Beowulf, Sonnet 116 And A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

Important Titles
(Analysis of Three Favorite Titles) Throughout the first semester of my senior year, there were a lot of different stories, as well as poems, that we covered thoroughly. There were some that I thought were very interesting and really captured my mind and attention, but then there were some that I felt didn’t relate to me at all, which made them lose my interest. Although it was very interesting learning more about some of Shakespeare’s works, it was also quite interesting to learn about some authors that I haven’t ever heard about before. Along with all the different texts that we looked at, it came to my realization that almost all of them created a different mood for me. It felt as though there was a lot of information covered, especially considering we did all of it in a matter of about four months. My three favorite texts that we covered, were Beowulf, “Sonnet 116”, and “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.” First of all,
After memorizing it, this poem really started becoming even more important to me. Sometimes I lose myself and feel as though I’m never going to find love that will live on after I die, but this poem always reassures me that I can. Basically it talked about how love goes on forever, so if you’re truly in love, it will never stop. In the sonnet on line 5, “O, no! It is an ever-fixed mark, that looks on tempests and is never shaken.” This is assuring that love doesn’t change with time, but bears it out to the end of time. Honestly, this message is very significant, and Shakespeare wrote it in such a beautiful way. I really loved this poem, and I could honestly probably say out of all the titles we studied, this might’ve been my favorite. It also mentioned that the most important times in a relationship are the bad times; not the good ones. This is such a brilliant observation, and it makes me really