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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 49
... contrasts , thematically , the superior power of the young man's potential self - representation by bio- logical ... contrast of an imperfect painted resemblance with perfect living flowers . Thence we are led to the rivalry between ...
... contrast , the poem enacts the present impossibility of lasting Edenic beauty . The peculiarly reductive comparison of the young man's cheek ( line 1 ) and then the young man himself ( line 13 ) to a map ( rather than to , say , a ...
... contrast , is concerned exclu- sively with lack expressed in negatives : sight delivers no form to the heart ; mind has no part in sight's objects ; nor does the eye's own vision hold onto what it catches . This lack is , in effect ...