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