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. ...
Category: shakespeare
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...
“Remembrance of Things Past” and the Problem of Order In Memory: On Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30
Sonnet 30 Shakespeare When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with ol...
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...