Shakespeares Sonnet 54

Mark Paley, Michael Orton

Contemporized Sonnet
O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem,
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour, which doth in it live:
The canker blooms have full as deep a dye,
As the perfumed tincture of the roses,
Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly,
When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:
But for their virtue only is their show,
They live unwooed, and unrespected fade,
Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so,
Of their sweet deaths, are sweetest odours made:
And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
When that shall vade, by verse distills your truth.
The children wait to get the loving hound,
but no one stops to think about the stray
and people rather walk inside the pound.
The feral dogs appearance wrecks his day.
The pup is warmed while at the fireplace
while the mutt stands coldly outside in the rain.
And while the pooch is brought into embrace,
The cur is left and feels a loveless pain.
And as the stray consumed his final breath
no one seemed to even care that he died
The family woed the loving puppys death
And many times the youthful children cried.
The the wanted pup lives on in familys thought
But mutts not wanted, dead in streets are not
 Analysis Mark Paley
Sonnet Analysis #54
The average people are never remembered: youth is forever in memory. Shakespeares Sonnet fifty-four shows us that even if you appear to
be beautiful on the outside, your inside may have thorns just like a rose and many other wildflowers mentioned in the sonnet. In the same lines as
describing the beauty on the inside and thorns on the out, Shakespeare shows a double meaning as he also uses the same metaphor to describe truth.
This reveals that the truth is good to hear and it is nice to know that you arent being lied to, but what you learn from the truth can sting, like that of a
rose's thorns. Shakespeare also says that roses are unlike other wildflowers because of their sweet scent, the true metaphor of this is the roses being
those who are literate, intelligent, or even famous and the wildflowers being the average people. The metaphor of roses still being wanted after they
die is their legacies will remain known for a long time and may even be studied by older generations. The wildflowers, however are forgotten and
never wanted nor remembered after their deaths.The last lines of the sonnet state that youth will forever be preserved in the verses of Shakespeare.
Shakespeare is really saying that nothing will ever be forgotten as long as we choose to remember those important things from youth. Shakespeare
says the same fate that awaited the roses applies to youth, that when our youth dies out, we are not all gone because the scent left behind or the
memories, will become stories told in families for generations and the legacy of our youth much like the roses will stay sweet. Shakespeares Sonnet
fifty-four has a conflicting message, he says that the regular people or the wildflowers will be forgotten and have no legacy, but in his conclusion he
says that the memory of everyone will live for generations in the stories and memories left behind. While this may be confusing at first, a closer look
reveals that both can be true. While for a majority of people, your legacy will die, but your memories will live on in your select group of friends and
family. The roses, however are well known and will be remembered and loved by the majority of people instead of the minority.
Analysis Michael Orton
In Shakespeare's Sonnet number 54, he poetically describes a woman's youth in a large metaphor comparing her to a rose: the rose in the

lines has thorns which are the truth of her age, but the beauty of the rose defies that number given. Through verse, Shakespeare tells us The rose

looks fair, but fairer we it deem, giving us his opinion on her looks compared to others that may be judging them. Other lines give us an

understanding of her true beauty through her dye, possibly signifying her personality. The canker blooms have full as deep a dye/As the perfumed

tincture of the roses is specifically what Shakespeare wrote, telling us that the canker blooms, or runt roses have the same color as the pristine

ones with the perfumed smell. The smell is making a reference to personality and dye to looks, telling us that she is not only beautiful but also has a

beautiful personality. At the couplet of the poem, Shakespeare finally addresses who he is talking about throughout the sonnet, his fair lord. Before,

he told that only the sweet smelling roses are distilled into perfume, unlike the runt roses that only die off. This again is the comparison between the

personality and just looks types of ladies that are in Shakespeare's presence, telling us that she is different in his minds eye. Now, as he is

acknowledging the person, he tells her that she will be for ever distilled in his verse, giving her an immortality in words.
 Erasure Poem
O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem,
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour, which doth in it live:
The canker blooms have full as deep a dye,
As the perfumed tincture of the roses,
Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly,
When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:
But for their virtue only is their show,
They live unwooed, and unrespected fade,
Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so,
Of their sweet deaths, are sweetest odours made:
And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,
When that shall vade, by verse distills your truth.
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