Shakespeare: The SonnetsMacmillan Education UK, 31/07/2007 - 254 páginas The appearance in 1609 of Shakespeare's Sonnets is cloaked in mystery and controversy, while the poems themselves are masterpieces of silence and deception. The intervening 4 centuries have done little to diminish either their mystique or their appeal, and recent years have witnessed an upsurge in interest in these brilliant and contentious lyrics. |
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... ironic opening of ' But now ' thrusts us into a complex web of irony and delicately cunning virtuosity . His marvellous verse before us is both a repudiation of the rival and a sly if tactful riposte to his former patron . ' But now ...
... ironic , colloquial touch . Sounding like a chatty bit of tabloid gossip , the speaker announces ' But now ' ( and with some irony ) the whole order is overturned , so much so that black can now bear beauty's name . Modern readers have ...
... ironic figure where , in the act of denying something , the author actually affirms it ; so in sonnet 106 the poet eloquently denies that he has any eloquence . oxymoron A phrase combining incongruous or seemingly contra- dictory ...
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