Sonnet 11: “Folly, age, and cold decay!”

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Sonnet 11: “Folly, age, and cold decay!”

Text and explanation of Sonnet 11

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Sonnet 10: “Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate”

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Sonnet 10: “Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate”

Text and explanation of Sonnet 10

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Sonnet 9: “Murd’rous shame!”

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Sonnet 9: “Murd’rous shame!”

Text and explanation of Sonnet 9

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Sonnet 8: “One string sweet husband to another”

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Sonnet 8: “One string sweet husband to another”

Text and explanation of Sonnet 8

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Sonnet 7: “Like feeble age he reeleth from the day”

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Sonnet 7: “Like feeble age he reeleth from the day”

Text and explanation of Sonnet 7

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Sonnets 5 & 6: “A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass”

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Sonnets 5 & 6: “A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass”

Text and explanation of Sonnets 5 and 6

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Sonnet 4: “Profitless usurer”

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Sonnet 4: “Profitless usurer”

Text and explanation of Sonnet 4

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Sonnet 3: “Thy mother’s glass”

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Sonnet 3: “Thy mother’s glass”

Text and explanation of Sonnet 3

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Sonnet 2: “A tattered weed of small worth held”

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Sonnet 2: “A tattered weed of small worth held”

Text and explanation of Sonnet 2

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Sonnet 1: “Contracted to thine own bright eyes”

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Sonnet 1: “Contracted to thine own bright eyes”

Text and explanation of Sonnet 1

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What’s the story, Shakespeare?

Carl Atkins 6/6/21 Carl Atkins 6/6/21

What’s the story, Shakespeare?

The story of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

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Shakespeare and Mozart

Carl Atkins 5/30/21 Carl Atkins 5/30/21

Shakespeare and Mozart

Dissonance in Shakespeare’s poetry likened to Mozart’s use of dissonance.

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If music be the food of love…

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If music be the food of love…

Similarities between music and poetry

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Subdued to what it works in…print vs digital?

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Subdued to what it works in…print vs digital?

Discussion of the merits of print books vs digital media.

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What do The Sonnets teach us about Shakespeare?

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What do The Sonnets teach us about Shakespeare?

How The Sonnets help understand Shakespeare’s use of language.

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Why Shakespeare’s Sonnets?

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Why Shakespeare’s Sonnets?

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Do you read the poems in the New Yorker?

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Do you read the poems in the New Yorker?

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Shakespeare in Love?

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Shakespeare in Love?

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Where’d that syllable go?

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Where’d that syllable go?

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Why can’t I read that line?

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Why can’t I read that line?

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