Sonnets

Sonnet 75: So Are You to My Thoughts as Food to Life

Sonnet 75: So Are You to My Thoughts as Food to Life

Read Shakespeare’s Sonnet 75 with the full poem and a detailed analysis of its themes of desire, emotional hunger, possession, and the cycles of love.

Sonnet 71: No Longer Mourn for Me When I Am Dead

Sonnet 71: No Longer Mourn for Me When I Am Dead

Read Shakespeare’s Sonnet 71 with the full poem and an in-depth analysis of its themes of love, death, mourning, and emotional selflessness.

Sonnet 17: Who Will Believe My Verse in Time to Come

Sonnet 17: Who Will Believe My Verse in Time to Come

Read Shakespeare’s Sonnet 17, “Who Will Believe My Verse in Time to Come,” with the full poem and a clear analysis of truth, beauty, and poetic legacy.

Sonnet 15: When I Consider Every Thing That Grows

Sonnet 15: When I Consider Every Thing That Grows

Read Shakespeare’s Sonnet 15 with the full poem and a detailed analysis of its themes of time, decay, destiny, and poetic immortality.

Sonnet 14: Not From the Stars Do I My Judgment Pluck

Sonnet 14: Not From the Stars Do I My Judgment Pluck

Read Shakespeare’s Sonnet 14 with the full poem and a detailed analysis of its themes of knowledge, prophecy, beauty, and legacy.

Sonnet 12: When I Do Count the Clock That Tells the Time

Sonnet 12: When I Do Count the Clock That Tells the Time

Read Shakespeare’s Sonnet 12 with the full poem and a detailed analysis of its themes of time, decay, beauty, and legacy.

Sonnet 2: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow

Sonnet 2: When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow

Read Shakespeare’s Sonnet 2 with the full poem and an in-depth analysis of how aging, beauty, and legacy shape the poet’s argument.

Sonnet 1: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase

Sonnet 1: From Fairest Creatures We Desire Increase

Read Shakespeare’s Sonnet 1 with the full poem and an in-depth analysis of its themes of beauty, legacy, and responsibility.

Sonnet 57: Being Your Slave, What Should I Do but Tend

Sonnet 57: Being Your Slave, What Should I Do but Tend

Read Shakespeare’s Sonnet 57 with the full poem and an analysis of its themes of devotion, power, and vulnerability.

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