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Jul 31, 2015 · Sonnet 35. 35. Synopsis: The poet excuses the beloved by citing examples of other naturally beautiful objects associated with things hurtful or ugly. He then accuses himself of being corrupted through excusing his beloved’s faults. No more be grieved at that which thou hast done. Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
Sonnet 35: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done. By William Shakespeare. No more be grieved at that which thou hast done: Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud, Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. All men make faults, and even I in this,
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In this particular sonnet, unlike the few that have come before it, the speaker tells the youth that he has forgiven him. He is ready to forget about what happens and even argues against the points he made in the previous sonnets. He discounts the metaphorthat compares the youth to the sun and his sins to clouds saying that this is normal. The spea...
‘Sonnet 35’ by William Shakespeare is a fourteen-line sonnet that is structured in the form known as a “Shakespearean” or English sonnet. The poem is made up of three quatrains, or sets of four lines, and one concluding couplet, or set of two rhyming lines. They follow a consistent rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG and are written in iambic pentame...
Shakespeare makes use of several poetic techniques in ‘Sonnet 35’. These include but are not limited to metaphor, alliteration, and enjambment. The first of these, metaphor, is a comparisonbetween two unlike things that does not use “like” or “as” is also present in the text. When using this technique a poet is saying that one thing is another thin...
Lines 1-4
In the first lines of ‘Sonnet 35’ the speaker begins by alluding to the previous sonnets in which he discussed a mistake the Fair Youth made. This beautiful young man did something that disappointed and angered the speaker. But now, he is ready to forgive and forget. He tells the youth that he shouldn’t be upset anymore about what he “hast done”. He compares the mistake to the thorns on roses and mud in fountains. These things happen or exist and there’s nothing that anyone can do about it. T...
Lines 5-8
In the second quatrain of ‘Sonnet 35,’ the speaker continues to discuss the universality of mistakes. He brings himself into these comparisons by saying that even he is at fault by making all these comparisons. He is excusing the youth’s transgressions by comparing them to other things. In this, he is corrupting himself. He is taking the other side when before now he had chastised the youth for his mistake. The speaker now believes that he’s making more excuses for these sins than the sins de...
Lines 9-14
In the final quatrain of ‘Sonnet 35,’ the speaker says that he, the person hurt by the youth’s sins, is now advocating for him. He is “thy advocate”. He has turned the entire thing around so that he is working against himself to plea for the youth. There is a “civil war” inside himself between “love and hate”. The final couplet concludes the poem by using a metaphor to compare what the speaker is doing by forgiving the youth to helping a “sweet thief,” or villainwho is there to rob him.
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Excusing these sins more than these sins are. And 'gainst myself a lawful plea commence. To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me. No more be grieved at that which thou hast done. And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. Excusing these sins more than these sins are. And 'gainst myself a lawful plea commence.
The 1609 Quarto sonnet 35 version. NO more bee greeu’d at that which thou haſt done, Roſes haue thornes,and ſiluer fountaines mud, Cloudes and eclipſes ſtaine both Moone and Sunne, And loathſome canker liues in ſweeteſt bud. All men make faults,and euen I in this,
Translation. No more be grieved at that which thou hast done. Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. 5 All men make faults, and even I in this, Authórizing thy trespass with compare, Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss, Excusing their sins more than ...
