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"
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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"
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.
The one that might be "happy" is
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun .....
Note, #58 not #54
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.
Whereismymind,
It can't get much worst that that!
"than that"