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The largest single group of Shakespeare's sonnets are the Fair Youth sonnets. The poems in that group are addressed to a young man who seems to be a close friend of Shakespeare's. The core message is that Shakespeare is telling his friend that although today he is young and handsome, one day he will be old and faded: he needs to get married and have children now, so that his beauty will be preserved for future generatiions.
You could say that the theme of this main group (and of many of the other sonnets) is Love and Death. But it would be better to explain the idea more clearly, as I did in the previous paragraph.
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Did William Shakespeare write 154 historical sonnets?
He wrote 154 sonnets. That's a historical fact. The sonnets themselves do not deal with historical topics.
Who are sonnets 127-152 of shakespeare about or for?
In the absence of direct evidence from the author, we can only theorize on the answers to this question, based on other available information.There is much evidence to suggest that Sonnets 1-126 were addressed to Shakespeare's patron, Henry Wriothesley and that they represented correspondence between the pair. There are also several peculiarities of their publication, in 1609, with Sonnets 127 -154 and a longish poem, A Lover's Complaint. Taking all into account, it becomes probable that Sonnets 127-154 were similarly supplied by Shakespeare to his patron and that they deal mainly with their mutual girlfriend, a dark-haired and dark-eyed woman (who, so far, is not yet identified beyond reasonable doubt).Read more on the subject at The Biography in Shakespeare's Sonnets - at the link below.
What was shakespeares first 2 plays he wrote?
There are no specific records of which were the first two plays Shakespeare had performed. There is a great deal of speculation. There are records of the first publications, but that is not the same thing.
How are sonnet 18 and 130 the same?
All (well, almost all--more than 98%) of the sonnets have fourteen lines, the same rhyme scheme, convey important and eternal truths and are equally biographical. Working from the premise that the sonnets are autobiographical, these two particular poems do not appear to deal with the same events or people in Shakespeare's life. The only thing that might possibly link these two sonnets, as opposed to factors which link all 154 of them, might be the theme of reality vs. portrayal in literature. In sonnet 18, Shakespeare notes the transience of earthly beauty, as compared to the lasting effect that a literary expression of that beauty can have. In sonnet 130, on the other hand, Shakespeare talks about the falseness of the standard similes found in literature to describe earthly beauty, as compared to the reality. Read more on the evidence for biography in these sonnets at the link below.
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Did William Shakespeare write 154 historical sonnets?
He wrote 154 sonnets. That's a historical fact. The sonnets themselves do not deal with historical topics.
Who are sonnets 127-152 of shakespeare about or for?
In the absence of direct evidence from the author, we can only theorize on the answers to this question, based on other available information.There is much evidence to suggest that Sonnets 1-126 were addressed to Shakespeare's patron, Henry Wriothesley and that they represented correspondence between the pair. There are also several peculiarities of their publication, in 1609, with Sonnets 127 -154 and a longish poem, A Lover's Complaint. Taking all into account, it becomes probable that Sonnets 127-154 were similarly supplied by Shakespeare to his patron and that they deal mainly with their mutual girlfriend, a dark-haired and dark-eyed woman (who, so far, is not yet identified beyond reasonable doubt).Read more on the subject at The Biography in Shakespeare's Sonnets - at the link below.
What was shakespeares first 2 plays he wrote?
There are no specific records of which were the first two plays Shakespeare had performed. There is a great deal of speculation. There are records of the first publications, but that is not the same thing.
What is an interesting sonnet by William Shakespeare?
It depends on what you are interested in. Shakespeare's sonnets deal with a number of topics--love, time, duplicity, death. Pick one at random and see what it's about.
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One could have - but usually a ballad is a lot longer as it tells a story. Verses can vary in length between four and a dozen or more lines, depending upon the intent of the author. There can be any number of verses. A sonnet always has fourteen lines.
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