These nine adjectives personifying lust have nothing such as rhyme or assonance connecting them, it makes the reader pause and pronunciate each word. Until lust is acted upon, the poetic persona personifies lust as this uncontrollable “extreme”, “cruel”, even “murderous” beast that instantly changes people into untrustworthy, deceitful, soulless beings, often the opposite of what they are without lust. When one continuously falls into traps, they know they should not, it slowly lowers moral and takes their sense of pride right from under their feet, however, our poetic persona is willing to give his spirit, what he represents as a person, to satisfy his uncontrollable desires. This person is wasting their time and energy doing something they know they should not be doing. The first two lines of the poem tell us that lust in action, or sex, is the cost of “spirit in a waste of shame.” Shame is a painful emotion of humiliation experienced when a person consciously commits a wrongdoing of his own moral standards. The problem is, why do we repeatedly chase and satisfy this urge if we know it will confine us to the cage of “hell?” In the end, he shows us it is all a meaningless waste of energy, leaving the predator in regret and caught in a vicious cycle of striving to experience that heavenly memory of satisfaction.
The poetic persona starts by describing just how cynical lust is before acted upon and describes how crazy the urge to satisfy this intense craving becomes. It does seem to be describing a personal experience, but we do not know for sure whom our poetic persona interacted with to cause these emotions. As the readers, we do not know who this poem is addressed to due to the lack of thou, he, or she in the poem. He also uses interesting punctuation choices that create the flow and tone of the poem.
SONNET 129 FULL
This sonnet is full figurative language and other poetic devices that let the reader know exactly how the poet feels about the emotions and dangers associated with lust. Sonnet 129 is an interesting poem in Shakespeare’s set of sonnets, supposedly, addressed to his dark mistress. If music be the food of love, Wainwright has an appetite that can never be sated.Pages: 6 (1322 words) / Published: May 14th, 2013 He even sets a German translation of Sonnet 66, in a bow to classical art song tradition, but the sadly sensuous arch of the melodies could be by none other than Rufus Wainwright. The Austrian soprano Anna Prohaska frames the cycle with thrilling classical style vocals, while Florence Welch and Rufus, along with his sister Martha, take the music into more intimate corners. It’s a far-ranging song cycle complete with orchestral accompaniments (courtesy of the BBC Symphony) and supplemented with big-name actors (William Shatner, Helena Bonham Carter and Carrie Fisher) recite each of the nine sonnets (Nos. Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets ranks with his opera Prima Donna as among Wainwright's most ambitious. To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Rufus Wainwright has gone to typically - and splendidly - extravagant lengths.
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