Shakespeare’s vision of life from Sonnets

At the outset, to reveal what the wonderfully penned sonnets have, fair amount of understanding on Shakespeare’s life is absolutely necessary. As a lucid, prudent poet, we can see his verses bring out the essence of sorrow and fresh sense of inspiration in the very same sonnet. Almost every sonnet connects to Shakespeare’s life interpersonally.

Two people that play crucial roles both in the sonnets and Shakespeare’s life are the Earl of Southampton and the Dark Lady, Mary Fitton; the former being breath of fresh air and the latter corresponding to embodiment of deciet and wickedness. However, only the second set of sonnets talk chiefly about the flirtatious, faking attitude of the poet’s mistress, the Dark lady. Many sonnets picture Shakespeare warn his friend on the Dark Lady’s crooked, coquettish character to attract men for her sexual pleasures. Sadly, the Earl subjects to the mistress’s activities emotionally dumping Shakespeare. Such a turn disrupts the personal relationship of two men who were termed to have respected each other equally. Subsequently, Shakespeare’s life became helpless, deserted and critics term this as his darker side of life.

A lot of other sonnets in the second set exceptionally talk about Shakespeare’s love for his mistress and the urge for union. But, the inconsistency of love in a woman is the main theme of the second set of sonnets, basically an acceptable truth of the era. Not only did the mistress utilize her turn to separate Shakespeare from the Earl, also the rivalry between the poets to get closer to the Earl was heating up. Shakespeare apparently lost!!! And sonnets numbered 77, 80, 81,87,89,90 theme it beautifully.

Through Sonnets, the ultimate logic that Shakespeare wanted to present is the paradox of Time. All that exists on earth is developed, controlled and at last destroyed by time with no excuses. The Earl and Shakespeare are no exceptions where each of them experience time’s cruel hand in the form of the Dark Lady. Words like “wasteful wars”, “sluttish time” reflect the wicked face of time.

Nevertheless, setting aside the damaging effects of time, Shakespeare constantly repeats one good logic. “Whatever happens and tends to destruction from time, my sonnets about the praise of the Earl in black ink will never fade away” is something that emits an enthusiastic feeling all through the complete set of sonnets penned.