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granted ("presume") that his own heart, dressed as it is in the poet's, will be restored: "Thou gav'st me thine not to give back again." Here is the poem: My glass shall not persuade me I am old So long as youth and thou are of one date, But when in thee Time’s furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate. For all that beauty that doth cover thee Is but the seemly raiment of my heart, Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me; How can I then be elder than thou art? O, therefore, love, be of thyself so wary As I not for myself but for thee will, Bearing thy heart, which I will keep so chary As tender nurse her babe from faring ill.
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retains his youth. On the other hand, when the time comes that he sees furrows or sorrows on the youth's brow, then he will contemplate the fact ("look") that he must pay his debt to death ("death my days should expiate"). The youth's outer beauty, that which 'covers' him, is but a proper garment
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The poet admonishes the youth to be cautious. He will carry about the youth's heart ("Bearing thy heart") and protect ("keep") it; "chary" is an adverbial usage and means 'carefully'. The couplet is cautionary and conventional: when the poet's heart is slain, then the youth should not take for
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and others have established that expiate here means "fill up the measure of my days" or simply "use up." Certain critics, among them Booth and William Kerrigan, still perceive an echo of the dominant meaning.
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The conventional nature of the poem, what Evelyn Simpson called its "frigid conceit," is perhaps a large part of the reason that this poem is not among the most famous of the sonnets today.
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Sonnet 22 uses the image of mirrors to argue about age and its effects. The poet will not be persuaded he himself is old as long as the
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The poem is built on two conventional subjects for Elizabethan sonneteers. The notion of the exchange of hearts was popularized by
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based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions per line. The first line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter:
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The eleventh line exhibits two common metrical variations: an initial reversal, and a final extrametrical syllable or
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Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain. Thou gav’st me thine not to give back again.
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Shakespeares Sonnets: Being a reproduction in facsimile of the first edition
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employs the same concept in a poem written when Shakespeare was 29, and
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154 sonnets
William Shakespeare
sonnet
young man
sonnet
quatrains
couplet
rhyme scheme
iambic pentameter
metre
Petrarch
Philip Sidney
Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Samuel Daniel
Michael Drayton
Stephen Booth
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atonement
George Steevens
Edmond Malone
The Works of Shakespeare: Sonnets

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