Sonnet 55 Themes

Shakespeare's sonnets are some of the most famous love poetry ever scratched out on paper, but in Sonnet 55, the L-word is pretty dang scarce. The closest we get is waaaay at the end, in line 14, w...

If a special someone asked you to write a love poem, would you start brainstorming about war and violence and total urban destruction? Probably not. Then why does so much of Sonnet 55 look like Apo...

Sure, Sonnet 55's a love poem, but this speaker's idea of love is no live-in-the-moment, carpe-diem, let's-get-down-tonight kinda feeling. It's not even about tying the knot and living happily ever...

Love and Time. Mrs. Pots sings about it. Pitbull sings about it. It's one of the great themes of poetry and it runs like a ribbon through Shakespeare's sonnets. So what does it all mean? To put it...

Nice try, Michelangelo. Millions of tourists take photos of your David every year, but it's going down, just like the toppled statues in line 5. Although the speaker doesn't name any names, Sonnet...