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Thyself
"Thyself" means "your self." As Shakespeare uses this in his line, he says that "Yourself shall foe."
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Making a famine where abundance lies,
Iambic pentameter is also used here,"maKING a FAMine WHERE aBUNDANCE lies."
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Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.
Volta is used here as the entire beginning of the sonnet is reviewing the beauty of the world while the last two lines of the sonnet talk about having to "Pity the world." The use of volta in this sonnet makes the reader think twice about what they had read as their was two sides to the topic that the reader went through.
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increase,
Rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line in poems or songs. The rhyme scheme in Shakespeare's Sonnet I goes as: A, B, A, C, B, D, B, D, E, F, G, F, G, H, H.
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pilgrimage
A religious journey.
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Lifts up his burning head, each under eye
Unstressed: Lifts, his, ing from burning, each, and der from under. Stressed: up, burn from burning, head, un from under, and eye. The rhythm creates a beat that goes along with the 10 syllables per line.
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And having climb'd the steep-up heavenly hill,
Unstressed: And, ing from having, the, up, and enly from heavenly. Stressed: hav from having, climb'd, steep, heav from heavenly, and hill. The rhythm created is used to make a couple of the words seem more important.
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feeble
Feeble means lack of physical strength as a result of age
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But when from highmost pitch, with weary car, Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day, 10 The eyes, 'fore duteous, now converted are From his low tract and look another way:
The rhyme scheme is A B A B; C D C D; E F E F. Car rhymes with are and day rhymes with way. Just like light rhymes with sight and eye rhymes with majesty.
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Look,
He is emphasizing how much he adores this person. How much he sees in her and how much he looks up to her. In this poem there really isn't a turn there is a just a emphasizing.
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delight
Rhyme Scheme: A-delight B-youth A-spite B-truth C-wit D-more C-sit D-store E-despised F-give E-sufficed F-live G-thee G-me
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Suspect I may, but not directly tell;
The stressed syllables are spect, may, not, ect, and tell. The unstressed syllables are Sus, I, but, dir, and ly.
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I guess one angel in another's hell:
The stressed syllables in this line are guess, ang, in, oth, and hell. The unstressed syllables in this line are I, one, el, an, and er's.
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The better angel is a man right fair,
The stressed syllables in this line are bet, ang, is, man, and fair. The unstressed syllables in this line are the, ter, el, a, and right.
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despair,
The rhyme scheme for this poem is: despair (a) and fair (a), still (b) and ill (b), evil (c) and devil (c), side (d) and pride (d), fiend (e) and friend (e), tell (f) and hell (f), doubt (g) and out (g)
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I all alone beweep my outcast state
Unstressed:I, al-,be-,my,-cast. Stressed:all,-one,-weep,out-, state.
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eyes,
The rhyme scheme is eyes(a) and cries(a), state(b) and fate(b), hope(c) and scope(c), possess'd(d) and least(d), despising(e) and arising(e), state(f) and gate(f), and brings(g) and kings(g)
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thou art too dear for my possessing
Thou-art, Too-dear, For-my, Possess-ing.
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Farewell!
The rhyme scheme is a(possessing),b(estimate),a(releasing),b(determinate),c(granting),d(deserving),c(wanting),d(swerving),e(knowing),f(mistaking),e(growing),f(making),g(flatter),g(matter)
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Thyself thou gavest, thy own worth then not knowing,
The significance of this line is saying she gave herself away, without knowing her worth.
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Grant, if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many
grant, IF | thou WILT | thou ART | beLOVED | of MA | ny
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Who for thyself art so unprovident.
who FOR | thySELF | art SO | un-PROV | i-DENT |
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For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any,
For SHAME | deNY | that THOU | bear'st LOVE | to ANY. The capitalized words are the stressed ones.
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For shame deny that thou bear'st love to any, Who for thyself art so unprovident. Grant, if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many, But that thou none lovest is most evident; For thou art so possess'd with murderous hate That 'gainst thyself thou stick'st not to conspire. Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate Which to repair should be thy chief desire. O, change thy thought, that I may change my mind! Shall hate be fairer lodged than gentle love? Be, as thy presence is, gracious and kind, Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove: Make thee another self, for love of me, That beauty still may live in thine or thee.
