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Shakespeare Sonnet 1
The speaker in the Shakespeare "Marriage Sonnets" has one goal in mind, to persuade a young man that he should marry and produce beautiful heirs.
• shakespeare sonnets • marriage sonnets • henry wriothesley • earl of southampton • elizabeth de vere

Shakespeare Sonnet 10
In Sonnet 10, the speaker challenges the young man's sense of self, regarding his love and affection for others. The speaker exaggerates the lack as "murderous hate."
• shakespeare sonnet 10 • for shame! deny that thou bear’st love to any • young man • quatrains • couplet

Shakespeare Sonnet 11
In marriage sonnet 11, the speaker again evokes the young man's pleasing qualities, claiming that the lad has an obligation to marry and pass them on to offspring.
• shakespeare sonnet 1 • as fast as thou shalt wane so fast thou grow’st • marriage sonnet 11 • the young man’s pleasing qualities • obligation to marry

Shakespeare Sonnet 116
Sonnet 116 dramatizes the nature of love, not ordinary affection but abiding love that he defines as the "marriage of true minds" that cannot be destroyed by fickle time.
• shakespeare • sonnet 116 • let me not to the marriage of true minds • quatrains • couplet

Shakespeare Sonnet 12
The speaker of Shakespeare's marriage poem 12 again shows how changing nature always comes under "Time's scythe," and only one remedy can fend him off: producing an heir.
• marriage sonnet 12 • when i do count the clock that tells the time • under the sway of nature • changing nature • time’s scythe

Shakespeare Sonnet 126
Sonnet 126 is a problem; it is not technically a sonnet. It has only 12 lines, six rimed couplets. It is located between the "young man" and the "dark lady" sonnets.
• shakespears scholars • three tehmatic categories • a problem sonnet • sonnet number 126 • elizabethan sonnet

Shakespeare Sonnet 13
In sonnet 13 the speaker continues pleading with the young man to marry and father a son. Again, the speaker is quite specific: "You had a father: let your son say so."
• shakespeare sonnet 13 • o! that you were yourself but love you are • marriage sonnets • young man • who lets so fair a house fall to decay

Shakespeare Sonnet 130
The speaker in Sonnet 130 challenges the Petrarchan tradition of putting the beloved upon a pedestal to show the lover's affection.
• shakespeare sonnet 130 • my mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun • coral • snow • roses

Shakespeare Sonnet 138
The speaker in Sonnet 138 confesses to a less than perfect relationship based on lies and deceit of which each partner is aware, yet they continue to flatter each other.
• shakespeare sonnet 138 • when my love swears that she is made of truth • quatrain • couplet • vainly thinking

Shakespeare Sonnet 14
In sonnet 14 the speaker says he does not have the power to predict the future by gazing at the stars in the sky, but the eyes of the young man tell all he needs to know.
• shakespeare sonnet 14 • ‘not from the stars do i my judgment pluck’ • to predict the future • understanding of astronomy • from the heavenly stars

Shakespeare Sonnet 15
In marriage sonnet 15, the speaker employs the Time metaphor again to persuade the young man that his only hope for deliverance from decrepitude is to produce offspring.
• shakespeare sonnet 15 • when i consider every thing that grows • young man • theater metaphor • when i perceive that men as plants increase

Shakespeare Sonnet 16
The speaker of Sonnet 16 likens the struggle with time to war. The young man is at war with Time as if it were a bloody tyrant he has encountered on a battlefield.
• shakespeare sonnet 16 • but wherefore do not you a mightier way • quatrain • couplet • lines of life

Shakespeare Sonnet 17
Sonnet 17 is the last marriage sonnet; the speaker makes a final plea to the lad, urging him to produce offspring, this time for the sake of the speaker's own veracity.
• shakespeare sonnet 17 • who will believe my verse in time to come • quatrain • couplet • last marriage sonnet

Shakespeare Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare's sonnet, "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day," is one the bard's most widely anthologized sonnets.
• william shakespeare • sonnet 18 • sonnet xviii • quatrains • couplet

Shakespeare Sonnet 19
In Sonnet 19, the speaker personifies and challenges Time to devastate his art as he does all living creatures as they age; then he declares that Time cannot do so.
• shakespeare • marriage sonnets • dark lady sonnets • sonnet 18 • devouring time

Shakespeare Sonnet 2
The second marriage sonnet continues the speaker's plea to the young man to marry. He urges the lad to think "carpe diem" before his beauty fades.
• shakespeare • sonnet 2 • marriage sonnet • young man • carpe diem

