Sonnet LX

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• In Elizabethan England the era in which
  Shakespeares sonnets were written the sonnet
  was the form of choice for lyric poets
  particularly to engage with traditional themes of
  love and romance.
• A sonnet is a 14-line lyric poem traditionally
  written in iambic pentameter lines ten
  syllables long with accents falling on every
  second syllable.

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• The Shakespearean sonnet is divided into 4 parts
• the first 3 parts are each four lines long
  known as quatrains
• the fourth part is a couplet.

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• This type of sonnet is often used to develop a
  sequence of metaphors and ideas, one in each
  quatrain, while the couplet offers either a
  summary or a new take on the preceding images and
  ideas.

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• Shakespeares sonnet sequence can be divided
  in the following way
• Sonnets 1-126 in which the poet strikes up a
  relationship with a young man the Fair Youth
• Sonnets 127-154 which are concerned with the
  poets relationship with a woman, his mistress
  the Dark Lady

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• Sonnet 60 is acknowledged as one of
  Shakespeares greatest because it
• - is meditation on mortality
• - deals with the universal concerns of time
  and its passing
• - is the best exemplar of the theme of the
  ravages of time

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Sonnet LX by William Shakespeare

Ms.M.Sammut Dimech
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• Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,

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• So do our minutes
• hasten to their end

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Each changing place with that which goes before
In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
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• Nativity, once in the main of light,
• Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crownd ,
• Crooked eclipses gainst his glory fight.

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• And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.

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Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beautys brow

• Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
• And delves the parallels in beautys brow

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• Feeds on the rarities of natures truth,
• And nothing stands but
• for his scythe to mow

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• And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand,

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• Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.

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