A summary of a Shakespeare sonnet Sonnet 19 has a hard act to follow in the sequence of 154 poems that comprise Shakespeare’s Sonnets, as it is usually organised. What follows is a brief summary and analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 19 in terms of the poem’s language, meaning, and themes. […]
A summary of a classic Shakespeare poem by Dr Oliver Tearle ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ is one of the most famous opening lines in all of literature. In this post, we’re going to look beyond that opening line, and the poem’s reputation, and attempt a short […]
A reading of a Shakespeare sonnet Sonnet 17 is the last of the ‘Procreation Sonnets’, the series of poems with which the cycle of Sonnets begins, which see William Shakespeare trying to persuade the addressee of the Sonnets, the Fair Youth, to sire an heir. What follows is a brief […]
A reading of a Shakespeare sonnet Sonnet 16 by William Shakespeare continues the argument established in the previous sonnet, about art – and specifically, Shakespeare’s own poems – immortalising the Fair Youth’s beauty. Below is a brief summary and analysis of Sonnet 16. But wherefore do not you a mightier […]
A reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 15 ‘When I consider every thing that grows’: so begins William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 15, another example of the Bard’s ‘Procreation Sonnets’ addressed to the Fair Youth. In this post we offer a brief summary and analysis of Sonnet 15, focusing on the poem’s language, imagery, […]