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Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Take your pick of Shakespeare’s sonnets below, along with a modern English interpretation of each one aid understanding. Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets published in his ‘quarto’ in 1609, covering themes such as the passage of time, mortality, love, beauty, infidelity, and jealousy. The first 126 of Shakespeare’s ...
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- Sonnet 22: My Glass Shall Not Persuade Me I Am Old
- Sonnet 25: Let Those Who Are In Favour With Their Stars
- Sonnet 8: Music To Hear, Why Hear'st Thou Music Sadly?
- Sonnet 40: Take All My Loves, My Love, Yea Take Them All
- Sonnet 90: Then Hate Me When Thou Wilt; If Ever, Now
- Sonnet 24: Mine Eye Hath Play'd The Painter and Hath Steel'd
- Sonnet 30: When To The Sessions Of Sweet Silent Thought
- Sonnet 46: Mine Eye And Heart Are At A Mortal War
- Sonnet 3: Look In Thy Glass, And Tell The Face Thous Viewest
- Sonnet 2
Apr 10, 2020 · By. Lee Jamieson. Updated on April 10, 2020. Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, which were collected and published posthumously in 1609. Many critics segment the sonnets into three groups: The Fair Youth Sonnets (Sonnets 1 - 126): The first group of sonnets is addressed to a young man with whom the poet has a deep friendship. The Dark Lady ...
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When discussing or referring to Shakespeare's sonnets, it is almost always a reference to the 154 sonnets that were first published all together in a quarto in 1609. However, there are six additional sonnets that Shakespeare wrote and included in the plays Romeo and Juliet, Henry V and Love's Labour's Lost.
- The speaker urges a young man to have children, in order to preserve his beauty.
- The young man's beauty will fade, so the speaker urges him to have children to make it last longer.
- The speaker argues that it is time for the young man to reproduce, and create another image of himself.
- The speaker accuses the young man of being miserly for not passing on his beauty by having a child.
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- From fairest creatures we desire increase.
- When forty winters shall besiege thy brow.
- Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest.
- Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend.
Ten of the best known of Shakespeare’s sonnets are discussed in this SparkNotes guide: Sonnets 1, 18, 60, 73, 94, 97, 116, 129, 130, and 146. The full collection of 154 sonnets are often divided into two main sequences.
Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets. The majority of the sonnets, that is, the first 126, are addressed to a young man whom the poet has a romantic, loving relationship with. The first seventeen sonnets are used to try to convince the young man to marry and have beautiful children.
