behold / When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang / Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, / Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang,” (1-4). Shakespeare wrote two different sonnets that referred to a change in weather. These comparisons are similar to those in Twelfth Night. The stormy weather brings confusion for Viola when she lands on Illyria. The calming of the weather in Twelfth Night resembles happiness and a new beginning just like the summer’s day in sonnet 18. Another similarity between the sonnets of Shakespeare and Twelfth Night is the comprehension of the one day dying. In sonnet 18, Shakespeare makes the reader come to the realization that even though the person will one-day die, they will never fade away from memory because they will live eternally through words. Shakespeare emphasizes that a person cannot live forever in his bodily form, but he surely will be alive in spirit so long as the poem lives. In Twelfth Night, Duke Orsino comes to comprehend that no matter how hard he tries, Lady Olivia is never going to change her feelings for him. This understanding comes after Orsino realizes that she will no longer love him. Since Orsino is no longer in love with any particular person but the idea of love itself, it is not a hard to imagine his reaction when Viola reveals her love to him. “Cesario, come-/ For so you shall be while you are a man; / But when in other habits you are seen, / Orsino’s mistress, and his fancy’s queen,” (v.1. 380-383).The mood in many of Shakespeare’s sonnets reflects the attitude in Twelfth Night. Both the sonnets and the play have double meanings behind them. The weather is significant in both sonnets, and as is expected, cold, dreary, and stormy are associated with death. In the 73 sonnet, the suggestion is death; however, in Twelfth Night, a violent storm causes Viola to lose, or at least assume that she lost, all he...
