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abs171910 's review for:
Shakespeare's Sonnets
by William Shakespeare
Poetry is obviously great because you can interpret it any way you want as long as you have evidence.
Some thoughts on these beautiful sonnets:
– Shakespeare's pretty confident that the men (man?) and women (woman?) he writes about will live on in history, and thus achieve a kind of immortality. To be fair, he's not wrong.
– It's very clear that plenty of modern authors have been inspired by some of Shakespeare's themes, but you can also see that he has in turn been influenced by his contemporaries, or they have influenced each other; I saw some John Donne in there.
– I'm interested in the process of creating these poems. I know that they have a specific order, but I wish I knew whether they were written in that order.
– Sometimes when Shakespeare's speaking to this young man, I really think that he is speaking about God, particularly in LXXII (more outright because it speaks of Eve,) XCVI, and CV. At the same time, he speaks of myth and monsters, like with his comparisons to Philomel in CII.
– I can read many of these as being about depression and trauma, but I wonder if that's more about me or about Shakespeare. Or maybe I'm confusing the speaker and the poet.
– He really likes to make puns on his own name. And he also makes references to his other works; I particularly saw connections to the Tempest, although that came out a little later. Shakespeare was winding up for the end, I think.
Some thoughts on these beautiful sonnets:
– Shakespeare's pretty confident that the men (man?) and women (woman?) he writes about will live on in history, and thus achieve a kind of immortality. To be fair, he's not wrong.
– It's very clear that plenty of modern authors have been inspired by some of Shakespeare's themes, but you can also see that he has in turn been influenced by his contemporaries, or they have influenced each other; I saw some John Donne in there.
– I'm interested in the process of creating these poems. I know that they have a specific order, but I wish I knew whether they were written in that order.
– Sometimes when Shakespeare's speaking to this young man, I really think that he is speaking about God, particularly in LXXII (more outright because it speaks of Eve,) XCVI, and CV. At the same time, he speaks of myth and monsters, like with his comparisons to Philomel in CII.
– I can read many of these as being about depression and trauma, but I wonder if that's more about me or about Shakespeare. Or maybe I'm confusing the speaker and the poet.
– He really likes to make puns on his own name. And he also makes references to his other works; I particularly saw connections to the Tempest, although that came out a little later. Shakespeare was winding up for the end, I think.