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Critical Analysis on Sonnet 12, "Shakespeare's Sonnets", by William Shakespeare

Title: Critical Analysis on Sonnet 12, "Shakespeare's Sonnets", by William Shakespeare
Category: /Literature/European Literature
Details: Words: 1592 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Critical Analysis on Sonnet 12, "Shakespeare's Sonnets", by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare wrote a group of 154 sonnets between 1592 and 1597, which were compiled and published under the title Shakespeare's Sonnets in 1609. Our attention will focus on sonnet 12, a remarkable and poignant poem about the relentless passing of time, the fading beauty, immortality, death and Old Age, these subjects being typical of all Shakespeare's Sonnets. Time is omnipresent in everyone's life, just passing and passing inexorably, relentlessly, so unstoppable. It is a universal problem : people have always …showed first 75 words of 1592 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1592 total…or writing an autobiography. I have liked this sonnet very much, for the form represents and illustrates the meaning in a brilliant way. It was also very interesting to, step by step, analyze this poem to finally have a good understanding of it, while it was almost incomprehensible at first. Death, the passing of time, the Old Age and the desire of immortality are universal themes which touched everybody, and have, them, crossed the time.

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