Part Two 

: Practical Part

Syntactic Analysis of the sonnet 144.

A. L. Rowse (auth.) - Shakespeare’s Sonnets_ A Modern

Edition, with Prose Versions, Introduction and Notes-Palgrave Macmillan UK (1984).pdf
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  Sonnet 144 and its rendering:
Two loves I have of comfort and despair
-Original version of the sonnet:
Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,
Which, like two spirits, do suggest me still:
The better angel is a man right fair,
The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.
To win me soon to hell, my female evil
Tempteth my better angel from my side
And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend,
Suspect I may, yet not directly tell;
But being both from me, both to each friend,
I guess one angel in another's hell:
Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt,
Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
(Rowse,A.L, 1984, P.P 290.291)
 Glossary of the sonnet:
Suggest: tempt, incite.
- Modern rendering of the sonnet:
1: Two loves possess me, the one comforting, the other
despairing,
2: which like two spirits tempt me on :
3: the better angel is a man and fair,
4: the worser spirit is a woman dark in looks.
5: To involve me more - my female evil
6: tempts my better angel away from me,
7: Seducing him and his purity with her dark pride,
8: and would seduce his purity with her ill pride.
9: And whether my angel be corrupted,
10: though I suspect, I cannot tell directly ;
11: but both being away from me, and each agreeing with the
other,
12: I guess one angel in another's hell:
13: Yet this I shall never know, but live in suspicion,
14: till my bad angel fires my good one out.
Fair: pale-complexioned/beautiful/virtuous.

Coloured ill: of ugly complexion/of evil disposition.

Pride: plays on sense of ‘sexual desire’

Hell: plays on the slang term for ‘vagina’

Fire ... out: i.e. drive him out/infect him with venereal disease.

Soon: swiftly.

Tempteth: tempt, seduce

Wooing: to seek, tempt someone’s purity.

Foul: ugly, sinful, morally debased.

Fiend: a demon.

Passpilgrim 1..6 (modernlibrary.com)

 The syntactic Analysis Chart of the Sonnet: