Sonnet 129

The rime Sonnet 129 focuses on human liking and its fatal stages of shame. Shakespeare promotes the theme that as a result of lust there is solitary(prenominal) corruptness, whether it be while one is in pursuit (9) (in the future tense), in possession (in the present tense), or after the fact (in the past tense) when it proves a very woe (11). The negativity of lust is extremely reinforced in only the third line of the poem with a chain of adjectives to expose lust Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame, / Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, non to trust (3-4).This word choice exemplifies hefty and ruthless voice that one would not usually categorize with lust. A simile is used to expound the consequence of lust by analyse it to when a search is tricked by a swallowed bait (7). When a tip takes the bait with the hidden hook, the barb on the hook encases itself inside the fishs flesh. This is an accurate comparison to lust because the energy the fish exerts instanter corr elates with how deep the hook is buried. Correspondingly, just like when one is lustful, he or she is unavoidably doomed that is, trying to escape the shame worsens the situation.Also, Shakespeare touches on the asynclitism of lust at first one is convinced lust is not a problem, merely A bliss in proof (11) however once realized and proved (11), the struggle with lust ends up creation problematic. Moreover, Shakespeare expresses the shamefulness of viewing lust from behind a dream (12), the because terrible feeling one feels after lusting. The funda manpowertal law of Sonnet 129 helps go Shakespeares idea about the tangles created by lust. The rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.This organization of rhyme forms a sense of always searching for a coda to the rhyme, as one reads one line and then the next in search for an end rhyme. There are no periods for the first 12 lines creating a lack of pause, which forces one to read the entire poem through and through in a hastily mann er. This all exemplifies the theme of lust because the poem reveals how once one lusts, they are never satisfied whether it be before, during, or after the lusting just like how as the reader is always propelled into the next word or phrase.The last couplet of the poem All this the cosmea well knows yet none knows well / To Shun the heaven that leads men to this hell (13-4) finally breaks the hurried 14 lines. In this couplet, Shakespeare explains that everyone knows lusting is a iniquity and it is always visible to God. This is an appropriate conclusion for this poem because it is reiterating the seriousness of lust and the Christian stance that lusting, in the end, will place you in hell.