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Shakespeare’s Sonnet 118 that begins with the words “Like as, to
make our appetites more keen.” Sonnet 118 may be dismissed as
only dealing with appetites associated with sexual obsession and
gluttony. The imagery of food such as “being full,” “sweetness,”
“bitter sauces,” and “feeding” establishes a sense of satiation
or over-indulgence. As a result of that over-indulgence, the poet
compares the need to purge in order to avoid getting sick to the
need to escape the “cloying sweetness” of the person with whom he
is obsessed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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and are sometimes dismissed as either too repetitive even obsessive. There are also many who find Shakespeares poetry as elegant as any of his dramas and dismiss those who would
criticize it, generally saying that the critics just "dont get it." What should be noted, in terms of the endurance and familiarity of any of Shakespeares work is that
pieces of many of his poetic works have become as commonplace to those who speak the English language as "To be or not to be" or "All the worlds a
stage." For example, "shall I compare thee to a summers day" appears to have been the inspiration for countless popular love songs. Regardless of how well the poems are
"liked" or understood, they do form a meaningful component of Shakespeares work and should be viewed as such. Such a multi-dimensional writer whose work has endured for centuries must
be reviewed with an equal amount of multiple considerations. "The Sonnets... deserve detailed and particular commentary because they comprise a virtual anthology of lyric possibility--in the poets choice of subgenres,
in arrangements of words, in tone, in dramatic modeling of the inner life, in speech-acts" (Vendler 12). Sonnet 118 It is important to remember that when the language of
Shakespeares poetry demands nothing of his readers, the poetry is diminished in proportion to how much less the reader asks of him/herself. After all, Sonnet 118 may be dismissed
as only dealing with appetites associated with sexual obsession and gluttony. The imagery of food such as "being full," "sweetness," "bitter sauces," and "feeding" establishes a sense of satiation or
over-indulgence. As a result of that over-indulgence, the poet compares the need to purge in order to avoid getting sick to the need to escape the "cloying sweetness" of the
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