Choose one of the Shakespearean sonnets from the selected list that connects with you personally.( I chose sonnet 43)
Tell the reader about the memory evoked by the sonnet. Write the story of this memory and give the reader the sensory details that bring the experience of the memory to life.
Write a response of 300- 400 words to addressing the prompt.
SONNET 43
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
For all the day they view things unrespected;
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
And darkly bright are bright in dark directed.
Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright, 5
How would thy shadow’s form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!
How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day, 10
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!
All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. 14
