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A personal list of the 25 most intriguing sonnets by Shakespeare, with analysis and quotes. Explore the themes of love, loss, time, youth and more in these exceptional poems.
Discover the best poems by William Shakespeare, the most influential writer in the English language. Learn about the themes, styles and meanings of his 154 sonnets, from the famous Sonnet 18 to the lesser-known Sonnet 98.
3. Jan. 2018 · The top ten greatest sonnets by William Shakespeare, selected by Dr Oliver Tearle. Previously, we’ve analysed a good number of Shakespeare’s sonnets here at Interesting Literature, offering a brief summary and analysis of the sonnet in question and exploring its most significant points of interest. But we gave up analysing every ...
Explore the full collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets, covering themes such as love, beauty, time, and mortality. Each sonnet has a modern English interpretation and a link to more information.
- Sonnet #1
- Sonnet #130
- Sonnet #17
- Sonnet 116
- Sonnet #129
- Sonnet #55
- Sonnet #18
- Sonnet #59
- Sonnet #60
- Sonnet #65
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From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel...
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red, than her lips red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress r...
The creation of beauty, as opposed to one’s obsession with one’s own beauty as some fixed thing, becomes a self-developing process – it becomes the higher hypothesis of our existence. This theme is thoroughly developed from sonnets 1-16, but now in sonnet 17 (closely related to sonnet 16), something begins to happen – there is a singularity or what...
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. Love’s not Time’s fool, tho...
Here we have a denunciation of lust, its effects, in the midst of developing the theme of the “dark lady,” warning us: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action: and till action, lust Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust; Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight; Past reason hunt...
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone, besmear’d with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword, nor war’s quick fire shall burn The living record of your memor...
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed:...
If there be nothing new, but that which is Hath been before, how are our brains beguil’d, Which labouring for invention bear amiss The second burthen of a former child. Oh that record could with a backward look, Even of five hundred courses of the sun, Show me your image in some antique book, Since mind at first in character was done, That I might ...
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. Nativity, once in the main of light, Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown’d, Crooked eclipses ‘gainst his glory fight, And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. ...
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o’ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O! how shall summer’s honey breath hold out, Against the wrackful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong but Ti...
Explore the themes of beauty, mortality, and immortality in Shakespeare's sonnets, selected by the Society of Classical Poets. Learn how Shakespeare uses metaphors, comparisons, and contrasts to express his insights into the nature of man and the world.
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.
30. Mai 2023 · Explore the collection, essays, and resources of Shakespeare's Sonnets, the most famous love poems in the English language. Learn about the themes, language, history, and interpretations of the Sonnets, and find free texts, lesson plans, and podcasts.