The rhyme scheme goes: ababcdcdefeghh
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oft
Oft is a shortened version of often
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Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know Time's thievish progress to eternity.
Time will take you and death will hold you forever
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Look, what thy memory can not contain Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find 10 Those children nursed, deliver'd from thy brain,
These lines are the volta, where WS is saying that in your old age you will forget these things. This poem is about a metaphorical book he is writing for is lover, but the empty pages are lost memories.
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Thy dial
The word dial is referring to a sundial, these were how time was measured in WS time.
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Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,
This line is saying the glass is a mirror and i will show your beauty.
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wear,
The rhyme scheme for sonnet 77 is ababcdcdefefgg
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to recite
A- recite and quite B- love and prove C- lie and I D- desert and impart E- this and is F- untrue and nor you G- forth and worth
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That you for love speak well of me untrue,
unstressed; that, for, speak, of, and un from untrue stressed: you, love, well, me, and true from untrue This is an effective way to use iambic pentameter because it is showing that she is making more of him than he actually is by making the line flow. The poet is saying that if she lies about him then she never really loved him.
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To do more for me than mine own desert
The stressed syllables are to, more, me, mine, and des from desert. The unstressed syllables are do, for, than, own, ert from desert. This is important because this is showing how it's important for the lover not to do more than what he is worth because people will figure out he is lying.
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worth.
This line is an effective use of the iambic pentameter because it makes the volta flow faster and seem not as harsh. unstressed: and, should, to, things, and thing from nothing stressed: so, you, love, no from nothing, and worth
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And so should you, to love things nothing worth.
This sonnet is about how when the poet dies then his lover should not try and carry on his name even though he is not worthy enough. The volta in the poem is in the last line when he tells his lover that she should be ashamed for loving someone with no worth. This is significant because it's showing how they fell in love without even knowing each other's worth nor appreciating it.
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impart
make known, communicate
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niggard
A stingy or ungenerous person
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Dian'
Dian represents the god of Chasity and virginity. Therefore the nymphs are devoted to Diana rather than cupid.
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asleep:
Rhyme scheme: Asleep and steep. Endure and cure. New fired and desired. Breast and guest. Lies and eyes.
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withal
With (used at the end of a clause)
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thither hied
To go quickly
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sovereign
Possessing supreme or ultimate power
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maladies
A disease or ailment.
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When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, For all the day they view things unrespected; But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee, And darkly bright are bright in dark directed. Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright, 5 How would thy shadow's form form happy show To the clear day with thy much clearer light, When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so! How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made By looking on thee in the living day, 10 When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay! All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg. The a's are see and thee; the b's are unrespected and directed. The c's are bright and light; the d's are show and so. The e's are made and shade; the f's are day and stay. The g's are thee and me.
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doth
Doth means the word/meaning "do" in language today.
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And for the peace of you I hold such strife As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found; Now proud as an enjoyer and anon 5 Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure,
This part means that the happiness she brings him also gives him an inner conflict that he compares to a miser and his money, stating that if he spends his money or love in this case, she will steal his money, or break his heart.
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Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, Or gluttoning on all, or all away.
If this poem was read to me I would kind of be offended by it because Shakespeare is basically saying that he will keep a girl around whether he wants anything to do with her or not.
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miser
definition: a person who hoards wealth and spends as little money as possible
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So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
unstressed: so, you, my, as, to stressed: are, to, thoughts, food, life
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filching
definition: steal in a casual way
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surfeit
definition: an excessive amount of something
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So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground; And for the peace of you I hold such strife As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found; Now proud as an enjoyer and anon 5 Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure, Now counting best to be with you alone, Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure; Sometime all full with feasting on your sight And by and by clean starved for a look; 10 Possessing or pursuing no delight, Save what is had or must from you be took. Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day, Or gluttoning on all, or all away.
The rhyme schemes in my poem are abab, cdcd, efef gg
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Sometime all full with feasting on your sight And by and by clean starved for a look;
This is the volta because he is saying how although he enjoys her present, he is sometimes starved by it.
