I was only here for an exam but damn the way you described it, I fell in love with this poem

3 years late but your ideas and notes are clear, unique and detailed which is amazingggggggggggg for my revision!!

"upon me prov'd, I neva writ, nor no man eva loved" Love it

Your videos have helped me so much whilst I have been in lockdown, they have bettered my knowledge and understanding on the poems for my a-level English literature. Thank you so much for these helpful videos

I always love to watch your videos. This video grows my enthusiasm to love classical writers.❤

thank you for providing educatinon for my poem hungry soul ;) great work! I like the last bit of the poem, where you actually misspoke in the video and said "no man ever wrote...". By your change you also highlighted the importance of the I there ("I never wirt") (nice lapsus). The end of the poem is so tricky and genious because the author states he cannot be proven wrong, just because the poem is there, it has been written. And therefor the reader cannot prove otherwise. So first he claims the full truth of what he says this poem. But it is not only this. He makes this general poem - formal, as you described it - very personal. That is also what love is. You are yourself in this wager with all your sanity (when it turns out, for example, that love dies, you may ask yourself questions about other fundamental things in your life). I love these twists Shakespeare. Here, it's all in that last line But you really do have to take time to ask those questions and "simmer in that poetic juicyness" :)

Love's not time's fool and every other sentence was amazingly decoded by you. Thank you

Well I have an exam 6 hours later and I'm lucky enough to find 2 poems of my exam here and I'm sure that I'll find more as I continue....and thank you so much fr your work and your passions that I can even feel from the screen

I have fond memories of studying for my AS level in English literature. Wish I'd had a resource like this to learn even more than I did!

True love transcends time. Yes.

You are truly amazing by helping to navigate us through the labyrinth of contemplative thought. Shakespeare, much like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Darwin, Einstein, Newton and Maxwell is esoteric and ergo not universal. For the select audience capable of understanding and appreciating his work, we owe a debt of gratitude to brilliant interpreters like yourself. When I'm struggling to understand why unequivocal love has lost all it's meaning in the pursuit of selfish greed I usually find solace in historical wisdom. You are so lucky and wise beyond measure to fully grasp what Shakespeare so desperately tried to convey...

Absolutely loved this one. 🖤 🦉

Thank you so much! 😊My favourite verse is '...Love is not love Which alters when alteration finds,'

Your analysis is super awesome ♥️♥️

Thank you so much Gabriella describing and explaining, I love this poem so much , lol fall in love with that . Juliet Stevenson recite it beautifully and I play it on repeat ♥️

I have my a level english exam next Tuesday and always found this poem harder to understand in depth, so thanks so much I am now able to understand this poem better !!!

Great review! Favorite line: Love's not time's fool

thank you i litearlly could not understand this until I saw this video

You have heavenly voice !

😍 Amazing!

Thank you. This is very helpful

Looking at the past through modern eyes… how insightful

Great work G

Excellent work❤

Wowww, love the interpretations about the compass!! Just wondering, if the curved blade of sickle refers to the curve arc drew by the help of the compass… then when the compass reaches to a full circle, then maybe it mirrors Shakespeare’s idea of the eternity of love? Since it is endless…

"Bending sickle's compass come". Reminded me of the narrative in the film Interstellar.

A close reading of Sonnets 116 and 117 show that they are companion poems which must be read in the order they appear in the 1609 quarto of the Sonnets. Sonnet 116 is an opening statement made by a barrister in court where he makes a general defense for his case. The clue is in the word "brief" from line 11. Sonnet 117 is his appeal (the word appears on line 13) where he states that he "did strive to prove the constancy and virtue" of his wife's love. Both poems use terms for navigation and on line 7 of both he uses terms for sailing: a "bark" (to use the original spelling) from 116 is a type of boat and in 117 he mentions he "hoisted sail to all the winds". There are many poems in the quarto which uses the same rhetorical figure - which I have named "homostoikhos" which is Greek for "in the same line" - to link subsequent poems together by words or themes. The pair of poems describe where he is being accused by his wife that he is slandering her. His brief in Sonnet 116 sets up the appeal he makes in Sonnet 117. I claim it is his wife he addresses because on line 6 in Sonnet 117 he speaks of her "own dear purchased right" which is an allusion to the dowry her father was supposed to give the poet when they got married. Imagine a barrister reciting 116 in court before a Magistrate. As he speaks the last line, he "drops the mic". After the opposing side's opening brief, he recites 117 as his appeal. This interpretation adds humour, depth, and character to what is otherwise considered to be an abstract poem.

Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, Summer Night's Dream, King Lear, Othello, Much Ado about Nothing, Antony and Cleopatra, Merchant of Venice, Taming of the Screw, Loves Labor Lost, Comedy of Errors, As You Like it and Alls Well the Ends Well.

tysm this has rlly helped :)

A full poem analysis,themes,thesis with only highlighting literary devices would help alot As many of us are done with explanation but need to be ahead of the game understanding other concepts too. Love your channel ❤ helped alot

Thank you.

...and the verse I like most! "Which alters when it alterations finds" and "O no! It is an ever fix mark" These lines to me suggest the identity of love moving through a given space undisturbed By the gravity or friction of another body. Yet still moving, true to it self. Just my thoughts. Be well!

