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Shakespeare sonnets

CONCLUSION
Having studied W.Shakespeare sonnets and his creative activity we came to the last conclusion. Shakespeare was very famous for his sonnets, especially plays, tragedies. While studying his sonnets I understand that his sonnets were dedicated to the young man and the dark lady. Shakespeare’s most popular works are sonnets and a few of them, such as sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day), sonnet 116 (Let me not to the marriage of true minds) and other sonnets have become the most widely-read poems in all of English literature. Although love is the overarching theme of the sonnets, there are three specific underlying themes (1) the brevity of life, (2) the transience of beauty and (3) the trappings of desire. The first two of these underlying themes are the focus of the early sonnets addressed to the young man (in particular Sonnets 1-17) where the poet argues that having children to carry on one’s beauty is the only way to conquer the ravages of time. When choosing a sonnet to analyze it is beneficial to explore the theme as it relates to the sonnets around. Considering one or two sonnets in detail discuss Shakespeare’s explanation of the experience of writing Shakespeare has written over a thousand sonnets and has grown in experience after every one. In many of his sonnets he describes how the voice of the verse can save you from the clutches of death and preserve your life forever.
Shakespeare’s sequence of 154 sonnets should be read together because they interlock and create a narrative. The story revolves around the poet’s relationship with his two muses – a young man with whom he is infatuated and then later a “dark lady”
The muses are used to break down the sonnets into three sequences, as follow

  1. The Fair Youth sonnets (1-126)

  2. The Dark Lady sonnets (127-152)

  3. The Greek sonnets (153-154)

In my opinion his sonnets are very famous for their unique.Understanding the significance of sonnet can help you strenghten close reading analytical skills,build a better appreciation for poetry,and derive more meaning from your reading.The sonnet is a significant form of poetry with a set structure. It is difficult to appreciate today how important Shakespeare’s sonnets were.At the time of writing,the Petrarchan sonnet form was extremely popular and predictable!They focused on unotainable love in a very conventional way;but Shakespeare’s sonnets managed to stretch the strictly obeyed conventions of sonnet writing into new areas.
Shakespeare therefore paved the way for modern romantic poetry.The sonnets remained relatively unpopular until Romanticism really kicked in during the nineteenth century.It was then that the Shakespeare sonnets were revisited and their literary importance secured.
His sonnets are translated into Uzbek and read with great interest. Shakespeare's sonnets occupy a unique place in the Shakespearian heritage, because they are his only lyrical pieces, the only things he has written about himself. By reading between the lines of the sonnets, we may see a tragedy in Shakespeare's life, a tragedy that he might not have fully understood himself. Despite the author's intention, we feel that the poet's friend, who is praised so warmly, is a shallow, cruel and petulant man; the dark lady is wicked and lying. Thus, in the sonnets we may see the great misfortune of a genius, who wasted his life and soul for the sake of persons unworthy of him.There is a major theme running through the cycle: the theme of the implacability of Time. How could one triumph over it? The poet gives two answers: the first is: one lives forever in one's children, in one's posterity. The second is: one may achieve immortality if one's features are preserved by art, and particularly in poetry.
Scholars and critics have made many attempts to discover all the mysteries of Shakespeare's sonnets, as they may shed light on his life, but generally to no avail. It is important to remember that Shakespeare's sonnets were written at a time when such sequences were fashionable, and thus the sonnets may be more an exercise in literary convention than in autobiography.


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