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SONNETS. I HAVE said that the Youth of the Sonnets is the poet's
guiding Ideal, ? that he is the dear friend and teacher, who is
himself an ideal poet. But he is not so described in the first
fourteen sonnets. They show him, from the moment of his creation, a
youth of peerless beauty and plastic nature. In character he is
germinal. Every excellence of virtue and of skill in expression is
his in embryo. The poet, writing under the inspiration of his
native love of Verse, fills this mould of beauty with the
fundamental principles of Poetic Expression, while his lines glow
with the emotions which the beauty of these principles excite. The
poet figures this process as framing or building. As the work
progresses, the fervor increases. But at first it is the poet who
teaches, exhorts, and tenderly or passionately remonstrates. At
length, in the 14th sonnet, the first symptom of the success of the
argument arises. Till then the flow of influence has been from the
poet to the Youth; but in the ninth line, " But from thine eyes my
knowledge I derive," we have the first formal recognition of the
influence of the Youth upon the poet. Yet this is only apparent,
for the fervent quality of the 13th sonnet is evidently due to the
silent effect of the Youth's beauty upon the poet as the work
advances. This first passage of the Sonnets may therefore be termed
the building of the poet's Ideal. From fairest creat'1r00 desire
increase, That thereby beaut) . se might never die; But as the
riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his
memory. But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy
light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where
abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel: Thou
that art now the world's fresh ornament, And onl...
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