Essay: Analysis of Sonnet 83 :: Sonnet essays

Analysis of Sonnet 83   I never saw that you did photo did use up, And therefore to your fair no painting set. I found, or horizon I found, you did exceed The barren tender of a poets debt. And therefore oblige I slept in your report, That you yourself, being extant, well might show How furthermost a modern quill doth come excessively short disquisition of worth, what worth in you doth grow. This silence for my sin sis you impute, Which shall be muost my glory, being dumb, For I impair not being beauty being mute, When others would transmit life and bring a tomb. There lives more life in one of you fair eyes Than both you poets ass in congratulations devise.     In some of Shakespeares Sonnets we the reader can see that he was against the put on of cosmetics. Commonly referred to as painting, we see this sonnet to prove his disfavour for the use of beautifying agents. 1-2 I never thought, because of the way you appear to me, that you ever needed cosmetics, and therefore, you dont need a cosmetic kit to make you beautiful. Set here can also be read as a verb, as in the drying of the make-up. (Make-up in Elizabethan England was quite different from todays, including some such elements as lead in the composition). 3-4 Exceed does refer to the barren tender, only when it wouldnt be inappropriate to infer that Shakespeare is reflecting upon an exceeding amount of cosmetics applied. But better is the exceeding in the absent or of no worth payments (of flattery) of a poets debt. Debt is taken to mean both the debt that poets know to beauty, as their duty to praise it, and also a pun on monetary deficiency. This then refers back to tender, intend both bonkers and supple as well as currency. All of these words take in a theme of finance, perhaps outlining the worth of the addressee. 5 Report meaning description. 6-8 Because your (still) existing self very well may show merely how far a modern quill writing instrument at the t ime comes too short in speaking of your worth, the worth that grows in you.