Sonnet 21

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 21 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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In sonnet 21 Shakespeare rejects the elaborate poetic metaphors and similes used by other contemporary poets to praise women. He claims that these are inappropriate and artificial.

It is clear that Shakespeare has developed strong feelings for the Fair Youth. In Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A Ne...

Sonnet 21 Annotated

So is it not with me as with that Muse,
Stirred by a painted beauty to his verse,
Who heaven itself for ornament doth use
And every fair with his fair doth rehearse,
Making a couplement of proud compare
With sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems,
With April's first-born flowers, and all things rare,
That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.
O! let me, true in love, but truly write,
And then believe me, my love is as fair
As any mother's child, though not so bright
As those gold candles fixed in heaven's air:
Let them say more that like of hearsay well;
I will not praise that purpose not to sell.

Sonnet 21 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 21's ?

Sonnet 21 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 21?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 21 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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