William Shakespeare Sonnet 94 a comparison of 2 critics
William Shakespeare's sonnets have intrigued scholars and critics for centuries. Not only has Shakespeare deviated from the Petrarchan way of writing a sonnet and created the Shakespearean Sonnet, he also used his sonnets to criticize society and its individuals at the time. An example of such a sonnet would be Sonnet 94 " They that have power to hurt, and will hurt none". Sonnet 94 is one of the most difficult sonnets of the sequence, in terms of the reader understanding of what the speaker is talking about. The sonnet is split in two by two almost unconnected descriptions. In the first part of the sonnet we have a description of people who are in power but who won't become power hungry and take advantage of it and the second part deals with a flower in the summer and how striking is the resemblance between the stench of a rotting lily and the "stench of corruption" when a person in power uses his means for the wrong reasons. In an attempt to explain Sonnet 94 and offer a critique of it, Albert S. Gerard in his article "The Stone as a Lily: A discussion of Shakespeare's Sonnet 94" and Helen Vendler in her book " The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets", offer extremely specialized and complex views of Sonnet 94, not really criticiz
M Garnier's quoting their works and never really giving a concrete explanation of the sonnet. In two instances he uses a quote in German by R. Gerard approach this sonnet from two different points of view. He constantly refers back and forth between R. 403) Her jargon is evident in the first line when she uses terms such as " structural experiment". Gerard, although much more jargonistic, is Helen Vendler. He quotes the lines from sonnet 93 " How like Eve's apple doth thy beauty grow/ If thy sweet virtue answer not thy show", but his interpretation of the lines in relation to Sonnet 94 is ambiguous because he derives his explanation from Fischer's work and his "Dark Lady" which Albert S. For example he alludes to sonnet 93 in connection with line 2 of sonnet 94 and the word "show". Garnier, which he does not translate or explain. Baldwin offer, and although they have a different interpretation of the "friend'" character, Albert S.
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