Sonnet 18

A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter with a carefully patterned rhyme scheme. Few poets have ever truly mastered the art of writing a sonnet. Sonnets are very clear, short, focused projections of a major theme of life. It is an incredibly difficult task to create a masterpiece with such a rigid structure to follow. Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard brought the sonnet form into English poetry in the sixteenth century. They introduced …showed first 75 words of 826 total…

…showed last 75 words of 826 total…show the death of a season versus his lover everlasting life, due to his poetry. While employing the use of a Petrarchan conceit, he actually is hinting at the inadequacy of such a comparison. By stating that his mistress is “more lovely and more temperate” than a summer’s day, he not only is praising his love, but cuts through the normal tradition to show that humanity and nature can never truly be compared accurately.