Compare/Contrast of Sonnet 18 and 130
William Shakespeare was a brilliant English playwright, dramatist, and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. No other writer's plays have been produced so many times or read so widely in so many countries as his. Shakespeare contributed 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and two long poems to English literature. Shakespeare was born in the year of 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. He was born at the beginning of the Elizabethan age, a most promising time for poetry, music, and drama. His exact birth date is unknown, but it is traditionally celebrated on April 23. Church records from Holy Trinity Church indicate that he was baptized there on April 26, 1564. Baptisms usually occurred within two or three days of a child's birth. He was the third of eight children born to middle class parents. His father John was a Stratford businessman and prominent community leader. Shakespeare's mother Mary Arden was the daughter of a local farmer, whose family paid her husband a handsome dowry.Though no school record exists, Shakespeare most likely attended public school like other boys of his social class in England. W
While it is clear that Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 and his Sonnet 130 are very different, there are similarities between the two sonnets. Shakespeare creates imagery throughout both sonnets with his use of analogies. There was never a publication of a collective edition of his plays, but in 1623 two members of his acting company published the great collection, which is now called the First Folio. The years 1585 to 1592 are called the "lost years" because no records of any kind document his activities. William Shakespeare was a literary genius. His perfection of the English sonnet form, which later became known as the Shakespearean sonnet, is one of the great things Shakespeare is known for. Although his uses of analogies in both of the sonnets create a different image, the comparison of humans to nature is one similarity. In addition to his 37 plays, Shakespeare lent a hand in others, including Sir Thomas More and The Two Noble Kinsmen. The couplet at the end however, is most sincere, which completely changes the mood at the end of the sonnet. He became a principle shareholder and playwright of the successful acting troupe Lord Chamberlain's men. The ordinary beauty and humanity of his lover are what is important to Shakespeare in the sonnet, and he brilliantly uses typical love poetry metaphors against themselves. In 1582, when he was 18 years old, he married Anne Hathaway who was eight years his senior. In the opening line "'Compare' carries the substance of all love poetry, the finding of the right image to convey the subject's beauty"(Hammond 133). However, the lover's youth will not fade and the "beauty that is being borrowed from nature is owed to nature"(Howell 12). By 1592 Shakespeare had gone to London, working as an actor and by that time had already became known as an established playwright.
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