Sonnet 86

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1609

Sonnet 86 by William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 86 in the 1609 Quarto.

This Sonnet 86 continues the theme in the sequence relating to the influence of a “rival poet” on the Fair Youth. An example is Sonnet 85 in which the Bard chooses to be “tongue-tied”. This loss of creativity continues.

The poem asks a series of questions about the s...

Sonnet 86 Annotated

Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,
Bound for the prize of all too precious you,
That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse,
Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew?
Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write
Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?
No, neither he, nor his compeers by night
Giving him aid, my verse astonished.
He, nor that affable familiar ghost
Which nightly gulls him with intelligence,
As victors of my silence cannot boast;
I was not sick of any fear from thence:
But when your countenance filled up his line,
Then lacked I matter; that enfeebled mine.

Sonnet 86

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