Sonnet 18 Themes
Love
Sonnet 18 opens up looking an awful
lot like a traditional love poem, but by the end it’s pretty clear that the
poet is much more into himself and the poetry he produces than the beloved
he&#........................
Literature and WritingLike
much of Shakespeare’s work, Sonnet 18 is all about writing and expressing one’s
self through language. This is, at its clearest, a poem about the power of the
written word over dea......................
Time
The speaker of Sonnet 18 is
absolutely fixated on fate and mortality, but believes he’s come up with an
effective time machine: poetry. Instead of contemplating a beautiful summer’s
day...............
Man and the Natural World
On one level,
Sonnet 18 is clearly concerned with the relationship between man and the
eventual, inescapable death he’ll encounter in nature. On another level, the
poet also seems fascinated............
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