Poetry about Praise

Poems about praise often celebrate admiration, gratitude, and reverence. These poems express appreciation for people, nature, or spiritual entities, highlighting positive qualities and achievements. Praise poems can range from personal odes to religious hymns, reflecting deep respect and acknowledgment of something or someone valued.

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Sonnet 106

by William Shakespeare

In Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 106,’ ‘When in the chronicle of wasted time,’ the speaker exalts the Fair Youth’s beauty to quasi-divine status unmatched in history.

The speaker's arguments and claims are centered on establishing the Fair Youth's beauty as singular and unmatched in history, which evidences their idealization of the Fair Youth and his beauty. The speaker's claims, exalting the Fair Youth to almost a divine mythic stature, seem exaggerated and far from objective reality, yet they convey their deep admiration and reverence for his beauty. Through this sonnet, the speaker makes the Fair Youth the center of centuries of ancient poetry as if it were written to prophesize his beauty, consecrating him as the possessor of a beauty ordained by mysterious, sublime forces. The speaker's praise, reverence, and awe are akin to religious devotion as they proclaim the Fair Youth's beauty is beyond articulation, thus accentuating the beauty's transcendence, making the beholders seem like devotees.

When in the chronicle of wasted time

I see descriptions of the fairest wights,

And beauty making beautiful old rhyme,

In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,

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Sonnet 112

by William Shakespeare

‘Sonnet 112,’ also known as ‘Your love and pity doth th’ impression fill,’ emphasizes the speaker’s obsession with the Fair Youth. He spends the lines reminding the Youth of how important his opinion is.

Your love and pity doth the impression fill,

Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow;

For what care I who calls me well or ill,

So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?

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