Ahmad Sidqi Abdullah Eirfaan Afif Adib Suja’ Mohd Hazman Ghazali

Yip Hong YengAmalina Sulaiman

Noor Mardhiah Che Hussin

• Sonnet= Italian word “sonetto” which means “little song”

• Generally, a sonnet contains 14 lines of iambic pentameter

• Sonnet is classified into 2 groups based on the rhyme scheme.

• William Shakespeare: abab cdcd efef gg (Shakespearean Sonnet)

• Sonnet contains a volta, or turn.

– Other modern sonnet might use 10 or 12 lines

– Often this “shortened” sonnet will still follow a set rhyme scheme or contain or distinct volta.

• Sonnet 2• Sonnet 130• Sonnet 116

The Imageries:• Forty winters shall besiege thy brow:

visual, impact of time

• Dip trenches in thy beauty’s field: visual, impact of ageing

• Deep-sunken eyes: visual

• This fair child of mine: visual

• New made when thou art old: visual

• Blood warm when thou feel’st it cold: tactile

• Family: the whole point of this poem is to convince a young man to have kids

• Time: this sonnet bounces back and forth in time taking us from the present to forty years into the future and back again.

• Appearances: this poem portrays this young man has good look

• Old Age: behind all of the talk of beauty, time, and kids, Sonnet 2 is the idea that we all get old and die.

The Imageries• Rosy lips and cheeks: visual

• Within his bending sickle’s compass come: visual

• Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks: visual

• Although his height be taken: visual

• Constant love• Ideal love• Enduring love• Marriage

• Sonnet 130 is the poet's pragmatic tribute to his uncomely mistress.

• Commonly referred to as ‘the dark lady’ because of her dun complexion. 

• Basically, Sonnet 130 is clearly a parody of the conventional love sonnet, made popular by Petrarch in England.

• In lines 1-4, 7-10, examples of imagery are evident. 

• Shakespeare uses this imagery because he is explaining that his mistress is far from beautiful.

• He is trying to implant the image of this woman in the reader’s mind.

• He says that her eyes do not shine, her lips are not red, she has dull skin, and bad hair. 

• He also says that her breath smells bad, and her voice is rough.

• He uses these images so that the reader is able to see that this woman is not pleasant looking, but his love for her is still strong.

• Most of the images in Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 are visual.

• Note that the first six lines all provide sight images.

• E.g ‘My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.’

• ‘I love to hear her speak, yet well I knowThat music hath a far more pleasing sound’

• ‘And in some perfumes is there more delightThan in the breath that from my mistress reeks.’

• ‘My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground’

• "Appearances" is a major theme in this poem.

• The poet spends a lot of the poem talking about what's wrong with his mistress's looks. He does a pretty complete dissection of her face, her body, and her smell.