- Apr 2016
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Her 'love' for whose dear love I rise and fall.
unstressed; her, for, dear, I, and stressed; love, whose, love, rise, fall
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My soul doth tell my body that he may
stressed; soul, tell, bo(dy), he unstressed; my, doth, my (bo)dy, that, may
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Love is too young to know what conscience is; Yet who knows not conscience is born of love? Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss, Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove: For, thou betraying me, I do betray 5 My nobler part to my gross body's treason; My soul doth tell my body that he may Triumph in love; flesh stays no father reason; But, rising at thy name, doth point out thee As his triumphant prize. Proud of this pride, 10 He is contented thy poor drudge to be, To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side. No want of conscience hold it that I call Her 'love' for whose dear love I rise and fall.
There is not really a rhyme scheme, but you can definitely hear the iambic pentameter when you read this sonnet, it is very obvious to me. The volta in this sonnet appears at the end, it is the last two lines.
drudge: person made to do hard, dull, menial work
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He is contented thy poor drudge to be, To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side.
I really enjoyed this part of the sonnet because of the way it is worded, it was also difficult for me to understand at first.
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Love is too young to know what conscience is; Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?
This is probably my favorite part of Shakespeare's sonnet. It is talking about how in love, it is hard to recognize right from wrong, but in reality, love is what your conscience is.
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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About 100 years after the landing at Plymouth Rock, reports of Shakespeare productions start to creep into the record, with Romeo and Juliet the most popular among new world audiences
This really caught my eye. Very interesting fact!
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Next to stabbings and sword-fights, drowning is the second commonest means of death in his plays
I love whenever this is brought up because it is so interesting to me, yet I have no idea why.
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the playwright who is an icon of Englishness has also become a central feature of the American dream
I do not agree with the fact that you called Shakespeare a "central feature of the American dream." Shakespeare is in fact a brilliant play-write and poet, but he is not a very central part of the american dream.
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