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18248153 No.18248153 [Reply] [Original]

>read the sonnets expecting to read the greatest love poetry of all time
>it's literally just 5 love poems and then 150 poems about paranoia of getting cucked

This surely can't be the best that English poetry has to offer, right?

>> No.18248157

He wrote them all for a younger gentleman.
Shakespeare was a homo

>> No.18248162

>>18248157
The one about the trap was funny though. Sonnet 20 I think it is.

>> No.18248170

>>18248153
All the sonnets are spiritual in nature. Shakespeare attained cosmic consciousness

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>>18248153
Don't act like French or some shit is any better. It's the oldest story in the book

>> No.18248187

>>18248183
I'm not. I just feel deceived as to how they are marketed. Sonnet 18 is great obviously, but I assumed they would all be like that.

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>>18248187
Man's greatest fear is wasting his entire life raising not-his-kids. You don't get a second chance. 150 poems about cuck paranoia, you say? I say, why so little?

>> No.18248237

>>18248153
>expecting to read the greatest love poetry of all time
You should have read Petrarca, retard.

>> No.18248244

They're all poems about his poetry btw.

>> No.18248256

Ignore filtered OP
Post poems

Not marble nor the gilded monuments
Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme,
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone besmeared with sluttish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword nor war’s quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
’Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
So, till the Judgement that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lovers’ eyes.

>> No.18248627

>>18248153
I don't think even Harold Bloom, who loved Shakespeare obviously, thinks that his sonnets are the greatest that English poetry has to offer. You'll find more beautiful English poetry, honestly, in something like A Midsummer Night's Dream or The Tempest.

His sonnets are really lovely, though. You just need to get acquainted with them. Read them aloud multiple times. Really learn them.