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TH’ EXPENSE OF SPIRIT
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Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and, till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,
Enjoyed no sooner but despisèd straight,
Past reason hunted, and no sooner had
Past reason hated as a swallowed bait
On purpose laid to make the taker mad.
Mad in pursuit, and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe,
Before a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
All this the world well knows, yet none knows well
To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. This is a Shakespeare’ sonnet. The title of this sonnet is Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame and it is claer that it belongs to a collection because the title correspond to the first line. The sonnet’s rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. This sonnet is arranged into three quartains where the problem is poned and a final rhyming cuoplet where is given a possible solution to the problem, this particular structure means that this sonnet follows the elizabethian model.The main topic that the reader can find in the sonnet is lust and men’s strong sexual desire.The first quatrain is about the enumeration of a lot of negative adjectives that descibe the think of the poet abuot the human sexual desire and act, and the reader can understand that the peot has got a negative view on it,In the second quartain the reader can find the description of the lust, that just consumed the sexual act desappears. In this quartain the semantic field is hunting, this put the focus on the animal effects that lust causes to the human being.In the third quarìtain the poet focus the attention on the madness of lust and on the pursuit of the pleasure and he condamn it.In the final rhyming couplet shakespeare says that even if this problem is well know nobody seems to learn from the previous experiences
Is lust in action; and, till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,
Enjoyed no sooner but despisèd straight,
Past reason hunted, and no sooner had
Past reason hated as a swallowed bait
On purpose laid to make the taker mad.
Mad in pursuit, and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe,
Before a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
All this the world well knows, yet none knows well
To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. This is a Shakespeare’ sonnet. The title of this sonnet is Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame and it is claer that it belongs to a collection because the title correspond to the first line. The sonnet’s rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. This sonnet is arranged into three quartains where the problem is poned and a final rhyming cuoplet where is given a possible solution to the problem, this particular structure means that this sonnet follows the elizabethian model.The main topic that the reader can find in the sonnet is lust and men’s strong sexual desire.The first quatrain is about the enumeration of a lot of negative adjectives that descibe the think of the poet abuot the human sexual desire and act, and the reader can understand that the peot has got a negative view on it,In the second quartain the reader can find the description of the lust, that just consumed the sexual act desappears. In this quartain the semantic field is hunting, this put the focus on the animal effects that lust causes to the human being.In the third quarìtain the poet focus the attention on the madness of lust and on the pursuit of the pleasure and he condamn it.In the final rhyming couplet shakespeare says that even if this problem is well know nobody seems to learn from the previous experiences