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Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
Unstressed: Ad, tage, the, dom, the Stressed: van, of, king, of, shore The rhythm makes it seem more song like, making it sound like a fable.
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The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
Unstressed: the, proud, of, worn, ied Stressed: rich, cost, out, bur, age
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ruminate
to think deeply about something
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confounded
to express anger or annoyance
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defaced
Defaced:A Age:B Razed:A Rage:B Gain:C Shore:D Main:C Store:D State:E Decay:F Ruminate:E Away:F Choose:G Lose:G
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canst
canst means can
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dost
the old fashioned way of saying do
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Unthrifty
Unthrifty means wasteful
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niggard
the definition of niggard is an ungenerous person
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Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thyself thy beauty's legacy? Nature's bequest gives nothing but doth lend, And being frank she lends to those are free.
The rhyme scheme of this poem is A,B,A,B
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constancy
definition: the quality of being faithful and dependable.
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perjured
definition: also known as forswearing, is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or of falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to an official proceeding.
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breach
definition: an act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.
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forsworn
definition: agree to give up or do without
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When I break twenty? I am perjured most; For all my vows are oaths but to misuse thee
when, break, I, perjured, for, my, are, but, misuse are all unstressed. I, twenty, am, most, all, vows, oaths, to, thee are all stressed.
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bearing
A bearing is a machine element that constrains relative motion to only the desired motion, and reduces friction between moving parts.
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But thou art twice forsworn, to me love swearing, In act thy bed-vow broke and new faith torn, In vowing new hate after new love bearing.
The Volta goes from love to hate.
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forsworn
The rhyme scheme is forsworn (a), swearing (b), torn (a), bearing (b).
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old
The rhyme scheme of (A) is old and cold. The rhyme scheme of (B) is eyed and pride. The rhyme scheme of (C) is turn'd and burn'd. The rhyme scheme of (D) is seen and green. The rhyme scheme of (E) is hand and stand. The rhyme scheme of (F) is perceived and deceived. The rhyme scheme of (G) is unbred and dead.
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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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There are 3 quatrains which is 4 lines a piece ,and one couplet at the end that is 2 lines. Lines 1 and 3 are A, 2 and 4 are B, 5 and 7 are C, and 6 and 8 are D. Also, lines 9 and 11 are E, and lines 10 and 12 are F. Lastly, lines 13 and 14 are G.
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consecrate
This word is unfamiliar to me. The word consecrate means to declare something. Another confusing word in this poem is hath. This means third person singular present of have.
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But be contented: when that fell arrest
I disagree with this line. I don't think anyone is content with dying. At one point everyone is scared, and no one is really happy to be dead. Everyone wants to live forever, even if they know they can't.
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The prey of worms, my body being dead,
I think this line means that after you die and you get buried in the dirt, your body is at the hands of worms. Worms eat you for food, therefore making you the prey.
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The earth can have but earth, which is his due; My spirit is thine, the better part of me: So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life,
These lines would be an example of iambic pentameter. The unstressed syllables would be the, can, but, which, and his in the 1st line. The stressed syllables in that line are earth, have, earth, is, and due. Another example of unstressed syllables in the 3rd line highlighted would be so, thou, but, the, and of. The stressed syllables are then, hast, lost, dregs, and life. These lines all go together to create a rhythm and beat that gives the poem a certain effect.
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But be contented: when that fell arrest Without all bail shall carry me away, My life hath in this line some interest, Which for memorial still with thee shall stay
The rhyme scheme is A, B, A, B. For example, arrest and interest rhyme. So does away and stay, which are on the 2nd and 4th line. Another example of rhyming is life and knife, and they are at the end of the poem.
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The worth of that is that which it contains, And that is this, and this with thee remains.
This is the turn or volta. The beginning of the poem explains how he has accepted death and can be ok with not being remembered, however at the end it says he will be worthy once he is gone. This disagrees with the whole poem.
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I am to wait, though waiting so be hell; Not blame your pleasure, be it ill or well.
This is the Volta (the turn) Throughout the Volta, Shakespeare complains about his partner's lack of commitment but the turn is that he will still wait for them and stand by them no matter how how much pain they cause him.
