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ABSTRACT
Shakespeare's sonnets actually follow a basic structure based on time. In this article, we have considered the concept
of time in Shakespeare's sonnets.
KEYWORDS
Internal, cognitive, concept, eternity, intriguing, companion, focal point, century, significant.
INTRODUCTION
Shakespeare's sonnets cover a wide range of topics,
including time, friendship, love, and art. Among these,
time serves as both the theme and the focal point. One
of the most intriguing concepts that shaped poetry in
the 16th century is time, which plays a significant
internal role in his 154 sonnets' structure and
connections.Shakespeare shows in his sonnets that he
has tried his hardest to transcend time and maintain
immortality with solutions, in addition to expressing
the brutality and cruelty of the sword of time to nature
and life. Shakespeare's sonnets have been admired
and analysed by numerous domestic and international
experts from a variety of angles for hundreds of years.
For instance, the topics that were prominent
throughout the Renaissance are love, friendship, time,
beauty, and so forth. The majority of research on time,
however, examines time-related sonnets separately
and from the standpoint of cognitive metaphor
[1].Shakespeare's sonnets actually follow a basic
structure based on time. In order to examine
Shakespeare's attitude towards time and his strategy
for resisting time and preserving eternity in sonnets,
this paper will use sonnets 73 and 116 as examples and
Research Article
SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS AND THE CONCEPT OF TIME
Submission Date:
October 20, 2024,
Accepted Date:
October 25, 2024,
Published Date:
October 30, 2024
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Dilafruz To’raqulova
Bukhara State University, Senior teacher of Interfaculty foreign languages department, Uzbekistan
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mix them with other sonnets from the perspective of
time.
Shakespeare's sonnets are constructed and connected
with time as a key intrinsic component. The frequent
direct appearance of the word "time" in sonnets
indicates that time is a fundamental element of
sonnets.
During the Renaissance, many thought that time was
cruel and might ruin everything that was good in the
world [3]. Shakespeare examined the fluctuations of
friendship, love, and beauty over time in his sonnets
[3]. He consistently highlights in his sonnets how "swift
footed" time ruthlessly eats away at youth and beauty.
Time will degrade a young man's beauty, leaving his
forehead marked by the passage of time, until his face
is wrinkly and depressed.
According to the poet, people are not helpless against
the passage of time. By producing the next generation,
humans can transcend time and discover the worth of
themselves and the purpose of existence [6]. Despite
the fact that death is unavoidable, beauty and virtue
can endure via reproduction, establishing temporal
resistance and preserving youth and beauty for
generations to come. Therefore, the poet encouraged
the young guy to marry and have children in order to
maintain his youth and beauty while also celebrating it.
At the start of his sonnets, the poet brings up this
subject.
Along with the sonnets' exhortations to get married
and have children, the poet also conveys the idea that
poetry's ability to preserve youth and beauty is one
method to fight time and preserve eternity. The poet
had to alter his comments when he realised that
marriage and childbirth were insufficient to convince
his young companion. Shakespeare was actually
preserving the vitality and beauty of young men by
relying on his belief in literary immortality. The artists
of the Renaissance developed an idea that their
creations were valuable for all time, which was one of
its defining characteristics. During the Renaissance,
poetry frequently addressed the topics of literary
immortality and art permanence.
Poetry can bestow "immortal fame" on the beauty and
virtue of the objects of praise since, to Renaissance
writers, poetry is immortal beyond time. Poetry has the
ability to transcend time and immortalise its subject.
One such statement is found in Sonnet 18. The speaker
of this sonnet compares his young pals to a sunny
summer day, May blossoms, and the sun in the sky, yet
they are powerless to stop fate-controlled changes and
will eventually be sucked up by time. The only thing
that can keep young people's beauty and freshness
alive is poetry: "As long as men can breathe or eyes can
see, so long this, and this gives life to thee." In addition,
the poet describes how time can destroy everything in
sonnet 19, yet he still believes that his poetry can
prevent time from passing and keep his beloved alive.
The poet expresses the same idea in sonnets 55, 60, 65,
and 107 as well. In the sonnets, the unending vitality of
poetry is more impregnable than the stone, steel door,
wider than the enormous earth and the endless ocean,
and greater than the savage beast and the long life of
the phoenix. Though he feels poetry might save his
beloved friend's spirit, the poet occasionally
acknowledges that his beloved friend's face will
deteriorate. Similar to Sonnet 63: “His beauty
shall in
these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in
them still green.” It expresses the Christian belief that
the div dies and the spirit lives forever [7] .True love,
marriage, childbirth, and poetry are among the
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remedies indicated above that can withstand the
passage of time and preserve immortality and eternity.
In his sonnets, Shakespeare appears to extol true love,
marriage, childbirth, and poetry, but in reality, he
emphasises the magnificence and wisdom of humanity
through these three human endeavours. Even if
everything can change and be consumed by time,
humans still have some control. In order to resist the
effects of time, humans have developed solutions.In
Shakespeare’s Hamlet, “What a piece of work is man!
How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form
and moving how express and admirable! in action how
like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! The
beauty of the world! The paragon of animals!” (Hamlet,
II, ii),Shakespeare expresses the same notion, praising
humanity's capacity to transcend time and highlighting
its majesty. Thus, from this angle, it also highlights
human power and intelligence.
CONCLUSION
One of the most significant topics in Shakespeare's
sonnets is time. The poet's logical starting point for his
poems is the concept of time. Shakespeare uses the
term "time" and words connected to time 99 times
throughout his sonnets, which may indicate his
awareness of his attitude towards time. In his sonnets,
he highlights the brutality and destructive force of
time. He offers remedies against time, marriage,
childbirth, genuine love, and poetry, despite the fact
that time never stops and can consume everything.
Three methods exist for humans to preserve eternity in
infinite time. His affirmation of human ability against
time, as well as his appreciation of friendship, love,
beauty, and poetry, may also be seen in these three
ways against time. Furthermore, Shakespeare also
extols the virtues of humanity. Shakespeare's sonnets
are therefore logically organised around the theme of
time and means against time.It may also indicate the
poet's desire to find something beyond time in order
to challenge the passive idea that time governs people
and to work towards preserving eternity. The limited
number of sonnets included as examples is one of the
study's limitations. The concepts of time and eternity
will be examined in further detail in a larger selection
of Shakespeare's sonnets in order to address this.
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