Sonnet 42

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Sonnet 42
Sabrina Markwort
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Table of Contents
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Sonnet 42
That thou hast her it is not all my grief,And
yet it may be said I loved her dearly,That she
hath thee is of my wailing chief,A loss in love
that touches me more nearly.Loving offenders
thus I will excuse ye,Thou dost love her,
because thou know'st I love her,And for my sake
even so doth she abuse me,Suff'ring my friend
for my sake to approve her.If I lose thee, my
loss is my love's gain,And losing her, my friend
hath found that loss,Both find each other, and I
lose both twain,And both for my sake lay on me
this cross,But here's the joy, my friend and I
are one,Sweet flattery, then she loves but me
alone.
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Interpretation

• Topic love
• Speaker is sad
• There are a man and a woman and the speaker
  loves both, but the two of them find each other
  so the speaker finally lost both.
• At the end he says
• But here's the joy, my friend and I are
  one, Sweet flattery, then she loves but me
  alone.
• I think that he means, that the woman loves only
  him, the speaker, because he and the man are the
  same person.

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The interesting question
Is this sonnet about a speaker or is it about
Shakespeare?
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Analysis

• no metaphors
• no similes
• no personifications
• no contrasts
• no alliterations

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Analysis
That thou hast her it is not all my grief,And
yet it may be said I loved her dearly,That she
hath thee is of my wailing chief,A loss in love
that touches me more nearly.Loving offenders
thus I will excuse ye,Thou dost love her,
because thou know'st I love her,And for my sake
even so doth she abuse me,Suff'ring my friend
for my sake to approve her.If I lose thee, my
loss is my love's gain,And losing her, my friend
hath found that loss,Both find each other, and I
lose both twain,And both for my sake lay on me
this cross,But here's the joy, my friend and I
are one,Sweet flattery, then she loves but me
alone.
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Analysis

• love, lost and friend are the main-words
• love is a positive word
• lost is a negative word
• friend is a positive word
• The three words belong to the category
• emotions

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Stylistic devices
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My own opinion

• Positive ()
• Its a very interesting sonnet, because you dont
  know if its just about the speaker or maybe
  about Shakespeare himself!
• There are many emotions (maybe the emotions of
  Shakespeare)
• Negative (-)
• When I first read it, it was hardly to
  understand. In order to understand everything it
  was necessary to go through it more than only one
  time. Especially old English words like thou,
  thee, dost etc. are hard to understand at
  first reading the sonnet.

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Ghosts and Fairies
Fairy
Ghost
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Ghosts

• Definition
• The spirit of a dead person
• The center of spiritual life, the soul
• A demon or spirit
• A returning or haunting memory or image

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Fairies

• Definition
• An imaginary being usually in human form and
  supposed to have magic powers
• a fairy mostly is a woman