Comparing Two Love Sonnets by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Sir...

Love is a difficult thing to express in words in any given language. It is near impossible to convey the paradoxical pain and pleasure of love that sounds dreadfully horrid but simultaneously magical. Most people are often confused and have a hard time figuring and sorting out exactly how they feel and felt about their love and relationship. However, to love someone or be loved by someone is a special gift, and to be able to convey your gratitude for whatever you received out of the relationship is an extremely intense and concentrated task. Poetry is one of the best ways to express oneself sincerely. With the time and convections that go into writing poetry, it allows the reader to think of exactly what he or she desires to say, and†¦show more content†¦The last quatrain is the ending to the narrators thought, which is then summarized in the ending couplet. The ending couplet reads: Then farewell world, thy uttermost I see; 13 Eternal Love, maintain thy life in me. 14 The ending couplet acts as a sort of last word for the sonnet. It is usually not specific, but generalized to convey the basic idea of the sonnet and what the author was essentially trying to say and what he has come to after his experiences. This gives the poem a very solid feel to the ending; it feels like a catharsis for the narrator. Although similar in form and topic, the theme and tone of the two sonnets are not entirely similar. Both of the sonnets are based on love and the complex emotions that come from it, but they both do not share the same end feeling toward the general concept of love. In Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elders Farewell, Love, the narrator seems to be accepting of the failures that sometimes occur with love, and seems a little saddened and used by love and relationships. The tone that the narrator gives is that he has lived and experienced and doesnt care or feel the desire to experience anymore. This is emphasized with the last two lines of the poem that rea d: For hitherto though I have lost all my time 13 Me lusteth no longer rotten boughs to climb. 14 He generally sounds like he is too old to deal with the fickle and uncertain ways of love anymore. In Sir Philip SidneysShow MoreRelated Sonnets 18 and 130: Defending and Defying the Petrarchan Convention1241 Words   |  5 PagesSonnets 18 and 130: Defending and Defying the Petrarchan Convention  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚     Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   During the Renaissance, it was common for poets to employ Petrarchan conceit to praise their lovers. Applying this type of metaphor, an author makes elaborate comparisons of his beloved to one or more very dissimilar things. Such hyperbole was often used to idolize a mistress while lamenting her cruelty. Shakespeare, in Sonnet 18, conforms somewhat to this custom of love poetry, but later breaks out of the mold