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SONNET XI
Sonnet 11 by Shakespeare is written telling somebody that it is important for them to have children because of how much beauty and intelligence they have. The entire sonnet is basically one huge compliment, and at the end does not even appear to have a Volta, as rare as that is. Instead at the ending in the couplet, he continues his compliment when he explains mother nature carved her body as a mold to make more copies, and not let that beauty die with her.
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Herein lives wisdom, beauty and increase: 5 Without this, folly, age and cold decay: If all were minded so, the times should cease And threescore year would make the world away.
"HereinI lives wisIdom, beaIuty andI increase:/WithoutI this, foIlly, ageI and coldI decay:/If allI were mindIed so,I the timesI should cease./And threeIscore yearI would makeI the worldI away." Shakespeare writes sonnet 11 in his most famous rhyme scheme, an abab format, this means that line 1 rhymes with like 3 and line 2 rhymes with line 4. These lines are the more pronounced example of abab in sonnet 11, "increase" in line 1 rhymes with "cease" in line 3, and "decay" in line 2 rhymes with "away" in line 4.
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Shakespeare creates the rhythm in sonnet 11, by rhyming the different endings of the 14 lines of his poems, which is a common style when writing in a Shakespearean style. He does this in almost every line such as with words like "increase" and "cease," and "perish" and "cherish."
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decree
Decree: is law, rule, or standard.
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SONNET XCIII
Sonnet 93 follows the Rhyme Scheme of: A, B, A, B, C, D, E, D, E, F, E, F, G, G.
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Dost thou
This is some of the words I did not understand. "Dost thou" defines as do you.
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The poem produces a volta. A volta is a change in the poet's thought process. This change in a poet's thought process usually occurs at the last two stanzas of a poem. In this sonnet, Shakespeare explains that he is in love with this women, and he is woken up from his sleep, thinking about her. He believes that she doesn't love him as much as he loves her. Then, he explains that she is keeping other men too close to her.
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Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee 5 So far from home into my deeds to pry, To find out shames and idle hours in me,
This poem has a rhyme scheme, I know this because in this particular poem it says, "Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee 5 So far from home into my deeds to pry, To find out shames and idle hours in me," In the first line, the ending word rhymes with the third lines ending word. "Thee" and "me" produce a rhyme scheme.
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chide
The rhyme scheme is ababababa then cdcd then fg
This provides a rhythm that starts all over at a climax or change of idea. The rhyme scheme starts over at line 9 and 13.
The author can control the audience in this way. First he has the audience in his beat but then a sort of climax makes sure he does not lose the audience's focus.
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my strong infection
Close Reading Analaysis: This is not really an infection but a sort of sin or wrong he has done.
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This is a very bitter kind of vinegar
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Nor double penance, to correct correction. Pity me then, dear friend, and I assure ye Even that your pity is enough to cure me.
He is saying that his is incurable but after the volta it the author is saying that his dear friends pity is enough to cure him
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In other accents do this praise confound
Confound means to surprise or confuse.
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Then, churls, their thoughts, although their eyes were kind,
Churls is the plural form of the word "Churl" which means an impolite or mean person.
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But why thy odour matcheth not thy show, The solve is this, that thou dost common grow.
The rhyme scheme follows A,B,A,B,-C,C. The ending words all rhyme in this sequence: view,mend, due, commend, crown'd, own, confound, shown, mind, deeds, kind, weeds. Then followed by the C,C: show and grow.
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But if thou live, remember'd not to be,
This is one example of the iambic pentameter, "But" is unstressed, "is" is stressed, "thou" is unstressed, "live" is stressed, "re-" is unstressed, "mem" is stressed, "-ber'd" is unstressed, "not" is stressed,"to" is unstressed, "be" is stressed.
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Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
The volta begins here, because before this line, Shakespeare was writing about how this person should change their ways, now from this line and on, Shakespeare is writing about something else entirely than change.
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For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb 5 Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry? Or who is he so fond will be the tomb Of his self-love, to stop posterity?
