Differences Between Tone and Theme in the two of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

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Differences Between Tone and Theme in the two of Shakespeare’s sonnets

Introduction

     The research aims to explain the interaction of Theme and Tone in Shakespeare’s sonnets. The method used was to analyze the Sonnet within the lines of poetry and a paradoxical meaning between the lines and between the couplet and quatrains within a sonnet. The poetic tone is the language of love used to convey romantic feelings for hundreds of years. Shakespeare is no exception; he has written numerous love poems that continue to be quoted today. His love poems are famous because he brilliantly captures many different types of love. Sonnet about the young man and Sonnet about the dark lady successfully illustrate Shakespeare’s knowledge of various types of love.

            In Sonnet about the dark lady, Shakespeare portrays a speaker who finds true beauty in his mistress’s ordinary appearance. While in Sonnet about the young man, Shakespeare boasts about his ability to preserve his beloved’s outward beauty in his poem for eternity. These sonnets depict two very different types of love; genuine love for another and vanity. Discussion continues by explaining the difference in tone and difference outlined in the Sonnet of the young man, who takes love above anything else in the world, and the Sonnet of the dark lady, where we conclude that black is beauty after being considered a curse. Tones jubilar to the young man’s story and comic in the dark lady sonnet. A theme like the Theme of love is well and highly evident.

Differences Between the tone in the two of Shakespeare’s sonnets

         Although both sonnets about the young man and the dark lady are love poems, their contrasting tones tell two very different love stories. The tone used in the Sonnet of the young man is very jubilant (Ahmed., 2019). The speaker glorifies his beloved’s appearance and brags about his power to retain that beauty within the lines of his poem forever. However, the prideful speaker also emits a triumphant attitude; he is sure that through his poem, his beloved’s beauty will not fade in time, “or shall Death brag [his beloved] wanders in his shade" (Amel.2015). This arrogance makes Sonnet about the young man different from Sonnet about the dark lady.

           On the other hand, Sonnet about the dark lady is quite comical. Despite being a love poem, its speaker belittles his mistress’s appearance by comparing her to unparalleled beauties, such as the sun and goddesses. Shakespeare’s use of satire in Sonnet about the dark lady is an indirect criticism of every love poem that exaggerates the subjects' beauty. Considering the love poem is intentionally humorous, the speaker genuinely holds no genuine malice towards his mistress (Ahmed, .2019). If the Sonnet held a negative tone, its entire meaning would change, and it would no longer be a love poem.

           The poem squirts on a philosophical tone as the poet explain how beauty can be transient yet permanent. A pleading tone is identified as the speaker tries to pride the young man to stop his self-obsession and procreate and ends with a slight rebuke as the speaker explains to the young man (Amel., 2015). He would have been selfish to himself butt not procreating and continuing with his beauty.

        On the other hand, Shakespeare’s Dark Lady first appears in Sonnet about the dark lady, immediately after the last Sonnet to the Fair Young Man, with a predominance of references to “blackness” as the main attribute of his heroine. The latter appears to have a darker complexion. Nevertheless, blackness was not seen as a descriptive attribute in terms of complexion but also as behavior. Blackness in sonnets has different connotations derived from various backgrounds (Amel., 2015). Sixteenth-century England had a small population of African people whose skin color became a subject of theological debate.

Differences in the Theme in the two of Shakespeare’s sonnets

         The first Sonnet has many themes, such as beauty, the rite of passage, and the speaker’s love for the young man.

               In contrast, the Theme of this Sonnet is the decadence of the concept of beauty as, by Shakespeare, black was not considered fair in old age. No one could even admit in publicly that black was beautiful—the topic in the poem referring to black as tanned skin. Black as beauty’s hair is a metaphor: tanner skin is now considered beautiful instead of pale skin, so pale skin has passed on the metaphorical crown (Ahmed., 2019). The fourth line accentuates the metaphor, where beauty is personified by being “slandered with a bastard shame.

Conclusion

The poems are written in different styles to break two significant conventions of sonnets of earlier times. First, the aspect of love affected many people as it still affects present people in the world; many people are trying to put love above everything in the world. The discussions analyze the Sonnet within the lines of poetry and a paradoxical meaning between the lines and between the couplet and quatrains within a sonnet. The poetic tone is the language of love used to convey romantic feelings for hundreds of years. Shakespeare is no exception; he has written numerous love poems that continue to be quoted today.

                  His love poems are famous because he brilliantly captures many different types of love Races with black people who were not considered beautiful and were highly discriminated especially considered primitive. Many themes have been identified, but the Theme of love has remained outstanding.On black as a color, Otherstended to think that blackness was a curse inherited from 33 their father, Cush, the son of Ham.Is the tone related to the Theme? Tone helps develop Themes because it demonstrates where the author’s focus lies and attitude, reinforcing the themes the author is trying to develop. The tone is the author’s attitude toward a subject. The tone can be humorous, friendly, angry, or any other emotion.The Theme used has been employed to even relate to real-life to understand more.

Works

Amel Abd-Ulmajeed Taha. (2015). the concept of Time in Shakespearian Sonnets: Analysis and Evaluation Study. Omdurman Islamic University, Sudan.

Ahmed, Marwa Hussien. The Integration of Theme and Tone in Shakespearian Sonnets. Diss. Sudan University of Science & Technology, 2019.