A Word Is Worth A Thousand Pictures? - Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 And Keats' Grecian Urn
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A Word Is Worth a Thousand Pictures? - Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 and Keats' Grecian
Shakespeare's sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?") and
Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" were written with a common purpose in mind; to
immortalize the subjects of their poems by writing them down in ver ....
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.... youth and
beauty putting ugly wrinkles in his face and finally causing his death, the
friend's beauty can be made immortal in spite of the ravages of time and death.
Shakespeare asserts that his poetry will survive the destructive effects and,
since the subject of this poetry is his friend's beauty, it will immortalize his
beloved friend's beauty. The poet can make the young man immortal in his verse
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