tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13529575.post3734282027552669761..comments2023-07-07T10:56:11.083-04:00Comments on Shakespeare Geek: What's Your Favorite Sonnet?Duane Morinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16569611828708601563noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13529575.post-29837840978792127802012-11-04T15:09:38.153-05:002012-11-04T15:09:38.153-05:00Darn, I was going to say 29.
Other than that, I gu...Darn, I was going to say 29.<br />Other than that, I guess I like 12 (the clock one). It's so interesting to see how it fits in with the many other poems by different poets of the same tradition (for example, Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" and Herrick's "Gather ye Rosebuds"), and considering how different poets write poems that are obviously so similar; because Ophelianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13529575.post-88346121868294912682012-11-03T23:55:58.453-04:002012-11-03T23:55:58.453-04:00I should also say that I like GTeedle's choice...I should also say that I like GTeedle's choices, as well.<br />And I will mention my son's favorite: 128 ("How oft when thou my music music playst.."). Perhaps I should note that he is a musicician (although the sonnet has been his favorite since he was about 10 years old).<br />--Carlcatkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01956714730670005625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13529575.post-69508821243031319422012-11-03T23:52:56.227-04:002012-11-03T23:52:56.227-04:00After having been asked the question often, I deci...After having been asked the question often, I decided I could not get away with saying there are too many to choose from and settled on Sonnet 52: ("So am I as the rich whose blessed key..."). My choice is based not only on the beauty of the poetry, but the elegance of thought. As I note in my book, the sonnet presents a series of scenes in which the beloved is compared with several catkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01956714730670005625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13529575.post-79636077425721493812012-11-01T22:18:36.452-04:002012-11-01T22:18:36.452-04:00These two: 129 ("Th' expense of spirit in...These two: 129 ("Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame...") and 121 ("'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd"). The first one just crackles infernally, deliciously, and the second is the surest sign in the sonnets of Shakespeare the cheeky moral anarchist. Terrific stuff. For the cliches, the other ones may get a bit wearied but 116 thrills me no matter how GTeedlenoreply@blogger.com