Sonnet 43

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Album Sonnets

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William Shakespeare

1609

Sonnet 43 by William Shakespeare

Release Date

Thu Jan 01 1609

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William Shakespeare

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This sonnet follows on from Shakespeare’s sonnet 27, the first of the “sleep sonnets”, when the theme of wakefulness, sleep and dreams was first explored.

Sonnet 43 in the 1609 Quarto.

The sonnet is charactarised by contrasts and wordplay, for example the repetition of the word “form” in line six....

Sonnet 43 Annotated

When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
For all the day they view things unrespected;
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
And darkly bright, are bright in dark directed.
Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow's form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!
How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!
All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

Sonnet 43 Q&A

Who wrote Sonnet 43's ?

Sonnet 43 was written by William Shakespeare.

When did William Shakespeare release Sonnet 43?

William Shakespeare released Sonnet 43 on Thu Jan 01 1609.

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