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05/15/2022

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“Sonnet 20” is a poem by the Renaissance playwright and poet William Shakespeare. The poem belongs to a sequence of Shakespeare's sonnets addressing an unidentified “fair youth", a young man for whom the speaker of the poems expresses love and attraction. In this particular sonnet, the speaker praises the fair youth for his beauty, which encompasses both feminine and masculine qualities. While acknowledging that this fair youth may continue to have physical relationships with women, the speaker affirms the depth of the love between the youth and himself. “Sonnet 20” was included in a collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets first published in 1609.

02/20/2022

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• "From fairest creatures we desire increase" •

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Summary

The first sonnet takes it as a given that “From fairest creatures we desire increase”—that is, that we desire beautiful creatures to multiply, in order to preserve their “beauty’s rose” for the world. That way, when the parent dies (“as the riper should by time decease”), the child might continue its beauty (“His tender heir might bear his memory”). In the second quatrain, the speaker chides the young man he loves for being too self-absorbed to think of procreation: he is “contracted” to his own “bright eyes,” and feeds his light with the fuel of his own loveliness. The speaker says that this makes the young man his own unwitting enemy, for it makes “a famine where abundance lies,” and hoards all the young man’s beauty for himself. In the third quatrain, he argues that the young man may now be beautiful—he is “the world’s fresh ornament / And only herald to the gaudy spring”—but that, in time, his beauty will fade, and he will bury his “content” within his flower’s own bud (that is, he will not pass his beauty on; it will wither with him). In the couplet, the speaker asks the young man to “pity the world” and reproduce, or else be a glutton who, like the grave, eats the beauty he owes to the whole world.♡

🖤 Song of the Witches 🖤 IV.i •"Double, double toil and trouble;Fire burn and caldron bubble.Fillet of a fenny snake,In...
10/31/2021

🖤 Song of the Witches 🖤
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"Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good."

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10/31/2021

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07/04/2021

"Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws" 📚☕❤
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Summary:
In Sonnet 19, the poet addresses Time. Using vivid animal imagery, he describes Time's effects on nature. The poet then asks Time not to age the young man and ends by boldly asserting that the poet's own creative talent will make the youth permanently young and beautiful.
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The sonnet's first seven lines address the ravages of nature that "Devouring Time" can wreak. Then, in line 8, the poet inserts the counter-statement, one line earlier than usual: "But I forbid thee one most heinous crime." The poet wants Time to leave the young man's beauty untouched.
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Although the poet begs Time to leave the young man's beauty "untainted" as an example of perfection ("beauty's pattern") upon which all can gaze, the concluding couplet, especially line 13's beginning "Yet," underscores the poet's insecurity of what he asks for. However, nature's threat to the youth's beauty does not matter, for the poet confidently asserts that the youth will gain immortality as the subject of the sonnets. Because poetry, according to the poet, is eternal, it only stands to reason that his poetry about the young man will ensure the youth's immortality. The youth as the physical subject of the sonnets will age and eventually die, but in the sonnets themselves he will remain young and beautiful.♡

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07/04/2021

Happy 4th of July!🙌🎉🇺🇸

"I dare do all that may become a man;Who dares do more, is none" Act 1 Scene 7. 🎭🗡🖤 📸: •In this quote:Macbeth tell...
07/04/2021

"I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more, is none"
Act 1 Scene 7. 🎭🗡🖤
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In this quote:
Macbeth tells his wife that, he dares to do anything and everything that is appropriate for a man to do. Someone who does more than that is not a man at all.

06/27/2021

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"O! how I faint when I of you do write"

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Summary:
The poet acknowledges that the rival poet displaces him in the youth's favor. Feeling discouraged by the superiority of the "better spirit" of the rival poet, whom he describes throughout the sonnet using nautical imagery, the poet complains of being "tongue-tied," unable to compete with his rival's exalted verse.
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The poet's phrasing is courteous, but the exaggerated language indicates a serious mood. One detects an ironic purpose in the poet's devotion in the face of rejection when he sarcastically compares his verse to the rival poet's as "My saucy bark, inferior far to his." He forgives his own abject behavior with the excuse that love for the young man is his sole reason for living and the sole reason for his destruction: "Then if he thrive, and I be cast away, / The worst was this: my love was my decay."♡

"Come, you spiritsThat tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,And fill me from the crown to the toe top-fullOf direst cr...
06/23/2021

"Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty!" 🎭🗡❤
Act 1 Scene 5

06/21/2021

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"As an unperfect actor on the stage"

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In Sonnet 23, the speaker is not able to adequately speak of his love, because of the intensity of his feelings. He compares himself to an actor onstage who is struck by fear and cannot perform his part, or like a ferocious beast or a passionate human filled with rage, and whose over-abundant emotion defeats the expressing of it. He forgets the correct words that the rituals of love deserve. The passion of his love seems to fall apart, as it is over-burdened with emotion. So he encourages his young friend to read and then respond to the poet's written expressions of his love. The sonnet ends with the paradoxes — books that cannot speak will speak, if eyes will hear.♡

"Be patient till the last" 🎭❤⚘ speech from Act 3 Scene 2 performed by
06/18/2021

"Be patient till the last" 🎭❤⚘
speech from Act 3 Scene 2 performed by

🎭🗡•What is dramatic irony? ~Dramatic irony is when the audience understands more about a situation than some of ...
06/15/2021

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What is dramatic irony? ~
Dramatic irony is when the audience understands more about a situation than some of the characters do. Oftentimes, this understanding leads to an element of suspense because we know the character(s) will learn the truth eventually – but we don't know when or how.
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In Act 1, Scene 4, line 13, of William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Duncan describes Macbeth as being "a gentleman on whome I built An absolute trust."
This statement shows dramatic irony because Macbeth is seemingly a good, humble gentleman, which contradicts His and Lady Macbeth's plot to murder him.

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