How Does Shakespeare Present The Theme Of Love In Romeo And Juliet

Shakespeare is a great playwright, and sonneteer, his work is admired by many people world wide and he proves to have been very good with his work on love in his writings. His sonnets are special, in that the overall perspective is not expected to be given in such a way; meaning that readers would expect that a male poet of his time would give more attention to the love of the female rather than writing 126 out of 154 sonnets for a young man more or less. For this paper I will be presenting the three most famous and most favored sonnets of the collection that are going to stand as very efficient examples of the explanation of the different forms of love expressed in the group of sonnets. I will start with sonnet 18 that is one which is proved …show more content…
I find that Shakespeare 's negative inference to time is interesting and expected because in several previous and upcoming sonnets he complains about how time is stealing away his own personal youth and is bringing him closer to death. A very strong technique that he uses discreetly in my opinion is the contradiction and negating of a point in order to prove the opposite. He says that love is not subject to the effects of time, then he says but physical beauty matters. The latter contradicts the former because if looks matter then time can abuse the youth and beauty of a person leaving him/her loveless; but the brilliance of Shakespeare 's technique is that the bigger point proven is that with true love nothing maters because nothing can negatively change it at all. This takes us back to the first two lines of the sonnet saying that there is no 'impediment '. The next two lines of quatrain three simply say that true love does not last for a few hours, days, or weeks, but it lasts until your final breath taken and your final jot of blood pumped through your …show more content…
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