{"id":99,"date":"2017-02-08T12:15:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T17:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=99"},"modified":"2017-02-08T12:15:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T17:15:01","slug":"sonnet-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/romancing-the-sonnet\/sonnet-116\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnet 116"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following from Monday&#8217;s conversation about alliteration\/assonance\/consonance in Shakespeare&#8217;s sonnets, I noticed a cool effect in the first stanza of sonnet 116:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let me no<strong>t<\/strong> <strong>t<\/strong>o the marriage of <strong>t<\/strong>rue min<strong>d<\/strong>s<br \/>\nAdmi<strong>t<\/strong> impe<strong>d<\/strong>imen<strong>t<\/strong>s. Love is no<strong>t<\/strong> love<br \/>\nWhich al<strong>t<\/strong>ers when it al<strong>t<\/strong>eration finds<br \/>\nOr bends with <strong>t<\/strong>he remover <strong>t<\/strong>o remove.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are a lot of\u00a0<em>t<\/em>\u00a0sounds and\u00a0<em>d<\/em>\u00a0sounds (bolded in the quote)\u2014when you read them out loud, they \u00a0force your mouth to close and your tongue to press against your teeth\/palate (?). What&#8217;s cool about it is that it&#8217;s mimicking the impediment itself; Shakespeare uses the diction to amplify his meaning. I find\u00a0this effect to be\u00a0strongest in the first line\u2014&#8221;not to&#8221;\u00a0has two\u00a0<strong>t<\/strong>s, back to back, which\u00a0slows the momentum of the line and makes it very percussive. There are\u00a0<em>t\u00a0<\/em>sounds and\u00a0<em>d\u00a0<\/em>sounds throughout the rest of the poem, but I didn&#8217;t find them to be\u00a0quite as noticeable as in the first stanza. They get displaced by\u00a0<em>th\u00a0<\/em>sounds and\u00a0<em>tsh<\/em> sounds, which mimics the poem&#8217;s movement away from the subject of impediment to the subject of harmony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following from Monday&#8217;s conversation about alliteration\/assonance\/consonance in Shakespeare&#8217;s sonnets, I noticed a cool effect in the first stanza of sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds Or bends with the remover to remove. There are a lot of\u00a0t\u00a0sounds and\u00a0d\u00a0sounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romancing-the-sonnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}