Tag: Sonnets

Literature

A Short Analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 152: ‘In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘In loving thee thou know’st I am forsworn’: so begins the antepenultimate sonnet in William Shakespeare’s Sonnets – there are still two more to go in the sequence – but the last sonnet to advance a new argument. (The final pair are more of […]

Literature

A Short Analysis of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 54: ‘O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem’: so begins the 54th sonnet in Shakespeare’s sequence of 154 poems. It’s not the most famous poem in the sequence by any means, and the sentiment it expresses is straightforward – perhaps to the point of […]