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Sonnet 107 by William Shakespeare-literary analysis.

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Sonnet 107

Nowadays William Shakespeare is renown as one of the world 's greatest and most prolific dramatists of all times.Both tragedies such as "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet", "Anthony and Cleopatra", and light-hearted comedies like "The Taming of the Shrew" and "A Midsummer Night 's Dream" are still box-office successes in theatres all around the globe.Yet, besides being a playwright, Shakespeare has also exercised his complex literary talents in poetry, appreciated in this domain especially due to his sonnets.

The sonnets written by Shakespeare generally follow the path opened by Petrarch in this literary genre two centuries before.These are actually poem forms consisting of 14 lines, each with 10 stressed and …show more content…

This is the basic idea from which the rest of the poem develops: the poet 's love, supposed by many to be "forfeit to a confined doom", is too deep to be controled -neither by his own inner fears, nor by the world 's prophetic soul.The "prophetic soul of the wide world" strikes me as an ironical expression, criticising people 's tendency of thinking about the future, "dreaming on things to come", instead of siezing the moment;also, this might be a vague way of referring to some gossip which had altered the poet 's relationship to his patron.So two main causes for the problems between the author and the fair youth may be identified:the external interference of others and Shakespeare 's own internal doubts, lack of confidence.

Yet, the tensionate situation is solved, and those "sad augurs" who had forecasted (probably even wished) a rupture between the two must "mock their own presage". From this perspective, the mortal Moon may be the poet 's friend himself, who, after having endured his "eclipse" in the author 's eyes (suggesting the

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