The rhyme scheme in the entire poem is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. This may be one example but the whole rhyme is: A-viewest B- another A- renewest B- mother, C- womb D- husbandry C- tomb D- posterity, E- thee F- prime E- see F- time, G- be G- thee
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beguile
Beguile means to charm or enchant someone, sometimes in a deceptive way. The use of it in this sonnet is, Shakespeare started out this poem saying that this person should change their ways and when he is using the word beguile, is explaining is that this person should stop being deceiving and deceptive.
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Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest Now is the time that face should form another;
What Shakespeare is trying to say here is this person should change their ways because their old ways were bad.
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O, none, unless this miracle have might, That in black ink my love may still shine bright.
Why does he want his love to be shown so much through writing?
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Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?
I really like this part of the poem or sonnet. When you actually translate it to what it means, it means "Who can prevent Time from destroying beauty?." I like it because it shows that over time, something truly do lose beauty, at least to some people
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Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out
Whose action is no stronger than a flower? O, how **shall sum**mer's hon**ey breath** hold out
The italic show the stressed syllables, whereas the rest of the poem is unstressed.
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Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
This means that even the most undefeated things can end or be defeated on the worst days.
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Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
rhyme scheme. sea - plea: both have the "ea" with the "ee" sound. power - flower: both have the ower sound. out - stout: both have the "out". days - decays: both end in "ays" alack - back: both have the "ack" sound. hid - forbid: both have the "id" ending might - bright: both end in "ight"
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alack
an expression of regret or dismay.
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siege
a prolonged period of misfortune
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impregnable
unable to be captured or broken into. unable to be defeated or destroyed.
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stout
an act, quality, or person; brave and determined. a person; somewhat fat or of heavy build.
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enmity
meaning opposition or odds
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'Gainst
a shortened version of against
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Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time
This line means with the word sluttish means that the stones are blackened by something dirty (sluttish)
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Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room
The stressed words are you, forth, praise, still, room and the unstressed words are Shall, pace, your, shall, find
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Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn
The stressed syllables are Mars, sword, war's, fire, burn and the unstressed syllables are Nor, his, nor, quick, shall.
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So should that beauty which you hold in lease 5 Find no determination:
This means that when she dies her beauty will be carried on through her child. Her beauty will never die because it is carried on through her children.
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Against this coming end you should prepare, And your sweet semblance to some other give.
Shakespeare is saying that she needs to prepare for her death and have a child. She should let her life live on through her child.
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Who lets so fair a house fall to decay
House is referring to a family. Shakespeare is asking the rhetorical question of: Who would let a family fall apart?
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Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, If not from my love's breath? The purple pride Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dyed.
Rhyme scheme: smells A pride B dwells A dyed B
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chide
Definition: scold or rebuke
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A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both 10 And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath; But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker eat him up to death.
Rhyme Scheme: both E breath F growth E death F
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The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing shame, another white despair;
Rhyme Scheme: hand C hair D stand C despair D
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So is it not with me as with that Muse
Here, he is saying basically he's "not like those other guys"
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Of plagues
I could be completely wrong with this and his time period but maybe he was influenced by the black plague.
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astronomy,
So I think he is trying to compare himself to astronomy but I wonder why. He used the word "stars" in the first line and I wonder if this is goi g to carry on into the rest of the poem.
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methinks
I think "methinks" is so weird. I wonder if Shakespeare was actually spelling things wrong and making actual grammatical errors but we just look at his words as if they are beautiful old English.
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pluck;
Pluck can mean courage or it can mean to pull away at something, but I'm not sure which one Shakepeare is using in this line.
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hath
Definition: archaic third person singular present of have.
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bosom's
Definition: A woman's breasts.
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But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
This is the turn. He was lamenting the fact that he no longer had what he used to, but he now is fondly remembering it and is happy.
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Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow
Then is unstressed, can is stressed, I is unstressed, drown is stressed, etc.
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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste: Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, 5 For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe, And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight: Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er 10 The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
Lines 1 and 3, lines 2 and 4, lines 5 and 7, lines 6 and 8, lines 9 and 11, lines 10 and 12, and lines 13 and 14 rhyme.
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cheque'd
the words "cheque'd" and "bereft" are the two words I do not know the meaning of. I'm guessing "bereft" means "were left" but I have no idea what "cheque'd" means. I looked it up and it means to pay with a personnel check. But how does that fit in with this poem? Does it mean that sap paid with frost or gave up to frost?
