Shakespeare's Sonnets - Analysis
THEMES/STYLE Nature imagery Sonnet 64: When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore Woman as better than nature Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate Self-referential poetry Sonnet 18 So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Sonnet 19 Yet, do thy worst old Time: despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young. Sonnet 24 My body is the frame wherein 'tis held, And perspective it is best painter's art. Sonnet 76: So all my best is dressing old words new, Spending again what is already spent Men as ruling nature Sonnet 19 But I forbid thee one most heinous crime: O! carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow Woman created by nature (surpassing god) Sonnet 19 A woman's face with nature's own hand painted Gender as ambiguous Sonnet 20 A woman's face with