Let me not know any marriage of two in love with any
objections. Love is not love if it changes when prompted to do so. Or changes
when one decides to remove themselves. Oh no, it is a permanent thing that does
not waver and is never shaken; it is the light that guides every ship, whose
worth cannot be measured. Love cannot be measured by time, although time may
fade physical looks such as rosy lips or cheeks. Love cannot be measured by
hours or weeks, but lasts until the end of time. If I can be proven wrong by
this, I have never written, nor has any man ever loved.
Sonnet 29
When my fortune has been disgraced and everyone has left me
in my horrible state, I cry to God in heaven with no response, and look at
myself cursing my own fate, wishing that I could be someone who possess more
hope, better luck, such as man with many friends, someone who possess talent
and skills and unconcerned with the things I’m interested in the most. Yet in
these thoughts of despair, thoughts I most despise, I think of you and then my
state begins to disappear from something depressing into something as heavenly
as hymns sang to God. When I remember your sweet love, I feel so wealthy that I
wouldn’t trade places with the richest kings.
Sonnet 116 is a poem that delves directly into the concept
of love and its many descriptions and its final two lines gives this final
statement of certainty concerning the nature of love described previously.
Sonnet 29 on the other hand, sets up this juxtaposition between the speaker dissatisfaction
and feelings of self-loathing towards himself and its feelings of love towards
his lover. He spends majority of the poem stating that he is so unlucky that he
even wishes to be someone else, but once he begins to reflect on his lover, he
feels wealthier and happier than kings. Love is not even mentioned until the
last two lines of the sonnet. I think that Sonnet 29 in particular connect with
Elizabethian sonnets because of its use of exaggeration and also their way of
speaking against themselves in order to woo its lover. Sonnet 116 uses great
examples of exaggeration as well, but it does not seem to be directed at one
particular person. I liked the shift near the end of Sonnet 29 because its
contrast really reflected just how much he loved this person. No matter how
disgraced or inadequate the speaker felt about himself, it compared nothing to
the love he felt for his lover.
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