Comment on Shakespeare's use of the Time
and Love theme in the sonnets prescribed in your syllabus.
Shakespeare believes
that the time is a very destructive force. It is so powerful that it can decay
and destroy every mortal things of the world. Nothing is out from the clutch of
time and its shadow.
“And every fair from fair sometimes
declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course
untrimmed.” (Sonnet
No.-18)
But at the same time he also asserts the
omnipotence and invincible power of love. He has the opinion that love has
permanent and strong power to combat the ravages of time. Love is never shaken
or shattered by adverse forces or under the pressure of circumstances. True
love always remains devoted and steady and is the inspiration of life.
“…………Love is not love,
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.”.
(Sonnet no.-116)
In this scenario, Saraswathy R.
Murthy rightly said, “The theme of love is certainly the predominant theme of
the sonnets of Shakespeare. This theme is basic spirit of all sonnets of him.
His treatment of love has something divine quality". His love is ideal
love and surpasses the love of Dante for his Beatrice and the love of Petrarch
for his Laura. Nor could Mrs. Browning, in her sonnets, written much later and
addressed to her husband, equal Shakespeare’s ardor and fervor.”
It is classical
as well as Elizabethan concept that the poetry or verse preserves against the
ravages or destruction of time. Shakespeare has used this concept at a new
height even for his male patron friend. He dedicates and addresses his loving
friend, Mr. W.H, and praises his goodness, nobility and beauty. It is the firm
belief of the poet that his sonnets have inspirational and immortalizing power
so he is trying to immortalize the glory of his friend as well as love in a
mortal world which is constantly threatened with the wrecks of time. “With
utmost poetic earnestness, he brings out in such sonnets the conflict between
the invincible power of time and the unchanging devotion to love and vindicates
the power of his art to stand against the blow of time.” .......................................................................................................................................................
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