Essay: Analysis of Sonnet 95 :: Sonnet essays

Analysis of Sonnet 95   How sweet and lovely dost thou make the confound Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose, Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name Oh, in what sweets dost thou thy sins enclose That tongue that tells the story of thy days, making lascivious comments on thy sport, Cannot dispraise but in a kind of praise. Naming thy name , blesses an ill report. Oh what a mansion have those vices got Which for thy habitation chose turn out(p) thee, Where beautys veil doth cover every blot And all things turns to fair that eyes can see Take heed, dear heart, of this large privelege The hardest knife ill utilise doth lose his edge.   First Quatrain   First of all, spot can mean two things to discover and also to stain therefore, the shame that you make can both (at the same time) point out the beauty of your name, that is possibly increasing in popularity also to stain the beauty of your name. Knowing this, we must read the poem twice, one for each possible reading (also find out the floral theme in the first stanza as well). Since he describeds name as budding, (and the fragrance of a rose as sweet), in what sweets can attend to the name, and then of course, the person themself. Now, question first the analogy of canker being the sins thus, as the canker destroys the rose, this persons sins destroy his name (and remember only name at this point) which one?   Second Quatrain   Naming thy name naming from the stories that have been told about this person, such as rumors. (For instance, not too far from this example, somebody you have never met, but the name is known by you, is regarded as a whore. Whether this rumor is true or not, this idea will be attached to the person who has this name. identical idea here). Line 8, depending on punctuation, can be read one of two ways (more duality) if there is not punctuation, only a period, then blesses is a verb, naming is the action of the tongue therefore, we can re ad Naming thy name blesses and ill report as the tongue that names you (rumors, or puts a background to this name) gives blessings to an ill report (of course, the comments of dispraise against your name).