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Emily Dickinson, “When I have seen the Sun emerge” (888)

Posted on March 7, 2019 by ashok / 0 Comment

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. ...

shakespeare

William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer-Night’s Dream”

Posted on June 7, 2013 by ashok / 2 Comments

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...

love/politics/shakespeare

Viola to Orsino, Act V of “Twelfth Night,” lines 2471-4

Posted on August 22, 2012 by ashok / 0 Comment

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...

poetry/shakespeare

Reconsidering Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73

Posted on September 9, 2007 by ashok / 0 Comment

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...

poetry/shakespeare

"That Time of Year," Indeed: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 as an Introduction to New Criticism

Posted on May 31, 2007 by ashok / 9 Comments

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 ...

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