The Art of Shakespeare’s SonnetsHelen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language. |
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... appearance lies in him . Fair enough : to the eye belong picture and appearance . The heart- plaintiff , wishing to forbid the eye its freedom to bar the heart from its right , pleads that the beloved ( thou ) lies in him , a windowless ...
... appearance ( which now seem woe ) is followed by a move to the abolition of reality by change of appearance : woes will not seem so ( will not appear as woe ) , and therefore will not be woe . The restriction of the meaning of the word ...
... appearance and action : they do not do the thing they most do show . Linked to 93 by face and show and sweet , heaven , husband , and live , 94 puts these words into question afresh . The reproach implicit in the simile of stone and the ...