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what are the rhetorical figures in sonnet 64?? and can "mortal rage" be...

what are the rhetorical figures in sonnet 64?? and can "mortal rage" be seen as a transfered epithet?

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There are at least two major deviations from standard Shakespearean...

There are at least two major deviations from standard Shakespearean sonnet form among the 154 pieces now grouped under the heading of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Sonnet 126, the last in the "young man"...

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The second (and last) set of poems (127 through 154) in Shakespeare's...

The second (and last) set of poems (127 through 154) in Shakespeare's sonnets is addressed to a "Dark Lady." Akin to the search for the identity of the "young man," some of Shakespeare's biographers...

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The first 126 of Shakespeare's collected 154 sonnets are addressed to a...

The first 126 of Shakespeare's collected 154 sonnets are addressed to a young man; and based on the premise that the poet had an actual individual in mind when he wrote them, several efforts have been...

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Although they were first published under the title of Shake-speares...

Although they were first published under the title of Shake-speares Sonnets in 1609, we know that at least some of sonnets in that collection were written at least ten years earlier. Two of them,...

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Do any of the sonnets depart from the standard Shakespearean sonnet form?

Do any of the sonnets depart from the standard Shakespearean sonnet form?

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Who Is the "Dark Lady" addressed in the sonnets?

Who Is the "Dark Lady" addressed in the sonnets?

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Who Is the "Young Man" addressed in the sonnets?

Who Is the "Young Man" addressed in the sonnets?

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Why did Shakespeare use the sonnet cycle form?

Why did Shakespeare use the sonnet cycle form?

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Of the 154 sonnets in the now standard edition, 29 feature the unusual...

Of the 154 sonnets in the now standard edition, 29 feature the unusual device of a question within the first quatrain. The initiation of the sonnet with a question accords with a logical pattern that...

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Shakespeare's sonnets are concerned with love, beauty, poetry, and,...

Shakespeare's sonnets are concerned with love, beauty, poetry, and, perhaps most pervasively, the force that the passage of time exerts upon all three. In Sonnet 116, the narrator tells the "young man"...

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Why do so many of the sonnets begin with a question?

Why do so many of the sonnets begin with a question?

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What are the principal themes of the sonnets?

What are the principal themes of the sonnets?

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Shakespeare loves great work and full length play,that's why he liked...

Shakespeare loves great work and full length play,that's why he liked collection form of the sonnets. Through this work,he got a great applause.

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Compare and contrast the representation(s) of death and/or time in...

Compare and contrast the representation(s) of death and/or time in Hamlet and ONE of the following of Shakespeare’s sonnets: 3 “Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest”; 12 “When I do count...

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