Question

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Now that you have read Sonnet 116, recall the language, images, and themes of Sonnet 55. Compare and contrast these two poems by William Shakespeare. How are they alike? How are they different? In your response, be sure to cite specific examples from each work. Please answer this reflection in at least 2 paragraphs of at least 4 sentences each.

Answer 1

What these two sonnets, 116 and 55 have in common is that they both speak about romantic Love. This can be seen in the last lines of sonnet 55: So, till the Judgement that yourself arise, /You live in this, and dwell in lovers’ eyes. And the middle of sonnet 116: Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks /Within his bending sickle's compass come.

They differ tho, in the fact that sonnet 116 speaks about Love in general, while sonnet 55 speaks about love for a particular person. Also, sonnet 55 speaks a lot about time, death and decay, and how and love and poetry overcome that.