Shakespearean Sonnets as the only one published poetry in Shakespearean life, the poems have rigorous structure, elegant rhythm, rich vocabulary, and concise language. In these sonnets, the poet gets to act out the love bringing joy and sadness, helplessness and grief. For the poet is a belief that till the seas dried up and the rocks perished, no matter what happens in love, and he kept true to it.
Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets and had the collection published to earn his reputation as a lyric poet. Shakespearean Sonnets sequence can be pided into three parts: the first part, the longest one, contains 126 sonnets and the main theme of which is his friendship with a young noble man, although can find several other themes very easily; the second part is from 127-152, the theme of which is love ,which is a unique one because Shakespeare falls in love with a dark lady whom he does not love so much; the third part is composed of only 2 sonnets, whose theme is art based on Greek or Roman mythology.
The poet through singing for a series of images in Shakespearean Sonnets, Shakespeare conveys his progressive outlook on life and values, expresses his praise respectfully for the quality of life and singing for the aesthetic nature of person. There are broad and profound poetic thought and consummate sagacious language skills in these sonnets especially the rich and magnificent imagery, the imagery of “summer” and “rose” become a delight in talking about literary quotation. This thesis is based on the imagery about nature and time of Shakespearean Sonnets analysis the unique aesthetic concept of poetry and the emotions that the poet wants to express.
II. The Theory of Image
2.1 The Definition of Image
Image is an important concept in the literary manifestations of poetry. It has extensive use both in ancient and modern times, Chinese and foreign in poetry. The image is the representative of a specific sensory reflection, emotion, and thought. That is to say with the specific form or picture to show people’s experience in intellectual and emotional. There is a process of observation, experience, deliberation, expression about poetry writing. At the same time, it is a process about reproduction of the life.
The poet put the sustenance to a selected figurative when his heart feels something about external events, so that he could integrate some of their emotions and create a specific world about art. Traditional Poetry Emotion actually refers to the processing techniques about expression and highlight emotion in scenery description, with the scenery depicted and the emotions expressed in perfect harmony. The reader creative for secondary in the heart according to it and infiltrate their emotional basis to restore the sense of the poet felt when they reading poetry.
2.2 The Function of Image
Imagery is a tool for mediating ideas; it is the spirit of poetry. The imagery of poetry is the need of both conveyance of the meanings and aesthetics appreciation. The main function of poetic imagery is that it stimulates the senses and awakens the same or similar experiences and emotional experience that the reader feels. When one kind of imagery is associated with a certain sense with using repeatedly, the symbol is constituted. 莎士比亚十四行诗的意象分析(2):http://www.751com.cn/yingyu/lunwen_39242.html