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Shakespeare Sonnet # 43 Alyson Benitez
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Quatrain 1 A: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
B: For all the day they view things unrespected; A: But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee, B: And darkly bright are bright in dark directed.
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Quatrain 2 C: Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
D: How would thy shadow's form form happy show C: To the clear day with thy much clearer light, D: When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!
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Quatrain 3 E: How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
F: By looking on thee in the living day, E: When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade F: Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!
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Couplet G: All days are nights to see till I see thee,
G: And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
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Theme The absence of a loved one disturbs the mind and sanity of a grieving individual causing an escape from reality through the dream world.
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Questions Is the writer referring to someone who is dead or missed?
Love or grieving sonnet?
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Personal Response Difficult to separate reality from the dream world
Beautiful references between bright and dark to set an emotion or mood for readers
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