Shakespeare Sonnet 20
In Sonnet 20, the speaker again addresses his poem, likening it to a woman's charms, but finding it less fickle and more capable of consistently shielding love.
• shakespeare sonnet 20 • ‘a woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted’ • young man • scholars • quatrain

Shakespeare Sonnet 21
The theme of Sonnet 21 is similar to other sonnets that praise portraying a realistic description of the beloved, instead of the exaggerations that amount to untruths.
• shakespeare sonnet 21 • so is it not with me as with that muse • quatrain • couplet • truth

Shakespeare Sonnet 22
The speaker in Sonnet 22 asserts that despite his physical aging and death, his talent for creating poems will eternally retain his love, inspiring future generations.
• shakespeare sonnet 22 • my glass shall not persuade me i am old • quatrain • couplet • for all that beauty that doth cover thee

Shakespeare Sonnet 28
The speaker is suffering writer's block and complains that both day and night seem to be conspiring to keep him from fulfilling his beloved writing duties.
• shakespeare sonnet 28 • how can i then return in happy plight • writer's block • quatrain • couplet

Shakespeare Sonnet 29
The speaker being quite human sometimes suffers feelings of defeat, but when he thinks about his poetry, he realizes how lucky he is to be able to create.
• shakespeare sonnet 29 • when in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes • quatrain • couplet • feeling cursed

Shakespeare Sonnet 3
Sonnet 3 of the "Marriage Sonnets" focuses on the young man's image in the mirror. Again the speaker appeals to young man to marry and reproduce to bequeath his beauty.
• shakespeare • sonnet • marriage sonnets • young man • quatrain

Shakespeare Sonnet 30
Sonnet 30 belongs to the group that is mistakenly thought to be addressed to a young man, but no young man appears, only a "dear friend"-only his poetic talent.
• shakespeare sonnet 30 • when to the sessions of sweet silent thought • quatrain • couplet • sorrow

Shakespeare Sonnet 31
The speaker/poet dramatizes the importance and function of his poetry: through his talent, his friends and lovers whom he thought dead remain alive in his poem.
• shakespeare sonnet 31 • thy bosom is endeared with all hearts • talent • love • art

Shakespeare Sonnet 32
In Shakespeare sonnet 32, the speaker seems more humble than usual about his poems as he addresses a loved one.
• shakespeare sonnet 32 • if thou survive my well-contented day • compare them with the bettering of the time • quatrian • couplet

Shakespeare Sonnet 33
The extended metaphor of sonnet 33 dramatizes clouds hiding the sun. The sun represents the speaker's writing talent or muse, and the clouds are lulls in inspiration.
• william shakespeare • sonnet 33 • full many a glorious morning have i seen • anon permit the basest clouds to ride • quatrain

Shakespeare Sonnet 34
Sonnet 34 portrays with an extended metaphor of weather, sun, and clouds the crests and troughs of the ever-evolving activity of the speaker's writing talent.
• shakespeare • sonnet 34 • why didst thou promise such a beauteous day • extended metaphor • quatrain

Shakespeare Sonnet 35
In Sonnet 35, the speaker addresses the writer's block or failure of his muse to inspire him, but he realizes that along with the positive, always comes the negative.
• shakespeare • sonnet 35 • no more be griev’d at that which thou hast done • lazy muse • clouds and eclipses

Shakespeare Sonnet 36
The speaker/poet of Sonnet 36 again addresses his poem, dramatizing the unique duality of unity and separation, as the artist experiences those two phenomena.
• shakespeare • sonnet 36 • let me confess that we two must be twain • our undivided loves are one • quatrain

Shakespeare Sonnet 37
The speaker addresses his sonnet as a father would a son, dramatizing how the speaker's life is enhanced in multifaceted ways by his written creations.
• shakespeare sonnet 37 • as a decrepit father takes delight • quatrain • couplet • for whether beauty birth

Shakespeare Sonnet 38
In Sonnet 38, the speaker makes a distinction between his talent and his "Muse."
• shakespeare sonnet 38 • how can my muse want subject to invent • who is shakespeare • sonnet 18 • quatrain

Shakespeare Sonnet 39
In sonnet 39, the speaker dramatizes a division between himself and his poem, in order to think lovingly about the value of the poem without slipping into solipsism.
• shakespeare sonnet 39 • o! how thy worth with manners may i sing • who is shakespeare • sonnet 138 • quatrain

Shakespeare Sonnet 4
Each "marriage sonnet" employs a particular metaphor, but the speaker continues with his one theme; he is trying to persuade the young man to marry and produce offspring.
• shakespeare sonnet 4 • unthrifty loveliness why dost thou spend • marriage sonnets • metaphor • quatrain

