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    Sonnet 116

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    Sonnet 116 is about love in its most ideal form. It is praising the glories of lovers who have come to each other freely‚ and enter into a relationship based on trust and understanding. The first four lines reveal the poet’s pleasure in love that is constant and strong‚ and will not "alter when it alteration finds." The following lines proclaim that true love is indeed an "ever-fix’d mark" which will survive any crisis. In lines 7-8‚ the poet claims that we may be able to measure love to some degree

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    Sonnet 18

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    alive is not easy. One knows that life eventually comes to an end‚ but does love? Time passes and days must end. It is in "Sonnet 18"‚ by Shakespeare‚ that we see a challenge to the idea that love is finite. Shakespeare shows us how some love is eternal and will live on forever in comparison to a beautiful summer ’s day. Shakespeare has a way of keeping love alive in "Sonnet 18"‚ and he uses a variety of techniques to demonstrate how love is more brilliant and everlasting than a summer ’s day. The

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    Sonnet 20

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    A Closer Look at Homosexuality in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 20 Shakespeare is a name that is familiar to anyone who has a high school education‚ at the very least. What makes Shakespeare timeless and relevant to every generation since his‚ is that his works speak universal truths. But how well would he be received in today’s society if it were known that he was homosexual? Would our country’s homophobia change the way we appreciate Shakespeare’s work? In this essay I will argue that Shakespeare was

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    Sonnet 116

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    word “love” isn’t just a 4 letter word… It’s way beyond that. This is what William Shakespeare is trying to clarify in his Sonnet 116. He wants to expound what love is‚ & what it isn’t. Using a couple of metaphors‚ Shakespeare’s main aim is to elucidate the theme that real love is immortal‚ consistent and certainly not under the mercy of time. Shakespeare starts off sonnet 116 by saying that true love overcomes impediments and doesn’t get affected by the changes in the surrounding. Following

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    Sonnet 18

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    Sonnet 18 begins with the narrator asking if he should compare the subject‚ which we will assume is a woman‚ to a summer’s day. Because Shakespeare asks if he should make this comparison implies that it is arbitrary. Shakespeare is asserting that Sonnet 18 could quite as easily be about the woman’s comparison to anything beautiful because she is more dazzling‚ or "more lovely"‚ as Shakespeare asserts in the second line when he begins his comparison‚ than any other beauteous object or concept in the

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    Shakespeare Sonnets

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    Arushi Bhardwaj December 11‚ 2012 English Homework Shakespeare’s Sonnets Two sonnets that are very closely related‚ are sonnet 12 and 15. Both these sonnets are essentially talking about how aging and time creates an end to beauty. In Sonnet 12‚ Shakespeare states "Then of thy beauty do I question make‚ / That thou among the wastes of time must go //Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake / And die as fast as they see others grow." This line is basically talking about how beauty wears

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    Sonnet 19

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    SONNET #19 by: William Shakespeare D EVOURING time‚ blunt thou the lion’s paws‚ And make the earth devour her own sweet brood; Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger’s jaws‚ And burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood; Make glad and sorry seasons as they fleet’st‚ And do whate’er thou wilt‚ swift-footed Time‚ To the wide world and all her fading sweets‚ But I forbid thee one most heinous crime: O‚ carve not with thy hours my love’s fair brow‚ Nor draw no lines there with thine antique

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    Sonnet 116

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    Sonnet 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds‚ Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark‚ Whose worth’s unknown‚ although his height be taken. Love’s not Time’s fool‚ though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks‚ But bears it out

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    Sonnet 30

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    Sonnet 30 In this sonnet‚ the poet conveys a theme of grief as he meditates on past woes and losses but is ultimately comforted by the thought of a "dear friend" (13). The pensive poet reflects upon memories of the past‚ causing him to regret his failure to achieve all that he wanted. With old woes recalled‚ he grieves over having wasted precious time. He then weeps‚ although he seldom does normally‚ for dear friends who have died and are lost to death’s eternal night. He cries once more over

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    sonnet 34

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    Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti chronicles his courtship with his wife Elizabeth Boyle. It was originally published in 1595 and loosely follows the Petrarchan sonnet model. Petrarch wrote his sonnets about women that he would never be able to obtain‚ while Spenser wrote about a single woman whom he did marry. Sonnet 34 appears to describe a break in Spenser’s relationship with Elizabeth; it seems like they had a fight and Spenser is biding his time until she forgives him. Spenser uses the analogy of a

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