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Beauty
If beautys in the eye of the beholder,
Who is to see the beauty within me?
Scars, bruises, and skin with dark colors bolder
than the bright sunset across the deep sea.
show the harmony between the strings and the harmony of a family working together.
Shakespeares use of the speechless song, being many, seeming one, is another example of
the harmony of many corresponding notes being played at the same time to make one beautiful
sound much like the two different people who come together to make a wonderful child. To
conclude and show is final point, the song of marriage and family life, Sings this to thee, Thou
single wilt prove none. In this last line he uses the song of marriage, which is the ideal lifestyle
choice of this classical time, to say, Without a husband and kids your life will have no meaning,
proving you worthless.
Sonnet #8
Music to hear, why hearst thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.
Why lovst thou that which thou receivst not gladly,
Or else receivst with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering,
Resembling sire and child and happy mother
Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: Thou single wilt prove none.