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Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
The iambic pentameter in this poem is a bit hard to read. There are a lot of lines that have three or two syllabus and its hard to find the specific beat like in line 11.
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frame
The rhyme schemes of this sonnet are A is frame and same, B is dwell and excel, C is on and gone, D is there and where, E is left and bereft, F is glass and glass and was, and the volta is meet and sweet. But the part that makes me question is the rhyme scheme part F: was and glass don't rhyme so why is it like that?
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For never-resting time leads summer on 5 To hideous winter and confounds him there;
What these lines are trying to say is that during the summer we are active and always trying to look for new things and in winter we are slow to do things that we enjoy.
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Beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness every where: Then, were not summer's distillation left,
What this is saying that in the winter everything is covered in snow and looks bare whereas in the summer there is a ton of variety in our surroundings.
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But flowers distill'd though they with winter meet, Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.
The volta above is saying during the bulk of the sonnet is its explaining things that change but in the last part it goes on to explain that true beauty never changes.
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Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft, Nor it nor no remembrance what it was: But flowers distill'd though they with winter meet, Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.
I think what this part is trying to say is that true beauty never changes and never dies out
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wantonness;
The rhyme scheme for this sonnet would be A: Wantonness B :Sport A: More or less B: Resort C: Queen D: esteem'd C: Seen D: Deem'd E: Betray F: Translate E: Away F: State G: Sort G: Report
All the words rhyme with each other in a pattern.
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But do not so; I love thee in such sort
This would the the volta in the sonnet, because before it would describe the faults within a person, " Some say thy fault is youth," But at that part the sonnet begins to talk about how much he loves her despite her flaws.
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For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any, Who for thyself art so unprovident. Grant, if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many, But that thou none lovest is most evident; For thou art so possess'd with murderous hate 5 That 'gainst thyself thou stick'st not to conspire. Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate Which to repair should be thy chief desire. O, change thy thought, that I may change my mind! Shall hate be fairer lodged than gentle love? 10 Be, as thy presence is, gracious and kind, Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove: Make thee another self, for love of me, That beauty still may live in thine or thee
The rhyme scheme for this poem is A,B,A,C,D,C,D,E,F,E,F,G,G.
A-any B-unprovident A- many B- evident C-hate D-conspire C-ate D- desire E-mind F-love E-kind F-prove G-me G-thee
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SONNET XII When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves 5 Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green all girded up in sheaves Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard, Then of thy beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of time must go, 10 Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake And die as fast as they see others grow; And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
The overall rhyme scheme for the poem is ABABCDCDEFEFGG.
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That thou among the wastes of time must go, 10 Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake
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thou single wilt prove none.
The 12 lines of the poem are about a man seeking to find a partner and not to be single anymore and to have a family. In the end it says that to say "thou single wilt prove none." To a single person, not literally but to encourage people to settle down.
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In that sense, Shakespeare is the quintessentially American author.”
Shakespeare cannot be named an american author if America was not discovered.
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At this juncture, Donald Trump was seen as less a threat than a diversion
Well now he's a threat, people are worried that he might be able to win the election. But I have faith in humanity that the adults won't make the wrong choice. I hope.
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“our engagement with Shakespeare has been long and sustained: generation after generation of Americans has fallen under his spell”, he is acknowledging this most surprising fact – that Shakespeare’s afterlife as the greatest playwright who ever lived is now as much an American as a British phenomenon
I don't believe that Shakespeare is the "greatest playwright who ever lived." Just because he is well known in the US does not mean that he is automatically the best there is.
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Now Shakespeare’s plays became part of the debate about what it meant to be an American,
I honestly don't believe that Shakespeare has had this much of an affect on America. He may be a very popular author and poet, but I personally do not see that he made this much of an impact.
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“The theatre is all about imagining yourself as other than you are.”
I agree with this quote because you'll never know what Shakespeare was truly inspired by because he is dead and can't answer that question himself.
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prominence
what does this word mean?
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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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in which the mirror of his great dramas gets held up to a society perpetually in search of itself.
