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    Sonnet Analysis - Sonnet Project English

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    This sonnet analyzes William Shakespeare's Sonnet 25 about everlasting love being worth more than fame or fortune. Through its powerful structure and couplet, the sonnet explores how those obsessed with fame are eventually forgotten while true love endures. The poet feels unrecognized compared to those of high status who boast of popularity. However, he notes that the proud will ultimately be buried like the marigold at sunset. The couplet resolves that the poet and his beloved are free from such complications, as their love cannot be removed from where it lies. In the end, the poet's words live on for readers while those obsessed with fame are lost to time.

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    Sonnet Analysis - Sonnet Project English

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    This sonnet analyzes William Shakespeare's Sonnet 25 about everlasting love being worth more than fame or fortune. Through its powerful structure and couplet, the sonnet explores how those obsessed with fame are eventually forgotten while true love endures. The poet feels unrecognized compared to those of high status who boast of popularity. However, he notes that the proud will ultimately be buried like the marigold at sunset. The couplet resolves that the poet and his beloved are free from such complications, as their love cannot be removed from where it lies. In the end, the poet's words live on for readers while those obsessed with fame are lost to time.

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    This sonnet analyzes William Shakespeare's Sonnet 25 about everlasting love being worth more than fame or fortune. Through its powerful structure and couplet, the sonnet explores how those obsessed with fame are eventually forgotten while true love endures. The poet feels unrecognized compared to those of high status who boast of popularity. However, he notes that the proud will ultimately be buried like the marigold at sunset. The couplet resolves that the poet and his beloved are free from such complications, as their love cannot be removed from where it lies. In the end, the poet's words live on for readers while those obsessed with fame are lost to time.

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    Sonnet Analysis - Sonnet Project English

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    Tia Bentivegna
    This sonnet analyzes William Shakespeare's Sonnet 25 about everlasting love being worth more than fame or fortune. Through its powerful structure and couplet, the sonnet explores how those obsessed with fame are eventually forgotten while true love endures. The poet feels unrecognized compared to those of high status who boast of popularity. However, he notes that the proud will ultimately be buried like the marigold at sunset. The couplet resolves that the poet and his beloved are free from such complications, as their love cannot be removed from where it lies. In the end, the poet's words live on for readers while those obsessed with fame are lost to time.

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    Tia Bentivegna

    Ms. Gardner
    English 10, Period 2
    17 Sep 2014
    Sonnet 25: Analysis
    In Sonnet 25, everlasting love is immune to the need for fame and fortune: Through a
    forceful sonnet structure concluding with a powerful couplet, the poets message lives on. This
    sonnet illuminates the effects of being caught up in a world of fame and honor; however, the poet
    notes how his love is worth more than any of that hierarchy. William Shakespeares use of a
    problem developed in his three quatrains and eventually settled in his captivating couplet clearly
    stages the poets angst against the higher life and people of honor who continually boast about
    their popularity. The sonnet begins with the issue early on in the first quatrain where the poet
    notices that everyone that comes from royalty, fame, or honor is looked upon much more and
    greater than he, who is unlookd because he does not have any of that.
    Later on the problem is developed within the middle quatrains when Shakespeare notes
    that all people of greatness and popularity are one day forgotten and will not matter as much as
    they appear to. Shakespeares use of an impressive simile announces what will soon happen to all
    of these types of people: But as the marigold at the suns eye; / And in themselves their pride
    lies buried. This forcible simile accentuates the reality that ultimately comes from fame and
    money which is the loss of love and character, as well as those people will forever swallow their
    own pride. The comparison between the marigold and the sun represent that pride that is sooner
    or later buried within the human.
    In the end, the issue is resolved as Shakespeare says he can avoid all of these
    complications. Shakespeares closing couplet embedded in this sonnet portrays how his love and
    pride is all within his beloved, and it cannot be removed: Then happy I, that love and am
    beloved / Where I may not remove nor be removed (13-14). Conclusively, the poet and his
    beloved are free from all of the obstacles and disadvantages that later come with fame and
    fortune. Since they are mortal, they will eventually die; nonetheless, they will always be in each
    others hearts. The poets words continue to live on as we, the readers, continue to examine them
    with our minds, words, and voices. The poet is ultimately greater than all of the popularity that
    he notes is not worth the complications in the end, and his compelling words are carried through
    to his many generations of readers.

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