Which is the first Sonnet of William Shakespeare

 Which is the first Sonnet of William Shakespeare

Introduction

William Shakespeare was a famous dramatist in English literature. He wrote Sonnet, comedies, tragedies and historical play. Some of his noted work are-: Macbeth, Hamlet, Merchant of Venice, Othello, As you like it, Midsummer Night's dream. Venus and adonis is a long narrative poem written by Shakespeare.William Shakespeare wrote 154 Sonnet. From fairest creature we desire increase first Sonnet written by William Shakespeare. This poem published in 1609. First 126 on it addressed to a young man and last 28 Sonnets addressed to a woman.

             William Shakespeare

               Sonnet -1

( From fairest creature we desire increase)

Text

From fairest creatures we desire increase,

That thereby beauty rose might never die,

But as the riper should by time decease,

His tender heir might bear his memory:

But thou contracted to tiny own bright eyes,

Feed'st thy light's with self-substantial fuel,

Making a famine where abundance lies,

Thy self thy feo, to thy sweet self too cruel:

Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,

And only herald to the gaudy spring,

Whitin thine own bud buriest thy content,

And tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding:

Pity the world, or else this glutton be,

To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.

Metre - lambic pentameter (they consist three quarters and final couplet)

Rhyme scheme - ABABCDCDEFEFGG

Main Theme -    Love, beauty, infidelity and mortality

Metaphor -   "The world's fresh ornament"