Personification- This is giving Shakespeare's work the ability to hold up a mirror. By doing this the author makes the work done by Shakespeare an object that could be compared to society.
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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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Let me search for the clue which led great Shakespeare into the labyrinth of human nature,”
my personal opinion is that Shakespeare is an american poet. any of his work was based off american history.
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If dramatists and explorers share an addiction to conflict, jeopardy and transgression, then Shakespeare and the first American settlers had rather more in common than their mother tongue.
This sentence doesn't make sense to me
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Four hundred years after the death of our national poet, and the subsequent landing of the Mayflower, the playwright who is an icon of Englishness has also become a central feature of the American dream, in which the mirror of his great dramas gets held up to a society perpetually in search of itself.
If Shakespeare died at the same time as the landing of the Mayflower, could it be that maybe the "American" influence of his writing technically still be English?
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as the greatest playwright who ever lived is now as much an American as a British phenomenon,
I believe that if he was really born in Britain, he is still British. He can still be considered an American poet because that is where his poetry became famous, but he is still originally British. However, I do agree that he can be considered an American poet based on how famous his work is here.
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transgression
I am not sure what the meaning of transgression is.
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our national poet,
I don't understand why it would say "our national poet". Shakespeare was not even from the United States. He might have been a well known poet, but how could he be our national poet.
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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
Is there a connection to the information about Plymouth Rock and Romeo and Juliet
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Shakespeare’s work had become a bible for Americans, and a treasured, felicitous reminder of their linguistic and cultural heritage.
I think this statement is pretty accurate. Most of Shakespeare's work is extremely well known still to this day. Also the writer of this article uses a small allusion here.
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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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The National Guard was called out.
Connection: Jim Crow. In Jim Crow laws, The National Guard had to be called to protect kids going to and from school. In this article, The National Guard was called to protect citizens from a riot.
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Now Shakespeare’s plays became part of the debate about what it meant to be an American,
Since Shakespeare's work had been debuted in America and had been praised so much, they were seen as "American."
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By the mid-18th century, Shakespeare’s work had become a bible for Americans, and a treasured, felicitous reminder of their linguistic and cultural heritage.
Shakespeare influenced Americans so heavily, they thought of his work as almost "holy."
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The works of Shakespeare have been an integral part of the American dream since the first settlement of the Thirteen Colonies
The author explains that Shakespeare influenced poetry and writing in the "new land." Poetry and writing was believed to be brought here by Shakespeare and was influenced by his work.
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“The theatre is all about imagining yourself as other than you are.”
This is very true, women weren't allowed to perform so men had to play women roles. For example in Romeo & Juliet, boys who had a high pitch voice would play as Juliet.
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Perhaps the apotheosis of the marriage between Shakespeare and the new world occurs with West Side Story.
Even though i have never seen West Side Story I can tell by the photos how influential Shakespeare must have been in the writing.
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n New York City, deep in Central Park, Shakespeare’s statue embodies the ceaseless inner dialogue of the American dream
I think that this statue is one of the things that has kept Shakespeare as such a popular figure.
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The revolution changed everything
Did it really? I mean Les Misérables didn't go so well. Oh wait never mind I see. True true. Revolution. Slavery would not be abolished for another hundred years, but the Revolution saw the dawn of an organized abolitionist movement. English traditions such as land inheritance laws were swept away almost immediately. The Anglican Church in America could no longer survive. After all, the official head of the Church of England was the British monarch. States experimented with republican ideas when drafting their own constitutions during the war. All these major changes would be felt by Americans before the dawn of the nineteenth century.
The American Revolution produced a new outlook among its people that would have ramifications long into the future. Groups excluded from immediate equality such as slaves and women would draw their later inspirations from revolutionary sentiments. Americans began to feel that their fight for liberty was a global fight. Future democracies would model their governments on ours. There are few events that would shake the world order like the success of the American patriotic cause. From slavery to women's rights, from religious life to voting, American attitudes would be forever changed.Interesting how Shakespeare was about part of that.
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he described the immense and widespread popularity of Shakespeare.
That's kind of weird how Shakespeare's work became so popular in America around the revolution even though he wasn't even alive at that time.
