I auction myself. And I make the highest bid.
This is an interesting way to emphasize the control she has over her own life
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- Aug 2020
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Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
It is interesting that Shakespeare uses this hyperbole to describe beauty but then mocks it in Sonnet 130
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So long lives this, and this gives life to thee
His beauty will live forever in the poem, even after death.
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bounteous largess given thee to give
Where did this inheritance come from?
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Profitless usurer, why dost thou use8So great a sum of sums yet canst not live
This reminds me of the Prodigal Son parable from the Bible. (The Prodigal Son takes his share of his inheritance and squanders it all.)
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for a woman wert thou first created
seems like a really round-about way to say that a man has some feminine features
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When lofty trees I see barren of leaves
This poem compares the youth of man (or just a man) to nature but this analogy is false at best. Is the speaker just going to ignore the fact that when plants wilt in the winter, they will most likely return in the spring? Or is he saying that having children is the same thing as a tree regrowing its leaves?
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