16:05 yep. For someone so young she has a pretty good grasp. Poetry is like the window when you are in Church and your mind wanders from prayers. You look out the window and see His hand in the Creation, the heart starts to drink it in. Even monks don’t spend their entire lives in the Church building….

New subscriber...i like the way you explain! Kudos

Thank you! Please keep making these Critical analysis type videos. Very helpful for our studies. A pdf on its critical analysis would be best for beginners like us.

Within his bending sickle's compass come

Very clear,Th

Thank you so much for illustrating. I have a question which is: could you provide a reference?

Really great. It helped me understand the poem and I have a final exam tomorrow

15:27 in the closing couplet i think shakespeare isn't saying "you decide". he's saying "i dare you to prove me wrong, but i'm not wrong". he says, almost resignedly, "if i'm wrong, then i, william shakespeare, writer to the stars, keeper of the keys, never wrote a word and nobody ever loved; and we all know both of those assertions are false. so, go ahead and try and say i'm wrong about love, and good luck with that. let me know how that works out for you".

Can you explain the iambic pentameter and rhyming structures throughout the sonnet? Ideally by marking them in the verse.

Your voice has me in a trance like state. Very beautiful, smooth and soft spoken. I think you should do ASMR or drop an album with nursery rhymes and bedtime stories. 100% satisfaction garunteed. I'm sure the album would go platinum.

One more comment. At 2:57 she mentions that women were not allowed to perform on stage, which is true for the public playhouses. But in noble estates where acting companies sponsored by earls and other aristocrats regularly performed, the aristocratic women sometimes played women's roles.

Omg thank you so much! I have my exam tomorrow

Love's not Time's fool ❤‍🔥

Another take on Sonnet 116: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p5lxiKRl0paymqs.html

Hello Gabriella, I am new to your channel, and felt the urge to subscribed after listening to your read and analysis of a subject in which I share interest. Thank you! I will be interested to learn more of what's to come De-dum, De-dum, De-dum. Be well!

For the best ever performance of this sonnet click on the dude with the glasses on. Wasnt Shakespeare Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford? Surely

please do sonnet 73 and sonnet 141 too.... I'm 17 and your videos really helps me for my studies.♥

When he says "let me not to the marriage of true minds", is he not indicating that he does not want to be part of it, referring to it as a bad thing which is the "true minds"? So is true "true minds" love or is deceitfulness, people of Conditions, deal makers and breakers? This very first line is rather confusing.

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My brother has asked me to read this at his wedding. I want to understand what I’m reading so I’m glad I found this! Great analysis. Being from the US (New England), in my accent “love” and “remove” don’t rhyme, and neither do “come” and “doom”. Should I try to pronounce them so they rhyme? Or would that be strange?

2:00 Oh Dear! There seems to be a presumption here that this love poem was written to a woman. It was almost certainly written ti a young man with whom the Poet was totally obsessed. It is a love poem of a general application, which COULD be directed just as effectively towards a woman, but it is within a long series of poems all directed to a young man. Contextual stuff- None of the three people named were contemporary with Shakespeare. It would be better to say that the Italian Renaissance had already happened, and its influence was spreading throughout Europe. Why? 1. Leonardo was 100 years older that Shakespeare and died long before he was born. Leonardo was known for a small number of paintings, which influenced other Italian painters but had NO INFLUENCE on English painting in the reign of Elizabeth I, who rejected the Italian style. 2. Shakespeare did not travel abroad and would never have seen the Sistine Chapel ceiling BUT- Michelangelo was also a poet and wrote in the favoured Italian form- the Sonnet. Michelangelo died the year Shakespeare was born. It is just possible that Shakespeare MAY have 3. Machiavelli was 100 years ahead of Shakespeare. His works had been translated and undoubtedly influenced Shakespeare's plays., particularly the nature of his villains. "Compass" here means "a circle that encompasses" i.e. a circumference. A swipe with a sickle will bring down a swathe of hay that is more-or-less circular

17:23 Do you think that Shakespeare logically pre-planned the rhyming couplet at the end to fall in line with the notion of a couple brought together in love?

I believe they had boys playing female roles because their voice would still be high (not broken).

Einfach-klasse/Simply brilliant . Who needs a "controlled environment" (University)! Follow the free-thinking online educators

Love cannot be tricked by time because real love is timeless

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Admitan los impedimentos. La poesía de Shakespeare es demasiado oscura y filosófica para estar seguros de su significado. Este poema no trata sobre el amor terrenal. Es una discusión metafísica sobre la unión mística del alma y su inmortalidad. Es un amor infinito en el tiempo. Un amor que no cambia cuando todo cambia. Es decir, cuando morimos. El amor es eterno, no es un juguete del tiempo. Tal y como lo entendían Sócrates, Platón y todas las religiones del libro.

anyone find it interesting that shakespeare refers to a boat as male?

I differ from u mam ,it's not personification: it's another imagery of a star .

Love’s not Time’s fool. NO

ni li sitelen tawa pona! pali pona mute!

like this comment if you hate shakespeare