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Sonnets Summarized: Sonnets Paraphrased; Sonnet Translations

Shakespeare's Sonnets Analyzed with Line by Line Notes

According to the new theory of the Sonnets in THE MONUMENT...

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

 And Summer's lease hath all too short a date... 

 When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes

  I all alone beweep my outcast state,

And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,

And look upon my self and curse my fate...

My Mistress' eyes are nothing like the Sunne,

Coral is far more red than her lips' red:

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun,

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head...

In his column "A Year in the Life" in Shakespeare Matters, the newsletter of the Shakespeare Fellowship, Hank Whittemore introduced his breakthrough discovery of the special language, structure and story line of the Shakespearean sonnets as presented in his 900-page reference edition THE MONUMENT. 

Here are the five columns, in PDF format, for reading and/or printout:

 (1)   "Authorizing Thy Trespass With Compare"

(2)   "I (My Sovereign) Watch The Clock For You"

(3)    "On Better Judgment Making"

(4)    "Three Winters Cold"

(5)   "Your Trespass Now Becomes a Fee"   

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