Thinking back from mid-January

Thanksgiving pie

Scanning the first line of Sonnet 18

Note on Shakespeare’s Sonnets and “The Story Behind the Painting” (especially Hokusai).

Notes on Sonnet 132, line 14: “And all they foul who thy complexion lack.”

Notes on Sonnet 127, line 4: “And Beauty slander’d with a bastard shame” Introduction to the Dark Lady.

Notes on Sonnet 119, lines 11-12: “And ruin’d love when it is built anew / Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater”

Notes on Sonnet 110, line 10: “A God in love, to whom I am confined”

Notes on Sonnet 82, lines 2-3: “And therefore mayst without attaint o’erlook/The dedicated words which writers use”

Notes on Sonnet 78, line 3: “As every Alien pen hath got my use”

Notes on Sonnet 77, line 5: “The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show”

Notes on Sonnet 71, line 4: “From this vile world with vildest worms to dwell”

Notes on Sonnet 60, line 4: “In sequent toil all forward do contend”

Notes on Sonnet 56, line 1: “Sweet love renew thy force…”

Notes on Sonnet 55, line 14: “You live in this, and dwell in lovers’ eyes”

Notes on Sonnet 49, line 14: “Since why to love I can allege no cause”

Notes on Sonnet 36, line 10: “Lest my bewailèd guilt should do thee shame”

Notes on Sonnet 35, line 13: “Such civil war is in my love and hate”