Sonnet CX Analysis

Author: Poetry of William Shakespeare Type: Poetry Views: 410

Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there
And made myself a motley to the view,
Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear,
Made old offences of affections new;
Most true it is that I have look'd on truth
Askance and strangely: but, by all above,
These blenches gave my heart another youth,
And worse essays proved thee my best of love.
Now all is done, have what shall have no end:
Mine appetite I never more will grind
On newer proof, to try an older friend,
A god in love, to whom I am confined.
Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best,
Even to thy pure and most most loving breast.

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In Sonnet 57, the poet argues that he is not so much the young man’s friend as he is his slave. As a slave, he waits on the youth’s pleasure: “But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought / Save where you are how happy you make those.” Annoyed and sad underneath his dignified and polite phrasing, the poet seems to be losing the ability to think and judge critically: “So true a fool is love that in your will, / Though you do anything, he thinks no ill.” Ironically, these last two lines read more true if we substitute the poet for the word “love” and its pronoun “he”: “So true a fool am I in your will, / Though you do anything, I think no ill.” Following so closely after the soaring verse of Sonnet 55, the poet’s quick descent into self-pity makes his situation even more pathetic.

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