2007-09-15 03:05:45 · 4 answers · asked by Daliane O 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
Why do you like it? And what do you think it talks about?
2007-09-15 03:12:19 · answer #1 · answered by Dancing Bee 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I like it very much since it is one sonnet that alludes to the Fair Youth much more directly and it is quite powerful in its own right.
Get the facts straight. The sonnet was in praise of a young man not a woman as some readers tend to assume. One has to understand the context of Shakespeare's sonnets first.
Sonnet 17 Meaning
.......Will future readers of my verse believe me when I tell them about all of your superior qualities? So far, I have only hinted at these qualities because a full description of them would make readers doubt that anyone could have such extraordinary attributes. They would call me a liar. They would say I am exaggerating (with “stretched meter”). However, if you marry and father a child, people will see a reflection of you in the child and, thus, my poetry about you will be taken as the truth.
2007-09-15 10:15:38 · answer #2 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I have no idea. As well, I have no idea why Shakespeare is so "loved"...His creations are really just metaphor for plain ol' simple life.
2007-09-15 10:10:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It seems to me that he is saying that the woman he writes about is so beautiful that his words cannot capture her beauty. Even if he could, people who read the poem will think he's just exaggerating, that no one could be so lovely. The last couplet says something like if she had a child who looks like her, her beauty will live on twice, in the child and in his verse.
HTH.
2007-09-15 10:18:48 · answer #4 · answered by Starfall 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