7/26/2019 Sonnet 129 Analysis

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/sonnet-129-analysis 1/1

JULIA GARCÍA QUIRÓSENGLISH LITERATURE V

The idea of sexual desire is grappled all along the poem. For example, in the second line

we find “lust in action”, meaning the consummation of the sexual act. But in the

following lines, he describes the previous stages of lust (before the sexual act) as

“perured, murd!rous, blood", full of blame, savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust.”

#espite the spea$er never sa" that he is tal$ing about his own experience, he has a lot of 

chances of having experienced each stage of lust, and, b" conse%uence, he is able to

articulate the disgrace he now feels regarding his past.