1. Analysis of Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
Art makes us ponder the value of human life and the significance of purpose and meaning. ... He highlights this throughout his entire body of work by commenting on themes of love, morality, meaning, time and existence. ... One knows that life inevitably comes to an end, but does love? ... The speaker of Sonnet 18 is absolutely fixated on fate and mortality, but believes he's come up with an effective time machine: poetry. ... Firstly, as previously mentioned, the everlasting nature of poetry and his beauty being preserved in its lines. ...
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