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Sonnet 54 Project
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Sonnet 54
(a)O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem,
(b)By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
(a)The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
(b)For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
(c)The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye
(d)As the perfumed tincture of the roses,
(c)Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly
(d)When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:
(e)But, for their virtue only is their show,
(f)They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade,
(e)Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so;
(f)Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made:
(g) And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
(g)When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth.
Concluding the poem with a couplet, the poet stresses how beauty fades with time, but the truth doesn’t. By stating this claim he reminds the reader that beauty is within truth and kindness.
This concrete simile
represents beauty through the
naked eye may look festered,
but is equivalent to the inner
beauty of the bloom.
Calming diction in the first quatrain provides a soothing atmosphere for readers compared to the dramatic diction in the second quatrain.
Beauty seems even sweeter because of
how truthful the ornament is.
Elegant conceit to a rose to create an
image of beauty and youth.
In Sonnet 54, a beauty so deep and pure could only be discovered through
oneself: honesty and truth is the only way one could achieve beauty that never dies out.
William Shakespeare’s use of over exaggerated imagery and understanding of beauty
in comparison to a rose reveals the compassion the poet has toward inner beauty. The
powerful context in the lines- “youth,” “beauteous,” “vade,” “death,” “truth,” and the
simile “the canker blooms have full as deep a dye as the perfumed tincture of the
roses”- resembles such passion in beauty and those few words linger in our brains.
These few forceful words resemble that the prettiest roses could smell the worst and the
ugliest smell the best, referring to mortal beauty doesn’t compare to one’s personal
emotional beauty. The poet emphasis’ the idea of beauty fading by introducing a
thought of death, as one grows older they also get less attractive to the eye.
Unfortunately, Shakespeare and his mistress are in times hands, as time goes by their
beauty fades. By as time flies by the poet, Shakespeare, reveals the truth within beauty
which is that it comes from the inside. Unlike the moral of the poem the beauty in
Shakespeare’s words never fade, the readers are left with the idea of beauty making the
words linger in our minds so that when we might die out our beauty won’t.
Shakespeare’s words are left at the tips of tongues and remain in our hearts and minds.
The poets words echo to all humanity making people thrive in order to achieve long
lasting beauty.
Petals of Beauty
How much beauty does one unmask and reveal?
Only truth lies in the cold blossoms of
roses. Only lovely sweet scents could heal
sores that sit on the petals like a dove.
The unmasking of a rose with colors
Deep as blood can only show the lovely,
beauteous truth by which is surely bestowed,
Petals of beauty, ruined by ugly
And monstrous scents that fill roses blooms.
As the roses sink slowly, weakening;
Ones with no beauty remain smelling as
Sweet as those with no beauty for seeking.
Beauty is what life consists of, it seems,
But as one grows none will be left to redeem.