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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... means . A six - line jury trial ( the impanel- ing and verdict - determining take four lines , the rendered verdict two ) opens out yet further into distributive justice . We sense a rabbit - out - of- the - hat preciosity in the last ...
... means " my affection " rather than “ my beloved " ( making the line mean , " The worst aspect of my wreck was that I , by loving , and venturing in my small craft out into ocean seas , was the agent of my own destruction " ) , nobody ...
... means that the con- ventional triad make / mar / mend ( drawn on , e.g. , by George Herbert in " Love ( III ) " and elsewhere ) is in question ; and since its ultimate referent is the Fall of Man , the word sinful ( inappropriate in the ...