The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.0835 Friday, 22 September 2006
[1] From: Kristen McDermott <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 21 Sep 2006 12:41:31 -0400
Subj: RE: SHK 17.0825 Query on the Sonnets
[2] From: Colin Cox <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 21 Sep 2006 09:48:13 -0700
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0825 Query on the Sonnets
[3] From: Martin Green <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 21 Sep 2006 21:43:31 +0000
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0825 Query on the Sonnets
[4] From: Alan Pierpoint <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 21 Sep 2006 18:52:50 -0400
Subj: Re: SHK 17.0825 Query on the Sonnets
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From: Kristen McDermott <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 21 Sep 2006 12:41:31 -0400
Subject: 17.0825 Query on the Sonnets
Comment: RE: SHK 17.0825 Query on the Sonnets
>I am a psychoanalyst who writes about Shakespeare's capacity
>to represent the human mind.
>
>Right now, I am working on a book on The Sonnets and searching
>them for words that speak about the capacity to have a wide range
>of feelings, such as love, hate, sadness and so on. All feelings are
>indeed represented in The Sonnets but what I am interested in is
>whether the capacity for feeling per se is talked about in these
>poems. Can anyone out there point me to a sonnet that comments
>on this?
Not a sonnet, but your query immediately called to mind Juliet's promise
to Romeo (2.1.175):
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep. The more I give to thee
The more I have, for both are infinite.
The links, stylistic and otherwise, between the sonnets and Romeo and
Juliet's speeches have been widely discussed.
Kris McDermott
Central Michigan U
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From: Colin Cox <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 21 Sep 2006 09:48:13 -0700
Subject: 17.0825 Query on the Sonnets
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0825 Query on the Sonnets
I think sonnet 30 might be what you're looking for.
Colin Cox
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From: Martin Green <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 21 Sep 2006 21:43:31 +0000
Subject: 17.0825 Query on the Sonnets
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0825 Query on the Sonnets
Shakespeare's words in the Sonnets do not speak about the capacity to
have a wide range of feelings, such as love, hate, sadness and so on,
but demonstrate that capacity.
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From: Alan Pierpoint <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 21 Sep 2006 18:52:50 -0400
Subject: 17.0825 Query on the Sonnets
Comment: Re: SHK 17.0825 Query on the Sonnets
Perhaps #73: "This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, /
To love that well which
thou must leave ere long." The capacity of the speaker's lover to love
is tested by the speaker's
approaching death; the lover passes the test. -Alan Pierpoint /
Southwestern Academy
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