Macbeth+Project+–+Alec+F+–+sonnet

He struck the king with bloody dagger in heart For power and ambition a kingdom fell down An act of passion of Macbeth ripping land apart A death of man for sake of gold-blood crown Hands stained with life of liege are evil's true portrayal Of friend he brutally did killed for fear of future A family was murdered in anger of man's betrayal From crimes an army did rise as they did suture For killer of men had killed good men for power His death must come for crimes against life and good He'd face the army in battle for never would cower Macduff met him on battle where of dangerous wood Macbeth, king killer, did die defeated and done Macbeth, killer king, did die now king of none I would like to point out that writing a sonnet is a lot of work and was much more difficult than I thought it be. The acrostic poems were much simpler to write, but weren't as satisfying when I finished them. The iambic pentameter along with the rhyming scheme made it challenging, but I was able to pull it off eventually. I started of with the first f ours lines more detailing the murder, why Macbeth killed the king, and how that started to hurt Scotland. I felt forever the most important part in these four lines is how the crown is described, gold-blood for that symbolizes the whole deed. Macbeth mixed royalty and power with ambition and murder and got this horrible combination of a gold-blood-crown which I see as this molten, disgusting yellow-red. The next three lines detail the three main murders in the book. The first talk about how he murdered Duncan and the blood still stains his hands. The next one talks about how he killed Banquo for the prophecy about how his kids would become king even though Banquo was one of his closest friends making it even worse. Next it talks about how he slaughtered Macduff's whole family and their servants just because Macduff took the side against (for good reason apparently). This lines show Macbeth's greatest crimes and it makes sense that an army would rise in the next line. I used the word suture which you might find strange for it a surgical term to join tissue together which is a bloody process which is similar to what joined the army together, the blood on Macbeth's hands. The next lines describes Macbeth as the killer of men who killed good men which might seem redundant, but Macbeth becomes the killer of men because he killed good men. That's why I wrote it like that. The next line is pretty much he needs to pay for his crimes and the next is he had to fight for he wouldn't surrender. The final part, dangerous wood, of the final line for that section is a little confusing, but is referring back to the woods moving which prophecies his end and I also put Macduff in that line for he was prophesied to kill Macbeth and does. I especially like the last two lines where it shows Macbeth as the killer king and king killer which are both essential parts of who he is and also in the end Macbeth died and when one dies they are no longer a king. I also felt the death of Macbeth which the whole poem was about was the perfect way to end the poem rather than Malcolm becoming king.