Questions about sonnet's ending pls. answer

[hydra556]

Hello Im just curious, everyone I asks says that every sonnet ends in a resolved situation wherein the writer ends his/her sonnet in a "Happy" or a "Resolved" coupplets.

But my question is, can a sonnet end in "Tragedy" or in a "Resolved Tragedy"

[byquist]

Name me one of Shakespeare's where he is a winner and feels happy about the situation. Your "resolved tragedy" makes sense such as #54
I am to wait, though waiting so be hell,
Not blame your pleasure, be it ill or well.

You might say the form of a sonnet is shaped like a resolution, but Shakespeare's content often leaves things unresolved, unaswered, un-responded to, empty.

[byquist]

The one that might be "happy" is

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun .....

[byquist]

Note, #58 not #54

[whereismymind]

i agree with byquist. another example:

sonnet 147
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who are as black as hell, as dark as night.

[byquist]

Whereismymind,

It can't get much worst that that!

[byquist]

"than that"