The Messanger!

We have been studying sonnets for a few days in the class. We looked at the very first structure of a sonnet and how it was changed by Shakespeare. As well as poets before Shakespeare, he wrote love sonnets; however, the love he was describing differed from love the poets before him wrote about. Shakespeare wrote about love in friendship. Even though many people think that he wrote to a gay boyfriend, I think that he was just writing about a friendship love to a friend. There is nothing wrong with being close to a friend in a nonphysical way. If it is okay for girls to talk about love each other, why should it be different for boys, for friendship is equal to both genders?

Shakespeare’s sonnets are a beautiful creation of poetry. They contain a lot of information about romance and beauty itself. Shakespeare had a gift of making thing look different then they appear for real. His use of metaphors and similes make any poet nowadays jealous. In a short sonnet of 14 lines Shakespeare could include up to 3 metaphors, which can be recognized only with a close look at them. Interpretation of Shakespeare’s work can take ours and you still won’t be able to get it without help. The language he uses is his own creation which can’t be compared to anybody else.

Out of all the sonnets, at which we looked in the class, I like the most is sonnet 73. In my opinion this sonnet talks about appreciation of what you have, for when you loose it, you miss it the most. The idea Shakespeare followed wasn’t just about telling the boy he liked him, but it had a message for every person who would be able to see it. As well as any other poem, Shakespeare’s sonnets can be interpreted in different ways and also might contain a different message. It depends on where you are in this life and where you are going with emotional world.