Sonnet 20 Shakespeare

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English

 

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Elizabeth J

 

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December 12, 2014

 

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University

 

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Despite the fact that male friendships in the Renaissance were extensively affectionate, could this be a clear admission of Shakespeare's homosexuality or bisexuality? Or is it just merely a sonnet with no relevance to being autobiographical? This sonnet has a great deal of appeal for those seeking to dig to the root of Shakespeare's fervor and a great deal of appeal for that of emotional love verses physical love...
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Each line has a final unstressed syllable which gives the poem an accent. It is possible that these feminine rhymes serve to further stress the feminine aspects of the young man that the sonnet so distinctly praises. The word "woman" appears six times in the sonnet, again showing how important the aspects of femininity and womanliness are in this sonnet, both with their positive implications, such as "beauty" and "gentleness", as well as the more negative implications like "fickleness" or even "falseness"...
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