Emily Dickinson, “When I have seen the Sun emerge” (888)
Only a few times have I been able to appreciate the enormity of the rising sun, I confess. Usually I’m out the door to work in the dark of early morning. ...
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William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer-Night’s Dream”
There are three sets of characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: the Athenians contending over love, the Athenian tradesmen putting on a production of Pyr...
Viola to Orsino, Act V of “Twelfth Night,” lines 2471-4
I. Something about love actually can be tender: And all those sayings will I overswear; And those swearings keep as true in soul As doth that orbed continent th...
Reconsidering Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73
The earlier discussion of Sonnet 73 A suggestion of Helen Vendler’s regarding Sonnet 116 has made me rethink what I said earlier about 73. In 116, Vendler...
"That Time of Year," Indeed: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 as an Introduction to New Criticism
Sonnet 73 Shakespeare That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold Bare ...