sonnet 3

The issue in Sonnet 3 is about having children and the legacy they bring. It seems that the sonnet is talking to a man and how he is preventing a women to have children "Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother,". I think the sonnet's issue is that a man doesn't want to settle down and have children. Back in Shakespere's time that is how you passed on your legacy and to not have children was shameful. It states
"Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time. But if thou live, remember'd not to be,
 Die single, and thine image dies with thee."
meaning you may be young now but eventually you will become old and not be able to have children which will leave you to die alone and to die in legacy.

May 5,2011

Sonnet 18

After reading Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, I began to understand exactly what the speaker was trying to convey. In the beginning he compares a woman to a summer's day, yet he concedes that a summer's day can sometimes be dimmed by weather, become too hot, and all in all, lasts too short of a time. He then begins to talk about how nature always changes, and that nothing ever lasts for an extended period of time. The he writes about her beauty and how it is timeless and how it doesn't matter if she grows old and passes on, her beauty will live on eternally in the words he has written. He ends the sonnet saying, that as long as this poem exists and men can live and breathe and see, they will always know and understand the forever beauty of this woman, Even if it's just through the lines of this sonnet.

Sonnet 3

As the book states, these sonnets use the same general concepts: youth, reproduction, beauty, and death. Sonnet 3 is the author’s plea to a man to consider what he is denying the world, and himself, if he does not procreate. He explains the selfishness of the man’s choice not to reproduce “Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother”, in an attempt to help him understand the importance and beauty of making another life. In another appeal, Shakespeare shows him that children are renewed reflections of one’s own youth. He reminds the man that he is a mirror of his mother’s young beauty, and if he does not create an image after himself, he will forget his “golden time”. In a final attempt to sway the man, the author illustrates the sadness of dying without one to carry on your legacy and genes.
This poem had a more direct approach to the subject than the others. In Sonnet 3, he is directly requesting of the man to reconsider his decisions, whereas in the other sonnets he is only implying that they are directed toward another young man. The book asks to study the word choice and structure of the sonnets and how they differ, and I am quite honestly having a little difficulty with that. This sonnet does use harsher imagery than the others (“unear’d womb, tomb”), which lends more of an urgency than the others. I felt a sense of caution throughout all of the sonnets, but this one struck me particularly.

Text for presentation tomorrow

I found a little plot of land
in the garden of Eden
it was dirt and dirt is all the same

I tilled it with my two hands
and I called it my very own
There was no one to dispute my claim

Well, you'd be shocked at the state of things
The whole place had just cleared right out
It was hotter than hell, so I lay me by a spring
For a spell as naked as a trout

The wandering eye that I have caught
Is as hot as a wandering sun
But I will want for nothing more, in the garden
To start again
In the hardening of every new heart but one

Meet me in the garden of Eden,
Bring a friend, we are going to have a time
We have are going to have a garden party,
It's on me, no sir-e, it's my dime

We broke out hearts in the war between
St. George and the dragon
But both in equal parts are welcome to come along
To come along, I'm inviting everyone

Farewell, to loves that i have known
Even muddiest as waters run
Tell me what is meant by sitting alone in a garden,
Seceded from the Union in the year of '81?

The unending amends you made
Are enough for one life, be done
I believe in innocence, little darling, start again
I believe in everyone

I believe, regardless, I believe in everyone

Sonnet number 3

I just looked at my notes and realized I wrote “What woman wouldn’t want her womb tilled?”. Yikes.
The basic theme I read for this is a man realizing his own mortality and his desire to procreate while he’s still young. The speaker (a man) sees his future child as a reflection of himself instead of the looking-glass. For the mother will instead recall the fertility of her youth’s fields when she has aged. The man feels that without a child his image will die along with his body. A child exists to carry on your bloodline and your name. The woman does not get this benefit as she is just the vessel of the child and fertile field. It’s funny to see the need to procreate from the males prospective there’s almost a fearful element that he won’t find his partner to give him his ultimate goal of a child.

Sonnet 9

I had to read this sonnet quite a few times to understand it, but after I did I really enjoyed it. I'm not sure that I got all of what he was trying to say, but I got it for the most part. The sonnet speaks of a man being too afraid to get married because he doesn't want to leave his wife devastated when he dies. However, if he doesn't marry he won't have children and will die an old man without children. Because he won't have children, he will not have anyone to carry on any part of his existence. Without giving his love to a wife or children he will die without sharing his love and the world will be saddened by his selfishness. He should then be ashamed of his fear of not wanting to marry because he will upset so many people and be unable to share the love in which he should.

Sonnet 3

This was a pretty hard poem to understand but this was what I made of Sonnet 3. The poem starts out by the narrator telling the man in the poem that he needs to have a kid soon and some mother will not ever have a child because of him. The woman would think who would be so selfish to not want to have a child and not have his name live on for a little while longer. Who would not want to have someone carry on their name? The narrator then says how happy that his mother was when she had him and that she was proud of him and would want him to experience the same events in his life. Have a baby and start a legacy now when you are young and in your best health. You do not want to die without a family to support you or you will not be remembered.

Alone (presentation thursday)

Hey guys this is my poem for Thursdays class if you want to look over it!

From childhood's hour I have not been

As others were---I have not seen

As others saw---I could not bring

My passions from a common spring.

From the same source I have not taken

My sorrow; I could not awaken

My heart to joy at the same tone;

And all I lov'd, I loved alone.

Then---in my childhood---in the dawn

Of a most stormy life---was drawn

From ev'ry depth of good and ill

The mystery which binds me still:

From the torrent, or the fountain,

From the red cliff of the mountain,

From the sun that 'round me roll'd

In its autumn tint of gold---

From the lightning in the sky

As it pass'd me flying by---

From the thunder and the storm,

And the cloud that took the form

(When the rest of Heaven was blue)

Of a demon in my view.

Sonnet 2

When becoming forty years old and age has made your eyebrows wrinkle
and your body is showing other signs of aging
your youth that was once showing and people once admired you for
will be worth very little
And then when you are asked "where did your beauty go"
and where are all the treasures of your passionate days
You must say with your own sunken eyes
We are all consuming shame and unprofitable praise
If you would have put your beauty to good work
If you could only answer this my child
settle my accounts and justify my old age
Proving that this beauty was once yours
   this child would be new when you were old
   and you would see your very own blood run in him when you are cold.

Delight is Disorder

I like this poem because it challenges orthodox ways of recognizing and enjoying beauty in our world. Typically it is thought that standards of perfection, precision and symmetry are strong elements in determining what is "delightful" and what is not. However, in this poem Herrick takes an interesting look at the beauty found in humanistic flaws and deficiencies; the "Delight in Disorder". For example, the speaker mentions how "civility" can be discovered even in the creativity of a careless shoestring tie. This is a rather relaxing take on the world because it can broaden perspectives and ease the mind of worries. Instead of worrying constantly to meet the expectations of a highly superficial society, the speaker assures the reader that sometimes the simple things can often times be the most satisfying. The poem encourages its audience to find joy in uncomformities and the humbling aspects of our own imperfections. By doing this, we can live a life filled less of concern or stress but instead of a peaceful, beautiful serenity.