S.A.P. #18
In my Literature 2 lesson with Ms. Paraan, we discussed about the meaning of love by reading and analyzing the sonnets of two of the most famous renaissance poets: Petrarch and Shakespeare.
Now I want to digress a little bit about the difference between Petrarch's and Shakespeare's sonnets. Petrarch's sonnets, at least sonnets 3, 11, 74 and 276, talk about the ideal woman in comparing her to beautiful things, like roses, the sun, how she smells great and such, how she is very delicate and powerful whenever the narrator speaks about how he becomes awed by her beauty.
In Shakespeare's sonnets 18, 27, 71 and 130, he talks more about how love is beyond mere physicality or one's own preference of the image of the ideal partner.
Sonnet 130 expresses Shakespeare's view of love going beyond someone's looks and instead sees love as rare and just as something beautiful.
These videos from YouTube actually presents Alan Rickman and Daniel Radcliffe reciting Sonnet 130.
Sonnet 130, for me, presents how Shakespeare is definitely beyond his time. His sonnets all present love as something uncontrollable by time and space, as something we all should treasure and definitely something that makes us complete.
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