... but does love? Seconds to minutes, minutes to hours, hours to days. Time passes. It is in 'Sonnet 18' that we see the idea of love being finite challenged. The speaker of Sonnet 18 is absolutely fixated on fate and mortality, but believes he's come up with an effective time machine: poetry. Instead of contemplating a beautiful summer's day, this speaker can't stop ... thinking about how everything in life is temporary and fleeting. Shakespeare finds the answer to this perennial contemplation. He discovers that, by artistically representing his beloved, he can save him from the ravag...

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