SONNET 20

In the present text I'm going to analyze William Shakespeare's sonnet 20 to explain the poet's message and express my opinion after a deep analysis.

This poem is part of a composition formed by 154 sonnets. The main themes are love, beauty and dead. There are two recipients: a man in the first 126 poems and a woman in the others.

The whole poem consist on a phisical and psychological description of a Shakespeare's lover, whose name is not stated. The poet starts saying the man is handsome and has a particular beauty. Indeed he has some female characteristicd such has his face and gentle heart; through this the man is able to manage Shakespeare's desire.

Than, the poes describes the man's eyes telling that they are unic because shine much more than the other and light other objects. The man describer in the poem is so beauty to attract both men and women causing inside them different reactions. Shakespeare continues with a personal description with an erotic meaning; at first the recipient was created as a woman but the nature added a male thing which captured the poet but privated him to have a complete relationship with his lover.

In the last lines Shakespeare explains how he would like to have the man's love leaving women his body.

In the first lines there is an anaphora consisting on a repetition of the expression “a woman”. With this figure of speach the poet underlines the importance of the man's particular beauty. Betweenn lines 11 and 12 Shakespeare uses a paraphrase because he wants to hide his homosexuality, which was forbidden.

Shakespeare wants to convey a very important message. Indeed he believes that love is always a noble sentiment and there is no difference if is the lover is a man or a woman. Even today, almost everyone discuss this point of view because homosexuality is not totally accepted.