"Pain"
...re comfortably off. The family home, called Little Lea, was a large, gabled house with dark, narrow passages and an overgrown garden, which Warnie and Jack played in and explored together. There was also a library that was crammed with books—two of Jack's favorites were Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Sonnet 146 seems to be about the inner pain of the writer because he addresses the poem to himself. He asks his soul in the first stanza why it endures pain inside, but hides it on the outside by dressing up his outward appearance. “Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth, thrall to these rebel powers that thee array, why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth.” As the sonnet goes on he continues to question his soul on why it decorates the outside at large expenses; when it only has a short time in the body. In the third part of the stanza the speaker exhorts his soul to focus on its inward man at the expense of the outward man. “Let that (the body) pine to aggravate thy store.” In the last part of the sonnet the speaker tells his soul that following his guidance, it will feed on death, which in turns feeds on men and their bodies; and once it has fed on death it will enjoy eternal life. “And death once dead, there’s no more dying then.” From Five sonnets seems to be another sonnet about inner pain. The sonnet talks about how people think, that because someone does not shout and curse God after the death of a loved one; means they are not hurting.” You think that we who do not shout and shake our fist at God when youth or bravery die have colder blood or hearts less apt to ache than yours who rail. I know you do, yet why? As the sonnet goes on the writer answers why people think like that. He says they do this because they are angry as a result of the loss of a loved one so they try to find someone to blame. “You have what sorrow always long to find to find, someone to blame, some enemy in chief; anger’s the anaesthic of the mind.” He is trying to say that resorting to anger, and finding someone to blame is their way of soothing their mind. The writer then tells the people who are thinking those who do not scream are cold blooded that everybody feels the same way; even those who may not respond the same way as them. The similarities between Sonnet 146 and from five sonnets are the fact the two appear to be speaking about pain and inner hurt. Also the two shows expectations required of the individuals in the respective sonnets. This was said because the individual in Sonnet 146 must have been expected to dress a certain way, he spent large amounts of money to dress up his external appearance, while he was hurting on the inside. From five sonnets shows that individuals who experienced a loss by the hands of death had to shout and shake their fists at God, because others would think they were not hurting. It is later revealed that those who do not shout and scream at God feel the loss just as much as those who do who carry out those emotional acts of grief. Differences between the two sonnets appear to be the sonnet146 was a pers...