While Sonnet 18 compares the beloved to a calm summer’s day,, Sonnet 147 portrays love as a destructive and delirious illness., Sonnet 18 uses logic to argue that poetry can, grant immortal life to the beloved through written verse., Unlike the serene and complimentary tone of Sonnet 18,, Sonnet 147 adopts a bitter, frantic, and self-loathing tone., The speaker in Sonnet 147 suffers from a metaphorical fever, because the patient's unhealthy desire continuously feeds the disease., While the Fair Youth in Sonnet 18 is praised for being flawless,, the Dark Lady in Sonnet 147 is exposed as treacherous and deceitful., In Sonnet 18, reason and emotion work together, to build a structured, step-by-step argument about eternal beauty., The dramatic turn (volta) in Sonnet 147 reveals, that the mistress is actually as corrupt and "black as hell.", Both Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 147 follow the traditional English form,, consisting of 14 lines in iambic pentameter with an ABAB\ CDCD\ EFEF\ GG rhyme scheme., Abandoning common sense in Sonnet 147 leads the speaker, into total madness, irrational speech, and deep self-deception., In Sonnet 147, the speaker personifies Reason as a doctor, who gets frustrated when the patient refuses to take his advice.

Comparative Analysis

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