Shakespeare's Accent: How Did the Bard Really Sound? Contemporary poet Linda Gregerson introduces "Sonnet 116" for a general audience at the Atlantic magazine. Actor Patrick Stewart reads "Sonnet 116." Thomas Wyatt's poem "My Gallery Charged With Forgetfulness," whose tropes Shakespeare reworks in "Sonnet 116." "My Galley Charged With Forgetfulness" by Thomas Wyatt
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To Wriothesley is much warmer in the second poem, suggesting a deepening of their relationship and Shakespeare's appreciation of his support.Ī third and shorter narrative poem, A Lover's Complaint, was printed in the first collection of Shakespeare's sonnets. Conversely in The Rape of Lucrece, the honorable and virtuous wife Lucrece is raped a character overcome with lust, Tarquin. Innocent Adonis must reject the sexual advances of Venus. The two longest works that scholars agree were written by Shakespeare are entitled Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.īoth dedicated to the Honorable Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, who seems to have acted as a sponsor and encouraging benefactor of Shakespeare's work for a brief time.īoth of these poems contain dozens of stanzas and comment on the depravity of unwanted sexual advances, showing themes throughout of guilt, lust, and moral confusion. Particularly long-form poems, have been published.
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Because of their more private nature, few poems, It seems writing poetry was something he greatly enjoyed and did mainly for himself at times when he was not consumed with writing a play. It also provided credibility to his talent as a writer and helped to enhance his social standing. In Shakespeare's era (1564-1616), it was not profitable but very fashionable to write poetry.
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Yet his poems are not nearly as recognizable to many as the characters and famous William Shakespeare's name is synonymous with many of the famous lines he wrote in his plays and prose.