Shakespearean Sonnet 29 Sonnet 29 Summary # First quatrain When I am disgraced by fortune and men's eyes, between all alone my outcast state, and trouble, with my bootless cries, heaven that remains deaf to them and look down upon myself and curse my fate. # Second quatrain I (then) wish to be like one, r…

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day Meaning If it should be fair or exact to compare you (Shakespeare's friend, Fair Youth) to a Summer's day (the most charming and beautiful season in England). The poet's intention is to assert superiority  of his friend&…

Shakespearean Sonnet 116 Analysis 'Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds" (Sonnet No. 116) is one of the greatest sonnets that Shakespeare ever wrote. “This, the 116th," Fowler remarks, "is, on the intellectual side, the climax of the whole splendid series of Shakespeare's sonnets." …

Q.1. “And every fair from fair sometime declines”   - What are the different meanings of ‘fair’ here? Explain the line. Ans. In Shakespearean Sonnet No. 18, the first ‘fair’ means ‘ types of beauty’ or ‘beautiful objects’ (Concrete noun). It may allude particularly to a beautiful lady. The second fair s…

Irony  represents contrast between expectation and reality . I. A. Richards in his Principles of Literary Criticism defined " Irony as equilibrium of opposing attitudes and evaluations" (32). Irony in this sense consists in the bringing on of the opposite, the complementary impulses; that is why poe…