Response on Sonnet 75

So are you to my thoughts as food to life,

Or as sweet seasoned show'rs are to the ground;

And for the peace of you I hold such strife

As ’twixt a miser and his wealth is found;

Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon

Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure;

Now counting best to be with you alone,

Then bettered that the world may see my pleasure;

Sometime all full with feasting on your sight

And by and by clean starvèd for a look;

Possessing or pursuing no delight,

Save what is had or must from you be took.

  Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day,

  Or gluttoning on all, or all away.

         The sonnet that I chose to write about was Shakespeare’s Sonnet 75. I chose this one to write about because I thought it was funny and clever because Shakespeare uses a lot of hyperbole in this sonnet for example he says “Sometime all full with feasting on your sight And by and by clean starved for a look;” He’s saying how he like starves and needs to look at her because she’s so beautiful but he’s not actually starving. Another line that was an example of this is “So are you to my thoughts as food to life” It’s basically showing how desperate he is and how much her beauty amazes him and how much he loves her.

         

           From studying Shakespeare so far I’ve realized that most of his sonnets and screenplays have basically the same topics, which are love, tragedy and comedy. Which I think is a weird but interesting combination because they are all very unique topics but they work so well together. Like How in other Shakespeare sonnets I’ve read they like contrast in weird ways and in one sonnet he talks about how is girlfriend is like ugly and boring and plain but he still loves her so much, which is really funny to think about. Just like this sonnet he’s like desperate for this girl and he’s saying he needs her so much that if he didn’t have her he would die and be miserable.