Charlotte Smith- Sonnet I

           Charlotte Smith uses nature to explain a lot of her feelings and to express emotion. She uses nature to portray different ideas and feeling in her Sonnets.  Nautre is used when speaking of both pain and pleasure. A Sonnet is a poem in which it expresses a single complete thought or sentiment. Her poetry and Sonnets are elegiac and express sorrow and lamentations. Charlotte Smith laments and expresses the feelings she has in this way, by using nature. She uses specific words to show the feelings she has. “Smil'd on the rugged path I'm doom'd to tread...” (line 2). She is on this “path” which could mean what she does for a living, her being a poet, writing these Sonnets and expressing all of her feelings to those who read her poetry. But this path that she is on she is “doom'd to tread” which could be the feeling she has while being on the path as she takes each step. It could be that she doesn't feel that it is the right path for her but she still expresses her inspirational writing and poetry. The word nature is expressed in the poem as pain and pleasure. As in line 3, “...and still with sportive hand...wild flowers”. Where she  explains sportive and what fate could do with us and “play” with us and using "rose" to express love and emotion. Whereas in line 8, “Reserves the thorn...” she uses nature in a negative aspect and that it festers in the heart and rots in side of you. Emotions are very strong feelings a person has and it sometimes could “eat you up inside”. It is very evident to see that Charlotte Smith may be missing something and that she had a very hard life, while in debt was put in debtors prison. It is clear to see that she expresses emotions through this art of poetry and writing to express all that she feels inside. But to inspire people as well as express what she had gone through, feels and emotions themselves.