My Mistress Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun Literary Devices
The Importance of Sight
We may often hear the statement, “First impressions are important,” and this statement is ideally true because the first time we see something or someone is when analyze them or that item the most. When we first look at someone or something, we start gathering information for our own interpretation of what we saw. We may even begin questioning ourselves on why something or someone appears to look that way. However, the way someone or something appears to someone could even start controversie or conflicts because the way one sees something could be different from how someone else sees it. In William’s Shakespeare’s sonnet, “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing like the Sun,” the speaker is comparing his mistress to false interpretations …show more content…
What maidens loth?/What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?/What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?” The speaker sees a group of men chasing women, and people playing pipes and drums, but overall he does not know what is exactly going on, the scene just looks like a bunch of chaos. In the second stanza, the speaker views another image and this time he sees a young man playing the pipe under a tree with his lover, Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;/Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,/Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tonez:/Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave/ Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare.” Although the speaker knows that the melody is being played by viewing the image, consequently, he cannot hear the actual music because the urn is frozen in time. The speaker uses his sight to view something, and then tries to interpret it in his imagination. The speaker also talks to the youth in the image and says for him not to cry because he cannot kiss his lover, “Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss,/Though winning near the goal – yet, do not grieve:/She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,/For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!” the speaker tells the youth that because although they are frozen in time, her beauty will last forever in the case that they are frozen in
We may often hear the statement, “First impressions are important,” and this statement is ideally true because the first time we see something or someone is when analyze them or that item the most. When we first look at someone or something, we start gathering information for our own interpretation of what we saw. We may even begin questioning ourselves on why something or someone appears to look that way. However, the way someone or something appears to someone could even start controversie or conflicts because the way one sees something could be different from how someone else sees it. In William’s Shakespeare’s sonnet, “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing like the Sun,” the speaker is comparing his mistress to false interpretations …show more content…
What maidens loth?/What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?/What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?” The speaker sees a group of men chasing women, and people playing pipes and drums, but overall he does not know what is exactly going on, the scene just looks like a bunch of chaos. In the second stanza, the speaker views another image and this time he sees a young man playing the pipe under a tree with his lover, Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on;/Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,/Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tonez:/Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave/ Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare.” Although the speaker knows that the melody is being played by viewing the image, consequently, he cannot hear the actual music because the urn is frozen in time. The speaker uses his sight to view something, and then tries to interpret it in his imagination. The speaker also talks to the youth in the image and says for him not to cry because he cannot kiss his lover, “Bold lover, never, never canst thou kiss,/Though winning near the goal – yet, do not grieve:/She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss,/For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!” the speaker tells the youth that because although they are frozen in time, her beauty will last forever in the case that they are frozen in