Love,_Nature,_And_Shakespeare

Love, Nature, And Shakespeare Shakespeare often uses love as a major theme in his writing. Sometimes this love is corrupt or untrue while, at other times, this love is pure and good. In Sonnets 18, 116, and 130 Shakespeare uses a pure and good love as a major theme. In the case of these three sonnets, he uses nature as a way to express love. The speaker in these sonnets does, however, eventually conclude that nature does not hold a match to the love that is being spoken about. Sonnet 16 uses the metaphor of “a summer’s day” to compare love with. Sonnet 116 uses the night sky to define love, while sonnet 130 uses many splendids of nature to compare love. While some of these sonnets may use nature more than another, Shakespeare still recognizes the value of nature on culture and what it can mean when used in comparison to something as wonderful as love. Shakespeare uses nature as a power, illustrating how its beauty or ugliness can also be the beauty or ugliness of love. In Sonnet 18, the speaker is comparing his love to a summer’s day. On the surface, the poem is simply a statement of praise about the beauty love, nature, sonnet, speaker, shakespeare, while, sonnets, 18, star, speaker’s, poem, 116, wonderful, reader, nothing, even, compare, beauty, about, 130, tell, summer, much, lover, however, compared, being, because, world, ugliness, though, things, theme, sun, summer’s, spoken