to stain therefore, the shame that you let can both (at the same time) point out the beauty of your name, that is perchance increasing in popularity also to stain the beauty of your name. Knowing this, we must hi re the poem twice, one for each possible reading (also notice the patterned theme in the first stanza as well). Since he describeds name as budding, (and the fragrance of a rose as sweet), in what sweets can associate to the name, and then of course, the person themself. Now, question first the analogy of canker cosmos the sins thus, as the canker destroys the rose, this persons sins destroy his name (and remember only name at this point) which one?   Second Quatrain   Naming thy name naming from the stories that have been told about this person, such as rumors. (For instance, not too far from this example, mortal you have never met, but the name is known by you, is regarded as a whore. Whether this rumor is true or not, this idea will be attached to the person who has this name. Same idea here). Line 8, depending on punctuation, can be read one of two ways (more duality) if there is not punctuation, only a period, then blesses is a verb, naming is the activity of the tongue therefore, we can read Naming thy name blesses and ill report as the tongue that names you (rumors, or puts a background to this name) gives blessings to an ill report (of course, the comments of dispraise against your name).