Love sonnet 8/10 !REDO! Vic H

Love Sonnet 148

The poem is 10 syllable per line with three quatrains and a couplet. He did it in the form of an Shakespearian sonnet. The Shakespearian sonnet uses an aabb, cdcd,efef, hh pattern which distinguishes his writting style from others.

In the first line I imagine someone frustrated with being in love with someone they don’t know why they are in love with. It seems as if this person cannot see why they are in love with someone and is questions their judgment.

“Or if they have, where is my judgment fled”

They are wondering where their judgment has fled to using a personification to give their judgment the ability to flee as if a human. I looked up the word censures to get a clearer understanding in the next line. The poet is asking if their criticism or condemnation of their infatuation for this other is correct. I also looked up the word dote which is extreme fondness. This gives the line greater understanding.

“If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote

What means the world to say it is not so? “

Shakespeare then defends the other against his criticism, questioning the opinions of the world. In that line Shakespeare was speaking to the reader but staying omniscient enough to be able to be speaking to everyone. He then continues questioning yet this time questioning the eye of loves truth. In questioning the eye of loves truth he is using synecdoche to combine a feeling such as love with the eye. He then discusses why loves eye could be incorrect and he points out that the eye is vexed when infatuated or straining through the occurrence of tears credited to love. As he continued to defend the love he basically states “no wonder he mistook this person”, referring to his position in the beginning. He understands that he made a mistake and compares his mis-viewing to the sun not being able to see the heavens until the clouds clear. He is comparing the clouds to the distractions that might have gotten in the way of things, and the sun as him making the mistake of not being able to see through the clouds. He is using personification in the give the sun the ability to see through clouds.

He finishes by declaring that the tears have kept him blind, referring to the strain spoken about earlier when the eye is vexed. He is saying he needs to avoid his eyes being good because fault would be found clearly in his other which proves that maybe there is something wrong with him.