SONNET 55 SERIES

SONNET 55 SERIES

This is a spot in the city and the nation which has experienced great tragedy, and it is now a place of even greater remembranceвЂ¦The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. вЂњShakespeareвЂ™s Sonnet 55.вЂќ The Explicator v.

Fontana states: вЂњThe effect of time, personified as a whore, on the hypothetical stone statue of the young man, is identified in metaphor with the effect of syphilis on the body-the statue will be besmeared, that is, covered, with metaphoric blains, lesions, and scars.вЂќ (Female) time destroys whereas the male voice of the sonnet is вЂњgenerative and vivifying.вЂќ ДЎ. Associating вЂњsluttishвЂќ with venereal disease makes ShakespeareвЂ™s use of the word вЂњbesmearedвЂќ more specific. In the play, Timon associates the word вЂњslutвЂќ with вЂњwhoreвЂќ and venereal disease. Shakespeare had used the word вЂњslutвЂќ nearly a year before he wrote sonnet 55 when he wrote Timon of Athens. According to Fontana, Shakespeare intended the second meaning, personifying and assigning gender to time, making the difference between the young man sonnets and the dark lady sonnets all the more obvious. вЂњliving recordвЂќ being more immortal than monuments means that you live as long as someone who loves you lives.Д®rnest Fontana focuses on the epithet вЂњsluttish time.вЂќ The Oxford English Dictionary gives вЂњsluttishвЂќ two definitions: 1) dirty, careless, slovenly (which can refer to objects and persons of both sexes) and 2) lewd, morally loose, and whorish. вЂњsluttishвЂќ was used in ShakespeareвЂ™s time to refer to both men and women of questionable morals or slovenly habits, and here it refers to timeвЂ™s tendency toward chaos and disorder. But older monuments in churchyards gradually would be forgotten and fall to ruin, as the living memory of its builders and inhabitants died out. вЂњupswept stoneвЂќ is stone left uncared for.Those in cathedrals and churches would generally be kept clean and polished. To live in words and in those who love him is the strongest form of immortality. No war or fire can eradicate a memento that lives on thus he will live past death, still a subject of admiration until the end of all time. His words will outlive stone monuments, the young man flattered more than by statues that can be harmed by time and war. Shakespeare makes some very big promises here. Sonnet 55 promises the beloved that absolutely nothing time or man can do will impede his immortality in verse and the hearts of those who remember. You live in this, and dwell in loversвЂ™ eyes. So, till the judgment that yourself arise, That wear this world out to the ending doom. Shall you pace forth your praise shall still find room Nor Mars his sword, nor warвЂ™s quick fire shall burn When wasteful war shall statues overturn, Than unswept stone, besmearвЂ™d with sluttish time.

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