Verifica: sonetti di Shakespeare
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To whom are most of Shakespeare’s sonnets dedicated?
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The Petrarchan metric structure of the sonnet was changed by Shakespeare, who created a new structure made by three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter.
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What is the main theme of Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare?
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Is it true that in Sonnet 18 there can be found a thematic division between the first eight lines, which are about eternity, and the last six lines, which are about mutability?
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In Sonnet 116 what does Shakespeare mean by the expression “the marriage of true minds”?
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Is it true that In Sonnet 116 concepts and images are the most innovative aspects of this poem?
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“Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come”
In these verses the poet wants to show that love is a victim of the tricks of time, which is like a sickle cutting down roses and making them fade.
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