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Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. Despite my protestations, I do concede that I am numbered among the vast multitude who lists this sonnet as one of their favoritesbut why? To dry the rain on my storm-beaten face. Some critics go so far as to say when Hamlet says "To be or not to be" he really means "to act or not to act" or even "to kill or not to kill." I had never before read Sonnet #23. Speak the beat aloud and focus on the meaning of the words. > My initial response to this poem was, My lover may be ugly, It seems to say, wouldn't it just be easier to kill oneself? Sonnet 100 by William Shakespeare. Really enjoyable, really thoughtful, and loved re-reading these great works. O no, it is an ever-fixd mark What are the best Shakespearean monologues everyone should know? When I compiled my own list, I was not surprised to find that five of my Top Ten did not appear on any of the lists I had surveyed. Or state itself confounded to decay, O learn to read what silent love hath writ! It concludes with the sad conclusion that time will come and take my love away in death. And the public, whether or not they can tell good art from bad, usually embraces the critics verdict as their own. That the sonnets had been held close to the authors chest for so many years belies the suggestion that he had written them with the intention of one day publishing them himself. This allows him to move through the stages of life, retaining his beauty in an unusual way. As a matter of fact, it's so easy that even a three year old could do it. My research led me to make one change to my list as several obscurities were explained which resulted in one poem becoming less interesting and another more so.

The third quartet introduces the image of the poet being reduced to ash by a fire fueled by the very sap (no doubt referring to his all-consuming love) which once gave him life. Lastly, dont fail to note the feminine endings in lines 6 and 8. It is unequaled in so many ways that for me to reference them all would not only take more words than I am willing to invest in writing them, but more time and effort than you the reader are likely willing to expend in reading them. And then I imagine the last 2 lines with a thoughtful smile confessed softly to his drink for no one else to hear. Learn how your comment data is processed. ' Sonnet 18' is likely Shakespeare's best known.

All I can say is that my smile grew wider with every line. Thus, Doing thee vantage, double vantage me. But "with a bare bodkin" brings sharp fear back into focus. For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.