on Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
The language is amazingly easy to understand once you pause and unravel it slowly. The archaic sentence construction is half the challenge here.
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Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare · 1609
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”
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Part of Shakespeare's famous sequence of 154 sonnets, Sonnet 18 makes the radical claim that poetry grants imm…
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