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Shakespeare Sonnets: Themes (Do the sonnets, when read together, shape…

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        Sonnet 64
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        Sonnet 65
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        Sonnet 63
        
        Themes: fear of time, worrying about the loss of the fair youth's beauty, hopes that the beauty will live on in his writing
        
        Uses a metaphor of spring in reference to beauty
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        Living on in writing
        
        belief that in spite of all of these things the beauty of the fair youth may live on in writing
        
        Links between 63 and 65, opposing 64
        
        Quotes:
        
        "What strong hand can hold his swift foot back?
        Or who his spoil or beauty can forbid?
        O none, unless this miracle have might,
        That in black ink my love may still shine bright."
        
        "That he shall never cut from memory
        My sweet love’s beauty, though my lover’s life.
        His beauty shall in these black lines be seen,
        And they shall live, and he in them still green."
        
        "This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
        But weep to have that which it fears to lose."
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        The destruction of time
        
        That all things, no matter how strong will fall to time
        
        speaking about time as though it is a sentient force
        
        links between 64 and 65
        
        Quotes
        
        "When I have seen by time’s fell hand defaced
        The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
        When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed,
        And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;"
        
        "Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
        But sad mortality o'ersways their power,
        [...]
        When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
        Nor gates of steel so strong but time decays?
        O fearful meditation! Where, alack,
        Shall time’s best jewel from time’s chest lie hid?"
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        Beauty and the loss of it
        
        Comparisons to spring, summer, and things of beauty
        
        links through all
        
        Quotes
        
        "And all those beauties whereof now he’s king
        Are vanishing or vanished out of sight,
        Stealing away the treasure of his spring;"
        
        "How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
        Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
        O how shall summer’s honey breath hold out
        Against the wrackful siege of batt'ring days,"