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Shakespeare's Sonnet 19
Title: Shakespeare's Sonnet 19
Category: Literature / European Literature
Details: Words: 398 | Pages: 1.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Shakespeare's Sonnet 19
Shakespeare's Sonnet 19
In his Sonnet 19, Shakespeare
presents the timeless theme of Time's mutability. As the lover apostrophizes
Time, one might expect him to address 'old Time' as inconstant, for
such an epithet implies time's changeability. But inconstant also suggests
capricious, and the lover finds time more grave than whimsical in its alterations.
With the epithet 'devouring' he addresses a greedy, ravenous
hunger, a Time that is wastefully destructive.
Conceding to Time its wrongs, the lover …showed first 75 words of 398 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 398 total…of imperative command, sounds more Like a plea or earnest
request.
The poet-lover changes his pleaful tone to one of scorn as he finally orders
'Yet do thy worst, old Time. Time is no longer devouring or swift-footed,
merely old. And age as Time will, the lover realizes 'My love shall in my
verse ever live young.' Shakespeare eludes swift-footed devouring Time,
giving immortality to youth, beauty, and one man's love through his surviving
verse
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