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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... tion ignoring that evidence can never be a defensible one . I believe that anyone seriously contemplating the interior structures and interrelations of these sonnets is bound to conclude that many were composed in the order in which ...
... tion — but death is a necessary event ) and returns to the natural world . We assume the speaker will predict , as his emblem of necessity ( as he does in 73 ) , the darkness of night overtaking the sun that rose at dawn ; but in- stead ...
... tion to the unusual repetition of a Q , rhyme - sound in the couplet . One should notice how an emphasis on seeing ( the vehicle of aesthetic decep- tion ) , in the words seen , looks , and gazers , unites the affective , aesthetic , in ...