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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... rhetorical moments of this sonnet ( generalizing reflection , reproach , injunction , prophecy ) are permeable to one another's metaphors , so that the rose of philosophi- cal reflection yields the bud of direct address , and the famine ...
... rhetorical structure is one of the compositional motivations of this sonnet ( which is not notable for imagination ) . The degree to which , in the course of the sequence , Shakespeare engages with play in finding ways around the 4-4-4 ...
... rhetorical structure - four questions plus a couplet - answer - piles rhetorical suspense , or would do so if the poem did not appear , after Q1 , to be toying with its own queries . The proportioning of the questions ( 4-2-2-4 ) ...