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- All 154 Shakespeare sonnets translated into modern English, to read below the original text
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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 sonnets are addressed to a young man, and the last 28 addressed to a woman – a mysterious ‘dark lady’.
- Sonnet 2
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- Sonnet 5: Those Hours, That With Gentle Work Did Frame
- Sonnet 3: Look In Thy Glass, And Tell The Face Thous Viewest
- Sonnet 4: Unthrifty Loveliness, Why Dost Thou Spend
- Sonnet 40: Take All My Loves, My Love, Yea Take Them All
- Sonnet 8: Music To Hear, Why Hear'st Thou Music Sadly?
- Sonnet 15: When I Consider Everything That Grows
- Sonnet 11: As Fast As Thou Shalt Wane, So Fast Thou Grow'st
- Sonnet 29: When In Disgrace With Fortune and Men's Eyes
- Sonnet 13: O! That You Were Your Self, But, Love, You Are
- Sonnet 2
- 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.
Here you will find the text of each Shakespearean sonnet with commentary for most. Sonnet 1. -. From fairest creatures we desire increase. Sonnet 2. -. When forty winters shall beseige thy brow. Sonnet 3. -.
Apr 10, 2020 · 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: Read More. An Introduction to Shakespearean Sonnets. By Lee Jamieson.
- Lee Jamieson
- Sonnet 2
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 17
- Sonnet 18
- Sonnet 20
- Sonnet 23
- Sonnet 27
- Sonnet 29
- Sonnet 30
- Sonnet 34
'When forty winters shall besiege thy brow' When you become old, you should be able to show that you have a successor to your beauty – but only if you beget a child. More usual as an argument made by a man to a woman, as part of his seduction.
'When do I count the clock that tells the time' The number of hours in the day. Everything dies, so the only way to survive is to have children. Evidence that everything eventually perishes prompts the poet to consider that his friend is subject to the same process.
'Who will believe my verse in time to come' The last of the poems encouraging procreation - perhaps for the 17th birthday of William Herbert. My poetry alone cannot convey your many wonders, and might be mistrusted, so have a child as well.
'Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day' You don’t need children to testify to your beauty, because that will live for ever in this poem. My poetry turns you into an eternal summer in which you will be forever beautiful. This is one of the best chat up line poems I know.
‘A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted’ Famously puzzling sonnet - the language is slippery and self subverting. You are more beautiful than a woman, and have more allure, but nature fell in love with you and gave you the equipment to give pleasure to women. Nevertheless, you must stay constant to me! You look like both a man and a woman, a...
'As an unperfect actor on the stage' Sometimes I lose the ability to express my love, but realise it is there – in the silence of what I have already written.
'Weary with toil, I haste me to me bed' I cannot sleep, even though I go to bed exhausted, because my mind sees you in the darkness.
'When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes' When I am feeling out of favour with the world, I happen to think of you, and am so transported to heaven that my happiness is greater than kings’. Your love compensates for everything.
'When to the sessions of sweet silent thought' In solitude, the poet takes stock of his failures. Until he thinks consolingly of you. When I call to mind the past, I grieve; but when I think of you, my sense of loss and my grief end.
'Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day' Why did you betray me? Give me the come on then reject me. You have let me suffer and your trying to rescue the situation, and being repentant, does not help. But your tears do.
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.
View 154 sonnets. Individual sonnets. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
