Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 3' or 'Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest' deftly blends the Renaissance themes of beauty, mortality, and human transience with birth or procreation within the structured confines of a Shakespearean Sonnet.

2015年7月31日 · Die single, and thine image dies with thee. Few collections of poems—indeed, few literary works in general—intrigue, challenge, tantalize, and reward as do Shakespeare's Sonnets. Almost all of them love poems, the Sonnets philosophize, celebrate, attack, plead, and express pain, longing, and despair, all in a tone of…

Actually understand Shakespeare's Sonnets Sonnet 3. Read every line of Shakespeare’s original text alongside a modern English translation.

Sonnet 3 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is often referred to as a procreation sonnet that falls within the Fair Youth sequence. In the sonnet, the speaker is urging the man being addressed to preserve something of himself and something of the image he sees in the mirror by fathering a ...

Read Shakespeare's sonnet 3 with a modern English translation: Look in your mirror and tell the face you see that it's time it should create another If you do not renew

Analysis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 3 with explanatory notes. The themes of beauty and procreation are continued.

A summary and analysis of Shakespeare's "Sonnet 3," which focuses on the Fair Youth's beauty and the need for him to procreate and have a child in his own image.

Shakespeare’s sonnets follow this pattern. In sonnet 3 two images dominate; the idea of the mirror that reflects back the young man’s beauty and is a metaphor for his self-absorption; the...

One of the 154 sonnets by Shakespeare from the collection Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609). Versions of Sonnet 3 include: This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

3 Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, 4 Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother. 5 For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb 6 Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry? 7 Or who is he so fond will be the tomb 8 Of his self-love, to stop posterity? 9 Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee