Sonnets 1

1. The difference betweeen William Shakesphere Sonnets are that every other line does not rhyme like Spencers. Well each sentence does not start off with an sentence ryhming with the others.William Shakesphere uses ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. I truly do not like how he writes his sonnets all that much, I feel like it is a waste of time to write like that when it's to understand and does't catch my attention. I love what he writes about and how he words it in some of his poems, but I hate his writting styles. Spencer writes in a ABAB BCBC CDCD EE. I truly prefer his writing style because it flows so well, thats what I feel poems should do, I don't think that poems should be hard to read. Poems should give you a good feeling, not a confused feeling. But I truly am not a fan of the sonnet.


William Shakesphere


The beginning of the poem he is asking is she like a summer's dance, is she temperate like the summer. I she is easily swayed like buds in the wind, Even though summer is short it is good



The second paragraph is from a second point of view were there saying that summer time is to hot , and it takes your complextion away, summer makes peoples's looks fade, and summer is kind of rough untrimmed.



The third paragraph talks about how everything should do the opposit of what it actually does that is the turn, fire should harden ice and ice should make a fire.



In the fourth paragraph he concludes it by saying that love makes everything happen because people live off it.





Edmund Spencer



In the first paragraph he is saying that the person he loves so much is the total opposite of him, but the more they are not alike th emore he likes her.



In the second paragraph he is saying that by her being so cold to him she is kind of turning him off , but he still kind of likes her.



In the third paragraph now he saying that it is a wonderful thing that his heat could harden her icey ways and her ice could start his fire.



In the fourth Paragraph he is saying love can make what it wants to with who it wants to.



Shakespeare Sonnet

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
FROM fairest creatures we desire increase,(A)
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,(B)
But as the riper should by time decease,(A)
His tender heir might bear his memory:(B)

But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,(C)
Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel,(D)
Making a famine where abundance lies,(C)
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.(D)

Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament(E)
And only herald to the gaudy spring,(F)
Within thine own bud buriest thy content(E)
And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding.(F)


Pity the world, or else this glutton be,(G)
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.(G)

The first section of this sonnet he is saying that we wish that we could have beauty forever, but beauty only lasts for a time and no one can stop from losing it.

The Second Section of the sonnet he talks about the beuty that we do have makes us want it longer and we set ourself's up for something that we can not have.

In the Third Section it talks if we just look around there is beuty everywhere and if we waste our time thinking about our own, then its just a waste of time.

In the Fourth Section he says that when we only care about our self than it will lead us into destruction.

Edmund Spencer ABAB BCBC CDCD EE

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, (A)
But came the waves and washed it away: (B)
Again I wrote it with a second hand, (A)
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.(B)

Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay (B)
A mortal thing so to immortalize, (C)
For I myself shall like to this decay, (B)
And eek my name be wiped out likewise.(C)

Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise (C)
To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: (D)
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize, (C)
And in the heavens write your glorious name.(D)

Where whenas Death shall all the world subdue, (E)
Out love shall live, and later life renew. (E)


In the first section of this poem he is talking about how he is trying to get some womans attention who is barely paying him any attention.

In the Second Section he talks about when he does get her attention, its not the kind of attention he had wanted so he thinks he doesn't want that attention anymore.

In the Third Section he talks about how he wants her to notice him but he is like dust to her but he will always remember her.

In the Fourth Section he says when everything is not going right love will get you through it.