Shakespeare Sonnet 40
Sonnet 40 exemplifies the hiatus from unity taken by the speaker that he declared in Sonnet 39, but instead of praising the poem, he appears to chiding it.
• shakespeare sonnet 40 • take all my loves my love yea take them all • then if for my love thou my love receivest • i do forgive thy robbery • gentle thief

Shakespeare Sonnet 49
Addressing his muse, the poet/speaker warns that he will do whatever it takes to secure himself from any possible future loss of inspiration.
• shakespeare 49 • against that time • if ever that time come • against that time when thou shalt strangely pass • against that time do i ensconce me here

Shakespeare Sonnet 5
The speaker of sonnet 5 dramatizes the young man's youth as summer and compares old age to horrid winter, while portraying offspring as the distillation of flowers.
• shakespeare sonnet 5 • those hours that with gentle work did frame • mariage sonnet • passage of time • summer

Shakespeare Sonnet 50
The speaker laments the battle between body and soul-the dualism that even his art cannot surmount in times of tribulation and woe.
• shakespeare sonnet 50 • how heavy do i journey on the way • the beast that bears me • tired with my woe • dualism

Shakespeare Sonnet 51
As in Sonnet 50, this speaker continues the use of the horse metaphor, as he explores the contrast between body and soul.
• shakespeare sonnet 51 • thus can my love excuse the slow offence • sonnet 51 • pegasus • winged-horse

Shakespeare Sonnet 52
In sonnet 52, the speaker observes that pleasure is best enjoyed infrequently, as he likens his enjoyment of his own creations to traditionally rare occasions.
• shakespeare sonnet 52 • so am i as the rich whose blessed key • therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare • so is the time that keeps you as my chest • blessed are you whose worthiness gives scope

Shakespeare Sonnet 53
In Shakespeare Sonnet 53, the speaker explores the nature of the Divine, as he has examined the nature of his own soul and its relationship to his poetic ability.
• shakespeare • sonnet • 53 • adonis • helen

Shakespeare Sonnet 6
Sonnet 6 might be considered a companion piece to Sonnet 5 as the speaker opens by referring to the metaphor he used in the earlier sonnet, the distillation of flowers.
• shakespeare sonnet 6 • then let not winter’s ragged hand deface • young man • offspring • sonnet

Shakespeare Sonnet 7
The speaker employs a clever pun in Sonnet 7 as he metaphorically compares the young man's life to a daily trip of the great star across the sky.
• shakespeare sonnet 7 • lo! in the orient when the gracious light • young man • father a child • clever pun

Shakespeare Sonnet 73
The speaker in sonnet 73 employs three different metaphors to describe his aging process: a tree, a day, and a fire; his purpose is to emphasize the strength of love.
• shakespeare sonnet 73 • that time of year thou mayst in me behold • metaphor • aging • black night

Shakespeare Sonnet 8
In Shakespeare's "Marriage Sonnet 8," the speaker for the first time evokes the joyful state of marriage itself, as he continues urging the young man to produce an heir.
• shakespeare’s marriage sonnet 8 • music to hearwhy hear’st thou music sadly • the state of marriage • music metaphor • the young man

Shakespeare Sonnet 9
In Sonnet 9, the speaker queries the young man about another possible reason for his remaining single: does he fear leaving some poor woman a widow?
• shakespeare sonnet 9 • is it for fear to wet a widow’s eye • chiding the young man for not marrying • a crying widow • issuless

Shakespeare Sonnet 96
Sonnets 18-126 are often misidentified as being addressed to a "young man." Actually, the speaker is exploring the many aspects of his writing talent.
• shakespeare sonnet 96 • some say thy fault is youthsome wantonness • sonnets 18-126 • misidentified as being addressed to a young man • writer’s block

Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 130
Is Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 a moving and radical attempt to write a realistic love poem, or an attack on his work of his poetic contemporaries?
• shakespeare sonnet 130 • blazon. • my mistress eyes are nothing like the sun • any she belied by false compare • edmund spenser

Shakespeare's Sonnet No.4
Shakespeare combines themes of inheritance, usury and sexual innuendo whilst urging the beloved to marry.
• shakespeare sonnet 4 • unthrifty loveliness • renaissance usury • the merchant of venice • shakespeare sexual innuendo

De Vere's Love Poem
In Edward de Vere's sonnet, the speaker compares falling in love to a game of tennis.
• edward de vere • 17th earl of exford • william shakespeare • stratford • who is shakespeare

Just Strong Enough
Sometimes a little inspiration as expressed in early spring flowers is strong enough to change one's perception of reality.
• inspiration • soul • spirit • flowers • shakespeare


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