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work on a story of ill-fated lovers and gang violence,
I agree that this is a common problem today and this refers to Romeo and Juliet
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In the decades after Lincoln, Shakespeare productions were a constant feature of frontier life in the west. When Los Angeles became the company town for an emerging film industry, Shakespeare shape-shifted again, becoming part of Hollywood westerns. He had been performed by companies up and down California for decades.
It's truly insane to see the fact that Shakespeare is still now being performed and studied, even 500 years ago. William Shakespeare was born in April 26, 1564, and his work is still studied today in 2016.
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Now Shakespeare’s plays became part of the debate about what it meant to be an American,
Shakespeare has definitely influenced American poetry and writing, and it shows how important he was to our society.
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generation after generation of Americans has fallen under his spell”
I wouldn't agree. A lot of us students have a love-hate relationship with shakespeare and his works. While they are enjoyable, they are hard to understand at times. A lot of people who enjoy literature-most people who enjoy literature-enjoy shakespeare. Most people who enjoy plays and dramas, enjoy shakespears. Not all people like shakespeare, though.
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the playwright who is an icon of Englishness has also become a central feature of the American dream
In my opinion, Shakespeare is not a central figure of the American dream, as he is not from America and I do not believe that any non American can be central in the American dream.
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Shakespeare’s plays became part of the debate about what it meant to be an American
Shakespeare's writing started outta no where and people started striving off of it
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In a moment of tragic irony, Shakespeare also played a bizarre part in Lincoln’s assassination. John Wilkes Booth was the brother of Edwin Booth, a popular and celebrated actor. The assassin identified Brutus in Julius Caesar as a role model in his struggle against tyranny. A letter written before the shooting in Ford’s Theatre appealed to the play’s authority. “But alas!” wrote Booth, “Caesar must bleed for it.
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Now Shakespeare’s plays became part of the debate about what it meant to be an American,
I'm not understanding why people think William Shakespeare is considered to be an American. I think people are just saying this because Romeo and Juliet is popular in North America.
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Shakespeare’s work had become a bible for Americans
This shows bad christianity
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When we met in the traumatic aftermath of the Charleston shootings
The imagery helps me understand more.
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The Pilgrim Fathers set sail just two years before actors from Shakespeare’s Globe clubbed together to commission a volume of his plays.
The author writes a lot about the present day and colonial times in America relating to Shakespeare, but he leaves a wide gap in the history that makes him as popular as he still is today.
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The first recorded performance of a Shakespeare play in the new world (Romeo and Juliet in New York City) took place in 1730.
This just shows how much Shakespeare has impacted our society because performances from his writing are still going on today.
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h President Obama widely blamed for failing to fix the race question. One play in particular seemed to speak directly to that predicament: Othello.
I agree with this they always blame the minority
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In that sense, Shakespeare is the quintessentially American author.”
Opinion: In my opinion, Shakespeare is not an American author, unless he wrote for America, lived in America or worked in America; and it is shown that he did none of that other than write amazing poems and books and participate in plays that all held in Europe.
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bible for Americans,
its kinda weird how people were so fixated on his work.
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By the mid-18th century, Shakespeare’s work had become a bible for Americans, and a treasured, felicitous reminder of their linguistic and cultural heritage
I like how the author uses the analogy that "Shakespeare's work had become a Bible..." because it really shows how popular it was.
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In that sense, Shakespeare is the quintessentially American author.”
So, in a sense the author of the article is saying that William Shakespeare is an american author because he shares a culture and language with the Americans?
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Next to stabbings and sword-fights, drowning is the second commonest means of death in his plays
that is cool, didn't know that before
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and a treasured, felicitous reminder of their linguistic and cultural heritage.
I think this describes Shakespeare's writing and what it means to the Americans.
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Shakespeare spoke to the first Americans in other ways, too.
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The works of Shakespeare have been an integral part of the American dream since the first settlement of the Thirteen Colonies, in part through the accident of timing.
I do agree with this statement because our nation had plays, publishing of his books and poetry, and skits that all seem to reflect back to Shakespeare and his writing. For example, now a days Romeo and Juliet is considered an American read
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